Al's Dirty Dozen: Six People You Don't Sound Like

[drew]

As the intro to the feature states, this was pretty much word for word a conversation we had in the kitchen at 1am or so. Thus I'm pretty interested in what y'all thought. Anybody to add to the list?

Crocodile Dundee, Yoda, or Chris Tucker (not in general, just "do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?"). Maybe Al can remember some of the others we talked about.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

I'm surprised by the lack of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the list. Who hasn't thrown out a "It's not a toomah!" or "I'll be back" once or twice in their life.

That aside, well done.

[LadyStarblade]

May I take this opportunity to gush openly over the humor and veracity of this list?

Ahem...that was good. Really good.

(Wha? Gushing doesn't come naturally. )

And my nomination for addition is William Shatner/Captain Kirk...granted, a lot of fun went out of the bad impressions when Kevin Pollack came along and did it so well, but still.

[Al]

thanks

When it went up I reread it for the first time in a while and kinda thought 'Wow, is that funny or just angry and bitter? I remember it being funny when I wrote it...' Glad to hear it made you smile.

And, actually, Shatner was an addition to the list at one point, as was Tony Montana, but I felt like the longer it got the less funny it became. I also have to say I'm pretty disappointed in myself, as Schwarznegger never even entered my mind.

[Lissa]

I got a kick out of it, too, and can think of a few people I know who ought to read it.

Another name I'd add is Joe Pesci. (Unless you're the voice in Goodfeathers or Duckie's best friend, who sounds a lot like Joe Pesci to begin with. Or Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, which I've heard several guys (why is it always guys? I hate to be sexist, but it generally is.) try to do.

[coccatino]

huge props to Drew and Al for this list- hilarious.
I'd definitely add Christopher Walken to the poorly imitated... possibly under the lifetime achievement category with SLJ. Though I am personally totally guilty of a very poor impersonation of him, myself.

[drew]

Definitely a fumble on missing Shatner and Arnie... don't really think anybody deserved to be cut, though. Like my big brother said, the list got less funny as it got longer and reasons started to overlap.