Comments on: Bronx Obama

By: Gringo

Gringo — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:10:52 +0000

blert

Meader’s bit was on point about Kennedy’s tick: he would initiate a ‘presser’ at the drop of a hat. He’s the only president famed for doing so. (The anti-Coolidge.

Or, the anti-Obama. Though in defense of Obama, if he could have ALL answers screened before a press conference, he would hold them as often as he could. :) When I first saw the Bill Clinton impersonator, I thought of Jimmy Johnson the football coach. But his voice sounded just like Bill Clinton. In listening to Jackie, I was struck how she used the old eastern New England speech pattern of adding r's to words ending in -a, when preceding a word, such as "the chiner is the Eisenhower gold china." But her breathiness is not something I ever recall hearing in New England.

By: AMartel

AMartel — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:41:26 +0000

The Bronx Bama. I can’t believe he doesn’t exploit that one. His fortunes should rise as Obama becomes less popular and people are less leery of impersonations of him, more willing to laugh. Of course, it also depends on whether Mr. Ortiz is an Obamafanboy or not.

By: Fausta

Fausta — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:01:59 +0000

Too bad he didn’t stop by a corn field on the way to the shore

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:24:03 +0000

Juxtapose breathless Jackie with that *Happy Birthday
Mr Prez by Marilyn* they could separated at birth, at least in the *voice* department.

By: blert

blert — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:34:07 +0000

Meader’s bit was on point about Kennedy’s tick: he would initiate a ‘presser’ at the drop of a hat.

He’s the only president famed for doing so. (The anti-Coolidge)

“Let me say this about that” was also a favorite of Nixon.

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BTW, neo… is there any way that Americans can turn of your British spelling checker?

By: Al W

Al W — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:37:59 +0000

My father had the Vaughn Meader First Family album. It was so long ago but I especially remember a bit about Khrushchev banging his shoe that my father always got an especially great deal of glee out of.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:19:24 +0000

Vaughn Meader! There’s “a blast from the past!” 😉

BTW, where have all the great mimics gone? Is there some new crop of whom I’m unaware? (Age does that to us) Or is it that today’s ‘personalities’ are so colorless?

I suspect that the popularity of mimicry may also be cyclic.