This has to be seen to be believed. Rich Little doing impressions of actors doing performances of characters in A Christmas Carol. This was made in 1978, but even so, none of the imitations seem to be of people born after 1875.
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Rich Little: a man with a modicum of talent who has no idea what to do with it.
Remember that movie "The Late Shift" about the Leno takeover of The Tonight Show? Rich Little played Johnny Carson. Why? Not because he was a good actor, but because he did a passable impression.
A person can be entertained by impressions for about 15 seconds. Then, if you don't do anything with it, you start to look really desperate.
I'm looking at you, Frank Caliendo.
I agree completely about Little. Frank Caliendo's show doesn't work because he's such a short stocky guy that he can't look like the characters, he can only sound like them.
Caliendo was on Howard, back before his show premiered, and even not seeing him his inadequacies were apparent. His impressions are killer, but they die very quickly b/c he doesn't have the comedic chops to back them up.
Even if he didn't look the characters, it would matter if the writing was stronger.
I made it to the 3:30 mark. Awful. As you already pointed out, no one born after 1983 has any idea who who W.C. Fields or Paul Lynde is.
Dude, it gets way better than that. He does Laurel and Hardy, Groucho Marx, and just to keep things fresh-- Jack Benny.
Jack Benny! Did he say, "Rodchester!" or "Now cut that out!" Nonononono -- don't tell me! I wanna find out for myself!
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