<![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> I love her. Sometimes I'll trade being amazed for being amused.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @Carol Gardens: Omigughghghg--Francesca! Forgot all about her. Tender teen trying to navigate both adolescence and having two gay dads--TV's first? I always wanted Francesca and her dads to spin off into their own show; all I got was fucking Fraser.

ginger rant

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @donmiguel: I loved The Tracey Ullman show. One of the best collections of "character study" comedy. I am not kidding. Kay, Steve Martin as a dance teacher doing "skin the duck", Ginny Tillman and the proctologist, Francesca with the braces...

Carol Gardens

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @onebadclam: Ha!

Actually she described her child self as a "little troll".

Fair enough?

ObtuseIntolerant

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> Her Renee Zellweger on the new show is bang-on, and the Dina Lohan is so scathing that I wonder whether she'll get sued.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @donmiguel: Really? I thought it was a common opinion that the writing took a nosedive years ago and has never recovered. Still funnier than Family Guy, though.

onebadclam

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @ObtuseIntolerant: I'll accept the fat, lazy kid in the bleachers description if she'll admit to being an attention-seeking drill team dancer who would only bang a star footballer.

onebadclam

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> I agree she can be a touch annoying but...aren't you guys a little mad because she went on Fresh Air yesterday and described bloggers as (and I paraphrase) "the fat, lazy kids on the bleachers in gym class talking snarky crap about the people actually doing the gymnastics"? And that she wanted to beat you up?

Cuz I LOL'ed at that.

ObtuseIntolerant

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> We call it "Nine Eleven" in this country, Tracey. Otherwise, spot on.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @onebadclam: Wow. You no likey the Simpsons in the last decade. You're certainly a comedy outlier -- statistically speaking.

donmiguel

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @richardmarxhatesmyhair: If we drag Altman into this we'll be arguing all night. I found Tomlin funny in the Laugh-In format but once on Broadway her comedy was sacrificed for her "craft". Ullman strikes me the same way. And Ullman's trans-gender characterizations just creep me out.

Having said that - YAY for the Simpsons (except for the last 10 seasons).

onebadclam

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> Tracey Ullman's impressions and characters are often dead on, but they don't always make me laugh.

mathnet

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> Seriously? Tracey is one of the nicest, most down to earth people in showbiz. And yes, because of her, we got The Simpsons. And for that we should be thankful.

nonsmokinggun

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @onebadclam: Lily Tomlin was great in all her Altman films and 9 to 5. I remember asking my father what "Maui Wowwee" was...she at least made me laugh as a kid.

richardmarxhatesmyhair

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @ginger rant: I don't know, I think there is plenty of boring unfunny shit out there that's perfectly suited to her "talents."

DavidWatts

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @donmiguel: She and Lily Tomlin are part of the laughless comedy school.

onebadclam

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> Ullman has the same problem that a lot of comic performers do: it's hard to find material that's worthy of their talents. John Cleese comes to mind. Jimmy Kimmel doesn't.

ginger rant

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> The only reason Tracey Ullman matters is that her show gave birth to the Simpsons. Other than that -- she has never, not once, made me or anyone I know laugh out loud. Truly inexplicable how she continues to get gigs...

donmiguel

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> She used to be on HBO. It was funny.

surfbeavernsb

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @DavidWatts: @richardmarxhatesmyhair:
Oh, go home, just go home!

fileunder

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @lawyergay: It broke my heart in 17 places.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> I heard her on Terry Gross last night, and she totally harshed on bloggers!

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> she was great on fresh air yesterday - too bad terry gross is horrendously embarrassing interviewer - she thought she might play armchair shrink by delving into the death of ullman's dad at the age of eight - awkward.

worth79

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> @richardmarxhatesmyhair: no, it was Tracy Ullman.

DavidWatts

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> Uh, I don't get it. Was that funny?

richardmarxhatesmyhair

]]> <![CDATA[Tracey Ullman Takes on Easiest Mimicry Challenge Yet]]> I thought Rachel Ray was Tracey Ullman's new character.

sharpeiboy

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