Alistair McGowan
What can I say? There are some good impressionists out there. Alistair McGowan is not one of them, in my book.

Why? Well, a good impressionist, for me, can mimic someone’s voice perfectly, whilst also getting the mannerisms down pat and, thanks to clever makeup and costume, manage to look a bit like whoever they are impersonating. A bit like John Culshaw (Tom Baker – sublime) or Rory Bremner.

Alistair McGowan does not fit this equation. No, Alastair McGowan sounds a bit like whoever he’s doing, with unmistakeable traces of Alistair McGowan filtering through. Alistair McGowan also looks like Alistair McGowan dressed up as someone else and sounding a bit like Alistair McGowan pretending to be someone else. It just doesn’t work. Even on the radio, if I’ve tuned in to some programme with him as a guest and not realised he was on as a guest, and he’s in the middle of doing an impression, I immediately think, “Alistair McBloodyGowan”.

The droopy-eyed, draught excluder-eyebrowed twat.

Whilst I’m on the subject… Phil Cool. Fucking brilliant impressionist, but about as funny as a trip to the clap clinic.

And that Les Dennis was shit as well.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 12:50, 1 reply)

Phil Cool
Saw him and Jasper Carrot many years ago; Carrot was excellent, Phil Cool was just...odd. he did something about famous people being birds. As you said, hood impressions but utterly unfunny.
(kitescreech still here, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 8:09, closed)