It’s hard work impersonating Bush

The Washington Post noted in this article about Bush impersonators that George W. Bush “is easy to mimic.” But don’t think that those who are paid to mimic him have an easy job.
Steve Bridges, who impersonates Bush on “The Tonight Show,” spends 2½ hours having prosthetic makeup applied before an appearance. And the impersonators spend countless hours refining the president’s many moods.
Mike O’Meara of radio’s “The Don & Mike Show” describes them: “There is the overconfident George Bush, which is one of my favorites, like the day he introduced ‘the architect of the campaign,’ Karl Rove. There’s the smug, arrogant Bush I like more than any of them. And there’s another one most of us love — the struggling George Bush, trying to find the right words.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley

5 Comments

  1. JUSTA GUY
    Posted December 6, 2005 at 6:01 am | Permalink

    It shouldn’t be to hard to imitate a buffoon. Maybe just update Falstaff in today’s time frame.lol

  2. Ed Friedemann
    Posted December 6, 2005 at 8:33 am | Permalink

    Just buy yourself a book about a Goat and look at the pictures.

    You’re ready.

  3. Damoon
    Posted December 6, 2005 at 8:59 am | Permalink

    I was so upset when Clinton left office because the one thing I looked forward to was watching Leno’s parodies of him everynight.

    He’s done a great job filling that void with Bush. Of course, like Clinton, Leno’s got lots of material there to work with.

  4. Jed
    Posted December 6, 2005 at 9:31 am | Permalink

    Da,Impressionists are having a tough time with Bush. It’s very difficult to parody someone who already is a parody!

  5. Dubya
    Posted December 7, 2005 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

    Bush misunderstood the lesson in the “Goat Book.”

    So, now we’re just stuck with him trying to “get our goat.”—–
    Lets build up our barriers along the border now that they have tunnels to cross over in. We need low cost workes here in America to keep the wages down of American blue collar idots. We have offloaded all the good jobs overseas!Dubya