{"id":243,"date":"2011-06-08T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nialangley.com\/blog\/can-i-be-impressionist_08.html"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:30:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:30:27","slug":"can-i-be-impressionist_08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nialangley.com\/blog\/can-i-be-impressionist_08\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Can I be an impressionist?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was watching Seattle auditions of &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221;, and one audition still has me laughing, and she WASN&#8217;T terrible! She was good!<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Villasenor is a sales associate in a retail store and dreams of becoming a comedian and impressionist. She imitated Barbara Walters, Natalie Portman, Miley Cyrus, Kathy Griffin, and Christina Aguilera. 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