# Is there any comedian who can accurately imitate Obama's voice and speaking cadence? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-comedian-who-can-accurately-imitate-obamas-voice-and-speaking-cadence/512683 "2009-10-05T15:55:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-comedian-who-can-accurately-imitate-obamas-voice-and-speaking-cadence/512683/21 "2009-10-06T03:37:26Z")
[This is better](http://www.hulu.com/watch/47605/saturday-night-live-obama-plays-it-cool), right? This seems much better to me. I am cracking up. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-comedian-who-can-accurately-imitate-obamas-voice-and-speaking-cadence/512683/22 "2009-10-06T03:53:01Z")
Of the clips here so far, The Rock does the best job IMO. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-comedian-who-can-accurately-imitate-obamas-voice-and-speaking-cadence/512683/23 "2009-10-06T06:17:09Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Of the clips here so far, The Rock does the best job IMO. The Rock was actually an excellent SNL host all around. Funny guy. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-comedian-who-can-accurately-imitate-obamas-voice-and-speaking-cadence/512683/24 "2009-10-08T00:50:03Z")
[Jim Ward](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ward_(voice_actor)), current Emmy award winning Voice Deity on the Stephanie Miller Show, is really getting a good Obama impression down. I couldn’t find a link for that particularly. He reallllllyyyy had a great Bush impersonation going, though, when they’d do a fast mix, was hard to tell who was the real Bush. Ward is a master voice artist, so I’d expect he’ll ace it pretty quick. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-comedian-who-can-accurately-imitate-obamas-voice-and-speaking-cadence/512683/25 "2009-10-08T01:56:54Z")
Last year, I thought [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI1yfAJ_SLw) was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-comedian-who-can-accurately-imitate-obamas-voice-and-speaking-cadence/512683/26 "2009-10-08T11:40:47Z")
I dunno. I don’t think the entertainment world has decided how to parody Obama yet. Once they settle in on the short-hand, then we will see “good” imitations. (As examples from other administrations, it took forever to comedians to decide that Ford was clumsy, or that Reagan said “Well…” all the time. Some are easier to mock, such as Nixon being created specifically for political cartoonists, but others take some time before the accepted wisdom arises.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-comedian-who-can-accurately-imitate-obamas-voice-and-speaking-cadence/512683.md?page=1)