Re: OT: How do impressionists work?
Tony Elka
Humble Will Teach <will_t...@37.com> wrote:
> As someone whose talents lie more in music than comedy, I've often
> wondered this. I've caught myself doing what I thought was a dead-on
> Cartman, and no one else knows who it is. I've been told my Ross
> Perot is pretty good, but a Perot impersonation can take you only so
> far.
>
> This is a serious question. How does one know that the voice one is
> speaking in sounds to the outside world like the voice it is intended
> to be?
Record yourself doing the voice, then play it back on the same system
you use to hear the celebrity.
Tony
Yepp
news:m2o4n1tmime9tbq57...@4ax.com:
> Thinking about the George Takei/Billy West thing that played yesterday
> . . .
>
>
> Everyone is surprised to hear their voice on tape for the first time.
> We all know our voice sounds different to everyone else than it does
> in our own heads.
>
> So, when an impressionist hears . . . .George Takei, for example . . .
> how does he do an impression that sounds like George Takei, when it
> seems like if you're trying to do an impression and you make a sound
> that sounds to you like who you're impersonating, it won't sound like
> that to anyone else?
>
> As someone whose talents lie more in music than comedy, I've often
> wondered this. I've caught myself doing what I thought was a dead-on
> Cartman, and no one else knows who it is. I've been told my Ross
> Perot is pretty good, but a Perot impersonation can take you only so
> far.
>
> This is a serious question. How does one know that the voice one is
> speaking in sounds to the outside world like the voice it is intended
> to be?
>
>
Put you finger in one ear and this is what you sound like to the rest of
the world, try wistling to a tune on the radio and do this you'll be
suprised that your an octive off so I would think these impressionists
do the same thing. That or they just have an ear for it!
Yepp