Thursday, January 26, 2017

Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump tightrope: Brilliantly impersonating a president who’s already impersonating a president (Salon)

When you inaugurate a new president in this country, you inaugurate a new era of impersonations of that president. At least that has been true in our in our nation since the Kennedy era, when comedians first started the habit of emulating and embellishing the personality traits of presidents to great comedic effect. After the Watergate scandal, comedian David Frye mocked Richard Nixon's paranoia and insecurity. And who could forget Chevy Chase's bumbling, clumsy Gerald Ford? ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/21/alec-baldwins-donald-trump-tightrope-brilliantly-impersonating-a-president-whos-already-impersonating-a-president/

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