How To Do A Robin Williams Impression by Jim Meskimen

[@architectofechoes4]

Your Robin Williams is so naturally accurate without being a caricature. You've captured the soft lilt in his tone perfectly.

[@jimmeskimen]

Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@renegade1987]

i love to hear you do Robin Williams. its spot on.

[@Disney65Fan]

1:29 JESUS did Robin Williams take over your body.

[@jimmeskimen]

Thanks for watching, sorry the sound recording is so crappy on that one!

[@LailaBerzins]

This brought tears to my eyes. Robin will always be my muse. You are brilliant and I appreciate you making this so much! PS it was so fun working on adventures in odyssey together. ❤

[@videonut11]

Jim Meskimen's Robin Williams is quite spot-on. The comic rocket, as I call Robin, certainly lives on strong in Jim.

[@jimmeskimen]

Very kind of you, thanks. It's a special viewpoint to occupy.

[@frederickg.6155]

And you joked me up. We watched The Fisher King again recently. Not only was Robin Williams funny but a fine serious actor. I miss his joy.

[@jimmeskimen]

He was really special. I need to see that film again. Jeff Bridges, too. I'm glad you let me know.

[@BrianRumbaoaDisney1998]

This is how to do the voice of Genie! 😁

[@jimmeskimen]

That's true!

[@BrianRumbaoaDisney1998]

Jim Meskimen Have you heard that Will Smith would be portraying the role as Genie in Disney's Aladdin (Live Action Remake).

[@davefox1857]

DAMN... YOU'RE A GOOD!!!

[@inyourfacecream9289]

you;re so brilliant!!

[@jimmeskimen]

Thank you, my dear!

[@valhalla7408]

Thank you for keeping Robin's voice "alive."

[@jimmeskimen]

You are very welcome.

[@craigcoffey3855]

Thanks for taking the time to share.

[@jimmeskimen]

My pleasure!

[@gd6859]

Thank you so much for sharing your talent!

[@LaughterSmith]

This is beautiful. Thank you sir

[@alankozak288]

You do a great robin willams✌

[@jimmeskimen]

Very kind of you, thanks!

[@the.bobbybass]

You should do more of these!

[@jimmeskimen]

Okay! I have done quite a few, which you can find on my channel if you are interested. Happy New Year!

[@frederickg.6155]

You are awesome👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jimmeskimen]

That's very kind, Fred! Thanks for watching. I hope you will return and see some of my other, newer content.

[@VKSgtSLaughter]

Your tips and impression are fantastic! Can you please continue this "how to " series?

[@jimmeskimen]

That's the plan! I am trying to organize it all... but stay tuned!

[@VKSgtSLaughter]

@@jimmeskimen Thank you!! You have inspired me to work on my impressions again!

[@TheEchovoices]

you are incredible & I think you nailed every explanation of Robin to a tee,I can see how much you loved him it shows in your eyes,you have a lot of feelings which a lot of ppl do not have much of these days Thank you Jim. we miss him so much & you keep him alive.......

[@jimmeskimen]

Thank you so much! Appreciated~

[@alvarer1]

Really cool Robin Williams impression

[@jimmeskimen]

Thanks, Ruben!

[@alvarer1]

@@jimmeskimen you’re welcome 😉

[@nathancundiffvo-INH]

Thank you Jim, I look to Robin as a role model and your lesson is excellent!

[@jimmeskimen]

Great! Thanks for letting me know!

[@vidmaster7]

This is excellent! You captured what many miss - the essence of the one they are impersonating.

[@jimmeskimen]

Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@MostDear]

Brilliant and wonderful. Thank you!

[@jimmeskimen]

Thank you for watching!

[@OmartheRed]

Thank you so much, you brought a smile and a light on my heart

[@jimmeskimen]

You are very welcome. Thanks for watching.

[@uwalakab]

If you close your eyes and just listen..... That's Robin Williams right there. 👍

[@WHITE888-]

Awesome impression!

[@jimmeskimen]

Thanks, mistah Maykuh!

[@MoonwalkerLewisMJ]

Jim Meskimen every time I try to do Robin Williams, my voice stays at Kermit the frog. Do you have any tips on how to transform my Kermit into robin?

[@platformx4627]

A very good explanation of a complicated task.

[@AJslayer86]

Very well done

[@jimmeskimen]

Thanks AJ!

[@RicanFly]

I love watching your videos Jim! Thank you for being you!!

[@scottyh8494]

Hi Jim..your doing pretty well with Robins voice. He was just so gifted I try to just study the things he would say In interviews just to say them to make people laugh. They where so off the cuff just brilliant. I was a a huge fan. I think of him at least once a week. Cheers Scott

[@wfenlon]

Nice video and tribute really to a troubled genius. Thanks.

[@jimmeskimen]

You are quite welcome.

[@TheVOWizard]

I had no idea you did impression tutorials too until I snooped around a bit! More like stumbled upon them. And I thought I was a FAN. How did I miss these? But this one was poignant and wonderfully done. I love the warmth and sincerity that you bring to your videos. This lends Robin the reverence he deserves, and allows people to try to let his voice live on in this world a little longer. :)

[@jimmeskimen]

Thank you! I am very glad you enjoyed it. I'm not very high-tech, but I am sincere... generally speaking! I appreciate it!

[@Chimbo65]

Wow.Big respect from me to you Jim.

[@Parmesana]

very accurate break down of the fellow who was Robin Williams. A hobby of mine is trying to guess where folks are from when they speak. UK is fairly easy..and the North versus south Ireland...South is like Leprechaun of Lucky charms "top o ta mornin to ya" and Northern IR is closed and similar to Bono. Robt Kline was from an area of the St Louis metro communities.. where 44 is pronounced farty far. I just moved to S. CA from 50 years in STL.

[@JimBales]

"Oh, look at that light there!" "Squirrel!" Yanking your chain Jim. ;)

[@jimmeskimen]

Wait, what? Oh...

[@JimBales]

Sorry Jim, I guess it was a comment considered a bit random. :/

[@noahryancomedy]

Thanks jim. This one is very helpful. My Robbin needed some tuning

[@ratjockey]

i love this

[@charliemctruth]

I know a good guy when I hear one.

[@jimmeskimen]

Thanks, Mr. McTruth!

[@FrostySkull]

Thank you Jim. I hope in the future we will get more tutorials, here's hoping for your uncanny Clooney. And that tour, can't forget that tour :)

[@shyridershyridershyrider]

Happy holidays Jim! I love your videos.

[@safespace4u211]

Your sooooo talented!!! Best impressionist out there!! I do impressions myself. Do you do cartoon voices? If so, you should make some tutorials for them too. Btw you should try Mark Wahlberg!😄👍🏼

[@jimmeskimen]

Thanks, I don't specialize in them, but I do a few. I'm an animation voice guy myself, so maybe you can imitate me!

[@safespace4u211]

Jim Meskimen Do you have an email? I would like to send you some of my impressions if that's ok with you! I'm 13 and I would love some tips and critique! If you would like to of course. I have 79 of them but I would send you my best ones

[@jimmeskimen]

I'd prefer links. Are you on KZbin?

[@safespace4u211]

Jim Meskimen not yet but I'll post something tomorrow and send you the link. Thanks!

[@danieljohn4868]

Jim Meskimen hey if you didn't know I'm the same Daniel John that was talking to you a couple days ago. This is just my other account. If the link didn't work just look at this channel. Thanks!

[@slapshot1x]

Awesome Jim. Can you do a Christopher Walken?

[@jimmeskimen]

Judge for yourself: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGWQdWV3g76Ebbc Thanks for watching! Happy New Year!

[@slapshot1x]

Jim Meskimen well done You're truly an amazing talent. Please come to Grand Rapids. And please say hi to Mrs. C for me. Happy holidays.

[@UruseiYatsuraFans]

Jamie Costa did a Amazing job doing the voice of Robin Williams he JUST UPLOAD A NEW VIDEO on the KZbin channel How It should have end aladdin

[@jimmeskimen]

Jamie is very talented, that's for sure!

[@jaggass]

If they make a Robin Williams biopic with 2 actors like they did in Love and Mercy. I hope they chose you to play the older Robin.

[@DAS-Machina]

Tht is wonderful and informative. not certain I will be able to get it but I will try. Any advice on how you do Vincent Price?

[@jimmeskimen]

Yes! You have to listen to his recordings and see if you can feel what it feels like to be him. Then take a phrase and try to duplicate it, even one word if a phrase is too daunting. Record yourself and make adjustments.

[@jasonw6688]

Got a few questions. 1) When you hold your voice in, does your voice naturally take on the tone of Robin Williams or are you subconsciously doing some embellishing? And 2) how do you keep your voice in? I've been trying to do that and don't quite get it.

[@jimmeskimen]

Keeping one's voice in is just something you have to drill. I wish I knew how to describe it better. As with any impression, you just have to kind of "BE" the person and speak from the same place, physically, that you find they do. It's a thing you practice. Hope that helps.

[@lincthomas7178]

its also his mannerisms, the way he he posed, had his head, his hands his eyes in different positions.,.

[@TheSlipperyDevil]

You have this ability (or more tendency) to actually look like the people you do impressions of. it's mind boggling

[@eddieallen2092]

An excellent demonstration of masterful duplication. (And the Willie Nelson song yesterday was brilliant! ----> kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ_Pl4OBq7WVm5Y)

[@jimmeskimen]

Thank you!

[@leoallan2225]

Yeah,I agree he sounded a bit like James Mason,and a bit like Michael York too.

[@jonkeiser1537]

I can do Robin Williams too, and I love Will Smith, but I wish they asked you to be The Genie in the new Aladdin movie.

[@jimmeskimen]

Me too!

[@OmartheRed]

I shall call you my mentor

[@jimmeskimen]

Excellent. Happy for the honor.

[@architectofechoes4]

Check out James Hurn the voice wizard for a James Mason impression

[@jimmeskimen]

I shall. Thanks!

[@dhivaansalig6398]

Hi Jim, I want to ask you, why couldn't you have played the Genie in the live-action Aladdin? Will Smith is a great actor, no doubt, but Robin Williams WAS the Genie, so why couldn't you have played the Genie? And if Disney asked you to play the Genie again, what would you say?

[@jimmeskimen]

That's a fun question! Well, Disney would of course be wise to cast a very, VERY well known, A-list actor to play such a popular role. So I'm about 15,000 people down the list from Will Smith, last time I checked. That's why Robin originally got the job, he was a very hot young-fish actor then. It was an unusual choice at the time, one that resulted in a masterful and memorable performance. If I had been asked, by some miracle or someone's idiotic reasoning, or if a plague hit Hollywood and 90% of the film stars all got cold sores, then I would have been HAPPY to do the part. But Robin being the only REAL Robin, any imitation of him would have, I think, been very dissatisfying. Fair enough? Let's give our friend Will a chance, I say. He's awfully brilliant.

[@dhivaansalig6398]

@@jimmeskimen yeah I suppose so. I'll give him a chance.

[@jimmeskimen]

Let's do. He's a remarkable fellow.

[@dhivaansalig6398]

@@jimmeskimen can I ask for some advice? I'm writing a story and one of the main characters is inspired by Robin Williams and I want that character to honor him. What's your advice? How can I capture his mannerisms, his subtleties and his complex side?

[@garveyneal1672]

I heard that he’ The current new voice of the genie in Aladdin

[@jimmeskimen]

Well, I've been doing the Robin Williams Blue Genie for about ten years now, I think. The current genie? Haven't seen Will Smith's yet, but I'm sure it's amazing.

[@garveyneal1672]

You know Jim the way you do genie you seem like Robin Williams and dan castellaneta combined

[@Alaskan.Crippler.Nation]

Could u do a paul walker video?

[@martinrenner2992]

Hmmm. When I try it, it comes out like Sean Connery. :(

[@jimmeskimen]

I'm sure you will get it. Keep trying!

[@thefilmcookie]

Do you think it'd be possible for a woman to mimic Robin's voice? Or any man's voice well enough for it to be recognizable? What are your thoughts?

[@jimmeskimen]

Absolutely! The only difference might possibly be the pitch. There are many other important elements to a voice. Go for it!

[@thefilmcookie]

@@jimmeskimen Thanks!!

[@HuskyLemur]

I bet you make a much better take on Tommy Wiseau’s best lines as Johnny from The Room with your Robin Williams voice if you were to reenact the words: You’re lying I’d never hit you, You Are Tearing Me Apart Lisa!

[@RedTDA]

Jamie costa should act as robin you ahould do the voice over when hes older

[@ImBarelyMe]

I’ve been trying for hours and I can’t get it to work

[@jimmeskimen]

Oh, my. Try again tomorrow or after a rest.

[@ImBarelyMe]

Jim Meskimen I will thank you.... these are some great explanations and if it can work for you in can eventually work for me right?

[@jimmeskimen]

You know, we are all different, but I believe that one can attain anything given enough dedication and practice. Call me crazy.

[@charlesfrederick8567]

this guy looks A LOT like Robin, they better make the biopic before he gets too old for the role.

[@jimmeskimen]

Yes, hurry for Gawd's sake, before I keel over! Ha ha!

[@MaximusJohal]

if they do a remake of aladin they should hire you.

[@bubsiansanimations6360]

They did! Without him

[@robinrocke8489]

Ghost box with Robert willams

[@jimmeskimen]

Not sure I get you... what's Ghost Box?

[@cm6614]

You look like robin Williams

[@jimmeskimen]

That is true. Similar genetics.

[@rgsenerman]

More like a Robin Williams and Steve Martin mix..... lol

[@jerelminter]

You look like him too lol

[@jimmeskimen]

I have heard that before! Thanks for watching! Happy New Year!

[@jonkeiser6092]

You should have been in Return of Jafar, The Aladdin TV show, and Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, instead of Dan Castlanetta, not that he kept letting out Homer Simpson at times. I just like your Genie better.

[@robkinsella9250]

He looks like piccard

[@jimmeskimen]

I do, especially the older I get...

[@robkinsella9250]

You definitely encapsulate his soul in every nuance! I watched What Dreams May Come yesterday, beautiful film and it made me feel sad knowing what happened. You're definitely keeping his essence alive.

[@baldguy96]

Robin Had a kind of fake English accent.

[@jimmeskimen]

I think it's a species of what is known as Mid-Atlantic. Of course, he was a master at many accents, so could pretty much do as he liked.

[@diktsacrevo]

shave your head and become Sir Patrick Stewart.

[@jimmeskimen]

Patience, patience.

[@nidem1475]

You look like patrick stewart for some reason

[@jimmeskimen]

The reason? Genetics! Thanks for watching.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

First I am a fan of RW but (to me, ), Robin was a better dramatic actor than a comedian. His comedy was too over the top and often childish and made little sense. He was like a child showing off at a party. But as a character actor he was a much more commanding performer. I am not surprised he was suicidal because he was more serious than funny. Another like this is Jim Carrey. Just too much energy to be truly funny but when that energy is contained in a dramatic role it is very moving. Sure they both make us laugh, but for me there is a limit and they reach it quite soon, where they become annoying and ( for me anyway) become buffoon like. a couple of others that spring to mind, Billy Connelly, Bill Murray, Will Smith, Whoopi Goldberg... There are a lot really who can act serious roles very well when they are known more for comedy. Maybe it is the two sided personality that makes them so; a contrast so to speak. One serious actor whom I cannot stand in a comedic role though and he has had a few but to me they seem to stiff and 'try hard' and that is Robert DeNero. I hated him in those 'Focker' movies. So unfunny.

[@deliveryman1970]

I agree with the Robert De Niro thing, look at Goodfellas for example, brilliant acting. Then he tries comedy, not so good. I guess it's how fat the paycheck is at the end of the day.