20 Most Ruthless SNL Celebrity Impressions
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- SNL did these celebs dirty. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most memorably brutal, unflattering, and/or exaggerated impersonations on “Saturday Night Live.” Our countdown of the most savage SNL impressions includes Kendall Jenner, Joe Biden, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Donald Trump, and more! Did we forget a savage impression? Let us know in the comments below.
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Cecily Strong as drunk Judge Jeanine Pirro always got me🤣🤣🤣
Larry David as Bernie Sanders was absolutely brilliant.
If only Belushi was around to do Samarai Sannders
Matt Damon as Brett Kavanaugh is the stuff of legend!
That wasn't as funny as the five year old child the Democrats set up as a witness. I'm amazed that was the best they could invent, they had plenty of time. She was a mess.
@@GunRunner3I see the conmenter hit a nerve 😂😂😂😂😂
That was one of the greatest moments in TV history.. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@GunRunner3 Yeah, you might have written her off completely were it wasn't for the fact that sometime after he was confirmed, several dozen people who went to Yale with Kavanaugh told their stories about how hard they tried without success to contact the FBI during the 72 hours they were given to examine the claims and under the extremely limited scope of people they were confined to speaking with in the orders they were given. They all reported that Brett's habits of blackout drinking and sexual aggression had become common knowledge on campus. The FBI's published tip line was so overwhelmed they didn't bother to check them due to the time constraints. Weird how that can happen when you have a Toadie Attorney General who sees his first responsibility as personal attorney to a fraudulent businessman, rather than loyalty to the American People.
@@ElderTechDragonblabla boring political nonsense. Are you the guy that does Doonesbury lol
Tina Fey was soo good as Sarah Palin I usually forget its her
I’m pretty sure that the first time that Tina Faye did Sarah Palin she read the actual transcript from the 60 Minutes interview. It didn’t need much altering to make it comedy.
I remember thinking, "Why the hell is Sarah Palin on SNL?"
I heard some U.S. senator quote Tina Fey a while back, claiming that Palin had made the statement.
Sarah is dumb, but foxy!
Tina is the best ever on SNL❤
I thought John Goodmans portrayal of Linda Tripp was one of the funniest I have seen! He nailed it!
I could not stop laughing.
Linda Tripp was an easy target and John Goodman is a slob.
I thought that was Roseanne😂😅
John Belushi doing Joe Cocker and Eddie Murphy doing Stevie Wonder would have made my list.
Yeah Eddie Murphy and Stevie Wonder 😂😂
John Belushi singing with Joe Cocker is an SNL classic
The Sean Spicer impression was perhaps the greatest performance McCarthy ever did. And I think her performances in Bridesmaids and Spy were some of the best examples of comedy in the 21st century.
I adore Tina Fey
Norm MacDonald doing Bob Dole?! That impersonation was so savage & he did it right in front of him when Dole made a cameo.
"I know it, you know it, the American people know it."
Norm Macdonald was just brilliant.
I always have to do a double take to see if it’s really Palin or Tina.
That was so freaking..
it's hard to tell the real person.
Canadian here, I swear they r twin sisters lol !
Absolutely true lol
Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery is timeless genius.
ScarJo as Katie Britt must now enter the discussion.
Eddie Murphy's James Brown was stellar.
Kate McKinnon is absolutely hilarious she always smashes it 🤣
They could do an entire list of just McKinnon's impressions. Same with Dana Carvey.
I love her in those sketches about alien abduction
@@seantlewis376yeah and most of them would be nearly identical, Kate did like 30-40 different political characters where the only difference was the color of the suit
She's phenomenal. Brilliant.
Don't forget that at one point Hillary was on stage with Kate acting as Hillary at the same time! Just like Tina Fey and Sarah Palin!
I’m surprised Cecily Strong’s impression of Jeanine Pirro didn’t make the list.
also her impression of tulsi gabbard during the 2020 primaries. they straight up turned her into cruella de ville (not unwarranted)
I was just about to post the same thing. I thought she was #1 that’s why I watched the entire video 😢
She also does a good Sofia Vergara.
Or Beck Bennett as Vladimir Putin!
Cecily seems like the real Talent that never gets recognition.
Dana Cravey doing Bush was great too
"I can see Russia from my house" will always be priceless.
I still say that and laugh lmao
No, it was/is stupid, because the person who was mocked for it never said a close equivalent to it.
@@robertveith6383 "They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." Better paraphrased as "I can see Russia from my house.
And always priceless.
@@robertveith6383 And seriously, mocking an idiot like Caribou Barbie should be a national pastime.
@@robertveith6383 It's a joke.
When Sarah Palin first appeared on the national stage in 2008, I thought: "Hey, Sarah Palin looks a lot like Tina Fey. Too bad Tina Fey isn't on SNL anymore. She'd probably do a great Palin impression ".
Kate McKinnon is the queen. Also the Spicer was absolutely hilarious. I died every time i saw it lol.
KATE MCKINNON AS THE QUEEN WAS FU*KING HILARIOUS!
I do a Connery impression, and i can't even tell you how many times I've quoted lines from SNL celebrity Jeopardy. Hammond is an effing genius
That’s Therapists….
Church Lady is still one of my favorites 😂❤
That's not an impression of a celebrity.
@@johnanderson9765 I agree but it's still my favorite
@@barrellracerIt doesn't belong in this category.
@@RaymondHng I agree but it's still my favorite
@@barrellracer Your favorite does not matter. Save it for the proper category. It still does not belong in the category of Celebrity Impressions. The Church Lady is still not an impression of a real person. She is a fictional character.
How can you forget 2000’s election lockbox skit? That is comedy gold!
Bill Hader's Jim Jordan is so hilarious.
"I'm so angry I couldn't even wear a JACKET!"
So was his Keith Morrison
For the next 20 savage impressions:
Phil Hartmann portraying Ronald Reagan as an avuncular character in public but a a criminal mastermind behind the scenes
Fred Arminsen & Bill Hader as cockney crime lords Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
Maya Rudolph as Donatella Versace
BACK TO WORK!!!
What do Reagan and Hartman have in common?
Both got a bullet in them.
14:38 Melissa McCarthy’s Spicer was the all time best impersonation far and away.
Armisen's Gov. Paterson was hilarious. Him wandering lost around the update desk, and then walking blindly up to the camera had me in tears. Also his constant roasting of New JERSEY!
i don't know who gov paterson is/was but i really enjoyed his impression of bloomberg in 2020, just wandering on stage sipping a big gulp like "what? i just paid the doorman $20 billion and he let me in."
@dietotaku David Paterson became governor of New York after his predecessor, Elliot Spitzer, was ousted due to a controversy.
Armisen's portrayal of Gov. Paterson was controversial due to the fact that he made light of the fact that he was blind. The real governor later made an appearance during Weekend Update to confront Armisen about it while he was still in character.
John Goodman as Linda Tripp was truly brutal (Deservedly so) Best thing about that was in FX American Crime Story, Impeachment (Clinton) a couple of years ago. Sarah Paulson played Linda Tripp, with a bit of ‘ugly’ makeup, her adult daughter tried to shield her from watching SNL, but said to her, its okay it’s funny. In another shot you see the hurt look on actress Sarah Paulson’s face (playing Linda Tripp) watching John Goodman playing her.)
Man, Gilda was one of a kind ❤
Phil Hartman’s Clinton really was so perfectly smarmy.
I would also add Barbara Bush impersonated by Phil Hartman. It was hilarious and ruthless.
Yeah, I remember that one.. 😂😂😂😂 It was burtal and hilarious 😂😂😂😂
He didn't even change his voice...lmbo
Dana Carvey's George H. W. Bush was the greatest ever!!!!
Alex Baldwin nailed the Donald Trump impersonation better than anyone else. The look and the behavior, mannerisms, voice, talking, etc.
Also, showing the Sarah Palin impersonation without the infamous "I can see Russia from my house!" part is disturbing.
Alec Baldwin's Trump impression is outstanding, but James Austin Johnson's impression is rapidly becoming the gold standard
@@berserkley Baldwin's impersonation is top notch, and JAJ can't touch it. When dressed up, Baldwin actually looks like the evil Oompa-Loompa, but I just can't "see" Donald when JAJ is supposed to look like him.
When I saw Old Captain America at the end of Avengers: Endgame, I could imagine Chris Evans appearing on SNL as Joe BIden.
McCarthy Spicer impression was comic gold and Fey’s Palin was epic.😊😂😂
@watchMojo should do a list of all Kate Mckinnons roles on Saturday night live during her tenure.
RIP Phil and Norm - so damn iconic!
and gilda…RIP gilda
R.I.P to all the legends..
James Austin Johnson certainly is the worthy successor to Alec Baldwin in mimicking Trump. 😂
Then how come my conscience is soo clean 😂😂. That's the funniest thing ever 😂🤣.
Can we forget Spicer and that little podium?
😂 These SNL impressions are brutally hilarious! 👏
Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford was great also
Chevy just did falls, he didn't really impersonate Ford.
@@pauladouglas9891That's what made it so funny!
You forgot Jay Pharoah as Denzel Washington, Keenan Thompson as David Ortiz, and Cecily Strong playing Janine Perro and Kate McKinnon playing Laura Ingram Those are my favorites
i loooooved kate mckinnon's laura ingraham! especially the one about the migrant caravan.
@@dietotakuOmg, that one’s so good- “dozens, maybe millions of immigrants heading straight for you and your grandchildren” 😂😂
Keenan's hilarious in any character he plays, but his impressions are not actually that great at depicting or satirizing the person's actual mannerisms.
Cecily was hilarious as Kari Lake and Jeanine Pirro.
" Sort of sorry about it"...giggle
We’re going to add Katie Brit and Scarlett Jo to this list!
No Baldwin as Trump?!?!
The Joe Biden and Donald Trump impressions were both hilarious. The only difference is Joe Biden can take a joke!
Lol dude can't even take the stairs 😂
@@jason3280 neither can trump you spoon. other things trump can't take include cognitive functioning assessments and losing.
You also forgot that trump also can't take losing
we can't take this luxurious lifestyle on Bidens administration
I was consistently disappointed that the Trump impression wasn’t more funny.. but I realized eventually that they couldn’t make him more ridiculous than he already was without making him a cartoon character. He just didn’t need parody because he was already hilariously stupid. Unfortunately though his speeches tended to be a 50/50 mix between unintentional comedy and offensive hate speech..
too much narration...not enough comedy..
You've got that right¡!!
Glad they went with James Austin Johnson’s Trump over Baldwin’s. Baldwin’s impression was great, but Johnson knocks it out of park.
i think baldwin suffered from delivering great writing a little too well in his first foray as trump and just couldn't quite live up to it after that. "she's always screaming, she's constantly lying, her hair is crazy, her face is completely orange, except around the eyes where it's white, and when she stops talking her mouth looks like a tiny... little... butthole..."
James Austin Johnsons trump wasn't that great, overrated
Kristen Wiig's drunk Kathy Lee Gifford and Jay Pharaoh's gay Ben Carson are absolutely brutal. Tina Fey's Sarah Palin is on another level. Also Sean Spicer could no longer continue to exist as a serious human being after Melissa McCarthy was finished with him.
Dude! Pretty sure that’s why Trump fired him.
Norm’s Burt Reynolds is spot-on, and deserves a better spot than #20-It definitely shouldn’t be outranked by anything remotely Kardashian-related…. 😆
Baldwin doing Trump, hands down the best
Yep, agreed! JAJ’s is a great imitation, but something about Baldwin’s “Mad magazine-style” take just makes it funny even if you see it a hundred times.
How is Keenan as R.Kelly not on this list one of the greatest cold opens
Sad to see Madeline and Gilda...knowing they both died of the same illness😢😢😢
Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin and Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer are (in my opinion) the reason SNL wasn’t cancelled in the Obama years. The cast was pretty weak for a few years there..
I would have included Andy Samberg as Nic Cage and/or Mark Wahlberg
Even funnier when the actual celebrity appeared alongside him.
"Say hi to your mother for me" 😄
To not have SNL’s funniest actor ever Eddie Murphy in this countdown is a joke in itself.
You forgot Cecily Strong and her version of Jeannine Pirro! It was spot on!!!
blah blah blah ... the clips should have been shown and we should have been able to see it for ourselves. That verbiage by way of "commentary" is a real turn-off.
Yes! There's way more talking than actual clip!
If you expected enough of a clip shown to make you laugh, you don't know Ms. Mojo!
Hello bot!
No.1 should’ve been Alec Baldwin. He nailed his trump role 😅
Totally agree. A glaring omission... but he never liked do it.
Dana Carvey"s impression of George Bush Sr " kinder, gentler, America."
so many incredible classics!
“In the cage” with Nick Cage and Nick Cage. 😂
Tina Fey was great doing weekend update and I think she was head writer for several years. She was good on 30 rock too but I think it was her Palin impression that I truly appreciated her. That's more on me than her.
One impression that you’ll NEVER see again was Darrell Hammond’s “spot-on” impersonation of Jesse Jackson (because it was done in dark makeup).
Brad Pitt as Anthony Fauci!! Spot on!!🤣
Yes!!! That one should be on this list.
Jay pharaoh is the king of celebrity impersonations
Suggestion : Why not just show the clips with the unnecessary, wordy, overly long voice over accompaniment ?
Because of copyright restrictions.
Shut up!!!! We wanna hear the clips!
@@sanfrangirl05it’s also kinda rude to just use the entirety of the clip cause it takes away from the original video
You must have fun at parties.
So they show some and not others!! Show me the people are dead clown!!!!
tina fey just looked a bit like sarah palin, that's what got her that impression
CHEVY CHASE as Gerald Ford .... "Heal, Liberty!" HILARIOUS.
norm doing burt is basically his character in my name is earl, dude's hilarious!
Alec Baldwin is the best Trump impersonator
Ackroyd obviously went to the Monty Python school of women impression.
John Belushi as Joe Cocker. You missed that one.
Funny that we both just watched it and that's the one I was waiting for the whole time. Went right to the comments to see who else was disappointed.
I think a fix was in not to show it.
I find it impressive that when a new celebrity pops up in the news who was formerly unknown, within a week someone on the SNL cast has them down pat. That's talent.
Darrel Hammond as Bill Clinton, better than even Hartman!
Kate McKinnon’s Hilary Clinton was always top notch. Especially paired with Baldwin as Trump 😂
I hope SNL invites Alec Baldwin back, and in every skit, he's given a prop gun and has to fire it.
Jay Pharoah as Denzel Washington nails it! 😃
You totally missed the best SNL impression of all time, Alex Baldwin as Donald Trump.
Melissa as Sean was an all time favourite for me!
John Belushi as Joe Cocker and he did it right next to him.
Carvey doing Bush sr. Is so outrageous, it is timeless. But nothing beats McKinnon is the ultimate Bieber, and so brillliant.
What about Eddie Murphy as Stevie Wonder, in front of Stevie Wonder.
Gal Gadot's brutal impression of Kendall Jenner is amazing.
Shouldn't have been on the list
These people have done such a public service by bringing comic relief to We the People. Brilliant, every single one.
Kate McKinnon as Betsy DeVos was brutally perfect. 💌
y'all remember when we all liked #RudyGiuliani and he made sense... good times
It’s impossible to include all the outstanding ones on a list of 20, but this is a good compilation. Though JAJ does a great trump impression, my fave is still Baldwin’s. Also would’ve loved to see Cecily’s Pirro , Kate’s Ingraham, and “Eric and Don Jr” from Weekend Update. And from further back in the day…..Bill Hader’s “Vincent Price”, hosting creepy tv specials with spot-on guest impersonations,especially Gloria Swanson and Judy Garland from Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen’s Liberace. 😂
Dana Carvey’s Bush Sr was more like Bush than Bush.
"The writers explore the character through the stereotype of shallow celebrity". I would have died stupid without this.
Kathina Johnson did a good of Perot too on All That.
Oh my God those were hilarious!!😂😂😂😂😂
Great stuff like always. So glad SNL is back!!!
Will Farrell as James Lipton
Great list/compilation… Tina as Palin’s my number one. 😂❤
Tina fey as Sarah palin was when SNL peaked!
Amy Poehler as Nancy Grace was another great one!
They're all great. Like the story about a Kavanaugh sketch. He was in LA they called him Friday. He got to NY just hours before going on the air.
Melissa McCartney nailed it....
hahaha
Matt Damon’s Brett Cavanaugh was brilliant!
One of the greatest moments on TV ever.. 😂😂😂
Thanks, it was awesome to see true comedy again...
It was impossible to distinguish Tina Fey from Sarah Palin. I'm glad you gave honorable mention to Alec Baldwin. His Trump is legendary.