Actor Does 20 Celeb Voice Impressions While Deepfake Alters His Face And The Video Is Fascinating
Modern technology helps impersonators, impressionists, mimics, and actors wield their craft in ways never before imagined! A perfect example of this is none other than well-known actor Jim Meskimen, who recently went viral for an interesting and slightly disturbing video.
In it, Meskimen recites the poem ‘Pity the Poor Impressionist’ using the voices of 20 celebrities. All while being deepfaked with the help of SHAM00K. Scroll on because you’re about to see how weird living in the 21st century can be.
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You can watch the full video right here!
60-year-old Meskimen has acted in Parks & Recreation as Martin Housely, starred in the TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and even voiced characters in cartoons like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Johnny Bravo (he voiced a whiny man and a waiter, hoo ha hooah).
Jim Meskimen – Impressionist
John Malkovich
Colin Firth
Robert Deniro
Tommy Lee Jones
If you’re a video game fan, then you’ll be awed to learn that Meskimen has loaned out his voice to such legendary series like Baldur’s Gate, Call of Duty, Diablo, Hitman, Kingdom Hearts, various LEGO games, as well as The Lord of the Rings. The man is a well-oiled, hard-working, efficient, and talented machine who loves his craft.
Nick Offerman
George Clooney
Christopher Walken
Anthony Hopkins
Dr. Phil
Deepfakes are getting faker the deeper we go into this century. New Scientist draws attention to the fact that artificial intelligence and deepfakes are already being used by Israeli tech firm Canny AI and other companies to dub advertisements or messages from celebrities into different languages. Which sounds wonderful until you consider all the possible applications. I’ve got a feeling that the fake news we see now will seem like a drop in the ocean compared to what’s coming.
Nicholas Cage
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Morgan Freeman
Bryan Cranston
Christoph Waltz
Dear readers, what do you think of Meskimen’s impersonations? Do you think that actors who are able to mimic others will be able to do one-man movies in the future with the help of technology? Do you think deepfakes are a force of good, evil, or just another tool? I can’t wait to read what you think, so drop a comment below the post.
Joe Pesci
Jack Nicholson
George W. Bush
Sir Ian McKellen
Ron Howard
Robin Williams
Here are the poem’s words if you want to recite it in celebrity voices yourself
Pity The Poor Impressionist
By Jim Meskimen ©2016
Is anything more sad and lame
contemptible, beneath disdain,
In short, provoking of disgust
than being an impressionist?
A third rate, even fourth rate skill,
the definition of “cheap thrill.”
Like watching farm equipment rust
is watching an impressionist.
A relic from a distant day
that long since should died away,
dishonorably mentioned is
the pitiful impressionist.
Weird, and somewhat ostentacious
tired debris from old Las Vegas,
whose former fans have all dismissed
allegiance to impressionists.
How many opportunities
passed up and wasted because he’s
Hell-bound to follow what he must?
Pity the poor impressionist.
Doomed to live an abject failure
dogged by his own echolalia.
Better to crumble into dust
than live as an impressionist.
His borrowed voices can’t deflect
a life of well-deserved neglect.
His name’s on simply no one’s lips;
forgotten, vain impressionist.
That sound–did anybody moan?
That creature at the microphone
is last on everybody’s list;
forgettable impressionist.
When Peter at that shiny gate
condemns those souls who imitate
he will but shake a heavenly fist
and curse condemned impressionists.
But ’til that time we’ll tolerate
the good for nothing reprobate,
and hide the truth: that we’re just pissed
that WE can’t be impressionists!
Imagine showing this to some kind of time traveler that do not know of photoshop( or whatever advanced program this is). I believe one word would come to mind..... diabolic
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The old - and very good - advice, "Never Believe Anything You Hear, And Only Half Of What You See", has never been as accurate and pertinent as now. Scary stuff. Oh, and well done, Mr. Meskinen!
Terrible and totally unnecessary as it takes away from the actual impressions. One of the best things about of watching a good impressionist is how he or she can make you feel as if you’re actually listening to/seeing the person being imitated. Based on this alone, I have no idea if Jim can accomplish this...and if I were thinking of hiring him, I probably wouldn’t. And I would vehemently NOT pay to see a program where this was done. I hope Jim is not thinking of using this professionally. The master, Rich Little, must be horrified. Another example of technology diluting and dumbing down true talent.
the deep fake stuff is creepy, but the voices on most of these are just meh, but doing them in rapid fire form like that surely throws it off a bit
He and Ross Marquad were in a series together called "Impress Me". It's bloody fantastic!!!!!!!
It's almost like he starts to look like the person he's impressionizing, or impressioning, you know.
The YouTube channel ctrl-shift-face also does that with very good results. They also do it on movies.
It’s cool but man, f**k the internet and technology sometimes. Gene editing and stem cells I can live with, everyone said it was taking science too far. No, that helped people medically. THIS is taking it too far. Sorry Gen Z, your world is trash literally and figuratively. Dramatic? Maybe.
Imagine showing this to some kind of time traveler that do not know of photoshop( or whatever advanced program this is). I believe one word would come to mind..... diabolic
Load More Replies... The old - and very good - advice, "Never Believe Anything You Hear, And Only Half Of What You See", has never been as accurate and pertinent as now. Scary stuff. Oh, and well done, Mr. Meskinen!
Terrible and totally unnecessary as it takes away from the actual impressions. One of the best things about of watching a good impressionist is how he or she can make you feel as if you’re actually listening to/seeing the person being imitated. Based on this alone, I have no idea if Jim can accomplish this...and if I were thinking of hiring him, I probably wouldn’t. And I would vehemently NOT pay to see a program where this was done. I hope Jim is not thinking of using this professionally. The master, Rich Little, must be horrified. Another example of technology diluting and dumbing down true talent.
the deep fake stuff is creepy, but the voices on most of these are just meh, but doing them in rapid fire form like that surely throws it off a bit
He and Ross Marquad were in a series together called "Impress Me". It's bloody fantastic!!!!!!!
It's almost like he starts to look like the person he's impressionizing, or impressioning, you know.
The YouTube channel ctrl-shift-face also does that with very good results. They also do it on movies.
It’s cool but man, f**k the internet and technology sometimes. Gene editing and stem cells I can live with, everyone said it was taking science too far. No, that helped people medically. THIS is taking it too far. Sorry Gen Z, your world is trash literally and figuratively. Dramatic? Maybe.
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