Originally Posted by SuperAPJ:
“I wouldn't say his act qualifies him as an impressionist. It sounded like the average man doing average impersonations! OK, the Dec one was funny at first and I quite liked the one of Kevin Webster but it's a sign of a poor impressionist when he has to tell you who the person is e.g. "It's me, Kevin Webster!".”
It was a shame he did that. I thought he was brilliant but the introductions to both Kevin Webster and Ross Kemp cheapened them a little for me. I was surprised too, he's been doing it for how long? Yet he committed the cardinal sin by introducing them, ruining the guessing for the audience. You'd expect it of someone just starting out who was a little insecure perfecting their craft, not a guy who claims its been his job for a number of years!
Besides the cheap introductions, I thought they were all fairly spot on. Aside from his first stab at Ant, that could have been ANY geordie man. It was only after he mixed Ant and Dec introducing the phone numbers, that I thought he got Ant's throaty voice. It was quite annoying having the camera man going back to Ant and Dec to repeatedly show their reactions....we only needed to see their initial reaction, instead we ended up missing some of his act.