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.

Part 2 -via io9

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

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)