Professor Elam

Impressionists or impersonators used to be a staple of tv variety shows, well, back when we had big time tv variety shows. Rich Little  and Frank Gorshin were two of the best  Rich is still around but I have not seen him in on tv in some time.  But wait, now we have The Next Best Thing!   On ABC Wed at 7:00 PM CST this revives the whole impersonator genre.  Interesting cause lots of these folks have been doing their thing for years and just got the chance at tv.  The two male hosts are terribly intrusive overbearing and frankly make cheap jokes off the sincere performers.  But such is the nature of a summer replacement show, makes me wish for Randy and Paula.  But I frankly find this much more entertaining than Idol.  When you get someone who is really right on like the gal that did Rosanne Barr last night it is most enjoyable.