Bush” it was accompanied by a 12-minute promotional piece still floating online in which Ferrell as suit-and-tie Bush interviews Ferrell as cowboy-hat Bush about their time in office, favorite sorts of wood (“I like just a simple wood like pine a burnished pine. In 2009, Ferrell mounted a Broadway show, “You’re Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. His Bush seems simultaneously sure of things and continually taken by surprise he played him on “SNL” only from 1999 to 2003 - Darrell Hammond, Will Forte and Jason Sudeikis followed him in the part - but Ferrell wasn’t done with him. Bush melds with the genuine item to create a third plausible person we might forget where one ends and the other begins. With mere celebrities, impersonations often take a potted “what if?” attack: “If Jack Nicholson were captain of the Olympic hockey team, I think it might go something like this.” Political figures, who might affect our lives, are something else again: We live with them, and their works and how they’re interpreted by impressionists can bind with the original to create a kind of new political reality.Īnd so Will Ferrell’s George W. They can involve makeup and costumes or just catching the sound and the body language, a way of holding the shoulders, or furrowing a brow. One great tool in this kit or weapon in this arsenal is the celebrity impersonation. SIGN UP for the free Essential Arts & Culture newsletter > ![]() ![]() There’s a reason that every late-night weeknight brings a host of topical monologues, from a host of talk-show hosts, and on Saturday night there is “Saturday Night Live,” and on Sunday there is John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight.” Distortion, oddly, can also be a way to the truth, and comedy - which on the face of it is all distortion - is one of the most common ways we come to understand the world and to bear it.
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