It's useful if you want a job as an impressionist.

>Is being able to make your vocie sound a bit like someone else's really a worthwhile skill? Or is it all a bit old hat?
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Your 'vocie' or your voice. Either applies.

Boy, you fired off that retort before I'd even got the spelling correction in there!

Maybe it's time to call it a day for impressionsists. I don't think we need them any more.

For as long as there are minor shadow cabinet spokesmen who need taking down a peg or two, they'll always be a need for Rory Brmner.

Or even Rory Bremner.

Brmner is better. He can do Harold Wilson.

All the really good ones are working in the intelligence services, as evidenced by Martin Landau's character in "Mission: Impossible".

I expect in the future, with further narrow-casting and more channels, you'll get people on the telly who can do your Mum, or the announcer at Amersham tube. That will be like, er, some kinda total head-fuck.

Why can't you do this with computers, anyhow? Surely it can't be that difficult to synthesize John Redwood or Linford Christie with the right software.

In the case of Redwood, this has already happened.

Would our Mr Griffiths have started this topic, perchance? Impressions, eh? They're OK, y'know, for kids. And Spitting Image was alright, weren't it?

Do you think I sound like him??

I still need convincing that putting on a voice similar to that of a famous person makes you worthy of attention.

Even if you can make yourself sound a bit like Frank Spencer?

That, I grant, is the sole exception.

>Do you think I sound like him??

Well, it was just the Cardiacs reference and Mr Griff's current penchant for using a variety of psuedonyms. Shifty bugger.

>I still need convincing that putting on a voice similar to that of a famous person makes you worthy of attention.

Well yes, there needs to be some material. Or failing that blagging some free stuff which they can then distribute amongst we, the plebs. That would *rock*

You can knock impressionists all you like but everyone is immediately endeared by someone at a party/function if they exhibit a talent of being able to mimic someone. It's just part of being human. I once met a drunk man at a train station who could do all manner of Eddie Murphy characters and my mind was completely taken off of the various criminal acts he could have initiated.

>I once met a drunk man at a train station who could do all manner of Eddie Murphy characters and my mind was completely taken off of the various criminal acts he could have initiated.

Rory Bremner - now there's a criminal act!
(c) Jon

IHOL that was like poetry. :)

A much greater gift is to be able to imitate the writing style of kinder surprise. Because it is inimitable.