Posted: 10/9/2006 1:32 AM
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Frank Caliendo did a John Madden impression on Letterman a few nights ago, and it's just about the funniest thing I've ever seen. Link.
Posted: 10/9/2006 5:16 AM
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i'm confused. the link you gave was something about madden himself, so i tried the one below, and half of it was caliendo about bush ii.
Posted: 10/9/2006 8:36 AM
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Whenever I click on the link, it takes me right to the video I expected it to take me to ...
Posted: 10/9/2006 9:33 AM
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This man does the best Bush impersonations.
Posted: 10/9/2006 12:51 PM
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John Madden is the Jay-Z of football commentary. As in, he keeps getting a lot of money for what he does despite the fact that all he does is sputter nonsense.
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Posted: 10/10/2006 12:56 AM
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"Perhaps the most curious and entertaining aspect of the game comes from the fictional "Madden" character which EA Games has created. This loveable mountain of a man acts as the game's ambassador, and he spouts the most inane and obvious of comments as comic relief when the action on the field gets too frighteningly visceral. The addition of Madden was a stroke of genius that injects personality into a game that most other companies would have been content to sell by itself."
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Posted: 10/10/2006 11:38 AM
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If it's the Frank Caliendo act where he does a John Madden impression, then Al Pacino and what's his name - George Dubya Bush, (I'm not allowed to browse youtube from work) then it's a lot older than a few nights, it's been sitting on my harddrive for a few months at least. Or is it a new one with the same characters? I agree that he does just about the best impersonations (impressions?) I have ever seen.
Posted: 10/10/2006 1:03 PM
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It isn't that one - he's actually made up to look like madden and just does him.
Posted: 10/10/2006 2:13 PM
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Posted: 10/10/2006 11:08 PM
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Generally, doing an impression means imitating someone's voice and mannerisms for comedic effect, while an impersonation is more often used to mean actually attempting to pass yourself off as someone else, for deception. Also, I'm curious, why would you immediately assume an argumentative and fairly condescending tone instead of just taking seven minutes to watch the video and determine that it was, in fact, new? (Never mind that you, perhaps, should have surmised that when I claimed something happened on Lettermen a few nights ago, I made such a claim because I saw it live.)
Posted: 10/10/2006 11:23 PM
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xebra wrote:
Generally, doing an impression means imitating someone's voice and mannerisms for comedic effect
I thought that was called an imitation! An impression is when you press something into something else to leave a mark.
xebra wrote:
Also, I'm curious, why would you immediately assume an argumentative and fairly condescending tone instead of just taking seven minutes to watch the video and determine that it was, in fact, new?
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Posted: 10/10/2006 11:26 PM
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Great clip, thanks. Frankly, Letterman should have fed him more football questions because that makes the bit work best. The whole point of the impression is that John Madden never says anything important about the game.
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Posted: 10/11/2006 3:38 AM
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Here's another great John Madden parody: http://youtube.com/watch?v=q1v52f1TrWg
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Posted: 10/11/2006 8:33 AM
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>Generally, doing an impression means imitating someone's voice and mannerisms for comedic effect, while an impersonation is more often used to mean actually attempting to pass yourself off as someone else, for deception. Thanks... kind of a strange way to use the word impression, to me. If I didn't know the word and had to guess, I would guess impersonation or perhaps imitation. xebra> Also, I'm curious, why would you immediately assume an argumentative and fairly condescending tone instead of just taking seven minutes to watch the video and determine that it was, in fact, new? Because: Truncated> (I'm not allowed to browse youtube from work) Youtube is blocked here, so I couldn't watch it. Since you said Madden impression, and Bob said half of it was Bush, it sounded a lot like the one I had seen. About the date, people get misinformed all the time (descriptions on youtube surely aren't always accutrate, etc) so I thought I'd ask if it was this one or a new one. Everyone isn't out to get you, xebra. :> Sorry if it sounded argumentative, it was really only meant as a question.
Posted: 10/30/2006 2:18 AM
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Not only is Frank Caliendo great, but I saw the one Red Sox game on TV where Dennis Leary was commentating for one inning. That was extremely funny
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Posted: 10/30/2006 2:38 AM
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Another good standup comedian who does good impressions is Pablo Francisco. I remember watching his comedy central routine on youtube before, and it was pretty hilarious. He is very well known for his ability to imitate the voice of the 'Movie Voiceover Guy' and Arnold Schwarzenegger... go check him out too if you like Caliendo
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Posted: 10/30/2006 5:12 AM
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I love Pablo Francisco, too. He's coming to the Addison Improv over Thanksgiving, and I'm going!
Posted: 10/30/2006 8:28 AM
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That's cool! No comedian ever comes over to where I live :( Hope he updated his act this time round lol...
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