Sinopsis
Hosted by Andy Beckerman and Ramsey Ess , Snap Impression is a gameshow podcast that pits comedians against each other to see who can do the best off-the-cuff impressions of celebrities, fictional characters and historical personages.
Episodios
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Ep. 117: I'm Going to Kill Myself (Live at UCB East Oct. 2016)
07/11/2016 Duración: 58minCrazy times this week! Taped live at UCB East on 10/25, as Trump's campaign was tanking (prior to this last week's surge), there was a sense of relief in the air. A sense that may have been destroyed by the end of this episode??? What do I mean? Tune in to hear our wonderful guest judge, a dad from Wisconsin, Carl Wisinski and our four delightful contestants, Fresh Out host Ashley Brooke Roberts, SNL writer Josh Patten, Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer Jen Spyra and Just for Laughs New Face Tim Dillon duke it out in the Impression-Sphere! And don't forget to come see us live at UCB East on 11/22 at 8pm! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 116: Waste Not, Waste Not
24/10/2016 Duración: 01h08minOh buddy! We brought the fire on today's episode! Not only do we have a great guest judge - current/former/retired actor Trace Daniels - but we've got two of the UCB's shining stars Abra Tabak and Brian Faas! Abra and Brian are both house performers at UCB, who you can see every week on Saturday and Friday nights respectively. In addition, you may have seen Abra on 30 Rock or Broad City and Brian on Best Week Ever or Bianca Unanchored! And don't forget to come see us live at UCB East on 10/25 at 8pm! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 115: It's a Living! (Live at UCB East Sept. 2016)
10/10/2016 Duración: 56minHot times at UCB East, even though our audience seemingly didn't get references to The Flintstones! We're joined by guest judge Kiranto, one of the most popular new age musicians around, and four wonderful contestants including Casey Jost (Impractical Jokers), Jo Firestone (Just for Laughs New Faces), Dylan Marron (Welcome to Night Vale) and Nick Turner (Comedy Central Half Hour)! And don't forget to come see us live at UCB East on 10/25 at 8pm! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 114: I Bet Chandler Had a Big Penis
26/09/2016 Duración: 01h14minRemember when Ramsey was "out sick" a couple months ago (AKA at the RNC as a delegate for Trump?) and Monique Moses was on the show and our other guest dropped out? Well now Monique is back for a full episode, and she's joined by the wonderful Janie Stolar. Monique is a house performer at UCB on the Harold team Some Kid, and she's also a cast member of The Female Gaze and a writer/performer in the Astronomy Club sketch show A Journey Thru Black History. Janie is a house performer at UCB too! IN addition, she co-created/writes/hosts The Female Gaze, and contributes to Billy on the Street and Reductress, and next year you can see her on Pete Holmes new HBO show Crashing! Plus, as our guest judge, we have midwesterner and Jimmy Fallon fan supreme Dineane Lewis! And don't forget to come see us live at UCB East on 9/27 at 8pm! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 113: Freaky Eye
12/09/2016 Duración: 01h06minIt's our first regular in-studio episode with a guest judge, and what a guest judge it is, Kid A himself, that's right, the lead singer of Radiohead, it's Thom Yorke! And we've got two wonderful contestants for him to judge: Nicole Silverberg and Branson Reese. Nicole is a writer and performer on UCB house sketch and improv teams, she's a contributor to GQ, an associate editor at Reductress, and co-host of their wonderful podcast Mouth Time! Branson is a house performer at The Magnet Theater; an actor, director, puppeteer, and teaching artist for The Story Pirates;an illustrator; and can be seen everywhere form The Onion to a Brisk Iced Tea commercial! And don't forget to come see us live at UCB East on 9/27 at 8pm! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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A Labor Day Snack!
05/09/2016 Duración: 07minHey BernieBros and HillaryGals and TrumpEthicalMonsters! Ramsey and I are taking a break this week, but we thought we'd give y'all a lil' peak behind the curtain about how we're going to be structuring the show from now on. It's seven minutes long, so you can put it on while you take out your contacts, brush, floss and mouthwash, and it'll be over by the time you're done! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 112: Yes Suh - Live at UCB East August 2016
29/08/2016 Duración: 52minIf you live in New York, you gotta come and check out one of our live shows because they are incredibly fun, as today's episode - taped live at UCB East on August 23rd - will prove! Not only is our guest judge esteemed southern lawyer Eustace Leghorn, but we're also joined by four wonderful contestants: Chase Mitchell (writer for The Tonight Show), Brooke Van Poppelen (host of truTV's Hack My Life - you've seen her on everything from @Midnight to John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show), Richie Moriarty (Just for Laughs New Faces, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Griffin Newman (Arthur on Amazon's The Tick, HBO's Vinyl). This was an absolute delight! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 111: Trump Water Disease
22/08/2016 Duración: 58minOh boy, oh boy! It's another barn burner with our very special guests Tim Girrbach and David Carl! David performs a one man show as Gary Busey in Point Break LIVE! and Gary Busey's One-Man Hamlet and is part of the sketch team The Future at The PIT! Tim is performing and writing character based Hip-Hop Comedy as one half of Squirm and Germ. He is very musical and has been for a long time. Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 110: Mr. Metamucil
15/08/2016 Duración: 01h04minInsane times ahead folks as we're joined by two of the finest improvisors this side of Mason Dixon: Ken Beck and Henry Kaiser! Ken is a house performer at UCB, having performed for years on Harold teams. Ken is currently an actor on the UCB house sketch team Estevez. Henry is a performer with Quick and Funny Musicals, which you can see perform monthly at UCB in LA. He recently had his first leading role in the feature film"Detective Detective Detective", and his off-broadway credits include The Odyssey (part of the Araca Project), and Telly Savalas' "Who Loves You Baby." Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 109: And Sit on the Couch!
08/08/2016 Duración: 49minIt's another fantastic episode as we are joined by comedians and improvisers Jon Wan and Hannah Solow, two super funny folks. Do you like freestyle rapping? Then you're going to recognizing some folks ruin a thing you love, in this very episode! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 108: #AGoodAmountOfUnusualThingsGoingOnInMyPersonalBiography - Live at UCB East July 2016
01/08/2016 Duración: 56minMaybe one of the most fun live episodes we've taped yet, this month, we're joined by guest judge Topanga Trump, The Donald's lost daughter, and four great guests: Above Average writer Dan Chamberlain, Funny or Die head writer Nate Dern, current Last Week Tonight with John Oliver writer and former College Humor personality Dan Gurewitch, and The State and the Risk! podcast's Kevin Allison. So suspend yourself from the ceiling in sex swing and get that cattle prod ready for this week's show! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 107: Ramsey's Sick Day
25/07/2016 Duración: 46minYow! Even though one of our guests canceled last minute and Ramsey came down with a cold (so he says), we still have a blast with UCB performer Monique Moses. Monique helps come up with a new way of challenging contestants in round one, and her and I spend three rounds challenging each other. That's right, if you've ever said, "Why doesn't Andy do more impressions??" you're gonna find out why in today's episode! If you want to see Monique perform live, she is on the Harold team Some Kid, is a cast member of The Female Gaze and a writer/performer in the Astronomy Club sketch show A Journey Thru Black History. Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 106: Tubbins! - Live at UCB East June 2016
18/07/2016 Duración: 55minMaybe the darkest episode yet taped live at UCB East on June 28th 2016! Yes, that's right, we're joined by Tubbins, that little British boy who was found living in a cave, and what a life Tubbins has led. If it wasn't so funny, it'd be a complete tragedy! And of course, we've got contestants out the wazoo! That's right Tonight Show writer Mike Drucker, Orange Is the New Black regular Emily Tarver, Seth Meyers writer Matt Goldich and Last Comic Standing's Mehran Khaghani. And even though the audience understood no reference to anything before 2005, what a time we had! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 105: The Bone Collector - Our 2nd Anniversary
11/07/2016 Duración: 01h12minIt's our second anniversary, and as a treat, we've brought a guest judge into the studio. Yes, it's one of our favorites from the live show, Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers! When last we left Peter, he was quite suicidal thanks to his shattered relationship with his estranged son. Hopefully things have gotten better for him! And joining us as well are two of our favorite contestants - who you might remember from the early days of the show - UCB's own house improvisers Matt Fisher and John Murray! Here's to two, and only two, more years of the show! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 104: Two Percent - Live at the Del Close Marathon
04/07/2016 Duración: 40minToday's episode was taped live from the Podcast Lounge at the Del Close Marathon, and what a doozy we gots! Our guest judge is a for-real theoretical physicist, Dr. David Tennyson, and we also got two wonderful guests, Opus Moreschi, the head writer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and stand-up Jo Firestone, who recently wrote for The Chris Gethard Show. Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 103: S-Milin'
27/06/2016 Duración: 01h13minHoo hoo! Well, lookie here! Today on the show we have the wonderful Ashley Brooke Roberts (Fresh Out! NY) and Jim Tews (Louie, Last Comic Standing)! In this one you'll get to hear a plethora of awesome accents, a number of fun facts, some real and some invented, and some great dirt on local politicians! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 102: The Ghost of 1000 Poops
20/06/2016 Duración: 01h19minFor episode 102, we bring you nothing but the best - two of Andy's old pals from the improv world Shalyah Evans and Austin Rye! You might know Shalyah from MTV's Girl Code, Joking Off or Guy Code vs. Girl Code or from her show running at UCB. Austin is a performer at The PIT on the wonderful team The Lunchmen and recently toured with Second City. Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 101: The Jazz Age Lawn Party Episode
13/06/2016 Duración: 01h04minGood timez today on a speedy ep with our two pals Mark Vigeant and Ian Stroud! Mark and Ian are both members of the sketch group O.S.F.U.G., who have a monthly show at UCB, as well as the Trumpet Boys, a trumpet-based neo-vaudeville that's just the bee's knees! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 100: Flop Impression
06/06/2016 Duración: 01h05min100 episodes?! Whoda ever thunk two kids from the sticks would ever record 100 episodes of a fancy newfangled gameshow podcast? Well, we did, and to celebrate, we've got the hosts of one of our favorite podcasts The Flop House (Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy and Stuart Wellington) as well as two writers from The Daily Show (including the head writer!) Hallie Haglund and Zhubin Parang to join us live at UCB East for an action packed episode judged by BBQ Bro Rick "Movies" Bishop. Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!
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Ep. 99: Keep the Studios Separate
30/05/2016 Duración: 54minIt's another big episode! This time we have the fantastic Keisha Zollar and Andrew Kimler! Keisha is a longtime performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York and will be appearing on the upcoming HBO show "Divorce!" Andrew has written and performed at the UCB and is launching a new podcast with Keisha that is dropping oh-so-very-soon! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!