# Any decent Elon Musk impressionists out there?

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**Created:** [September 20, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782 "2017-09-20T03:53:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![KellyCriterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KellyCriterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyCriterion)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782/1 "2017-09-20T03:53:19Z")

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I love a good celebrity impression, and Elon Musk (whom I admire and respect a lot) has some obvious tics in his speech and manner that would feed nicely in to a skilled impressionist’s attempt to mimic him.

But I can’t find any such attempts :eek:

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782/2 "2017-09-20T04:28:43Z")

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I accept the challenge!

(might be my only skill)

I’ve made people piss their pants doing Christopher Walken and Harry Caray. How hard could Elon be?

I’ll get right on this. Not like I have anything better to do.

I’ll work on a rant about self-driving cars and weak batteries.

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**Author:** ![KellyCriterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KellyCriterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyCriterion)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782/3 "2017-09-21T03:06:30Z")

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Can’t tell if you’re serious.

If you are, I look forward to it 🙂

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**Author:** ![KellyCriterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KellyCriterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyCriterion)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782/4 "2017-09-25T03:51:34Z")

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How’s it coming along, **Gatopescado** 😃

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**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782/5 "2017-09-25T05:19:17Z")

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What are the obvious tics in his speech and manner? Do you have a link to a video that is a good example of what you are talking about?

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**Author:** ![KellyCriterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KellyCriterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyCriterion)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782/6 "2017-09-25T06:29:25Z")

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You sort of need to observe him over time. Check the comments on this vid:

(LANGUAGE WARNING: [Elon Musk is a Terrible Public Speaker - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXTC042Kf3M))

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782/7 "2017-09-25T12:27:55Z")

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[These guys](http://nerdist.com/elon-musk-spy-plane-x-37b/) do a pretty mean impression of him, that is, if he were a supervillain from the James bond series.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-decent-elon-musk-impressionists-out-there/796782/8 "2017-09-25T14:23:31Z")

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I don’t know of any Elon impressionists but since you like celebrity impressions in general, here’s a pretty good Denzel:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n-mmxFdva4w/maxresdefault.jpg "Reggie Reg - Denzel Washington - Bad Boys Of Comedy"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mmxFdva4w)