You've probably got at least one impression of someone in your life that you can do really well, that brings down the house whenever you bust it out at the pleading behest of a friend at a party. Who is your best impression of? Your spouse, your boss, your mom, that one annoying coworker? Would you do your impression on live TV, knowing the person is probably going to see it?
Lots of celebs have a whole stable of impressions they can trot out on a dime, and with talk show segments like Jimmy Fallon's Wheel of Impressions, there's no shortage of videos of celebrities doing impressions. And unsurprisingly, when they nail it...they really nail it. Many of them do make their livings as actors, after all! There are too many great celebrity impressions to document them all here, but here are our absolute favorites - here are 10 celebrities who have nailed impressions of other celebrities.
10 Ariana Grande As Celine Dion
Ariana Grande has made quite a name for herself doing impressions of other celebrities. Her ability to transform her voice and her affectations is extremely impressive, which makes her a gem of a guest on The Tonight Show segment, Wheel of Impressions, where Jimmy Fallon and the guest take turns spinning the wheel and doing an impression of the celebrity it lands on. Her Celine Dion is absolutely uncanny!
9 Alec Baldwin As Tracy Jordan
When you work with someone for as long as Alec Baldwin has worked with Tracy Morgan, it only makes sense that you'd get pretty good at doing an impression of them. Don't you have impressions of your coworkers? The 30 Rock stars go way back, so if Tracy Morgan saw this, we're pretty sure he didn't mind.
8 Matt Damon As Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey has got to be one of the more fun celebrity impersonations to do. On The Late Show with David Letterman, Matt Damon puts on Matthew McConaughey's lilting speech, vocal fry, and Texan drawl to hilarious effect. Matt Damon explains that he used to hang out with him when they were "broke actors."
7 Sarah Paulson As Kathleen Turner
Is there anything Sarah Paulson can't do? Add celebrity impressions to her list of many, many talents. She killed it on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon during a game of Wheel of Impressions. Though Jimmy Fallon is a notoriously generous laugher, he was especially in stitches over her impression of Kathleen Turner, putting on a low, throaty voice to imitate the screen and stage veteran.
6 Maya Rudolph As Gwen Stefani
In Ellen DeGeneres' impression game, Ellen holds up a picture of a celebrity over her own head so she herself cannot see it. She must guess the celebrity based on her guest's impression of who they see in the picture. This is no surprise, but SNL alum Maya Rudolph brought the house down, particularly in her impression of Gwen Stefani. The facial expressions alone are worth it, and her garbled singing voice is spot on too!
5 Christina Aguilera As Britney Spears
A lot of hype in the '90s was made about the Britney Spears vs. Christina Aguilera debate. Just like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, pitting them against each other in a dichotomous way was profitable; you were either a Christina person, or a Britney person. Now we know that the women never disliked each other no matter what the media would have us think, and Christina Aguilera felt no hesitation about doing an impression of her teen singer counterpart. For what it's worth, her Shakira impression is impressive too.
4 Jim Carrey As Jack Nicholson
Jim Carrey is one of the comedy greats for a reason, even if it's been a few years since he was in the limelight in any meaningful way. The man's face is super-human, capable of twisting and contorting in more directions than we thought a human face really could. So it's no wonder he's so good at impersonating other celebs. His impression of Jack Nicholson had audiences howling back when he was frequenting the standup stages.
3 Bradley Cooper As Clint Eastwood
Jimmy Fallon better watch his back - there are some pretty great impressions going on on Ellen's stage too. Bradley Cooper and Ellen DeGeneres share a funny anecdote about a routine Clint Eastwood has of feeding squirrels near the Ellen sound stage. Bradley Cooper has to get up from his chair on Ellen in order to give us a proper Clint Eastwood impression, and it's well worth the watch.
2 Julie Bowen As Sofia Vergara
It's all love between Julie Bowen and Sofia Vergara, so when Julie Bowen did an impression of her Modern Family co-star on Ellen, she got the biggest laughs of all from Sofia herself. Imitation is the best form of flattery, right?
1 Justin Timberlake As Jimmy Fallon
Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon have a well-documented friendship and whenever they're together you can usually find them cracking each other up. Jimmy Fallon got a taste of his own medicine when Justin Timberlake served up an impression of the late night host, whose show includes the signature Wheel of Impressions game.