# "Hey, Skeet! Johnny Depp wants his genes back!" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 12, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695 "2000-10-12T17:47:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/1 "2000-10-12T17:47:03Z")
Which celebrities are poor imitations of other celebrities? For my money, Christian Slater has got nothing on Jack Nicholson. And doesn’t Joe Leiberman seem a little too much like the father from ALF? Who else? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/2 "2000-10-12T18:07:35Z")
Am I crazy, or is **Lee Evans** (played the pizza guy/fake-handicapped-guy in There’s Something About Mary) a younger clone of **John Malkovich**? Also, isn’t [Owen Wilson](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wilson,+Owen) pretty much just a young **Dennis Hopper**? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/3 "2000-10-12T18:41:38Z")
Y’know, I remember the days when **Kevin Costner** was considered a poor version of **Mark Harmon**. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/4 "2000-10-12T19:19:10Z")
That kid on Roswell does a really good David Duchovney impression. Right down to the alien thing. And I can never remember if Jewel is doing a Rene Zielwiegger impression, or vice versa. And where does that chick from Chasing Amy come in? ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/5 "2000-10-12T19:38:48Z")
Somebody tell me that Joe Lieberman hasn’t been secretly replaced by Teller, of Penn & Teller. ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/6 "2000-10-12T19:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\*That kid on Roswell does a really good David Duchovney impression. Right down to the alien thing. > > And I can never remember if Jewel is doing a Rene Zielwiegger impression, or vice versa. And where does that chick from Chasing Amy come in? \*\* That would be Joey Lauren Adams. By the by, the blonde woman she is kissing at the lesbian club in the beginning of the movie is played by Carmen Lee, wife of Jason Lee, who plays Banky. That must have been one fun scene to shoot, especially as Adams was dating director Kevin Smith at the time. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/7 "2000-10-12T20:00:16Z")
Hey- John Stewart! Jim Varney call from the great beyond- he wants his face back! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/8 "2000-10-12T20:05:25Z")
this is a thread for Fametracker (The Farmer’s Almanac of Celebrity Worth) [http://www.fametracker.com](http://www.fametracker.com). Enjoy, fellow Dopers! _I am not affiliated with them in any way… they just make me laugh._ ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/9 "2000-10-12T20:15:06Z")
As far as Fametracker goes, I recommend the “2 Stars 1 Slot” section (as far as the OP goes), and every so often there’s a “Hollywood Gene Project” feature, in which they make **exactly** these comparisons. Just trying to help, folks. And I’m not affiliated with them, either; I’m not clever enough or cool enough, I s’pose. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/10 "2000-10-12T20:37:14Z")
Anna Nicole Smith–\>Jayne Mansfield–\>Marilyn Monroe? ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/11 "2000-10-12T20:52:57Z")
When I first saw Leelee Sobieski I thought she was very closely related to Helen Hunt, maybe a younger sister. She looks very much like Helen. ---
**Author:** ![boli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@boli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boli)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/12 "2000-10-12T21:46:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shanin \* > When I first saw Leelee Sobieski I thought she was very closely related to Helen Hunt, maybe a younger sister. She looks very much like Helen. Not only do they look A LOT alike, they have very similar voices. It’s a little creepy if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/13 "2000-10-12T21:50:06Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Zette_ > **Hey- John Stewart! Jim Varney call from the great beyond- he wants his face back!** Hold on there. Go back. Read the OP. Jon Stewart a poor imitation of Jim Varney? Oh, wait, I forgot…“Ernest Goes to the Pen and Becomes Bubba’s Bitch” was rife with comic hilarity of a sort that Jon Stewart can never even aspire to… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/14 "2000-10-12T22:12:21Z")
teller 2000. Howabout Doug Hutchison as John Malkovich in “Being John Malkovich”…oh wait, the movie was called “Bait” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-skeet-johnny-depp-wants-his-genes-back/36695/15 "2000-10-13T17:26:41Z")
Ugh…FameTracker.,…the woman who runs it, Wing Chun, is a total cunt. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.