I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.

If it's just the voice, then you can only do jokes. It's not really even about the impression so much. It's about the take and what you do with the person. I try to get a character across with the impression.

I made the grandkids laugh. John Madden finally liked me!

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.

It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

Guy on the plane I'm on has a text alert that sounds like a gunshot... And he isn't putting it on vibrate.

You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.