Bronx Obama
It’s not easy learning how to talk like Obama, if you’re from the Bronx:
The Romney impersonator is nowhere near as handsome as the real deal. Wonder if he’s still employed (the Romney impersonator, that is; I know about the real Romney). The documentary was made during the 2012 campaign.
Vaughn Meader (you older folks might remember that name, but here’s a link if it doesn’t ring a bell) had a meteoric career that completely tanked after Kennedy was assassinated.
Here’s a refresher:
When the female voice first comes on, did you think it was meant to be Marilyn Monroe? Some people may have forgotten—or never known—that Jackie Kennedy sounded quite a bit like Marilyn, especially in her breathiness. I had noticed the resemblance when I first heard Jackie, during the televised White House tour. An excerpt:
[NOTE: More here on Bronx Obama.]
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.
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.
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?
Juxtapose breathless Jackie with that *Happy Birthday
Mr Prez by Marilyn* they could separated at birth, at least in the *voice* department.
Too bad he didn’t stop by a corn field on the way to the shore
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.
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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.