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Joe Alaskey, the forgotten Impressionist

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Uploaded on Jul 17, 2009

Long before there was Frank Calliendo and Kevin Pollack, there was Joe. One of the First to ever do William Shatner, let alone Shatner doing Woody Allen and Woody Allen doing Captain Kirk.

He also amuses us here on this episode of "Comedy Tonight", with impersonations of James Doohan, Art Carney, Don Knotts, John Housman and Jack Nicholson as Eddie Haskell!




Where are you now, Joseph? All we hear are your cartoon voices. Shall you ever do stand up again?
We know your only venture into film was a catastrophe, ("Lucky Stiff" 1988--don't ask), but son't let that disuade you. Even at age 60 you could play The Great One in his latter years. Move over Brad Garrett.. This is the REAL Jackie Gleason!

How Sweet it is!

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  • Héctor Oliveras

    Héctor Oliveras 2 years ago

    The Jack Nicholson is amazing.

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  • Ponce1390

    Ponce1390 2 years ago

    This guy is THE perfect Shatner impressionist! 

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  • Algonkin1964

    Algonkin1964 1 month ago

    First and foremost, there's Mel Blanc... then there's Joe.

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    in playlist The Genius of Joe Alaskey
  • Jarrett Buffington

    Jarrett Buffington 1 month ago

    also blind picked by jackie gleason to fill in lost episode tracks

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  • RocktheStageNYC

    RocktheStageNYC 1 month ago

    Not many people do Woody Allen at all. The best was Rick Moranis but Joe's was excellent. His SCTV partner Dave Thomas mastered Bob Hope so amazingly well, no one else even dared to do him.

    Joe mastered Gleason and Carney so well, I don't think I've ever seen anyone else do them - especially together. Perfect.

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  • Carlos C.

    Carlos C. 5 months ago

    This show was one of the reason why I nearly flunked 4th grade.

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  • OeditpusRex

    OeditpusRex 5 months ago

    Early '80s, yup. I well remember seeing this on "Comedy Tonight" on KQED, the PBS station in San Francisco.

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    in reply to ferociousgumby (Show the comment)
  • ferociousgumby

    ferociousgumby 8 months ago

    The Jackie Gleason is spooky. Had the guy died yet? He's channling him.

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    ferociousgumby 8 months ago

    When was this taped? The glasses say '80s.

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  • Bigman031893

    Bigman031893 9 months ago

    I would have to say that the skipper was definitely his weakest, but I thought he did well with don knotts. Cant agree with your Nicholson grade either...definitely better than a C+

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  • CAVALIERKNIGHT33

    CAVALIERKNIGHT33 9 months ago

    This is fantastic.

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  • eileenluvsdod

    eileenluvsdod 1 year ago

    well he's currently a voice over artist

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