{"id":3369,"date":"2016-04-03T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2016-04-05T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:11:24","slug":"area-man-can-no-longer-find-place-break-solid-bill-cosby-impression-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/area-man-can-no-longer-find-place-break-solid-bill-cosby-impression-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Area man can no longer find place to break out \u201csolid\u201d Bill Cosby impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Declan Hertel\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n<p>With Bill Cosby facing multiple allegations of drugging and raping young women during his long career, local man Kyle Thompson hasn\u2019t been able to find a suitable context in which to make use of his well-practiced impression of the comedian without seeming tasteless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt always kills at parties,\u201d complained Thompson, wishing that the comedian would have considered those who have put \u201cserious work\u201d into their impression of him before he drugged and raped all those women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time I did it, all I got was silence, with some nervous chuckles too, but it mostly flopped,\u201d said Thompson. \u201cAt one point I went for broke and made a date-rape joke with the voice, and it did mostly go over, but I felt kind of weird about it afterward, so I haven\u2019t done it since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame, it really is,\u201d said Tobin Davis, who once heard Thompson perform the bit at a party, describing the impression as \u201cpretty spot-on\u201d and \u201calmost uncanny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson admitted that he also does have decent Pee-Wee Herman, Professor Farnsworth, and Barack Obama impressions in his repertoire, but he was \u201creally banking on the Cosby\u201d to keep parties lively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone pointed out that if I just add a really gravelly quality to the Cosby impression, I\u2019ll have a pretty okay Louis Armstrong, but it\u2019s just not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is entertaining the idea of really buckling down on his Al Pacino, but fears that the aging actor is no longer the cultural touchstone he once was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCosby\u2019s particular brand of charming, fatherly gibberish is timeless,\u201d said Thompson. \u201cBut I guess that was before we found out about all the rape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bill Cosby could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Bill Cosby facing multiple allegations of drugging and raping young women during his long career, local man Kyle Thompson hasn\u2019t been able to find a suitable context in which to make use of his well-practiced impression of the comedian without seeming tasteless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}