Frank Caliendo has delighted sports fans over the years with incredible impersonations of famous sports personalities like John Madden, Charles Barkley and Jon Gruden.
Caliendo’s next victim was ESPN’s “First Take” host, Stephen A. Smith. The comedian was on ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike” show and delivered a spot-on and flawless impersonation of the demonstrative host in which he made his predictions for Week 8’s NFL games as the real Smith looked on.
Caliendo’s usage of words we haven’t seen since our SATs, which Smith typically busts out, was spot on.
In fact, after making his picks Caliendo says, “Now excuse me while I finish memorizing my thesaurus.”
What makes this even more amazing is that the magic occurred on the radio, so listeners couldn’t see a face. It would’ve been interesting to see how many people tuned in during the impersonation and weren’t able to tell who was who.
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