Ricky Gervais’ celebrity impressions have to be seen to be believed

His attempt to do the most impersonations in 30 seconds is certainly interesting

Published: Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 10:37 am

There are a lot of celebrities out there with incredible impressions skills, but The Office creator Ricky Gervais reckons that he might just have them beat.

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"The reason I don't do accents isn't that I can't, it's that I can't be bothered,” he told Jimmy Fallon this week on US talk series The Tonight Show. “I'm a brilliant impressionist.

"You see those things on YouTube of people doing 20 impressions in 20 seconds. I can do that. I can do it better than them."

Thus chastened, Fallon decided to test Gervais’ claims with a 30-second impressions challenge, which…well, you’d probably better just watch it.

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Frankly, we can’t remember all these stars sounding quite so identically high-pitched and northern, but hey – we’re not impressionists. Congrats to Ricky on his new world record.

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Radio Times commissioning editor Huw Fullerton. He sits in front of a shelving unit, looking at the camera and smiling. He wears glasses and has a moustache

Huw FullertonCommissioning editor

Huw Fullerton is a commissioning editor for Radio Times magazine handling comedy, entertainment and specialist drama. In a previous regeneration, he covered all things sci-fi and fantasy for RadioTimes.com.

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