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"impersonation" Definitions
  1. an act of pretending to be somebody in order to trick people or to entertain them

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Oldman storms his way through an impersonation of a dead person and that's impressive, but, you know, it's still an impersonation.
Today, Reddit updated its policies about impersonation to no longer allow impersonation of an individual or entity in a misleading or deceptive manner.
David's impersonation of Sanders on Saturday Night Live has become this cycle's version of Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impersonation in the 2008 presidential race.
Twitter has declined to say whether Devumi's bots violate its impersonation policy, or how many of its employees are focused on rooting out impersonation.
" Noah mocked Trump with an impersonation: "That's right folks.
Baldwin won an Emmy earlier this year for his impersonation of Trump on "SNL," and said earlier this week that a White House insider told him that Melania Trump "loves" his impersonation.
" Twitter has a policy against impersonation that states: "Twitter accounts that pose as another person, brand, or organization in a confusing or deceptive manner may be permanently suspended under Twitter's impersonation policy.
Alec Baldwin's President Donald Trump impersonation has reached new heights.
An impersonation of Kermit the Frog singing an Adele song.
Hosts that might have done a killer Ivanka Trump impersonation?
Then call me back, Lawson says, continuing his smuggler impersonation.
We're looking forward to seeing Cyrus' impersonation of Bieber next.
He did his Trump impersonation, but added a Parisian accent.
Bill Clinton does a much better impersonation of Donald Trump.
Alec Baldwin's Trump impersonation has been the main attraction recently.
He found zero cases of voter impersonation at the polls.
And Jane's impersonation of Blanche, over the phone, is eerie.
Clinton is said to be very impressed with Reines' Trump impersonation.
It just means the impersonation was a good one, he said.
With an impersonation, the work of the acting is more visible.
Bryan Cranston looks like Jim Carrey doing a Matthew McConaughey impersonation.
She even did a hilariously accurate impersonation of her sister, Kourtney.
Episode 11 Have you guys seen Seth's killer Kellyanne Conway impersonation?
" The "Mom" star heaped praise on McCarthy's impersonation, calling it "genius.
Drake begins doing a humorously accurate impersonation of Joe Budden's voice.
Across the pond, this dog was doing its best Batman impersonation.
And yet, she still lost to Josh Gad's Donald Trump impersonation.
Here, he sometimes seems like he's doing a Jack Sparrow impersonation.
Attorney General, reviewed the scope of the New York impersonation statute.
When we confirm reports of impersonation, we remove the violating accounts.
Today, he discovered his account has been locked for impersonation again.
Related Video: Senator Bernie Sanders Reacts to Larry David's Epic SNL Impersonation
Supporters argue that they're necessary to stop voter fraud, particularly voter impersonation.
" He's also said that Alec Baldwin's impersonation "just can't get any worse.
Gail: Ah, poor man, stuck with that Larry David impersonation for life.
The blue checkmark, first introduced in 2009, was supposed to prevent impersonation.
Twitter has enforced its impersonation rules in a case like this before.
Brand impersonation attacks are especially crafty phishing schemes, according to the report.
The impersonation continues to be a source of ire for the president.
Rodriguez was charged with child endangerment, impersonation an officer and outstanding warrants.
Dare I say the two may have upstaged Zendaya's spot-on impersonation?
This is thanks in part to Alec Baldwin's recurring Donald Trump impersonation.
" But I said, "Ryan, I'm not really here to do an impersonation.
Adele did her best Dolly Parton impersonation ... and it's now Dolly approved.
Or maybe your friend who does a great celebrity impersonation — why not?
Not just in the Darrell Hammond impersonation sense, but editorially as well.
Pryor, though, has done a pretty good two-week Josh Gordon impersonation.
" Slipping into his Cosby impersonation, Murphy said, "Who is America's Dad now?
Research shows voter impersonation is practically nonexistent across recent American electoral history.
Alec Baldwin is taking his President Donald Trump impersonation to the literary world.
Like an Iggy Pop impersonation, and then I sent it off to Iggy.
Though, the best part is her surprisingly awesome impersonation of a certain songstress.
Totally biased, not funny and the Ronan impersonation just can't get any worse.
It would be one thing if there were evidence of widespread voter impersonation.
He faces charges of grand larceny and criminal impersonation of a police officer.
Krishna has been arrested on four charges, including impersonation and providing false information.
"That's a classic pick-up line," said Colbert, launching into his Trump impersonation.
Gigi Hadid has released a handwritten statement defending her impersonation of Melania Trump.
It's mostly an impersonation by Spacey, which is an odd direction to take.
Even Marty and Mario Lopez's sex-hungry Dick Clark impersonation had more spark.
Reminder: Impersonation of an officer is a first degree felony in New York.
Adopting block chain technology makes theft or impersonation more likely rather than less.
"She does a hilarious impersonation of me, which I also love," he said.
It confirmed that voter impersonation was extremely rare, with just 183 credible cases.
"If you're using somebody's photos and name together, then that's impersonation," she complained.
Like Daniels, Siren's account was deactivated for impersonation, according to a company spokesperson.
Her lawyer arranged a plea bargain; the charges were reduced to criminal impersonation.
Wade's uncannily sharp impersonation wins him some nights onstage during the "Bad" tour.
It confirmed that voter impersonation was extremely rare, with just 10 credible cases.
It confirmed that voter impersonation was extremely rare, with just 22008 credible cases.
Were there any people who seemed particularly vulnerable to the charms of Elvis impersonation?
Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse. Sad.
Baldwin's received plenty of backlash for his impersonation — from Trump's supporters and Trump himself.
Her impersonation might be one-note, but it is something to treasure (21:230).
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (2:2123).
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (2:00).
Her impersonation might be one-note, but it is something to treasure (230:2210).
"Good impersonation, SNL," Schumer tweeted, adding a photo of Moffatt holding up a smartphone.
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (16113:16103).
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (23811:234111).
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (250:2800).
So will the 17-time SNL host keep up his Trump impersonation next season?
Shaming, exclusion, sexism, grooming, impersonation and threats of violence have started to feel commonplace.
Rather than specific uses of deepfakes, it takes on digital impersonation broadly, Citron says.
However, the best part of the clip was Spacey's spot-on Bill Clinton impersonation.
That sounds reasonable, except that the kind of impersonation they prevent is vanishingly rare.
And I've partnered with a local comedian who does a screamingly funny Hitler impersonation.
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (13:00).
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (2450:24212).
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (241:2410).
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (23:00).
Her impersonation may be one-note, but it is something to treasure (8013:8003).
Her most-viewed video is her impersonation of Elizabeth Holmes, the eccentric Theranos founder.
The perpetually smirking Mr. Jones offers an amusing impersonation of James Dean doing Hitler.
She portrayed a bartender who serves and commiserates with Kate McKinnon's impersonation of Clinton.
However, the company is pretty clear when it comes to banning accounts for impersonation.
He also does a decent impersonation of Bane from the The Dark Knight Rises.
Two mentioned Kate McKinnon's impersonation of Williamson on Late Night With Seth Meyers specifically.
"Impersonation and deception are illegal under New York law," Mr. Schneiderman wrote on Twitter.
"Impersonation and deception are illegal under New York law," the state attorney general said.
The case's central question concerned what constitutes injuring another person through such an impersonation.
Reddit says that impersonation is "one of the rarest report classes" the company sees.
The impersonation became a hit, and she returned to the show to perform it.
Stephen Colbert opened "The Late Show" with a drawn-out impersonation of Ms. Maddow.
Female impersonation was illegal in New York when "The Queen" was made, except onstage.
"More than anything, Miyahara hopes that the film shows that drag can be an empowering form of self-expression for female-bodied and transgender people, and that "the art of male impersonation is just as important as the art of female impersonation.
The researchers asked people if they could point out photos of the same person, using images like this one, of strangers wearing evasion or impersonation disguises: Overall, the evasion disguises were better at fooling the people in the study than the impersonation disguises.
But what's most striking about his performance is that it never feels like an impersonation.
Pratt had his date in stitches from what we imagine was a Brett Macklin impersonation.
Many comedians before her have tried to do an impersonation, and many have also failed.
The 40-count indictment included charges for extortion, retaliation against a judge, and criminal impersonation.
" Spicer also spoke about McCarthy's impersonation on Fox & Friends Monday morning, saying, "It was cute.
The clip is an obvious parody, with an exaggerated vocal impersonation and unrealistic computer effects.
According to records, he was also charged with false impersonation and driving without a license.
One story tells of a trans woman who was arrested on counts of female impersonation.
Asked for comment, Twitter confirmed to Gizmodo that her account had been flagged for impersonation.
Pharoah said he felt the show "gave up on" his impersonation of then President Obama.
Over the past three years, Republicans have consistently pushed for more security against voter impersonation.
The charges include felony theft, identity theft, forgery of checks, and fraud by criminal impersonation.
Because this season-long David Bowie impersonation of hers isn't going to play itself out.
She gives little glimmers of impersonation, especially when she sings, but mostly avoids distracting mimicry.
Romero has been charged with stalking and online impersonation, both with a bond of $10,000.
Valimail raised $25 million for tech that helps different organizations prevent email "spoofing" or impersonation.
While on the show, Sweeney also became known for her controversial impersonation of Chelsea Clinton.
The impersonation fooled thousands of Twitter users, who angrily responded to the fake Trump's words.
" The real president-elect earlier this month said Baldwin's impersonation "just can't get any worse.
They include laws against criminal invasion of privacy, voyeurism, impersonation or fraud, harassment and stalking.
Nearly all his current and former aides have perfected an impersonation of his thudding Brooklynese.
Beyond voter impersonation, other kinds of voter fraud are more common but still extremely rare.
Her impersonation of a writer giving advice to aspiring writers is funny because it's true.
Her impersonation of a writer giving advice to aspiring writers is funny because it's true.
The host Melissa McCarthy resurrects her impersonation of Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary.
" Baldwin, who said he had no Trump impersonation until he debuted the character on "S.
I believe in election fraud — voter impersonation, double voting, absentee ballot fraud, ineligible voter registrations.
Recently, phishing has been weaponized to varying degrees of sophistication with a key technique: impersonation.
And the one in-person voter impersonation case made up 0.00002 percent of all votes.
And what really drove the point home was Bee's hilarious impersonation of a millennial voter.
"We've built our cloud-first anti-impersonation solution to be completely automated from the ground up, and the data is clear: We have the highest rate of effectiveness in protecting our customers' domains from impersonation," said Valimail CEO and co-founder Alexander García-Tobar.
He's facing felony charges of false impersonation of a US Border Patrol agent on two occasions.
Spoiler: He eventually kneels down during the ceremony in a nice impersonation of a woke bae.
In that context of gender segregation during World War I in Europe, female impersonation became popular.
Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer impression along with Alec Baldwin's Trump impersonation is quite the winning combination.
They then referred to the company's guidelines about impersonation accounts, which details how to report them.
In the black and white photo, Mars is the perfect impersonation of a young Elvis Presley.
"Well, I didn't hear she likes the impersonation, that was taken out of context," Strong clarified.
The cold open, which brings back Alec Baldwin's cutting Trump impersonation, rips into all of it.
Shout out to Alex Moffat for his Prince William impersonation, and Tina Fey for Auntie Creepy.
Let's all say it together in our best "Soup Nazi" voice impersonation: "No hugs for you!"
When he was 28, Robson won a national Jackson dance-impersonation contest in his native Australia.
But Mr. Fritz, Ms. Vevers and the director, Thomas Martin, aren't interested in pastiche or impersonation.
Alex is really good at dropping her British accent and doing a perfect impersonation of Spencer.
It isn't mimicry, which leads nowhere, but a curious sort of imaginary impersonation, which leads everywhere.
"  "Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse," Trump tweeted. "Sad.
Even Cris Carter, Moss's teammate and a Hall of Fame member, acknowledged the uncanny Moss impersonation.
Facebook's terms of service prohibit impersonation and require that account holders generally use their real names.
"Impersonation is a violation of Twitter's rules, regardless of verified status," a Twitter spokesperson told CNN.
" Further, it said, "an indictment need not allege additional acts beyond the general act of impersonation.
And more aggressive anti-bot laws are needed to fight impersonation of humans for propaganda purposes.
Le Monde firmly condemns any impersonation of its journalists or of its title, for whatever purpose.
That kind of acting is a gamble, obviously, because it can get too close to impersonation.
Twitter determined the account violated their policy on account impersonation and turned access over to us.
They authors expect new varieties of attacks using speech synthesis for impersonation and automated hacking too.
N.L.' in 2012, he was just like [goes into frenetic Foxx impersonation], 'You are so talented.
Dallas Keuchel was evidence of that last season, as he did his finest Cliff Lee impersonation.
Jimmy Paul: I never really thought about the previous drag performers who did traditional female impersonation.
Over the course of his 16 years on "SNL," he has made "Black Jeopardy" one of the best recurring sketches, he has perfected his impersonation of Steve Harvey for the "Family Feud" sketches, and he has made his impersonation of "LaVar Ball" a laugh-out-loud triumph.
Similar fender vents and even a riff on the Urus' split five-spoke wheels complete the impersonation.
He defended his fashion sense, road-tested a number of hats, and busted out his Elvis impersonation.
The user then filed an abuse report to Twitter for impersonation, and the company actually followed through.
" A. O. Scott remarked on his "dry, amusing impersonation of the inventor Nikola Tesla" in "The Prestige.
The FBI says these impersonation attacks have cost consumers and businesses more than $3 billion since 2015.
Fallon may have meant it to be innocent, but his impersonation of Chris Rock immediately ignited criticism.
These badges were awarded to brands, organizations, and public figures that Instagram deemed at risk of impersonation.
PEOPLE has the exclusive outtakes from the Maya & Marty's brilliant Anna Wintour impersonation from a recent episode.
Outside of impersonation schemes, the company highlighted two other spear phishing techniques: business email compromise and blackmail.
Donald Trump has argued that these court decisions have increased vulnerability to voter impersonation and multiple voting.
Even the question of who's doing the better impersonation on Saturday Night Live is a toss up.
And Gardell has nothing but love for McCarthy's now famous SNL impersonation of press secretary Sean Spicer.
McCarthy returned Saturday for a second time doing the impersonation of Spicer with a mock-press briefing.
Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt has tracked credible allegations of in-person voter impersonation for years.
"Impersonation is pretending to be another entity in order to deceive, and is strictly prohibited," it continues.
In recent years, there have been a number of phone scams involving the impersonation of IRS agents.
BULLOCK I did not want to give any kind of impersonation, or imitate her in any way.
Sirk intended his movie to be "almost like a documentary," Carradine's cold, self-dramatizing impersonation not least.
Actor Alec Baldwin returned to "Saturday Night Live" this week to resume his impersonation of President Trump.
Voter ID laws target voter impersonation: when someone tries to file a ballot while impersonating other people.
Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt has tracked credible allegations of in-person voter impersonation for years.
But Facebook representatives repeatedly told her the account did not violate the company's impersonation policies, she said.
I had been taught a reduced King, smooth and polished, a one-dimensional impersonation of a person.
That option should be used for violations and intrusions like abusive behavior, harmful content and account impersonation.
Trump even offered an impersonation of Xi, and appeared to tout China's use of the death penalty.
No one can really be Judy Garland, and most attempts come off as quacky impersonation and parody.
For one thing, the defenses don't actually deter impersonation bots, but perversely reward whoever can beat them.
I'm having 'W' on, and I'm going to ask him about how he felt about your impersonation.
Facebook said it was "incorrectly disabled for impersonation but reinstated following an appeal from the account holder".
"You're tempting me to do the voice," Credico said as the courtroom braced for a Brando impersonation.
"It wasn't just about an orchestra doing an impersonation of the sounds on the tracks," says Mayo.
Reddit already has policies in place prohibiting pornographic deepfakes — which make up the majority of manipulated video — and impersonation as it relates to foreign influence operations (such as Russian trolls posing as American users.)  Highly technical impersonation such as deepfakes are rare on Reddit, according to the company.
The two were joined by Keegan-Michael Key of Key & Peele, whose costume-less Obama impersonation still slayed.
Atamanuik's comedic timing is near (stable) genius, and his impersonation brings a little something extra to the table.
Twitter allows parody accounts, though its terms of service prohibits direct impersonation that is intended to mislead others.
MARIAH: (Doing literally the best Huey Lewis impersonation anybody has ever done) I wanna go back in time!
Another study found 31 cases of voter impersonation out of a billion votes cast from 2000 to 2014.
But the research shows that in-person voter impersonation, which these kinds of laws target, is extremely rare.
Donald Trump has never been a fan of Alec Baldwin's acclaimed impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live.
But voter fraud is extremely rare in the US. Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt studied voter impersonation.
We did see a fair bit of you whining, and Sasha Velour did an impersonation of you whining.
"I think Melissa McCarthy needs to slow down on the gum chewing," Spicer also said of the impersonation.
Von Bonin's impersonation of Pallenberg is hazy and detached, as if perpetually on the edge of an overdose.
"I'm doing an impression of Jimmy Fallon doing Donald Trump, or Darrell Hammond,'" Cranston said of his impersonation.
He has tweeted about several "Saturday Night Live" sketches that mock him, specifically going after Alec Baldwin's impersonation.
Colman plays her with an irreverent touch of comic impersonation — this could be Carol Burnett as a Windsor.
Volle's impersonation is especially convincing: he captures the antic, almost clownish personality that many of Wagner's contemporaries recalled.
Baldwin reprised his impersonation of Trump on the show for the first time since Trump won the election.
The VW does a passable impersonation of a luxury car with sturdy interior materials and a rigid chassis.
Drake's a little bummed he never got a casting call though ... and ya gotta see his Elvis impersonation!
Then it was off to a Charlie Chaplin impersonation and some spin moves (the music was "Modern Times").
Something about that never sat right with me — referring to a convincing impersonation of a woman as suspicious.
Mookie Betts bruised his right shoulder on Sunday, but that should not slow his Willie Mays impersonation: a .
Alec Baldwin studied Trump for weeks to pull off his uncanny impersonation on last week's Saturday Night Live.
Aaaaaaaaand my Facebook account got locked again for the same exact fake reason of impersonation as last time.
It's unlikely that the account was an impersonation, given that the account was given a verified blue checkmark.
The "Bridesmaids" star made a splash on "SNL" earlier this year with her gender-bending impersonation of Spicer.
Alec Baldwin went on to speak to his brother as himself, commenting on his impersonation of the president.
We're working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis.
Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt studied voter impersonation, the kind of fraud that voter ID laws target.
It confirmed that voter impersonation was extremely rare, with just 10 credible cases — as other research has confirmed.
Baldwin revealed that after Atamanuik started his impersonation, viewers told him that they didn't like his version of Trump.
At the Hall H panel earlier Thursday, Levitt said he still hadn't heard what Snowden thought of his impersonation.
Lethal injection, as presently practiced, is an impersonation of medicine populated by real doctors who don't acknowledge the deception.
On Friday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to slam Alec Baldwin's SNL impersonation, calling it "agony" to watch.
The 58-year-old has a criminal record that includes "forgery, impersonation, burglary and drug dealing," the ministry said.
It's worth considering just how Trump's impersonation of a Trump flatterer changes the effects of this act of sycophancy.
Trump has offered no evidence that such fraud is occurring, and experts say voter impersonation fraud is extremely rare.
Last year, he pleaded guilty to attempted impersonation of a public employee and attempted child abuse by mental harm.
Last year he pleaded guilty to attempted impersonation of a public employee and attempted child abuse by mental harm.
"You did hear through the grapevine that Melania Trump likes your impersonation of her," host Andy Cohen asked Strong.
"We suspended @putinRF_eng for impersonation based on a valid report we received from Russian officials," Twitter said on Wednesday.
In fact, the Republican allegations of pervasive voter impersonation and multiple voting in American elections have been widely discredited.
We already knew from this SNL hilarious promo that the Ghostbusters star's Spicer impersonation would be back this weekend.
McCarthy's Spicer impersonation has plenty of fans, but one person who's not amused with the parody is President Trump.
She also pulled off a pretty impressive impersonation of "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence in a "Family Feud" skit.
Manson shoots back, "I've been hearing about your sexual shenanigans since 1993," before adopting a loose impersonation of Rick.
Hints of the robotic are still detectable in WaveNet voices like Google Assistant's defaults and its new Legend impersonation.
Though during a recent Melbourne concert, Queen Adele proved her love for Queen Bey with a spot-on impersonation.
Check out the clip ... Keke shades Michael's new chick as only she can, complete with a must-see impersonation.
In the 12 years before Alabama passed its new voter-ID law there was one documented case of impersonation.
Here's a pup doing its best impersonation of Spider-Man, a popular costume among four-legged Comic Con attendees. 
Not only because Jones' impersonation was spot-on...but because Rose and Harden dated once upon a time. Yikes.
And the one piece by an exact contemporary, Vrancke van der Stockt, is clunky, a van der Weyden impersonation.
Facebook is testing an "impersonation tool" that will alert you when someone is pretending to be you on Facebook.
It's just a pity that it took a trademark/impersonation dispute over a Twitter parody account to show it.
Mr. Howald said he is considering filing a police complaint against Mr. Golden for the alleged impersonation, a felony.
He also faces charges of stalking, criminal impersonation, falsifying a report to law enforcement and two election law violations.
" Recently she has achieved wider recognition for her impersonation of Melania Trump on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
In this theatrical film, which covers 30 years, John Travolta assumes impersonation duties, as he did for Robert Shapiro.
He is also charged with public intoxication, loitering, trespassing, forgery, criminal impersonation and being an out-of-state fugitive.
It was the sort of failure to appreciate all the life and love — in the Prince impersonation, for instance.
Voter-impersonation fraud is a "myth," a letter signed by more than 1,200 law professors opposing Sessions's nomination states.
The enterprise may also be breaking spending rules policed by three different federal agencies on impersonation and ad disclosure.
Impersonation is primarily associated with parody, and I love when people find humor in the performance and in Martha.
Then there's his impersonation of his hard-of-hearing uncle, who annotates every word with a literal-minded gesture.
Because a few blocks away, at the same time, Spencer was doing his best Harry Ellis impersonation with Negan.
Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt tracked credible allegations of in-person voter impersonation across the US for years.
Charges include conspiracy to commit identity theft, impersonation of an officer of the United States, wire fraud and money laundering.
Alec Baldwin brought back his Donald Trump impersonation which has been absent since the season reconvened after the holiday break.
She was convicted in March 2009 of criminal impersonation for having a fake Social Security number, a sixth-degree felony.
"We suspended @putinRF--eng for impersonation based on a valid report we received from Russian officials," Twitter said on Wednesday.
When the feature was introduced in 2009, Twitter said it was simply a way for noteworthy users to avoid impersonation.
You seem to be assuming that cross-dressing and female impersonation during World War I looked like current drag performance.
Left: President Bush watches comedian Dana Carvey teach his George Bush impersonation to guests at the White House on Dec.
It looks like Saturday Night Live has bid farewell to Alec Baldwin and his pouty impersonation of President Donald Trump.
From the tank-like gait to his mostly impassive features, Mr Bale's impersonation of the former vice-president is superb.
Trump is not a fan of Alec Baldwin's impersonation of him and feels the show has gone down in quality.
One would think that a five-year-old wouldn't have enough vocal presence to pull off a convincing Winehouse impersonation.
He was charged with criminal impersonation, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia, the Unicoi County Sheriff's Department said.
"After Donald Trump's election, some universities echoed with primal howls," Kristof wrote, in a pitch-perfect impersonation of National Review.
Baldwin has hosted "SNL" a record 17 times and his Trump impersonation has become one of his most memorable sketches.
Trump criticized Baldwin's impersonation of him before Inauguration Day, calling it "really mean-spirited and not very good" last December.
Sammy Bagel Jr., voiced by Edward Norton doing his best Woody Allen impersonation, learns to love the Lavash bread character.
Ryan, at one point you react to something with what film buffs might consider to be a Lou Costello impersonation.
The president wasn't the only impersonation that Crenshaw unveiled at the gala event: he also poked fun at former Rep.
According to Krumpter, his prior arrests are for offenses including DWI, disorderly conduct, assault, false impersonation and contempt of court.
It was a concession sketch, an admission of Clinton's defeat and a goodbye to McKinnon's impersonation of the presidential candidate.
How good he is, and how accurate his impersonation of Nureyev's style manages to be, I'm not qualified to judge.
If only we were all as good at impersonation as he and Mr. Crudup are, we might even be happy.
Monday's first skater, Mikhail Kolyada of Russia, fell on his opening four-revolution jump, which effectively steamrollered his Elvis impersonation.
The survey asked about a range of potential tactics in offensive security testing, such as phishing, bribery, threats and impersonation.
"Oh, Bill Shine is coming in," Mr. Scaramucci told the reporter Ryan Lizza, apparently in an impersonation of Mr. Priebus.
It's not often, after all, that animated fare indulges in a vocal impersonation of Walter Brennan, who died in 1974.
But by using AI-generated faces of people that do not exist, trolls can potentially avoid being reported for impersonation.
Many of these involve impersonation, using the reply function to spam and general promises to make victims lots of money.
While Twitter does not mandate that people use their real names or photos on their accounts, the company forbids impersonation.
Caputo gave her stamp of approval to McKinnon's impersonation, and tweeted out a clip from her Live with Kelly & Michael appearance.
BROADLY: In the article, you note that "female impersonation became commonplace in Europe during the Great War"—how commonplace was it?
Ross Marquand does a spot-on impersonation of the soon-to-be dad  Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
The alleged harassment included personal attacks, threats against his family, and false impersonation of him online, Kolfage said in court documents.
He then lightened things up with his impersonation of President Trump and a joke about New York being a Red State.
"We're in the process of implementing additional measures to prevent impersonation like this," a member of YouTube's team tweeted at DeFranco.
Ross Marquand does a spot-on impersonation of the Oscar-nominated pop singer Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
Criminal impersonation in New York is a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and one year in jail.
When I inquired about a fake Rex Tillerson account, you even asked if I had any suggestions for preventing impersonation online!
A 2012 study at Arizona State University showed in-person voter impersonation on election day to be virtually non-existent, however.
Apparently, Saturday Night Live is filming a new segment featuring the actress's spot-on impersonation of the White House press secretary.
Baldwin has been non-committal in the past when asked about bringing his Trump impersonation back to Studio 8H this fall.
McCarthy's spot-on impersonation of Sean "Spicey" Spicer is a sketch that's sure to be added to SNL's iconic political canon.
We know from data in individual states that voter fraud is extremely limited, and voter impersonation fraud is all but nonexistent.
So while voter impersonation fraud has never impacted a presidential election, there may be evidence that restrictive voter ID laws do.
Jimmy Fallon raised a few eyebrows by including an impersonation of comedian Chris Rock in his Golden Globes opening Sunday evening.
Clearly, Momoa has been waiting quite some time to make the masses laugh, which may explain his recent Salt Bae impersonation.
As this series continues it will be interesting to track just what constitutes an impersonation-worthy level of fame these days.
Earlier this month, Baldwin responded to a Twitter attack by offering to end his impersonation if Trump releases his tax returns.
As Bill tells it, though, the striking thing is not how arduous the impersonation was, but—logistically at least—how easy.
Many GOP-controlled legislatures across the country have pushed voter-identification laws that advocates say are necessary to prevent voter impersonation.
For Christmas, she'd received a book on the existentialists, people who denounced impersonation, people who said they were nauseated by rules.
Nancy Walls, 53, appeared on "SNL" for one season where she became known for her impersonation of CNN host Bobbie Battista.
Indeed, in the country at large, numerous studies have found that the incidence of voter impersonation in particular is vanishingly small.
Baldwin then appeared as Donald Trump and right away nailed the impersonation and even accused Clinton (McKinnon) of stealing his microphone.
It was way over the top, but it is a very funny Bowie impersonation that just reiterated some of his inflections.
Gray does an exacting impersonation of everybody he meets; each recounted bit of dialogue comes in the voice of its speaker.
Facebook banned some deepfakes last month and Reddit updated its policy to ban all impersonation on the platform, which includes deepfakes.
The updated policies seem to imply that any kind of misleading impersonation, deepfake or not, could trigger a removal or ban.
The new policies do allow impersonation that's seen as satire and parody, however, which could be a hard line to enforce.
He was charged with extortion, cheating by impersonation and wire fraud, and is expected to remain in custody until April 15.
Patreon called it a case of "potential impersonation," and Instagram said her account has been hacked — read a full rundown here.
That's Scaramucci's best impersonation of the sort of man the president of these United States, God help us, aspires to be.
The Twitter rules disavow abusive behavior, violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, impersonation, self-harm, and sharing of private information, among other abuses.
Melissa Villaseñor belts her best Lady Gaga and Kate McKinnon brings the theater to the soundstage with her impersonation of Glenn Close.
And McKinnon's admirable impersonation really shined when the candidate herself joined her on the SNL stage as a carefree bartender named Val.
But he has only been able to confirm one instance of voter impersonation in Missouri, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The CAG has in fact been the victim of propaganda and impersonation at the hands of the Chinese government, according to Folk.
Pickett leans heavily into his Karloff impersonation, spookily crooning about a mad scientist who's posted up in his laboratory when—holy shit!
This means that all emails that are real will be authenticated and highlighted in the mail app, reducing email fraud and impersonation.
Specifically, out of the corporate legal world where Jimmy is now doing his best impersonation of an upstanding member of the bar.
And McGregor's Roy Jones Jr. impersonation (via Tyson Fury) happens to coincide with a special anniversary in the history of pugilistic taunting.
As part of the typical IRS impersonation scheme, the scammers make calls alleging to be from the IRS or the Treasury Department.
"What is extremely rare and has not affected any election we know of since the 1980's is impersonation fraud," he said.
I felt like I could see him, trapped in time, forever arriving at the same Elvis Impersonation Competition only to come fifth.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid says she regrets her recent impersonation of future first lady Melania Trump at the American Music Awards on Sunday.
All that Kobach has to show for his work is a waste of taxpayer dollars and little evidence of voter impersonation fraud.
Nuggets hand Nets 15th straight loss DENVER — With Denver's young star off his game, the newcomer did his best Nikola Jokic impersonation.
The Sessions Justice Department will likewise oversee a witch hunt Trump has ordered into voter impersonation fraud in states Hillary Clinton won.
Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony.
Sarec, 40, earned fame with his impersonation of former Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who headed the country's right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party.
Paul Colford, vice president of The Associated Press, said in a statement that the findings "effectively condone" the agency's impersonation of journalists.
Part of the study focuses on the troll group's "media impersonation and diminishment strategy," according to the person familiar with the report.
The reason for these removals range from "Impersonation" (2.3 percent), to "Harassment" (18.6 percent), to "Encouraging Violence or Self-Harm" (15.9 percent).
Sixty-seven percent of organizations reported increases in impersonation fraud via email, according to Mimecast's State of Email Security report for 2019.
Fans of Kevin Hart who want more after "Central Intelligence" and "Ride Along 2" will enjoy his impersonation of an angry bunny.
According to many of his supporters, Trump was wrong about "Saturday Night Live" being unwatchable and Alec Baldwin's impersonation not being good.
Egerton is busy and fizzy in the leading role, but there's a curious blankness in his impersonation, and a shortage of charm.
"The past is written but the future is left for us to write," Picard tells Rios, doing his best Natasha Bedingfield impersonation.
And he got the crowd clapping along with his impersonation of Gene Kelly in "Singin' in the Rain," complete with pantomime umbrella.
After she filed dozens of impersonation reports to Twitter in 2015, the company suspended many of the impostors, but left dozens untouched.
The recent focus on voter impersonation has overshadowed a longer-running political duel over absentee ballots and elections procedures in North Carolina.
The vocals soar like Scott Reager's, and on "This Is Halloween" WitchChaser even falls into a pretty dead-on King Diamond impersonation.
Peter is an antic fellow, a drunken callow clown with a knack for celebrity impersonation — a buffoon who becomes an easy victim.
But with the excuse of a genre outing, an impersonation of another writer, I found these places suddenly liberated from their bedrock.
My sister's love for It's Complicated stems from Streep doing a drag impersonation of the one and only celebrity chef Ina Garten.
Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
In this theatrical film, which covers 30 years in his life, John Travolta assumes impersonation duties, as he did for Robert Shapiro.
Samantha Bee of "Full Frontal" hosted a competing event, at which Will Ferrell dusted off his impersonation of President George W. Bush.
"A number of chairs and state parties have been victims of hacks and impersonation recently," said an email sent by the association.
Latorre fought her case in court and, at the advice of her lawyer, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of criminal impersonation.
"A number of chairs and state parties have been victims of hacks and impersonation recently," read an email sent by the association.
Baldwin, who has made frequent appearances on "Saturday Night Live" with his impersonation of President Donald Trump, is a major Democratic donor.
Isn't he just making sport, or doing an impersonation of someone—an actor in a monster movie, say—consumed by sudden dread?
In Michigan, lawmakers are pushing to fast-track a voter-ID requirement even though there was no evidence of voter impersonation there.
In the same vein, Chloe (Brittany Snow) endures veterinary school, while Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) coasts on her Fat Amy Winehouse impersonation.
One analysis focused just on voter impersonation, the type of fraud that strict voter ID laws (which Trump supports) aim to curtail.
These include fake, troll, and impersonation accounts; users distributing revenge porn of political supporters, and a variety of hate speech and harassment.
From the distinctive gravelly voice to the grainy aesthetics of the performance, Fallon nailed his impersonation of the 74-year-old rock legend.
One defendant, Henry's associate Tonette Hayes, who is in her late forties, still apparently faces charges on four counts of misdemeanor police impersonation.
We even suggest ways users can indicate that an account is not impersonation, such as a bio that distinguishes the account as parody.
Iowa showed that the platforms are reluctant to police posts by Americans that spread rumors or suspicion but fall short of outright impersonation.
The show won nine Emmys last year, the most of any show, including one for Alec Baldwin for his impersonation of the president.
He also lets SNL castmember Cecily Strong know that he saw her recent impersonation of him and he is not happy about it.
A girl has now demonstrated she can pull off a flawless impersonation of someone much older and taller, as unrealistic as that seems.
Because actual incidents of voter impersonation and fraud are so rare, Democrats see the laws as thinly-veiled attempts to suppress their voters.
Twitter's response to her: a notification saying that the fake account did not violate its parody and impersonation policy, Ayyub told BuzzFeed News.
"The experiment will begin with public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes, and other well known individuals at risk of impersonation," Stone wrote.
It may not have been the funniest sketch — despite Davidson's perfect monotone impersonation — but it was nice to see some vindication for Jones.
Alec Baldwin has spent the past season on Saturday Night Live making audiences laugh with his spot-on impersonation of President Donald Trump.
A few states, including New York and California, have officially outlawed online impersonation, which is why Devumi now finds itself in hot water.
Two days later, Gigi slipped into a pale blue ruffled minidress and did her best Cinderella impersonation, escorted by — who else — Prince Charming.
AND FINALLY ... Imma let you finish, but ... Some random guy did his best Kayne West impersonation last night at the People's Choice Awards.
Later in the show, Alec Baldwin dusted off his Trump impersonation and really did take those three federal judges to the People's Court.
I wanted to kiss the TV for that impersonation, but I tripped over my shawl trying to get out of my rocking chair.
The "Ghostbusters" actress won rave reviews when she debuted an exaggerated impersonation of a gum-chewing, uber-combative Spicer on "SNL" last month.
The 59-year-old actor said that he will be bringing back his famous Donald Trump impersonation to "Saturday Night Live" this fall.
Boy George was not bent out of shape over Alexis Arquette's impersonation of him in "The Wedding Singer" ... he actually really dug it.
Twitter said it removed 124,339 accounts for impersonation, and 115,861 accounts for promoting terrorism, a decline of 30% on the previous reporting period.
Twitter explained in an email shared by an unidentified woman behind the account that it had been permanently banned, due to deceitful impersonation.
But what made matters worse is that removing the software wouldn't remove the certificate — leaving them still vulnerable to spoofing and impersonation attacks.
All these 13 females have something in themselves which I appreciate greatly, and it is through impersonation that I got closer to them.
TIGTA didn't supply a dollar value for the costs of fraudulent returns, but says taxpayers lost $57,963,603 to impersonation scams during that period.
Impersonation is relatively easy on the internet, and it could take considerable time to determine who is behind the release of the code.
Yet this June, it implemented an interim policy barring impersonation of a journalist without approval from the FBI's deputy director, the watchdog revealed.
Spicer may not be up for an award, but McCarthy won an Emmy last Sunday for her impersonation of the former Trump official.
His impersonation of Ethel Merman bellowing "There's No Business Like Show Business" sounds like a dentist's drill, and not in the good way.
Wanna hear Jamie Foxx's spot-on-call-it-a-night-and-put-the-kids-to-bed impersonation of Vin Diesel and Jay-Z?
It's not the actors' fault: Ms. Tamaki, without aiming for an impersonation, gets the tunnel-vision quality of Ms. King's personality just right.
The actor was also careful not to do an impersonation of Rogers, and didn't want to overdo it with the hair and makeup.
Alec Baldwin, who has made headlines with his impersonation of President Trump on "Saturday Night Live," returns to host for a 17th time.
"We made a mistake and should have suspended @SUNYGenseeo for impersonation," Twitter spokesperson Aly Pavela writes in an emailed statement to The Verge.
On Thursday, the popular social news site unveiled a brand new policy meant to curb impersonation and maliciously deceptive media on the platform.
The company's approach to issuing checkmarks has been judicious but consistent: they are available mostly to accounts that are at risk of impersonation.
He used similar language as he has in the past, calling the show biased and unfunny, singling out Mr. Baldwin's impersonation of him.
And the Senate's Special Committee on Aging said Social Security impersonation schemes were the most-reported fraud on its fraud hotline last year.
I got to play out a phone call between my destitute actor friend whose Rolf Harris impersonation business had (understandably) gone belly up.
"We're aware and in the process of implementing additional measures to fight impersonation," a YouTube employee wrote in response to complaints of scam.
"I start trying to make everybody laugh when I get nervous and then I sometimes break out my Chewbacca impersonation," Alexander, 32, told PEOPLE.
Led by Alec Baldwin's impersonation of Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon's take on Hillary Clinton, the show has taken consistent shots at both candidates.
This caused some people to resort to more elaborate schemes, such as reporting a hacked account for impersonation or leaving voicemails for Instagram support.
From the moment he started imitating Donald Trump during the 2016 election, Alec Baldwin's impersonation of the future president became a point of fascination.
For users, this means additional protection from websites whose SSL certificates may have been maliciously acquired, exposing them to server impersonation and other attacks.
But instances of voter impersonation or dead people voting are exceedingly rare and no evidence has been found of it happening by the millions.
At the time, experts said his extensive use of Twitter and of a personal phone made him susceptible to eavesdropping, locations tracking and impersonation.
A spokesperson for ICE said the agency actively investigates any incidents of impersonation, and works with local agencies to keep communities informed of fraud.
A BuzzFeed investigation revealed the decision to scrap the Obama-era rule was shaped in part by a massive manipulation campaign involving political impersonation.
Josh Gad does a Donald Trump impersonation before mounting a wrecking ball to the Divinyls' "I Touch Myself" and making out with Johnny Galecki.
But the highlight comes at the end, when Stormy Daniels — no impersonation, it's really her — shows up to chat with her old pal, Donald.
The acquittal of Ward has led Finney to advocate for changing rape statutes to allow for the crime of rape by deception or impersonation.
In fact, not only is in-person impersonation virtually nonexistent, but it is also patently stupid if one really wants to throw an election.
Now, a full seven seasons since the OG prank aired, fans are losing it over Lord Disick's squeaky "Auntie Kris" impersonation all over again.
BeBe Zahara Benet continued to float by with her Grace Jones impersonation, which, as her costars feared, she wasn't able to really make funny.
President Donald Trump may despise Alec Baldwin's recurring SNL impersonation of him, but according to Cecily Strong, First Lady Melania Trump is a fan.
Baldwin showed his 3-year-old daughter, Carmen, how to do a Trump impersonation in a video his wife, Hilaria, posted to Instagram Saturday.
McConaughey impersonation is a competitive industry, with some of today's most luminous stars trying their hands at his Texas drawl and meandering philosophical tangents.
Trump has repeatedly blasted "SNL" on Twitter, arguing it is "totally biased" due to Baldwin's impersonation and has suffered falling ratings as a result.
"Love (or the gesture of an impersonation of her, to be more specific) is in fact all I could see," wrote Jezebel's Rich Juzwiak.
Alec Baldwin reprised his impersonation of President Trump in the latest episode of "Saturday Night Live," meeting supporters in a Kentucky coal-mining town.
Ten of the cases reviewed by News21 involved voter impersonation, and most of those investigations led to plea agreements or guilty verdicts at trial.
Even Father Gabriel took a life, doing his best Jules Winnfield impersonation in the process by reciting Bible verses before he pulled the trigger.
"We are excited about this next generation of automated anti-impersonation technology from Valimail, which will give us the full end-to-end solution."
Then: SNL made Spicer a household name with Melissa McCarthy's impersonation: Last week: Information leaked from a meeting with some of Spicer's communication officers.
With Minnesota's defense stifling the New Orleans attack, and Stefon Diggs doing his best Moss impersonation, the Vikings rolled to a 29-19 victory.
He lacks the sharklike glint Mr. Crudup brought to "Harry Clarke," as a character who was in some ways an impersonation of the author.
"Our algorithm solves an optimization problem to find what the colors of the eyeglasses should be to achieve impersonation or dodging," he told Motherboard.
Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt studied voter impersonation, the type of fraud that strict voter ID laws (which Trump supports) aim to curtail.
"Voter ID laws prevent only voter impersonation fraud and would do nothing to stop what went on in [North Carolina]," Hasen wrote at Slate.
"To have shaped pop music in this country necessarily implicates musicians and songwriters in a history of racial exchange, impersonation and appropriation," Magee said.
Social Security impersonation calls are now the nation's most-reported phone scam, according to an annual report from the Senate Aging Committee released Wednesday.
The IRS reminds taxpayers that IRS impersonation scams continue year-round and that they tend to peak when scammers find prime opportunities to strike.
" Pavela links to Twitter's policy on impersonation, which states that accounts "portraying another person in a confusing or deceptive manner may be permanently suspended.
Though he's played several real historical figures in recent years (Roy Cohn, Jack Kevorkian, Phil Spector, Joe Paterno), he's steered clear of outright impersonation.
When asked for more details about the police impersonation, state police said only that investigators are still trying to determine how the shooting unfolded.
Alec Baldwin, reprising his impersonation of President Trump, checks in with Pence, played by cast member Beck Bennett, at an Indiana Pacers NBA game.
The company knew that removing verification statuses would upset creators, but it felt it was a necessary step to battle impersonation of top accounts.
"There's something uncanny, even brilliant, about Michael Douglas's impersonation of Liberace in Steven Soderbergh's biographical film 'Behind the Candelabra,'" the New York Times wrote.
He was constantly complaining on Twitter about Baldwin's impersonation of him, and many of the clips went viral online after the show had aired.
She pronounces "bitches" like she's trying to do an impersonation of a high person, but then she got an air bubble caught in her throat.
That shouldn't be surprising, because voter fraud is already incredibly uncommon in the US, especially the kind of fraud — voter impersonation — that ID requirements target.
In London against the Bengals, Rob Kelley did a pretty decent Jones impersonation—physical, powerful, punishing if not exactly scintillating—without all that pesky fumbling.
Hillary Clinton says that while she enjoys Kate McKinnon's Saturday Night Live impersonation of her, sometimes the parody makes her question her own public persona.
Kudrow and Cox eventually get the answer worked out but the buzzer sounds just as Cox is doing an amazing impersonation of Schwimmer as Ross.
Moreover, it does not happen in the way that Trump and other Republicans seem to think: through in-person impersonation or individuals voting multiple times.
To have a lap dance from Rita Moreno, who was doing a very, very good impersonation of Marilyn Monroe singing happy birthday to President Kennedy.
"She was Club One's very first entertainer, officiating our grand opening in 1988, and paving the way for female impersonation in Savannah," the club said.
"Alex Baldwin, whose dieing mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing DJT was agony for him," Trump wrote.
Despite looks at characters played by Nicolas Cage and Zachary Quinto, the real star of this trailer is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's super strange Snowden impersonation.
Alec Baldwin's (possibly to be retired?) impersonation of President Donald Trump and Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer are two of the most notable in recent seasons.
At first, the badge was reserved for "well-known individuals at risk of impersonation," so Twitter would proactively reach out and verify high-profile users.
That distinction belongs to Kate McKinnon, who trotted out her hilarious Jeff Sessions impersonation for a recap of the attorney general's latest Congressional hearing performance.
Biden, in an uncanny impersonation by Greg Kinnear, is a man out of his depth as soon as the issue of sexual harassment is raised.
The sheriff of Unicoi County, Tennessee, told CNN that Jordan was arrested and charged with criminal impersonation, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Atamanuik—who's performed and taught improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade for more than a decade—has spent about a year sharpening his Trump impersonation.
While impersonation isn't necessarily a widespread problem on Facebook, it is a source of harassment on the platform, despite the company's longstanding policy against it.
No spoilers but if you've never heard this one before prepare to find yourself annoying friends, family, and colleagues with your impersonation of Square himself.
Enraged that a person of lower caste had prepared food for several religious occasions at her home, she filed a police complaint about the impersonation.
Indeed, the two had an interesting relationship, sparked in some ways when Chappelle did an impersonation of Prince for a now-infamous Chappelle's Show skit.
His speaking style — a hope-and-change Obama impersonation, crossed with the mid-set banter of a brooding singer-songwriter — connected until it did not.
It's all a bit herky-jerky, smoothed out by the engaging performances, with Sawyers conjuring the image of a young Obama without slipping into impersonation.
On Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Benanti spoke about putting together an impersonation of Ms. Trump that was nearly good enough to slip past our plagiarism detectors.
Ferrell's impersonation of George W. Bush became a staple on the series, including his impersonations of Al Gore, Alex Trebek, Dr. Phil, and Elton John.
Fresh off a Tony-nominated performance and an impersonation of Melania Trump that went viral, Laura Benanti will make her Café Carlyle debut in September.
That impersonation slips into English, a turn that is reliably entertaining and also, I suppose, part of the production's political point (something about ugly Americans).
Not only does Baker do a spot-on impersonation of all the characters, he has them comment on their places in the pop culture lexicon.
Mr. Emick is a personable actor and a fine singer (with a knockout Elvis impersonation) who brings a welcome measure of introspection to his role.
The state's Republican politicians have defended the strict voter ID rules by saying they're meant to prevent fraud, including unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter impersonation.
Mr. Schneiderman, who was first elected in 2010, has brought a series of cases focused on the emerging world of online fraud, impersonation and abuse.
Mr. Lithgow centered his 2008 run around a retelling of P. G. Wodehouse's "Uncle Fred Flits By," complete with an impersonation of a battle-ax.
I've never done a celebrity impersonation video before, but they're pretty common so I thought it would be fun to add my own acrobatic twist.
They worked with another company called LCX Digital Advertising Company that our reporting found had been caught up in a couple of other impersonation allegations.
YouTube had indicated it was going to limit verification to only established brands and the biggest personalities — people who were at high risk of impersonation.
Immigration officials are pushing back on a British punk singer's claim he was denied entry into the U.S. because of his impersonation of President Trump.
That's because there is a series of powerful voice manipulation, impersonation and automation technologies that are about to become widely available for anyone to use.
"Chris (@muellerdad69) is not an employee of Starbucks and his account has been suspended due to impersonation," the coffee chain's customer-service account tweeted Tuesday.
It's the first finding by a law enforcement agency indicating that such activity constitutes illegal deception and illegal impersonation, according to the state's top attorney.
Nigerian Twitter has an impersonation problem — and the platform is failing to take action Rosemary Ajayi writes about a series of incidents in which people impersonated Nigerian politicians in an effort to scam them out of money: Impersonation is a growing problem on Nigerian Twitter with some accounts set up using politicians' names to promote propaganda while others snag celebrity names as part of marketing fraud schemes.
" The 68-year-old told Extra that she did manage to see the Saturday Night Live premiere and thought Kate McKinnon's impersonation of her was "amazing.
At Twitter, 'abusive behavior' is a catchall that includes harassment and violent threats as well as impersonation and other violations of the site's terms of service.
WIRED reached out to both Twitter and Facebook to ask if the companies had any prior knowledge of those impersonation instances, and Twitter declined to respond.
The former Celebrity Apprentice host may not approve of the impersonation, but plenty of fans believe that Baldwin has gotten Trump's mannerisms, speech, and hairdo down.
A one-minute monologue is character A, whoever you want character A to be, it can be an impersonation, it can be a character you created.
My work suggests that that's not all that was happening in female impersonation and cross-dressing—that there was ambivalence and dissociation, as well as desire.
Online impersonation has become a problem for online platforms after criminals have attempted to piggyback off of the popularity of famous figures to promote their scams.
But in a surreal moment, the president did his best Stephen Curry impersonation and began softly shooting paper towel rolls into the confused but smitten crowd.
The types of threats the platform is trained to look out for include malicious message content, inappropriate images, malicious links, account takeover attempts and brand impersonation.
Followers of the original account wouldn't carry over to the impostor account, but the impersonation still creates significant confusion for anyone seeing the new account's tweets.
Suggested seeds include precrime, thoughtcrime, impersonation, algorithmic errors and bugs, and bots that can impersonate not just chat patterns but entire corpus of human prosthetic intelligence.
But then sometimes you get those special artists who know the difference between inspiration and impersonation, and take their purple mania into new and satisfying territory.
Regardless, Schneiderman wants to determine whether or not Devumi broke New York state's law prohibiting the impersonation of others online while touting a New York address.
Instead of watching the New Yorker roll out on a podium, The Mooch was lovingly confronted with an impersonation of himself by View staple Mario Cantone.
Robert De Niro suited up on Saturday Night Live to deliver his impersonation of special counsel Robert Mueller — and give Alex Moffat's Eric Trump a scare.
So wordy was she that, in grammar school, her friends nicknamed her "Yakky Roo," partly for her ace Yakky Doodle impersonation, but also for her loquaciousness.
So, of course, Jimmy Fallon worked plenty of them into his impersonation of the former Texas congressman in a sketch on The Tonight Show on Thursday.
Studies show those concerns are misplaced: rates of voter impersonation, the type of fraud that voter ID laws are ostensibly designed to combat, are vanishingly low.
Nigerian police did arrest at least 128 people, however, for "suspected election-related offenses, including ballot box-snatching, vote-trading and impersonation," per the Washington Post.
"Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony," Trump wrote on Twitter.
In Alabama, argues the NAACP's Legal Defence Fund, there was one documented case of voter-impersonation in the 12 years before the ID law was passed.
"  "It also was something I thought to myself: 'I really don't have a lot invested in my Trump impersonation, so please find someone ... to replace me.
" Related: Alec and Hilaria Baldwin welcome baby No. 4 Baldwin has made headlines since the 2016 election for his impersonation of Trump on "Saturday Night Live.
"Actually I'm going to start with a Trump joke — I want to earn your trust," Crenshaw said, as he began to bust out his Trump impersonation.   .
After it came to light that he was not a lawyer, he was charged in Connecticut with unauthorized practice of law and criminal impersonation, officials said.
Ingri Enger Damon, the surly one, showed terrific gusto in her late impersonation of the crude male American soldier who loved the ladies and left them.
After all, the breach of John Podesta's emails appears to have been accomplished through a simple Google impersonation page sent to hundreds or thousands of others.
The caricature is the candidate — to the point where Mr. Sanders has joked with Larry David that his impersonation is more realistic than the genuine article.
It's a fascinating idea that's behind all impersonation (the impersonator's skill is picking up on language, as well as mannerisms, that will identify one specific subject).
It can take many forms, including voter impersonation, absentee fraud, double voting, insider ballot box stuffing, and voting by people who turn out to be ineligible.
In Week 5 against the Atlanta Falcons, you could blame right tackle Donald Stephenson's absence, and replacement Ty Sambrailo doing his best impersonation of a turnstile.
An impersonation disguise is trying to look like another specific person, which could be used for identity fraud or (in a less criminal context) on Halloween.
Implying a relationship of perverse intimacy with one's foes, this impersonation also distances perpetrators from their own brutality by turning it into a piece of theater.
It portrays Lin-Manuel Miranda's tireless quest to rule Broadway, complete with rewritten lyrics to "Hamilton" tunes, Revolutionary War-era costuming and a Barbra Streisand impersonation.
While Ben Roethlisberger's four turnovers kept the Steelers from winning, James Conner did a perfectly respectable Bell impersonation, generating 192 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns.
Particularly in the last 15 minutes when, for reasons perhaps only fully known to himself, he attempts an impersonation of Steve Carell's character on "The Office."
To be sure, today's impersonation-bots are different from the robots imagined in science fiction: They aren't sentient, don't carry weapons and don't have physical bodies.
For many on the right (and some on the left, too), Mr. Baldwin's impersonation of Mr. Trump grew old fast, and some sketches crossed the line.
" Wrote Trump on Friday: "Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony.
David played Sanders on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" last year — an impersonation that earned him an Emmy nomination for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series.
Baldwin had said in the past that he might not return to "SNL" because he's not sure "how much more people can take" of the impersonation.
With this settlement, we are sending a clear message that anyone profiting off of deception and impersonation is breaking the law and will be held accountable.
North Carolina's voter ID law imposed strict voter ID standards, as well as restricted the amount of early voting days, to stop in-person voter impersonation.
Let's talk about the D. The only real highlight of the sketch: Kate McKinnon returned as U.S. Treasury Secretary Wilbur Ross, an impersonation she debuted in January.
Justin Levitt, a professor at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, tracked just 31 credible allegations of voter impersonation in U.S. elections from 2000 to 2014.
He has received plenty of backlash for the impersonation, both from Trump supporters and Trump himself, but the actor has maintained he doesn't plan on scaling back.
Saturday Night Live took on the rapper's Thursday visit to the White House, with Alec Baldwin reprising his impersonation of the president and Chris Redd playing West.
It takes about 15 minutes to play, with players earning six badges that reflect misinformation strategies: impersonation, provocative emotional content, polarization, conspiracy theories, discrediting opponents and trolling.
One of the book's most unusual treasures is an apology letter Buckley penned to Bob Dylan after rock's preeminent poet laureate took offense to an onstage impersonation.
They're called fullz, "dossiers that provide enough financial, geographic and biographical information on a victim to facilitate identity theft or other impersonation-based fraud," the report explains.
Anyone who has seriously studied the issue knows that the level of voter fraud, although not zero, is minuscule, and that in-person impersonation hardly ever exists.
BillCutterz will also sometimes become an authorized user on customers' accounts, according to its founder, Barry Gross, or it uses other measures that do not involve impersonation.
It isn't even clear why someone who isn't verified should be able to call themselves a "public figure" since real public figures are at risk of impersonation.
Melissa McCarthy is hosting this week, and it looks like the show decided to up the ante on her very funny and very popular Sean Spicer impersonation.
The season 43 premiere of the NBC series took aim at the Property Brothers, and Alec Baldwin's Emmy-winning impersonation of President Donald Trump was back, too.
Based on this evidence, Democrats charge that GOP claims of voter impersonation and multiple voting are grossly exaggerated, politically driven, and intentionally designed to restrict voters' rights.
It's not often that White House press secretaries became household names, but Spicer became an exception—particularly after Melissa McCarthy's impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live.
Hold on to your bronzer, folks — Alec Baldwin has confirmed that he'll be reprising his POTUS-baiting impersonation of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live next season.
That rationale has largely failed in courts because voter fraud — and particularly the type voter ID laws would theoretically address, in-person impersonation fraud — is exceedingly rare.
" In a blog post titled "Who Wore It Better – Sarah Palin or Tina Fey?" the mother of two said Fey's long-running impersonation is "desperate" and "pathetic.
"Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony," Trump wrote at the time.
Voter fraud through impersonation or illegal voting is vanishingly rare in the United States, and rigging the election by tampering with voting machines would be nearly impossible.
When Mr. Weiner's mayoral campaign is wrecked by another sexting scandal, he spars futilely with reporters, entertaining the filmmakers with his impersonation of the comedian Rodney Dangerfield.
I'm just being myself, and I want to be able to do my job well without someone saying, 'Oh, he's doing his best impersonation of this guy.
In the lip-sync to a Diana Ross song, BeBe changed into a caftan and repeated her spot-on Diana Ross impersonation, all but guaranteeing her win.
Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt studied voter impersonation, the major type of fraud that strict voter ID laws and voter purges in part aim to curtail.
MEXICO CITY — To wink at the New Orleans Saints' rise, they bellowed "When the Saints Go Marching In," doing their best, if slightly accented, Louis Armstrong impersonation.
Studies have repeatedly concluded that fraudulent voting is rare in American elections, and that voter impersonation, a chief target of anti-fraud advocates, is all but nonexistent.
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After she was arrested in one of Mr. Arpaio's raids, she was charged with criminal impersonation because she had used her mother's papers to get a job.
Just days later, Reddit updated its policies to ban impersonation on the platform, which includes deepfakes, but satire and parody will also be allowed on its platform.
Before they can work properly, deep neural networks need a lot of source information, such as photos of the persons being the source or target of impersonation.
That could be a problem for six swing states — Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — where their largest districts are not protected from impersonation attacks.
Supporters say tougher rules help prevent fraud, but in-person voter impersonation on election day is virtually non-existent, a 2012 study at Arizona State University showed.
In another part of the Daily Caller interview, Trump made a case for a national voter ID law that would purportedly solve the problem of voter impersonation.
Ralph Northam, who recently admitted to wearing blackface in a Michael Jackson impersonation competition, just announced that he's going on a "listening tour" to learn about racism.
Just one was in-person voter impersonation — by a woman who impersonated her dead mother, reportedly to honor her mom's final request to vote for Donald Trump.
This is an interesting shift on the mix from the last reported period when Twitter said content was removed for: harassment (37%), hateful conduct (35%), and impersonation (13%).
For instance, comedian Julia Finkelstein, who went viral thanks to her impersonation of the "Thank U, Next" singer in a "Vogue 73 Questions" parody, would probably be willing.
And for officials, an online voting process must have a way to authenticate the identity of the voter to ensure it is not an impersonation or a bot.
Although the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is fictional, you can do your best Harry Potter impersonation with the Kymera Magic Wand Remote Control from The Wand Company.
Specifically, the company is working on verifying all candidates, escalating issues of impersonation or hijacking, and monitoring election-related conversations closely for evidence of manipulation or bot participation.
Other recent reports generated by StatusToday include "out of band use of cloud storage", impersonation of senior management, benchmarking contractor performance, and dedicated views for newcomers and leavers.
" According to the pool report, Trump, "in his best Stephen Curry impersonation," held up his arm and softly shot the paper towels into the crowd, "which they enjoyed.
One study by Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt found just 35 credible accusations of voter impersonation between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
Kate McKinnon brought back her impersonation of Fox News host Laura Ingraham for a special SNL edition of The Ingraham Angle, only slightly exaggerated from the real thing.
Alec Baldwin brought his forever-excellent Donald Trump impersonation back to Saturday Night Live for a ripping cold open that recreated the previous week's televised gun control sitdown.
As Motherboard has documented, the SIM-impersonation technique, sometimes called "SIM-jacking," is an increasingly popular, dead-simple way for hackers to take over accounts from unsuspecting marks.
Vinci said at this stage its investigations showed its information systems had not been compromised and that it had not been victim of computer hacking but of impersonation.
Who else on TV today is courageous enough to do a Katharine Hepburn impersonation, knowing that most of the viewers who would get it are old, older, oldest?
So spookily does Mr Gordon-Levitt inhabit Edward Snowden's v-neck t-shirts, imitate his voice, infiltrate his mannerisms, that he crosses the line from acting to impersonation.
But not the kind of fraud that Trump has been suggesting—that's just not happening on any large scale, and certainly not impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent.
On The Late Show last night, Stephen Colbert did his best Tim Cook impersonation to announce some of the iPhone 7's previously unannounced, highly impractical new features.
Comic Anthony Atamanuik does a pretty uncanny Trump impersonation, the conceit being that he intends to "talk to the American people directly" by hosting this weekly half-hour.
Alec Baldwin says his days as President Trump on "Saturday Night Live" are likely numbered, because he's not sure "how much more people can take" of the impersonation.
"She was Club One's very first entertainer, officiating our grand opening in 1988, and paving the way for female impersonation in Savannah," the venue said in their statement.
Earlier this month, Trump retweeted content from an account pretending to be the verified Reagan Battalion account, which was later suspended by Twitter for violating its impersonation policy.
"It started with a full-on impersonation, like playing basketball and working on Michael Jordan's fadeaway," Mr. Sawyers explained, noting that he began with the present-day Obama.
Slipping between English and Spanish and, at times, into an impersonation of Mr. Trump, Mr. Kaine sought to sow doubt about Mr. Trump's character and bolster Mrs. Clinton's.
"The potential impersonation of hundreds of thousands of Americans in order to influence the policy-making process should concern everyone — especially the FCC," said press secretary Amy Spitalnick.
"With this settlement, we are sending a clear message that anyone profiting off of deception and impersonation is breaking the law and will be held accountable," she added.
An August study by the Washington Post found 31 credible cases of impersonation fraud out of more than 1 billion votes cast in elections from 2000 to 2014.
Raad's hyperawareness of the invisible forces of greed keeps his impersonation of a madman ever attuned to the mystical vibrations of power on the near side of fatuousness.
But like those shows, its cookie-cutter outlines allow for the possibility of a transcendent star performance, one that pushes past note-by-note impersonation into idiosyncratic portraiture.
Eilish's face may be up for interpretation but one thing is certain: Wiig would do an amazing impersonation of Eilish in an SNL skit parodying this exact moment.
On Saturday night Baldwin reprised his Trump impersonation for an "SNL" skit that recreated the president's Friday morning speech about the border, the budget, and assorted other subjects.
She had used a fake social security number for a job, and was arrested and deported for criminal impersonation — an event that sent her name trending across Twitter.
While Alec Baldwin's impersonation of Mr. Trump on "Saturday Night Live" seems to have gotten under Mr. Trump's skin, Mr. Bush fondly remembered Will Ferrell's take on him.
He was drawn to what he called "monster drag" — not female impersonation but grotesque costumes, "people pulling Nutella out of diapers and stuff like that" — and absurd storytelling.
A 2012 investigation by the News21 journalism project looked at all kinds of voter fraud, including voter impersonation, people voting twice, vote buying, absentee fraud, and voter intimidation.
Klimkowski happens to look a hell of a lot like Osteen, so he decided to head to the event and see how far his Osteen impersonation could take him.
A 213 investigation by the News21 journalism project looked at all kinds of voter fraud nationwide, including voter impersonation, people voting twice, vote buying, absentee fraud, and voter intimidation.
Although Largo Police Lt. Paul Amodeo said this is the first such celebrity impersonation case he can recall in his jurisdiction, he said such cases are not unheard of.
" For the last leg of the test, Fallon gave his best Milo Ventimiglia impersonation as he said, "I can't go back to who I was before I met you.
For a long time, military historians saw female impersonation as just a lark, something that happened during World War I that could be chalked up to stresses of war.
In a report published Wednesday, London-based cybersecurity company Certfa tied the impersonation of Fassihi to a hacking group nicknamed Charming Kitten, which has long been associated with Iran.
An actor, Jim Meskimen, plays host Johnny Carson, but there are few things Kevin Spacey has liked doing more in his career than showing off his impersonation of Carson.
One week after unveiling her withering impersonation of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live, Melissa McCarthy returned to Studio 8H for another round of mockery.
The state of New York found that Devumi had engaged in illegal deception and illegal impersonation in the course of fluffing up social media profiles with its automated accounts.
A 2012 investigation by the News21 journalism project looked at all kinds of voter fraud nationwide, including voter impersonation, people voting twice, vote buying, absentee fraud, and voter intimidation.
As Shangela correctly pointed out, this is all of the fans' fault for telling Trixie that her RuPaul impersonation is hilarious when she did it in multiple YouTube videos.
FROM COINAGE: This Is How Much It Would Cost to Paint the White House (And More Crazy Facts) Trump, of course, has blasted SNL numerous times for Baldwin's impersonation.
While calling the show itself "funny," Spicer told "Extra" on Sunday that McCarthy "could dial back" a bit from her exaggerated impersonation of him as White House press secretary.
The state of New York found that Devumi had engaged in illegal deception and illegal impersonation in the course of fluffing up social media profiles with its automated accounts.
Fury pulled off his best Ric Flair impersonation from there, taking off his vest and slamming it to the canvas, prancing around, walking up the turnbuckles and yelling uncontrollably.
A waiter turned in his best Captain America impersonation Sunday when he sprinted to the aid of an elderly tourist being mugged in Washington's posh Mount Vernon Square neighborhood.
Noel helps 76ers upend Clippers PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers were without center Joel Embiid, their leading scorer and rebounder, but Nerlens Noel did a reasonable impersonation on Tuesday night.
Sources also tell us Ceaser failed to produce a valid insurance card, so he was arrested on the spot and booked for misdemeanor false impersonation and other traffic violations.
" In response, Trump tweeted that Baldwin's "dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me" and that it was "agony for those who were forced to watch.
The judgment included $450,000 for copyright infringement, $3 million for severe emotional distress and $3 million for other damages, including stalking and online impersonation with intent to cause harm.
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Without making it feel like slavish impersonation, Ms. Burns captures Holliday's vocal mannerisms (they sound put-on because they were, yet still feel oddly natural), wit and comic timing.
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Studies have repeatedly shown that illegal voting is very rare, and that voter impersonation — perhaps the main danger suggested by advocates of tighter election rules — is next to nonexistent.
The first time he thought about acting was in high school, when a group of football players goaded him into doing an Elvis Presley impersonation in the school library.
There, comedian Larry David unveiled his now-iconic impersonation of a rumpled Sanders, while comedian Kate McKinnon has won raves for her portrayal of a hyperactively self-aware Clinton.
The most recent report on Reddit content moderation puts impersonation as comprising only 2.3 percent of content policy violations of its approximately 141,123 violations (not including removals of spam).
Steve Buscemi, Kevin Spacey, Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin, doing his best impersonation of Mr. Bennett, also show up at this Radio City Music Hall festivity, taped in September.
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A 2012 investigation by the News463 journalism project looked at all kinds of voter fraud nationwide, including voter impersonation, people voting twice, vote buying, absentee fraud, and voter intimidation.
Good comedy is about tension and release; it requires the use of satire, exaggeration, impersonation, observation, clowning, pausing, and a multitude of other strategies to create an actually funny joke.
The site originally pitched it as a way to prevent impersonation, but over time it became clear that the badge was a sort of tacit Twitter endorsement of power users.
The video also includes quite a few fun Pine factoids unrelated to the beloved fast-talking series, plus the celebrity impersonation we least expected to see (spoiler: it's Winston Churchill).
"We do not comment on individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons," Nu Wexler, a Twitter spokesman told me when asked how Twitter investigated WeRateDogs and impersonation cases like it.
Kate McKinnon as Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway McKinnon is one of the show's best performers -- her Justin Bieber impersonation is unparalleled -- and she's already doing a great Conway.
"This page violates our policies against impersonation and is not allowed on Facebook," a Facebook spokesperson told CNN after they were made aware of the page and asked for comment.
Another investigation by News21 for The Washington Post found only 2,068 cases of alleged voter fraud had been reported from 2000 to 53, including only 10 cases of voter impersonation.
We've laughed at Silvio's lame Godfather impersonation, mocked Ralph's constant goofy Gladiator obsession, and felt Tony's softer side as a family man who really does loves his wife and kids.
That time Bush had a double Steve Bridges, known for his spot-on presidential impressions, joined Bush on stage in 2006 and did a hilarious impersonation of the 43rd President.
Instagram's account recovery process is so confusing people sometimes resort to extravagant lengths to get their accounts back, like reporting it for impersonation or calling Instagram's office on the phone.
Its heroine is the snazzily named Sawyer Valentini, played by Claire Foy, the star of "The Crown" (with an American accent which is as flawless as her Queen Elizabeth impersonation).
Now that Trump is the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, audio of Trump's admitted impersonation of a fake spokesman using the name John Miller surfaced at The Washington Post last week.
Another investigation by News21 for The Washington Post found only 2,068 cases of alleged voter fraud had been reported from 2000 to 503, including only 10 cases of voter impersonation.
Lawmakers for years have tried and failed to prove in court that these laws can be justified by the need to prevent nearly non-existent in-person impersonation voter fraud.
" In December, Trump, 70, tweeted that the NBC sketch comedy show — which he had guest-hosted in 2015 — was "totally biased" and "the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse.
A study published in The Washington Post in 2014 found just 85033 credible instances of impersonation fraud out of the more than 1 billion ballots cast between 2000 and 2014.
Five people were arrested this week for their alleged roles in phone scams involving the impersonation of Internal Revenue Service agents, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said (TIGTA).
While supporters of voter identification laws say they worry about acts of impersonation at polling places, the federal and state authorities have brought some cases involving other types of misconduct.
To that end a later portion of the law is more relevant and realistic: It seeks to place unauthorized digital recreations of people under the umbrella of unlawful impersonation statutes.
This, in a nutshell, is the story of claims of voting fraud in America — and particularly of voter impersonation fraud, the only kind that voter ID laws can possibly prevent.
The most comprehensive investigation to date found that out of one billion votes cast in all American elections between 2000 and 2014, there were 31 possible cases of impersonation fraud.
In some cases, scammers use an email impersonation scam to trick employees into thinking someone senior in the company needs certain sensitive files like banking information or employee tax documents.
If successful with the impersonation, which could include providing the birth date or the mother's maiden name, the user can start logging into various services, like Twitter, and changing passwords.
A different photo is superimposed over the radio's casing in each cell of the grid, which, to 21993st-century eyes, turns the radio into an uncanny impersonation of a smartphone.
" At that point, Mr. Spicer shot out of the wings — pushing a podium similar to the one immortalized by Melissa McCarthy in her impersonation of him on "Saturday Night Live.
Was it also a retirement party for Alec Baldwin's impersonation of President Trump, a role that Mr. Baldwin has suggested he did not expect to have for quite so long?
After a life of impersonation and lying about himself (including to Forgy — about, among other things, his name), it is difficult to pin de Hory down in his own work.
In his review for The Times, Charles Isherwood called Davies's impersonation of the singer "positively uncanny," writing that she sings Joplin's songs "with a throbbing fervor that is often riveting."
To prove just how impressive her impersonation is, Kendrick explained the plot of her latest film Pitch Perfect 3 as Stewart — complete with broken eye contact and plenty of hair flips.
He was known around the office for his sense of humor, often communicating with colleagues in a Chewbacca voice, an impersonation he carried with him to Facebook, former co-workers say.
Successfully telling Cheney's story—particularly how he was uniquely suited to leveraging loopholes in executive power to reorder U.S. security policy toward disaster—requires more legwork than merely a good impersonation.
Republicans for years have argued that concerns of voter fraud support strict voter ID measures, even though there is virtually no evidence that in-person impersonation occurs to any significant degree.
Without an involved paternal figure, many men are forced to make themselves up as they go; the play's stylised attempts at male interaction and father-impersonation can be touching to watch.
It seems Melissa McCarthy will once again reprise her Sean Spicer impersonation for this weekend's Saturday Night Live, as shown through her West Side Story lip sync in the latest promo.
Analyzing 360,000 emails that involved spear phishing over a three-month period, the company's researchers found that 83 percent of these attacks involve brand impersonation of companies users know and trust.
Garcia, who has a prior felony conviction in Arizona for criminal impersonation, was the subject of a court-issued removal order that became final in July 2013," Pitts O'Keefe said. "Ms.
The Home Affairs department said last year that it had arrested more than 60 of its officials for offences including false documentation, bribery, aiding and abetting, impersonation, revenue theft and fraud.
Portman has to play it all here; it's a four-quadrants performance with the extra added weight of avoiding an impersonation of one of the most recognizable women in American history.
Additionally, this legislation will update identity-theft statutes for the 21st century, so when people use deep fakes to impersonate others, this virtual impersonation will now also be recognized as illegal.
In the context of lawsuits challenging voter photo identification requirements in the states of Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Republican state officials made every effort to find widespread voter impersonation.
The red "Make America Great Again" ball cap she wears in "Mystery" is instantly recognizable, and her Mr. Trump is petulant, whiny, short-tempered — it's a takedown rather than an impersonation.
Another investigation, conducted by the News21 journalism project in 2012, looked at all kinds of voter fraud nationwide, including voter impersonation, people voting twice, vote buying, absentee fraud, and voter intimidation.
For years now, too, Republicans have comically exaggerated the extent of election fraud, and voter-impersonation fraud in particular, to advance Voter ID and other state laws aimed at suppressing turnout.
As the evidence has shown over and over and over and over and over, there is no voter-impersonation fraud — the only type of fraud that such laws purport to combat.
He claims a bigger mission "The argument that there's massive voter impersonation, fraud... It is demonstrably untrue," said Kenneth Mayer of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
They range wildly from styles that resemble the traditional female impersonation so often associated with drag queens, to theatrical looks that make her seem like a creature from a fairy tale.
But should we blame these girls because they didn't have a Cher impersonation in their back pocket when they showed up to a soundstage somewhere in Tarzana to film this season?
The comedian Dana Carvey frequently appeared on "Saturday Night Live" doing a signature impersonation of Mr. Bush and was invited to the White House by the president for a surprise visit.
Russia's most celebrated performance artist and a master of impersonation, he played a crucial role in re-presenting Russian recent history, often satirizing the political establishment and the country's cultural heritage.
The delivery is both campy — La JohnJoseph's voice often sounds like Marlene Dietrich doing a Norma Desmond impersonation — and moving, as this story of love and insanity mixes humor with pathos.
Fallon interrupted his monologue to give an impersonation of Buttigieg, slicking down his hair, rolling up the sleeves of his starched white shirt, and pitching his voice up just a notch.
Without calling itself a wine bar, Cervo's does a good impersonation of one, pouring about 12 unfortified wines by the glass along with another dozen or so sherries, Madeiras and ports.
"I can hear you doing your best Tim Gunn impersonation now 💛 love you the most" The Beverly Hills, 90210 star was hospitalized after suffering a massive stroke on Feb. 27.
The problem is a public as well as private one, and impersonation robots should be considered what the law calls "hostis humani generis": enemies of mankind, like pirates and other outlaws.
The result will be that big celebrities, brands, and the 1 percent of YouTubers who have to worry about impersonation will be verified, but a large sect of other creators won't.
I reached out to the press department at Instagram with some questions including how many of its users are victim's of impersonation but a spokesperson for the company declined to comment.
AI-generated voice technology has become disturbingly realistic in recent months and Kirsch told the Journal that it he believes commercially-available software was used to facilitate the fraudulent executive impersonation.
All told, it's a massive undertaking, one that consists of more than 100 interviews and rare photos and footage, including a young Cash doing his best hip-swinging impersonation of Presley.
Later, Alec Baldwin reprised his Trump impersonation from "Saturday Night Live," joking that he was heading over to the Russian Consulate, before calling for "100 days of resistance" from the crowd.
You can't take every account at face value: different people will run impersonation accounts to have political effect, or to spread spam and malware, or just for the fun of causing trouble.
" The actor apparently had enough, explaining, "I thought to myself: 'I really don't have a lot invested in my Trump impersonation, so please find someone and convince Lorne [Michaels] to replace me.
Key and Peele star Keegan-Michael Key phoned in an Obama impersonation, imploring the audience to text in their vote for who they wanted as the next leader of the Free World.
Diaz said clients of Sanctuary for Families have had similar experiences with impersonation on Facebook, for example, but they were able to work with the social media giant to address the problem.
Although the only explanation Google gave for her Gmail suspension was that Trainor had violated its company policies, YouTube and Twitter both confirmed that the suspension was due to an impersonation complaint.
Two former employees of Webster told the Tennessean that their embattled former CEO did a mocking impersonation of Travis, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2013 that nearly cost him his life.
"It also was something I thought to myself: 'I really don't have a lot invested in my Trump impersonation, so please find someone and convince Lorne (Michaels) to replace me,'" Baldwin said.
Authorities are pursuing a bevy of allegations against Corso's, including allegations of harboring illegal aliens, unlawful employment of aliens, false impersonation of a US citizen, fraud and aggravated identity theft, Walls said.
Baldwin, who has been portraying Trump on the show since the 2016 campaign, told PBS NewsHour that the show doesn't "have to go very far to find the material" for his impersonation.
In the end, the inspector general's office concluded that the impersonation did not violate undercover policies and issued only three recommendations, none of which would lead to a discontinuation of the practice.
Alec Baldwin's Trump impersonation, Kate McKinnon's portrayal of White House advisor Kellyanne Conway and Melissa McCarthy's recurring guest spot as an enraged White House spokesman Sean Spicer all earned them Emmy nominations.
Weeks ago, Kristen Stewart, a bona fide A-lister, formally announced that she was "so gay" on national television—and the biggest story the next day was Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer impersonation.
His point is a moving target, waving, dancing toward the heavens, the exits, his exultant base, the gesture of his that's most mimicked in Larry David's spot-on "Saturday Night Live" impersonation.
Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in a Facebook post in January that the company had nearly doubled the number of workers who review content for fake news and abuse, including impersonation.
But I thought the show captured the essence of its subject, and Block managed an impersonation that also hinted at the abiding, self-protecting shyness in someone who has become Celebrity Incarnate.
He's competing against Rudy Giuliani, who, over recent years, has done such a masterful impersonation of a raving lunatic that I doubt he could get seasonal retail work at the Container Store.
McCarthy's impersonation of Spicer, featuring her driving a podium through New York City, firing a water gun at reporters and repeatedly threatening to run them over with the podium, drew wide praise.
Its late-night shows routinely mock the president-elect, with Mr. Trump recently engaging in a Twitter tiff with "Saturday Night Live" over its impersonation of him by the actor Alec Baldwin.
From the silk gloves to the statement diamond jewelry (a girl's best friend, after all) and even that alluring look in her eye -- the makeup mogul nailed her impersonation of the icon.
But there's an ingenious twist: Vincent is an innocent man rightfully accused—guilty not of murder, but of an act of impersonation that, in this society, is perhaps as much a crime.
U2's latest tour marked the return of one of Bono's most outrageous stage characters, a glam impersonation of the devil who first appeared on the early 1990s tour that birthed Zooropa.
But the fact is that in-person impersonation -- the only kind of fraud a photo ID law would root out -- is extremely rare, while disenfranchisement because of strict voter ID laws does occur.
Like Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impersonation a few election cycles ago, the appearances regularly shifted the conversation around the election—and continued to do so long after President Trump entered the White House.
" The President, however, has made no secret of his distaste for "SNL," tweeting that the iconic NBC show was "terrible" and "not funny" and that "the Baldwin impersonation just couldn't get any worse.
"Someone told me, who is friends with someone in the White House, or formerly in the White House, that Melania Trump loves SNL and she loves my impersonation," Baldwin said at the time.
Any hopes we had that James Wolk and his Elon Musk impersonation would return to our small screens are dashed once Chuck uses his knowledge of Wendy's affair as a straightforward cuckhold fantasy.
Maxine Feldstein, 31, pleaded guilty earlier this week in Washington County Circuit Court to forgery in the second-degree, third-degree escape and second-degree misdemeanor criminal impersonation in the jail escape plot.
The document refers to a CEO impersonation scam that occurred last February, when an attacker posing as Evan Spiegel sent a phishing email to Snapchat's payroll department and made off with employee data.
Though McKinnon has had a lot of standout performances on SNL, her Hillary Clinton impersonation, which she's done throughout (and did before) the 2016 election season, is without a doubt her most famous.
But that's just one of the many dimensions where we've been quite concerned about this impersonation of pretending to be someone else and asking for sensitive information, which is much, much more rewarding.
Jon Lovitz impersonation Trump said Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook's accusation on CNN's "State of the Union" that Russia was behind the hacks was on par with Jon Lovitz' famous "pathological liar" sketch.
Donald Trump may do a good "drunk uncle at Thanksgiving" impersonation at his rallies, but amid all that rambling is a man who is actually precise about what he says, according to linguists.
Armed with both legal and technical expertise, the bureau's investigators would comb the data and eventually produce multiple leads in its investigation of potential state violations, including criminal impersonation under New York law.
"The maliciousness of this White House has people worried ... that's why I'm not going to do it much longer, the impersonation, I don't know how much more people can take it," he commented.
There are thousands of reasons to be excited for Melissa McCarthy's Saturday Night Live gig this weekend, but after the week we've had, her Sean Spicer impersonation is definitely top of the list.
Oldman, Hardy, Finney, and the rest of the team are stalwart and assiduous in their care for detail, and what they arrive at, in every instance, is far more than a mere impersonation.
Actor Alec Baldwin will return to host "Saturday Night Live" for a record-setting 17th time this February in a show certain to feature his ongoing impersonation of President Trump, NBC announced Monday.
The UIDAI complaint, filed with the police cyber cell in the capital, New Delhi, accused the newspaper, the reporter, and others of cheating by impersonation, forgery and unauthorised access to a computer network.
But an investigation by Professor Justin Levitt, a widely cited expert in voting law, found only 31 potential cases of voter impersonation in more than a billion ballots cast between 2000 and 2014.
A comprehensive study by Justin Levitt, a senior Justice Department official, found only 31 credible allegations of in-person voter impersonation from 2000 to 2014, during which over one billion ballots were cast.
Most of the major social media platforms have rules against using other people's pictures in this way and have an option for people to make impersonation complaints if their identity is being used.
Sitting near a giant illuminated sign that read, "FREE PRESS," Will Ferrell, who had reprised his George W. Bush impersonation earlier in the day at Ms. Bee's taping, did not feel like talking.
In a clip released ahead of the season finale, the eldest Jenner sister dons one of Kylie's wig and does a spot-on, over-the-top impersonation of her sister's beauty YouTube videos.
The new policy is supposed to ensure that verification is given to creators, brands, and artists who are prominent both on YouTube and outside of it and who are at risk of impersonation.
Those practices appear to be in violation of Federal Trade Commission, Federal Election Commission and Federal Communications Commission rules on impersonation and requiring ads disclose the name of the organization making the calls.
Will Ferrell as President George W. Bush Ferrell gave his classic SNL impersonation the attention it deserved in the 2009 one-man Broadway show You're Welcome America – A Final Night with George W. Bush.
In this RIDE ALONG, Reggie gives us the inside scoop on the OKC breakup, gives us his best Stan Van Gundy impersonation, and lets us know what life was like growing up in London.
The 58-year-old actor has been receiving praise for his highly publicized impersonation of the businessman–turned–politician on Saturday Night Live — even picking up the Critics Choice Award honor for the part.
The same should be true for deepfake victims, says Johnstone, since publishing doctored images or video could count as false impersonation, stalking, harassment, or other forms of intimate partner abuse defined by state law.
"Given this tiny incident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely that an American will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls," reads the report.
Jeff Sessions   In a February Saturday Night Live cold open, McKinnon held her own next to Melissa McCarthy's flawless Sean Spicer impersonation with an uncannily faithful take on Alabama-born Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
With the advent of the gay rights movement and the study of sexuality and gender, a generation of scholars did the important recovery work of identifying male homoerotics in female impersonation during the war.
But others try to find more creative ways to get Instagram's attention, reporting their inaccessible account for impersonation or fake copyright violations, in an effort to flag their account to the app's support staff.
He's a great live-action actor when it comes to playing babylike men — his Saturday Night Live Trump impersonation seems like another clear fit — so why not have him just be a fucking baby?
In an uncanny impersonation of Biden, who led the committee, Greg Kinnear captures Biden's irresolution in dealing with Republicans who were determined to win at all costs — even if it meant destroying Hill's reputation.
Hopkins was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition because he had been convicted of at least three felonies, including criminal impersonation of a peace officer in Oregon in 2006, according to the criminal complaint.
While the Selma actor nabbed another point for his valley-girl-inspired impersonation of Vanderpump Rules star Kristen Doute, Nyong'o stole the show when she took on none other than Countess Luann de Lesseps.
Given this tiny incident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely, the report noted, that an American 'will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.
The email she received from YouTube (a Google subsidiary) that same day was more specific—it said that her account was terminated because of what the company found to be a valid impersonation complaint.
She also praised Boston drag queen Katya's impersonation of her on RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, which was broadcast this past Thursday: "she nailed the feminist activist tribal volta sincerest form of flattery etc".
I know what I was up to was a form of impersonation, but I also know that everything people took to be authentic from my profile is just as much their responsibility as mine.
He asked if me/steady sun would do a cover of said boy band's new smash hit, and I said I'd only do it if I could do it as a bob dylan impersonation.
"They then said that this was a very sensitive time in the city due to the Trump/Kim summit and that our impersonation was causing a 'disturbance'," Howard X said in a Facebook post.
A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.
Forget the fact that Ian Holm will probably get roped into playing Claudio Ranieri, cracking syntactically nonsensical jokes and doing a borderline insensitive impersonation of his Italian accent for several hours of run time.
" Trump has sparred with Baldwin on social media before, saying on Twitter earlier this year that the 60-year-old actor's "dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL.
Actor Alec Baldwin said that President Trump is the head writer of "Saturday Night Live" because "90 percent" of the lines said during his impersonation of Trump are actually quotes from the president himself.
"Voter fraud is very rare, voter impersonation is nearly non-existent, and much of the problems associated with alleged fraud in elections relates to unintentional mistakes by voters or election administrators," the Center explains.
And in an investigation spanning from 2000 to 2014, Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt found 35 total credible accusations of voter impersonation between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
Zac Efron's coiffed hair is working in his favor when it comes portraying notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, because it appears he didn't even need a wig to pull off a spot-on impersonation.
A much-cited 2012 report from News21 searched all 50 states for cases of alleged voter fraud since 20163 and found just over 2,000—and only ten of those involved impersonation at polling stations.
Confronted with the nearly impossible tasks of Brexit and a struggling economy, May and her successors are doomed to failure with their impersonation of the left, let alone their rightist fantasy of restored greatness.
While his impersonation wasn't as dead-on as those of Darrell Hammond or Anthony Atamanuik ("The President Show"), it became instantly recognizable for the character's exaggerated hand gestures, facial expressions and stratospheric self-regard.
"Margaret is played with cunning and gusto by Meryl Streep, and it is a pious critical convention to praise performances like these on the grounds that they go beyond mere impersonation," the Guardian wrote.  
We sat down with Klimkowski to hear when he realized he could pull off the impersonation, what it's taken to perfect it, and how his 15 minutes of fame have affected his comedy career.
Yes, the argument that "female impersonation...could be part of a broader emotional life, rather than just an expression of homo–hetero sexual desire" does seems very modern, but that emerges from the period itself.
Released in 1962, the song became a chart-topping hit for Bobby "Boris" Pickett, a struggling actor who, during a gig fronting a band called The Cordials, did an impersonation of Frankenstein star Boris Karloff.
Le has reportedly pleaded not guilty to felony impersonation charges in the state, while the company told the AP that it took steps to reverify that its pharmacists were properly certified nationwide following the charges.
The pop star didn't seem all that impressed when a London radio station quizzed her about Ariana Grande's impersonation of her singing voice during her March hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, Us Weekly reports.
The actor has appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows since and has recently been in the eye of the pop culture storm with his impersonation of President Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.
Mr. Wilson, 42, sporting a shaved head and a Harvard Law School sweatshirt, was formally charged on Wednesday in Criminal Court in Manhattan with grand larceny, criminal impersonation, possession of stolen property and other offenses.
So it really shouldn't be a surprise that Kubrick's imprint is all over the movie, so much so that it's as if Spielberg was trying to do his best Kubrick impersonation from scene to scene.
The names of the brothers, I'm afraid, are Herman and Verman, and although they are on terms of total equality with the other boys, their language sounds like the worst kind of vaudeville blackface impersonation.
Mostly, the contestants employ impressions they've already honed, but things liven up a bit in a speed round in which they draw names from a bowl and have to come up with an impersonation instantly.
Before her time on the show, she was a star in Brooklyn's drag scene, a community that embraces a definition of drag that spans far beyond female impersonation, and prizes artistic innovation in lip syncing.
He managed to get a few backup dancers for a high school–themed adaptation of "Speakers Going Hammer," doing his best Soulja Boy impersonation in a jumbo pair of sweatpants that drown his small frame.
The appellate court rightly punctured this false claim, noting that there were "only two convictions for in-person voter impersonation fraud out of 20 million votes cast in the decade" before Texas enacted the law.
And though Banderas wears his hair grayed and unruly for the role, it's no match for the actual Almodóvar's famous, dandelion-like pouf, a sign that this is much more than just an easy impersonation.
"We say to our Republicans that want to privatize Medicare, go try it, make our day," said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the incoming Democratic leader, mustering his best Clint Eastwood/Ronald Reagan impersonation.
Mr. Vance — yes, the same guy who just won an Emmy for playing Johnnie Cochran — attempts a Tarzan impersonation, using a string of Christmas lights as his vine, a party trick that goes hilariously awry.
"Most of the major social media platforms have rules against using other people's pictures in this way and have an option for people to make impersonation complaints if their identity is being used," O'Sullivan reported.
Was it also a retirement party for Alec Baldwin's impersonation of President Trump, a role that Mr. Baldwin has played all season and occasionally suggested he did not expect to have for quite so long?
Parker Sawyers, the actor who plays Barack Obama in the film, said he started off with a "strong impersonation" of the president, but then let the mannerisms and speech inflections of his character come naturally.
World Vision also pointed to the use of biometric technology in Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone where hand-held tablets with iris-scanning cameras help ensure participants get the right doses and deter impersonation.
We reached out to Twitter to ask for comment on its new approach to its impersonation policy and to request the full list of names that are prohibited, but we did not receive an immediate reply.
A spokesperson emailed a few paragraphs from Twitter's parody and impersonation policies, which state: Our users are solely responsible for the content they publish and are often in the best position to resolve disputes amongst themselves.
With Sean Spicer out on his ass — and Melissa McCarthy's spot-on impersonation now a thing of the past — Bryant has stepped in on SNL as the new faux-White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Clementa Pinckney in 2015, as well as more light-hearted function, such as when he did his best Al Green impersonation to sing "Let's Stay Together" while at the podium for a campaign event in 2012.
But the fundamentals are the same: States are imposing strict voter ID requirements in the name of voter fraud, albeit without any proof whatsoever that in-person impersonation occurs to any significant degree in any election.
I felt uneasy when my Facebook page was temporarily shut down after someone falsely reported my profile as an impersonation account — a move I interpreted as being intended to silence me amid the campus carry debate.
Between October 231 and February 22016, the group used "social engineering" hacking techniques including victim impersonation, the related affidavit says, to gain access to the personal online accounts of senior U.S. government officials and their families.
My take on impersonation  —  I think there are major use cases, from health to finance, where it is super important for the end users to know if they are talking to a human or a bot.
By approaching the question of verification as narrowly as possible — focused only on eliminating the confusion that comes from impersonation and parody — Instagram arrived at a reasonable way to invite its entire user base to apply.
In January, YouTube's support team tweeted vaguely that it was "in the process of implementing additional measures to prevent impersonation" after a series of high-profile incidents, which may have been what triggered Trainor's account termination.
Obviously absolutely no one was surprised when the tweets started rolling in — making jokes about the tiny desk and referencing everything from Trump's hands (of course) to Alec Baldwin's now-iconic SNL impersonation of the president.
She said the root of the problem is "a culture that passively enables violent entitlement," and went on to give detailed definitions of various types of online harassment — doxxing, predation, impersonation, defamation, and threats of violence.
She has persistently shifted the conversation forward and evolved with the times, witnessing generations of trans femme and drag performers pass through The Baton, a "female impersonation" review in Chicago where she has worked since 211.
A Marion impersonation on defense would probably be a bit of a stretch as well, for Cauley-Stein or any other living human, but the way in which Cauley-Stein defends bigs suggests even wilder possibilities.
He rose to fame in the early 2000s at a time when no one was ready for him, and then seemingly overnight (literally) turned into a joke after Leigh Francis did his infamous "Bo Selecta!" impersonation.
Although the bill's Republican supporters said the new measures were simply aimed at stopping voter fraud, critics noted that the type of impersonation-based election crimes that voter ID requirements attempt to prevent are exceedingly rare.
Stephen Colbert has previously referred to his Joe Biden impersonation as "the simplest impression of all time" – which is handy, because after Super Tuesday, the former vice president is well and truly back in the race.
Or Timothy Camus and the Internal Revenue Service impersonation scam team, a group of Treasury, I.R.S. and other agency workers who unearthed and alerted Americans to a scam that had conned unknowing taxpayers out of millions.
There are interview segments with Mr. Bennett scattered in, and a show-within-a-show comedy sketch starring Alec Baldwin, who reprises his "Saturday Night Live" impersonation of a blithely clueless and hyper-ebullient Tony Bennett.
Hackers often use a technique called "spoofing," a form of impersonation in which they make it look like emails have come from a trusted website domain in order to get victims to click on malicious links.
"Extensive research reveals that fraud is very rare (and) voter impersonation is virtually nonexistent," the Brennan Center for Justice, which bills itself as a nonpartisan law and policy institute, says in its ongoing voter fraud project.
Only 5% of the largest voting counties in the U.S. are protected against email impersonation and phishing attacks, seen as a key attack method by hackers who officials say want to disrupt the upcoming presidential election.
Though Alec Baldwin sounded iffy earlier this summer about whether he would resume his Trump persona for Saturday Night Live, fans of the impersonation got a special treat during the cold open of Thursday's Weekend Update.
Actor Alec Baldwin resumed his impersonation of President Trump on "Saturday Night Live" this week for the season premiere, appearing in the cold open as a confused Trump responding to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico.
So did the performances by perennial nominee Laurie Metcalf (as Hillary) and non-nominee John Lithgow, whose Bill Clinton was a disarmingly fresh take on a very, very famous person, without the pandering ickiness of impersonation.
Ha" In March 2018, Trump took his attacks to an even more personal level, writing, "Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony.
These attacks take on many forms, but typically include fraud involving fake invoices, impersonation of high-ranking corporate officers, and the targeting of accounting or human resources staff to gather sensitive financial information, such as tax statements.
When asked which shows he's currently watching, the actor, whose impersonation of Trump earned him an Emmy on Sunday, had some odd things to say about Game of Thrones, a show he clearly has not closely watched.
No stranger to Twitter threats and abuse, Rosenberg — who has written extensively about neo-Nazis and online trolls — quickly reported the account, which was in clear violation of Twitter's policies on abusive behavior, hateful conduct, and impersonation.
It's also odd to have another show dive headfirst into the celebrity impersonation game — alongside American Crime Story there are now two cable drama destinations if you're in the mood for campy impersonations of pop culture icons.
"It was like a 'Saturday Night Live' impersonation," said Mr. Tanne, who was more interested in an interpretation of whom Mr. Obama may have been back when he was a student at Harvard Law School and Mrs.
Thanks to a wad of gum and some aggressive podium tactics, the actress' impersonation of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live got huge laughs and close to 10 million views on YouTube alone.
Facebook demoed a newly designed user profile — they called it "Timeline" — and comedian Andy Samberg kicked off the event with a Saturday Night Live-style impersonation of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, complete with signature black zip-up hoodie.
If you've ever seen Mr. Cale perform his own work, you'll know that, in Philip, Mr. Crudup is doing a deft impersonation, with his wordless stammers, nervous smile and arms that dangle like parentheses at his sides.
The company's first line of defense against impersonation is the countermeasures that flag accounts that run afoul of Twitter policies on spam — violations that can be easier for the platform to identify and stop at large scale.
Using an app called Face Swap, where he subs in his lips to photos of stars, he creates conversations with, among others, the president, Kim Kardashian and Louis C.K. His impersonation of Bill Maher is especially uncanny.
Both women presented basic riffs on the work that Jean Stapleton and Isabel Sanford offered on the original shows, while maintaining just enough of their own star personas to counterbalance what would otherwise be a straightforward impersonation.
Cast against type as Elton John in "Rocketman," Egerton had to channel a pop god while also making the role his own: too unfamiliar and fans would revolt, too much of an impersonation and critics would retreat.
After Mr. Moffat departed, Beck Bennett resurrected his impersonation of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, followed by another ghost of Mr. Trump's past: Hillary Clinton, played once again by Kate McKinnon, and wearing a black robe.
WATCH: Game of Thrones' Top 10 Game Changing Moments In the hilarious clip on Clarke's Instagram, Harington does his best dragon impersonation by waving around his arms, his cloak taking on "wings," all to Clarke's off-screen delight.
After cracking up Saturday Night Live audiences with his spot-on impersonation of President Donald Trump, the 59-year-old actor gave some lessons on how to do a proper impression to 4-year-old daughter Carmen Gabriela.
He gets up, shakes his shoulders off, paces the room, watches a hilarious fan-impersonation video of himself to get back in the zone, followed by his own diss video for Donald Trump, and continues on his day.
And yet, a total of only 31 known cases of impersonation fraud have been found in one billion votes cast in all US elections between 0003 and 2014, according to Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School.
The guy's name is Al Foran -- and his McGregor impersonation is spot on ... complete with expensive sunglasses and a thick accent ... and he's giving TMZ Sports the perfect take on why the Irish fighter went off in Brooklyn.
Philippe Reines, Clinton's longtime aide and defender who played Trump ahead of the first debate, will continue in the role and people close to him have said he worked to refine his Trump impersonation after the first contest.
"We know that there is some level of voter impersonation fraud going on, but it's not prosecutable unless you catch the person in the act, which is impossible to do because there's no ID required," Delancy told CNN.
The unsettling expediency with which Google and Twitter edged someone out of their digital life simply because they shared their name with someone famous suggests that social networks' moderation of impersonation cases hasn't gotten better, just heavier-handed.
The company says that accounts portraying others in a confusing or deceptive manner can be permanently suspended under its impersonation policy, though users are allowed to create parody, commentary or fan accounts, which fall under a separate policy.
One study by Justin Levitt, a Loyola University law professor who now heads the Justice Department's voting rights section, found only 31 cases of voter impersonation out of more than 1 billion votes cast between 2000 and 2014.
"It has come to our attention that your Twitter account is in violation of the Twitter Rules, specifically the policy on impersonation," the email, which was posted by Twitter user @comfortablysmug, who has more than 2202,2628 followers, reads.
The records also show a charge for assault/bodily injury of a family member from October 21, but the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that the incident occurred in August and it was unrelated to the impersonation charge.
In 2014, Justin Levitt, an election-law scholar at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, catalogued every instance of voter-impersonation fraud he could find in any election since 2000 — not just prosecutions, but even vaguely credible allegations.
On Wednesday, Twitter admitted in a thread on its support account that "verification has long been perceived as an endorsement," something its critics have argued for years about the program, which began in 2009 to prevent impersonation accounts.
He recalled John McCain, then chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, berating Defense Department officials once for not being prepared to answer his question, contorting his features into an uncanny impersonation of the famously peevish late senator.
While there are laws to protect against "catfishing," or online impersonation, they typically focus on identity theft for financial gain or fraud, said Brad Shear, a lawyer in Bethesda, Md., who specializes in sexual privacy and cybersecurity law.
In the video above, he dresses up as both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden for some Super Tuesday speech parodies — and while his Biden accent perhaps needs a little fine-tuning, his Sanders' impersonation really is unnervingly good.
DMARC, or domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance, is a decade-old popular technical standard that helps detect and block email impersonation, such as when a hacker might try to pose as a government official or agency.
I used to terrorize my very traditional Chinese parents with my impersonation of the Great Cornholio, so naturally, when I first saw this dish on the menu, I said the name out loud in my best Beavis voice.
Returning to abusive content, Twitter's report specifies that the majority of the tweets and accounts reported to it by governments which it did remove violated its rules in the following areas: impersonation (66%), harassment (16%), and hateful conduct (12%).
The email isn't exactly a masterful impersonation job either — in the unlikely event that a lawyer referred to his own legal filings as "reckless" in a letter to a government agency, he'd probably at least get the spelling right.
When the 32-year-old actor, who was born and raised in Indianapolis but lives in London, sent in his first audition tape, he was doing a pitch-perfect impersonation of the president at 54, rather than at 28.
"She wanted to be accepted by everybody, whether that was in Mexico or in the US." In her Selena impersonation performances, Honey Andrews is one of many Corpus Christi residents keeping the singer's legacy alive through song and dance.
Engineers around the world are releasing products and prototypes that enable machine impersonation of voices and the manipulation of audio and video, "making it increasingly easy to impersonate anyone you want with amazing accuracy," the MIT Technology Review reports.
The dangers of a repeat of 2000 are exacerbated by the currently deadlocked composition of the Supreme Court, real threats of cyber hacking by Russia and longstanding Republican claims of voting impersonation, now widely believed by many GOP supporters.
He was booked into the Cleveland County jail on four counts of sexual battery, one count forcible oral sodomy, one count kidnapping, three counts engaging in or soliciting prostitution and one count impersonation of a public officer, officials said.
In a promo released by SNL in anticipation of the actress' fifth time hosting the show, McCarthy reprises her now-famous impersonation of the White House Press Secretary — and reveals just how complicated it is to get into character.
Choose a lower tempo, and you can practically see an astronaut silently running down the hallway of a spaceship, while at a higher speed, you can enjoy a new album of songs doing their best impersonation of Philip Glass.
" MM: "Oh, when you do that Audrey Hepburn impersonation..." BG: "I play Debbie Eagan, who is a former soap actress, new mother, and thought she felt powerful before but is learning that she has a deeper, more powerful power.
On Friday, the Paris prosecutor's office announced that Mr. Benalla had been taken into custody for questioning, on possible charges of assault by a public official, illegal impersonation of a police officer and misappropriation of footage from security cameras.
Mesma Belsare, who performed in New York in 2008 as Sudarshan Belsare (then part of the tradition of Stri Vesham, or female impersonation), delivered a virtuoso number, "Shilpa Natana: The Dancing Sculptures," partly invoking the androgynous mythological archetype Ardhanarishwara.
Democrats — who note that there is no evidence of significant levels of voter impersonation fraud — maintain that the efforts are instead an attempt to suppress participation by groups of voters who may have disproportionate trouble complying with the hurdles.
I didn't see the production that turned Julius Caesar into a Donald Trump look-alike, so I can't comment on the accuracy of the impersonation or the violence against the president that some people believe it meant to incite.
When I'm in drag, I just identify myself as a drag queen — traditionally, drag is the art of female impersonation, which would indicate that I'm a man playing the role of a woman, and I'm very comfortable with that role.
YouTuber Scott Cramer has compiled a bunch of these tropes in a video, where he pulls off quite the impersonation of host Sean Evans (and his gestures), plus the inevitable struggle that each guest goes through as they slowly incinerate.
Specifically, your argument that "female impersonation...could be part of a broader emotional life, rather than just an expression of homo–hetero sexual desire" seems very modern—I'm wondering if there's a risk of applying contemporary attitudes to the past.
In the video, former child actor Devon Sawa does his best Single White Female impersonation, transforming himself into the Real Slim Shady, and writing letters to his idol based on ones the rapper actually received from some very intense fans.
Donald Trump was none too happy with Alec Baldwin's impersonation of him on the weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live, tweeting out harsh words about the NBC comedy show that Baldwin later worried might impact the safety of his family.
Carson's sleepy concession speech did not go unnoticed by Stephen Colbert, who decided to bid Carson farewell while once again reprising his impersonation of The Hunger Games' Caesar Flickerman (the character was played by Stanley Tucci in the film franchise).
Hopkins -- also known as Johnny Horton Jr.-- was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition because he had been convicted of at least three felonies, including criminal impersonation of a peace officer in Oregon in 2006, according to the criminal complaint.
The leader of United Constitutional Patriots was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition because he had been previously convicted of at least three felonies then, including criminal impersonation of a peace officer in Oregon in 2006, according to the criminal complaint.
McCarthy, who delighted fans with an angrier, more unhinged version of Spicer on the most recent season of SNL, won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress at the Creative Emmy Awards on Sunday for her top-notch impersonation, Deadline reports.
What I learned from both of these conversations is that Ross' pain created the perfect storm for her to create the charisma that brings us Rainbow every week, and even her killer Beyoncé impersonation at the 2016 Black Girls Rock!
Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert was host of the ceremony last year when "Saturday Night Live" won nine Emmys, including honors for Alec Baldwin's withering impersonation of Trump and Melissa McCarthy's turn as former White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
Not to discount the work of the Apes' CG animators, seeing Notary's uncanny ape impersonation coming from a flesh and blood human actually gave me a greater impression of the subtleties that motion capture tech is picking up these days.
A smaller TV channel, Dave, best known for showing reruns of HIGNFY and other "banter" formats, has launched its own weekly political comedy show, "Unspun", presented by Matt Forde, whose Trump impersonation gives Alec Baldwin's a run for his money.
No. 5 Clemson rolls in QB Bryant's starting debut CLEMSON, S.C. — Kelly Bryant, who is faced with the unenviable task of replacing Deshaun Watson as Clemson's quarterback, did a fairly good impersonation of the two-time Heisman Trophy finalist Saturday afternoon.
To my surprise, a stooped employee broke into a credible, fluty Julia Child impersonation, holding his hand high to indicate the 6-foot-2-inch stature that made her even more conspicuous in France than she was in the States.
But Cousins also gets to smirk a bit when, in the final act of his film, he includes a lengthy segment in which he has an actor (Jack Klaff) do a voice-over impersonation of Welles, responding to Cousins's letter.
The upcoming Electoral College vote inspired one of the best sketches of Saturday Night Live's December 17 Christmas episode, as Kate McKinnon reprised her much-lauded Hillary Clinton impersonation to reenact an iconic scene from the classic holiday film Love Actually.
A filmmaker less restive than McKay, having cast actors as gifted as Bale and Adams, might have done his best impersonation of, say, Steven Spielberg directing "Lincoln" — filling his movie with so much solemn soliloquizing and rousing Oval Office debate.
Both sides missed, in particular, that satire is a species of humor that works through impersonation: taking on the voices of others, saying the sort of things they would say, using one's own voice while not speaking in one's own name.
Kyrgios lost his cool for the first time during the second set when he was given a time violation warning and the mercurial Australian reacted with an impersonation of Rafa Nadal's pre-service routine, drawing a smile from the chair umpire.
When he was in his early 20s, Mr. White had a recurring role on "Evening Shade" until he stuffed a pillow under his shirt and did an impersonation of Mr. Reynolds in front of the studio audience before filming an episode.
"Someone told me — who's friends with someone in the White House, or formerly in the White House — that Melania Trump loves 'SNL' and she loves my impersonation," Baldwin, 85033, said on WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show" during a Monday interview.
As we've seen in the recent past -- Marco Rubio's water grab, Bobby Jindal's unwitting "Kenneth the Page" impersonation -- it's a lot harder than it looks, even for people who make a living speaking in front of large numbers of people.
Going forward, YouTube will focus its efforts on verifying channels that have more of a need to prove their authenticity — like those belonging to a brand, public figure, artist or another creator who might be subject to impersonation, for example.
For what it's worth — and we're talking millions of dollars here — you are never going to see as convincing an impersonation of a two-dimensional cartoon by a three-dimensional human as that provided by Ethan Slater at the Palace Theater.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Alec Baldwin is taking his "Saturday Night Live" impersonation of U.S. President Donald Trump from the screen to the pages of a satirical White House memoir due for release later this year, Penguin Press said on Wednesday.
Neeraj Agrawal, a spokesperson for cryptocurrency think tank Coin Center and an avid Twitter user, credited the social network for largely ridding itself of the mass celebrity impersonation accounts, but was surprised that the bitcoin giveaway ads were permitted on the social network.
At the very least, impersonation is against Twitter's rules, but as we saw with deepfakes, it's often up to the victim to file complaints to get their stolen content taken down, and even then, they're at the mercy of the platforms' decision.
In March, Baldwin — who has recurred on Saturday Night Live as Trump since the season premiere and has received plenty of backlash for the impersonation, both from Trump supporters and Trump himself — said that he's going to hang up his impression pretty soon.
On Saturday's episode of the hit Filipino singing and impersonation competition TV show, Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids, 7-year-old girl Xia Vigor's "Wildest Dreams" came true when she wowed the crowd with her spot-on take of the Grammy-winning singer.
Their other night — Gender Fvcker, which they co-founded with Kat Hudson — is a non-binary drag competition removing drag from the world of glossy female impersonation to a messy space celebrating exploration and failure, for performers of all genders and expressions.
His impersonation of Davy Crockett is flanked by five other guys with nicknames like Tig and Boon and Tanto and Oz and who are played by buff 30-ish actors whose bushy beards make it next to impossible to tell them apart.
The digital tracking approach was exposed in a July 2007 Wired magazine story, while the agent's impersonation was revealed seven years later after The Seattle Times and the Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained emails from the investigation through a Freedom of Information Act request.
During a game called "Box of Lies," Baldwin and late-night host Fallon, who does his own impersonation of the commander in chief, had to guess if their opponent was lying or telling the truth about absurd objects inside the other's container.
Baldwin has likened Trump to a "National Socialist tumor," — in what appears to be a reference to Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party — while the president has said the performer's impersonation of him "just can't get any worse" and is "agony" for viewers.
And accounts that are looking for verification, it goes without saying, have to follow the official Twitter Rules (which cover things like no harassment, impersonation accounts and so on), and specifically as it relates to coronavirus and COVID-19, Twitter's guidance for that.
Jeff Sessions's forced departure as attorney general was the hot topic Wednesday on late-night TV. Stephen Colbert bade him farewell with one last impersonation, holding up an elf-shaped Keebler cookie in place of Sessions and speaking in a courtly Southern tone.
The Paris prosecutor's office said on Thursday that it had opened an investigation on possible charges of assault by a public official and illegal impersonation of a police officer, and France's interior minister said the police were also opening an internal investigation.
Kyrgios did his impersonation of the Spaniard in the second set after being penalized for taking too long to serve, brushing his hair back and picking at his shorts whilst looking in the direction of chair umpire Jaume Campistol, who chuckled along.
Fey's impersonation, which she would perform several more times, became so synonymous with Palin herself, that many confuse Fey's line, "I can see Russia from my house," for something Palin actually said (though what she did say didn't make much sense, either).
In early 2017, the Brennan Center for Justice pegged voter impersonation rates at "between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent" — meaning a typical American is more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit the type of fraud Trump has in mind.
But it is galling to me that Baldwin was nominated yet again for his smugly horrible sleepwalk of a Donald Trump impersonation, which is not in the 100 worst things about the Trump administration but is surely in the top 200 somewhere. Right?
One possibility is that impersonation could cover disinformation agents, such as Kremlin bots, which Twitter has being suspending in recent months as part of investigations into election interference — an issue that's been shown to be a problem across social media, from Facebook to Tumblr.
Because while "Shots Fired" features a strong cast that includes Sanaa Lathan, Helen Hunt and Stephen Moyer, and name-checks real-life events like the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, the program winds up mostly feeling like a tepid impersonation of a quality show.
But now one researcher has dug up a new collection of bugs in email programs that in many cases strip away even the existing, imperfect protections against email impersonation, allowing anyone to undetectably spoof a message with no hint at all to the recipient.
Almost 11 years later, Thompson did his best impersonation of a performance he never saw, exploding for 23 of his career-high 60 points in the second quarter Monday night, propelling the Golden State Warriors to a 142-106 victory over the Indiana Pacers.
That's the day "Saturday Night Live" unveiled Alec Baldwin as Trump, and it was clear from the first minute of that sketch that Baldwin's impersonation could very well be the equivalent of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin in terms of undermining the candidate's credibility.
Tesla doesn't say how exactly it arrived at the conclusion that Katz sent the email, but did say that it got there after an investigation into that and "other potential impersonation attempts," though Tesla says this is the only one it's pinned down so far.
Yet Romine does list harassment as his fourth cause of action against the users, along with conspiracy to commit violation of civil rights, disorderly conduct, stalking, criminal impersonation, tortious interference with contractual relations with the distributor, libel, unjust enrichment, restitution, negligence, damages, and representation fees.

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