A couple of weeks, I finally got around to looking at my Sunday L.A. Times from July 30 -- okay, yes, so I was a little slow -- and I noticed something at the bottom of the Arts section, that area where they have little boxes about stories inside. There was one that said “Going Full Trump” with a picture of Sarah Cooper, so my heart sank just a bit. Not that I don't enjoy Sarah Cooper's working lip-syncing Trump. I do. I just like and am personally impressed even more by the work of J-L Cauvin, who does a seriously impressive impersonation of Trump that, besides being so good vocally and with the Trump tics, phrasing and pacing, is also often extremely funny. And Ms. Cooper tends to get almost all the attention -- even to the point of recently guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel's late night talk show and being invited to appear on Lawrence O"Donnell's show on MSNBC, as well as Nicolle Wallace's. But then I looked closer at the article, though and read the sub-head description – “How two comics, Sarah Cooper and J-L Cauvin, have become social media hits by lampooning the president.” So, I thought, “Well, good! At least he’s getting some attention, even if it's second billing.” And then I went to the article itself, and it’s even better there. Cauvin actually gets first billing in the article itself, and his photo is “first” on the left. Even better for both performers is the online version of the article, because if you check it out there, it includes videos of the two What most stood out is that the commentary turns out to be a very detailed, insightful and affectionate analysis of the two. And what I think explains this especially-thoughtful look at their work -- from a perspective I wasn't expecting -- is because it’s not from just an appreciative staff writer, but written by Charles McNulty, who is the paper's theater critic! You can find the long article here, along with the embedded videos. But first, to set the table a bit, with an assist from Mr. Cauvin, here's Trump's own analysis of last night's Republican Convention.
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