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YouTube user Timyodie did more than just talk into a microphone. He’s made a set of two videos with funny and astonishingly accurate impersonations of thirty-four Star Wars characters and species, from Jango Fett to a Tusken raider. It’s not just the voice work that makes these two videos great, but the facial expressions and occasional improvised costuming.
Brent Spiner, the actor who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, does a really good impersonation of Patrick Stewart, the actor who played Jean-Luc Picard. In fact, it was good enough to fool Stewart’s wife on the phone — at least for a while. Here’s a video of Spiner demonstrating this talent at the 2011 Emerald City Comicon. -via reddit
Here’s actor Michael Caine on the ITV interview show Parkinson taking about impersonations and offering his own of a few actors, including himself as a GPS navigation computer voice.
Which actor would you like to have as your in-car navigator?
via Kottke | Show Website
Police are investigating how a 14-year old boy passed himself off as a Chicago police officer for an entire shift. When he showed up for work in uniform, the teen was assigned a patrol in a squad car. He never drove or handled a gun, but the deception was not noticed until his shift was over.
Assistant Superintendent James Jackson said the ruse was discovered only after the boy’s patrol with an actual officer ended Saturday. Officers noticed his uniform lacked a star that is part of the regulation uniform.
Police said they were investigating how the deception went undetected for so long in what they described as a serious security breach.
Police didn’t identify the boy because of his age. He has been charged as a juvenile with impersonating an officer.
Link -via J-Walk Blog
From the awesomeness that is Japanese television, here is Freddie Mercury singing I Was Born to Love You (complete with chest hair!) It’s part of Monomane Battle, a show where Japanese celebrities impersonate other celebrities …
Watch and cry: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Weird Asia News (who has more)
