Awesome Impressions

(PG-13: Language) Actor and comedian Jay Pharoah turns in a hilarious series of super short celebrity impressions, from Kevin Hart to Barack Obama to Ice-T to Chris Rock, each thrown into some mundane situation. We can totally picture that Kanye scenario.

(PG-13: Language) Impressionist Scheiffer Bates reading of the classic poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, done in the style of everyone from Peter Griffin to Rick Grimes to Gilbert Gottfried. Most of the impressions are pretty solid, though his Obama sounded like Meatwad to us.

We fully anticipate that the iPhone X’s animoji will be overplayed any day now, but for the moment, we’re still enjoying their novelty. Beatboxer and impressionist RudiRok applies his vocal talents to imagine what each character might sound like.

(PG-13: Language, Spoilers) Voice actor Scheiffer Bates turns in a great series of impressions, based on some of the most iconic characters from Game of Thrones. You know it’s good when you can close your eyes and envision each of the characters speaking the lines.

Impressionist Mikey Bolts takes on the 1999 Blackalicious classic Alphabet Aerobics, matching each letter of the alphabet to a cartoon character, and raps each part in their voice. We swear, the more we look at Mikey, the more we think he’s actually Peter Brady.

(PG-13: Language) “I’m Draymond Green – anything I kick is nuts.” Natural born impressionist Jay Pharoah brought bars when he dropped by DJ Whoo Kid’s radio show. Comedy bars, that is. Watch him rap like Eminem, Jay-Z, The Weeknd and more.

On The Howard Stern Show, Dana Carvey did a bit from his new Netflix special, Straight White Male, 60, in which he envisions a conversation between Paul McCartney and John Lennon where Paul tries to explain Kanye West. His micro-impressions are amusing too.

“When I was young, they used to call me Fat Murphy.” While on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Eddie Murphy shared a brief story about his friend Tracy Morgan, while doing a perfect impression of his fellow comedian. We’re just so happy to have Eddie making us laugh again.

Ten Second Songs catches the Pokémon hypetrain by covering the cartoon version’s theme song in the style of 20 different artists, from Chumbawamba to Björk. The transitions between artists were too fast for us, but he did have to work with a short song.

During her appearance on The Tonight Show, Céline Dion and Jimmy Fallon challenged each other to sing a variety of unexpected songs in the style of various musicians. Céline’s Cher impression was spot on, but her Sia at the end made us spit out our coffee.

(PG-13: Language) With the exception of his Christopher Walken as the High Sparrow, YouTuber Scheiffer Bates’ impressions of Game of Thrones characters are as impressive as Jon Snow’s plot armor. “He’s good. He’s very good.”

Actor Ricky Gervais thinks that the guys on YouTube who rattle off a bunch of impressions are just a bunch of showoffs, and he told Jimmy Fallon that he can do it better. Though Ricky has a much looser definition of what an impression is than real impressionists do.

Redditor SentioVenia’s son’s friend works at Target and sometimes staves off boredom by using different accents when it’s time to advise customers that the store is closing. Okay kid which one is the real you?!

YouTuber Jeff Twomby shows us a couple of Walmart employees who also happen to be great impressionists. One dude mimics the voices of Scooby Doo and Shaggy. Mark on the other hand does Man Who Could Not Care Less with absolute perfection.

Impressionist Brock Baker returns with another round of hilarious vocalizations, this time taking on a variety of classic cartoon characters from Mickey Mouse to Hank Hill. His Zoidberg is so spot on, he could have stood in for Billy West.

(PG-13: Language) YouTuber J.Cyrus mimics the flows of rappers Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Ludacris, Future and Young Thug while pretending to be a waiter, a principal and other everyday professions. Good kid, Second City.

(PG-13: Language) The Graham Norton Show put together this compilation of celebrity guests who for one reason or another did impressions, accents, or other silly voices while on the show. Next time we’re in a McDonalds, we’re so ordering a Corta Panda.

Saturday Night Live rehashes its Pandora skit but with guest host Ariana Grande doing the impressions. Watch as she shows off her take on Shakira, Rihanna, Whitney Houston and more. Durr durr durr durr!

Saturday Night Live‘s Jay Pharoah says that Kat Williams and Kevin Hart ironed out their publicized feud in the annual black comedians’ meeting, which is held in the bowling alley in Eddie Murphy’s mansion. Mirror here.

The Walking Dead and The Impression Guys actor Ross Marquand showed off his specialty on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, impersonating different celebrities accepting an Oscar. It’s not as good as his prepared ones, but for an on the spot performance he did a great job.

Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs performs Survivor’s classic Eye of the Tiger in the styles of 20 Super Bowl halftime performers. And we are once again reminded that Prince should play the Super Bowl every year, and everyone else can go home.

(PG-13: Language) Impressionist Brock Baker used Face Swap Live to project the celebrities’ faces on his own while he’s impersonating them. The results are hilariously awful, but his voice is spot-on as usual. His take on Louis CK is uncanny.

Vanity Fair shares some of the impressions that didn’t make the cut in Ross Marquand’s nano-impressions video. They’re just as good as the ones in the final video, but they were excluded because they were too long.