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May 1, 2012 6:42 PM   Subscribe

 
I don't think that's actually Walken, although it can be hard to tell these days.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 6:45 PM on May 1, 2012


Please, children, scootch closer. Don't make me tell you again. About, the scootching.
posted by gauche at 6:47 PM on May 1, 2012 [5 favorites]




Oh, wait, he is actually reading The Three Little Pigs in this one.

I feel like I need to start an audiobook collection of Christopher Walken readings.
posted by littlesq at 6:50 PM on May 1, 2012


As a Walken impersonation connoisseur, I think this is a very, very good fake. Nobody tries to do modern, aging Walken like this, which earns a 8/10 on its own merit. Still, Walken would get a little more worked up.
posted by cmoj at 6:57 PM on May 1, 2012 [1 favorite]


Meh. In a real bit of awesomeness - Jack Nicholson and Bobby McFerrin team up to take on Kipling's "Just So Stories."
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:00 PM on May 1, 2012 [1 favorite]


I always get a bit sad that McFerrin will always be tainted with "Don't Worry, Be Happy". I saw him conduct the St Paul Chamber Orchestra a few times and he was pretty darn engaging and talented
posted by edgeways at 7:10 PM on May 1, 2012


As a Walken impersonation connoisseur, I think this is a very, very good fake.

That's the feeling I get, too. Like, really solid, really contemporary without super schticky over-the-top pauses like you get from every amateur Walken (and Kirk) impression, hoarse and just sort of laid back. To the point where I would not be totally shocked if this was Walken and I'm overthinking it, but there's a couple little off notes in the annunciation it feels like, a kind of nasal tinniness in certain syllables where Walken comes off a little more lax and round in the back of the throat. There's a "y'know" at like 1:15 that feels off, say.

If I knew if Brad Neely did an obsessive Walken impression I'd guess it was him based on those little bits sounding more like him doing Wizard People, Dear Reader than like how I expect Walken to sound.
posted by cortex at 7:12 PM on May 1, 2012 [2 favorites]


As a Walken impersonation connoisseur

[draws on meerschaum pipe]

Not only is this not Walken, when you identify the impressionist, you will discover that he prides himself on his ability to replicate the "Moose" routine from Woody Allen's Standup Comic.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:13 PM on May 1, 2012 [4 favorites]


Fake or not, I sort of lost it at "Prince Valiant hair."
posted by dual_action at 7:15 PM on May 1, 2012


"A big headed monster, like Ernie, from Sesame Street...gone wrong."
Taunt of the Year!
posted by angrycat at 7:16 PM on May 1, 2012 [1 favorite]


Mister Walken reads The Raven. You can hear his eyebrow arch.
posted by halliburtron at 10:16 PM on May 1, 2012


I love Christopher Walken as a character. I wonder if my children will appreciate the joy of Walken impersonations. I fear that it will be lost as culture creeps along, like impersonations of Groucho Marx or Humphrey Bogart. Gone will be the Pacinos, the Nicholsons. And what will they be left with? Patrick Starfish? Borat?

Sigh.
posted by jabberjaw at 9:46 AM on May 2, 2012


I don't care if this is fake, it cracks me right up. My husband and I have been saying "and there's this... goat bastard" and referencing "one of those king sticks" for a while now.
posted by vytae at 3:27 PM on May 2, 2012


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