Melinda Newman was on the road this week so she wasn't able to do the podcast, but the good news is that comedian Craig Gass volunteered to fill her shoes. You may already know Craig from "The Howard Stern Show," "The King of Queens" or even as Miranda's donut lover on "Sex and the City." He's an amazing impressionist (I think his Christopher Walken, which you can hear on the podcast, is better than Jay Mohr's) and an equally amazing raconteur. He has a great true story about Walken and a unique perspective you haven't heard on the "America's Got Talent" dust-up, so tune in. The rundown is...
- 6/7/2013
- by Liane Bonin Starr
- Hitfix
If you're not in the mood to buy a Halloween costume this year, we suggest you spend the next two weeks mastering the ne plus ultra of celebrity impressions: the sputtering, ornamented, bewildering semantics of Seven Psychopaths star Christopher Walken. (This way, you don't even have to buy a costume; just comb your hair back and walk funny.) We did some scouring on YouTube for the best examples. Jay Mohr aside, here are our five favorite Christopher Walken impressions.Anthony Ahern, on Australian TV show The Wedge, cooks a chicken (although where have we seen that before?). Impressionist Jim Meskimen gets philosophical. Comedian Craig Gass talks dance (as Walken, who, if you'll remember, is quite the dancer). You may or may not know that Kevin Pollak has mastered "The Walken" ... ... but did you know Titus Welliver (The Man in Black! From Lost!) was up to the challenge?...
- 10/17/2012
- by Eliot Glazer,Max Thorn
- Vulture
Glad to hear Artie Lange's getting back into the old routine. Ten months after a failed suicide attempt, The Howard Stern Show staple finally surfaced at a comedy club in New York over the weekend, E! News has learned. "Yes Artie performed two 20- to 25-minute sets Friday and Saturday, and he was as funny as ever," said a spokesman for the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village. Appearing on Stern's satellite radio show earlier today, fellow comic Craig Gass revealed he had caught up with the 42-year-old Lange at the club, posting a photo of Lange on Facebook to prove it. By all accounts, Lange looks slimmer and happier. "He seemed fine," an eyewitness to Lange's...
- 9/27/2010
- E! Online
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