God, If You're Not Up There . . . - Plot & Excerpts
But I think the art, if you will, of doing impressions offers what parents like to call a teachable moment. Bear with me. For starters, an impressionist is not a practitioner of Impressionism, which involves a talent with a paintbrush that leads to the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art rather than a late-night sketch comedy show on network television. An impressionist, to put it in a nutshell, is someone who imitates the voice, pattern of speech, and gestures of others, although the voice is the key thing. An impersonator specializes in imitating just one person, like the guy who showed up at your wife’s bachelorette party dressed as Elvis. Impressionists were all over British television starting in the 1960s, especially a guy named Mike Yarwood, whose impressions of famous Englishmen were so convincing that when he invented catchphrases, people assumed they came from the people he impersonated, even when they had never uttered the words themselves.
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