Well, it's that time o' year. I was going to start our annual Holiday Music Fest tomorrow, when he hit December, so I figured I'd end November with this terrific comedy interview from this week on The Tonight Show. But as I was getting it ready, I realized that the center of it is a holiday song. So, though a bit offbeat for the Fest, it fits -- and let's start things off this way. 'Tis the season, after all. If you watch Saturday Night Live, you know James Austin Johnson's eerie and hilarious impersonation of Trump -- not just from the voice, but the syntax of changes topics in mid-sentence and rambling on about meaningless subjects. He was a guest on The Tonight Show this week and had an interesting conversation, talking among other things about his process and going through impersonations of Owen Wilson, Nicholas Cage, Joe Biden and Trump. But it's about six minutes into the interview when he gets around to doing his uncanny impersonation of Bob Dylan singing "Jingle Bells" in the different stages of his career that blows everyone away. I sent this to a friend who's a borderline-obsessive Dylan fan, and he was overwhelmed, saying that Johnson got them all perfect.
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