- Have you seen Amy's impression?
- Hey, you guys, let's go get some water.
- Terrible. Terrible impression.
Terrible.
- Go get yourselves a ham sandwich.
- I don't even know who,
I think she was doing an impression of Tweety Bird.
I'm very offended.
Hello. I'm Natasha Lyonne.
And today I'll be reviewing impressions of myself.
- You want an impression?
Okay. Here's my impression.
- Zoomy woomy, Google smoogle.
- Cock-a-roach.
- I have smoked cocaine many times
and nothing has [beep] me up more than this.
So no, these are not normal cigarettes.
They're Israeli laced cigarettes.
- She did great.
I do like that she talks about the cigarette
being laced with cocaine.
It's funny when people do that, you know what I mean?
It's a little extra kick.
One time that happened to me with PCP.
I know you guys are very classy operation
over at Vanity Fair.
I would say avoid PCP, if you can.
- Well good. Because my pus pus is allergic to latex
and your penis is also allergic to latex.
- You know, it's interesting when a penis is allergic
to latex and you know I'm so moved
that Chloe appreciates that nuanced detail like I do.
I think the line from the show is
I think I'm asking for a lambskin condom at the deli.
And I think I say, "'Cause my little lips [beep] lips
are allergic to latex."
And so I'm glad that at that riff
that on the day just came up
has made it into this impression.
I remember being so blown away by Chloe
the first time I saw her do this
and I posted it right to Instagram
because I'm a modern woman.
She's a national treasure
and it's very flattering to be honest.
It's like receiving a love letter
from Beelzebub himself.
- I'm on this app for clout.
Aren't we all, I just want a little bit of internet clout.
So what? So what?
You want an impression?
Okay. Here's my impression.
I mean, is that all your majesty?
You know, do you want a beer?
I'll get you a beer.
Do you want a cigarette?
Hey, I'll get you a cigarette.
Well, on second thought, can I have the cigarette?
It's been a long.
It's been a long life and don't smoke kids.
Don't smoke it well me, I'm an old lady.
I'm from New York.
What is it about me?
Is it the crazy hair?
Maybe.
Is it the smokey eye?
Makes me look like I'm a raccoon.
I know. I look like a raccoon.
I know that.
- She was great.
Yeah, she was raspy.
She also, I think had a New York accent,
which again I'm not sure where that's coming from.
Would you do Joe Pesci with the New York accent?
You wouldn't, that would be disrespectful.
Seems like a very nice person.
Obviously has excellent taste.
I think she said that I look like a raccoon.
She's not wrong.
I love a raccoon.
If you've ever seen videos on the internet
of raccoons eating
sometimes they even do it at little picnic tables
and it's so charming 'cause they chew and they look around
and that's mostly what I'm basing my entire personality on
is a chewing raccoon at Tompkins Square Park.
I do think she calls me an old lady and I am.
I'm ancient.
You know the thing
about being 3000 years old, is it ages you.
But I would say I don't look a day over one.
She had a lot of zingers.
Less so from the actual TV show
that was more of a general vibe, I would say
- This is my impression of Natasha Lyonne
in corporate America.
Hello cutie patooty.
I will have the email for you in a Jiffy.
Zoomie woomy, Google schmoogle,
Microsoft Teams, go gleams.
I'm going to take this email faster
than a taxi cab heading down 5th Avenue.
- Slacky Jackie, you know, Slack is big, right?
Yeah. This guy is good at rhyming.
So you know, a lot of my talk
is based on mashing words, you know
would you put an elephant on a bicycle?
That kind of a thing.
And you just, words, you just
you grab them from the sky, you string 'em together
miscellaneous tangential, boom, sentence.
This kind of talkie walkie
works better in a sort of a rhythm.
And I appreciate that this man has found
I would say the answer to life's questions.
Was that a real business meeting that he was on
and how did he do?
There's a funny guy.
I like him. I like him.
Way to go Edson.
Ooh, she's taking a nap.
- One word impressions, part three.
Cock-a-roach.
- I like the laziness and the simplicity of this one.
I admire that she didn't wanna work too hard.
And so like that she began the video napping.
A lot of people did not, they had more active impressions.
It seems like she moves on to other impressions.
She didn't know at the time I think
that the core persona she was touching
in that moment was napping.
What she does not know is one time I was on stage
off Broadway, off-off Broadway, black box theater
a little play called "Tigers Be Still"
In the play, you know, I'd recently been cheated on
by my fiance.
So I spent it all on like a velour, Juicy sweatsuit
and drinking Jack Daniels.
I actually fell asleep during the play.
A lot of my character was just depressed
and napping and I would take full naps during the show.
And so I appreciate that she too, as a performer
knows to nap first, which funny to me about the cockroach
of it all is just, that is how you say it.
So it's weird for me to have to exist in a world
that's gone mad and be the only sane one.
I'm so grateful for being, you know, temporarily successful
and momentarily in the zeitgeist.
But a lot of what they don't tell you
is it's all your worst nightmares come true.
In my case, one of my greatest fears is a cockroach.
And here I find myself being chased.
Chased down by this word.
It was just a plot point, a joke, a bit.
So who knew that, you know,
that's the nature of the rhythms
of the sound of the music of the spheres, I guess.
And you know what?
I'm grateful, there's bigger problems to be had
in this life.
So you eat the fear, but not the cockroach.
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- I would call her a mumble fish.
So what was interesting about that was
two things I was struck with.
One, I had no idea what was happening.
So three things.
Two, you know, a lot of obviously the character of Nadia
in "Russian Doll" is based on both Elliot Gould
in Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye."
So a sort of classic Philip Marlowe
and also a in general kind of a Peter Falk.
And what do both of them do?
They like a mumble.
Now I don't realize
that naturally I think I sometimes am doing a mumble.
As a child, this is now the third thing,
I remember that my mother used to take me to auditions
all over this city, the big apple.
And she would say, "Enunciate!
For Christ's sake enunciate!"
Because she thought I wasn't gonna get the jobs.
Well, isn't that funny mom
because look what we have here,
Mr. Mumble fish in the flesh, a full impression.
You can't even understand a word she's saying, but yeah.
You know, I guess mumbling pays.
That's what I always say.
And if for $4.99 a month
you can come join my mumbling program.
Is it a Ponzi scheme?
Sure it is.
Is it a pyramid scheme?
Also yes. But join me.
What else are you doing?
Yeah, I guess up and down the scales.
Yeah. Certain words, less relevant.
You know what I think it is.
It might be the bad influence
of Chris Walken over the years.
I remember that I once heard that he,
in all his scripts,
apparently this might be a rumor, also, you know
that apparently he used to get blood transfusions
him and Keith Richards apparently
would get full blood transfusions.
And that's how they stay looking like little tiny babies.
But that's a separate conversation
for a different Vanity Fair piece.
So we're gonna stay focused.
So I heard that Chris Walken
he apparently crosses out all the punctuation
and all the stage direction in scripts when he gets them.
And so he walks into a room I guess.
And like, so he kind of is modulating, I guess
on a whim incredibly trained guy obviously,
a song and dance man, a legend.
We love him, but I wonder if without realizing it
that's why I'm up and down.
And also Bob Fosse.
Something like that, I'm guessing.
And of course the "Sound of Music,"
ah, what a poem.
It's a play I think and a movie.
I would say, other than the cigarettes
the New York accent, the big hair, the eyeliner
and the double-sided coin of the existential dilemma.
They have all been on point.
I find it very moving actually,
to have lived such a deranged life
and find that people think that it's funny is just,
it's very sweet.
We did it, honey.
Thank you so much.