From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Sunday, Howard quipped:   
      
   > What am I missing? Why are impressions so popular?   
      
   I can't give a definitive answer to your question, but this recent   
   discussion from TONG might help:   
      
      
   >People like Trump are a real problem for parodists. You can't do any   
   >sort of believable parody, because there's no way of telling the parody   
   >from the original.   
      
   For a parody to be effective it has to take something rather ordinary   
   and exaggerate it.   Trump's "ordinary" is already over-the-top.   
      
      
   and from downthread,   
      
      
   >And yet, Stephen Colbert and Alec Baldwin. (Jimmy Fallon apparently   
   >does bits in a wig. Can't assess.)   
      
   I'm a daily watcher of the Colbert show, albeit recorded from the   
   night before, but I'm not at all impressed or even amused at Colbert's   
   voice impression of Trump.  It's annoying.   
      
   Baldwin manages, as does Larry David with Bernie, but the best is Kate   
   McKinnon doing Elizabeth Warren...or Jeff Sessions...or Hillary   
   Clinton...or anyone.   
      
   The problem with Baldwin is that he so much like Trump in that role   
   that there's no sense of parody.   
      
      
      
   And beyond that, TONG demonstrates frequently that even in a group of   
   about 30 [active posters], there are widely divergent opinions on what   
   is funny.   
      
   /dps "Then there is the Dew Drop Inn"   
      
   --   
   "I'm glad unicorns don't ever need upgrades."   
   "We are as up as it is possible to get graded!"   
   _Phoebe and Her Unicorn_, 2016.05.15   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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