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How impressionists keep audiences laughing in an age of social media celebrities by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Younger audiences may not recognise people comedians are impersonating but some performers say there's still plenty to work with "If I see somebody become famous, and they've got tremendously predominant mannerisms and they speak a certain way which is unusual, I go for it right away," the veteran impressionist Mike Yarwood once said of the public figures he mimicked. But in the decades since Yarwood drew up to 18 m…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PM on August 20, 2023

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