Jim Gaffigan said that he kept 'secretly hoping' that Tim Walz would do something newsworthy to use in his 'Saturday Night Live' impression: 'We live in such chaotic times.'
Gaffigan also said his manager lied about him having a Walz impression to get him the part: "I've been saying that you're sending me videos of you.". “Dana, were you secretly hoping like I was? I was like, 'Oh, hopefully Tim Walz will also do something like, to get some news,'" Gaffigan said."I don't want him to humiliate himself. He'll, you know, be in some , but they're competing for attention.
Gaffigan then had to scramble to put his audition tape together, despite never cultivating a Walz impression prior to that moment. "It was like 10 o'clock the night before I was doing one day on a movie," he said. "And then I kind of just went around my hotel room and put on a jacket and took off a jacket and put on a sweater and things of Tim Walz, which is — essentially I'm portraying my brother Mitch, who lives in Indiana, who has a very Chicago accent.
Jim Gaffigan lost a role in an M. Night Shyamalan movie because the director saw him in a Sierra Mist ad The comedian said that he was left to his own devices when shaping his impression. "I was just always watching Tim Walz videos and I would see him do a behavior and then I'd be like, 'All right, I'll bring that in' because again, there's so many moving parts," he said. "It wasn't like people were like, 'Tim Walz does this. Can you add it?' It was left up to me, which I know is surprising.
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