--- title: Best Celebrity impressions: Christopher Walken, De Niro VIDEO description: A video compilation of celebrities doing celebrity impressions. canonical: https://time.com/4596207/best-celebrity-impressions-2/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-16T16:14:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:19.664Z og:title: Enjoy a Supercut of Hilarious Celebrity Impressions og:description: Watch everyone who's everyone do DeNiro, Walken and McConaughey og:url: https://time.com/4596207/best-celebrity-impressions-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae8e91a865675c83/6988b340a988ca6dc36ba787/celeb.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: celeb og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Enjoy a Supercut of Hilarious Celebrity Impressions twitter:description: Watch everyone who's everyone do DeNiro, Walken and McConaughey twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae8e91a865675c83/6988b340a988ca6dc36ba787/celeb.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch 17 Celebrities Do Their Best Impressions of Other Celebrities by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Dec 16, 2016 4:14 PM UTC  by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Dec 16, 2016 4:14 PM UTC Turns out drama school isn’t just the foundation for Oscar-winning biopics or megafame. It’s so actors can learn how to do [impressions](http://time.com/3597768/celebrity-impressions-stuck-in-traffic/). See some of the best celebrity [ impressionists](http://time.com/4546034/ron-howard-on-tom-hanks-impression/) of all time, from Robin Williams, Kate McKinnon and Tom Hiddleston imitating Christopher Walken’s iconic delivery to pretty much everyone doing their best Robert De Niro. And a few celebrities even attempt to pull off an impression while sitting right next to their intended target. Here’s a look at 17 celebrities impersonating nine different celebrities in a two-minute chain. Best Celebrity impressions: Christopher Walken, De Niro VIDEO ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4596207/best-celebrity-impressions-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4596207/best-celebrity-impressions-2/"},"headline":"Watch 17 Celebrities Do Their Best Impressions of Other Celebrities","datePublished":"2016-12-16T16:14:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:19.664Z","description":"The best De Niro is always done in front of De Niro","url":"https://time.com/4596207/best-celebrity-impressions-2/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrities","Comedy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae8e91a865675c83/6988b340a988ca6dc36ba787/celeb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae8e91a865675c83/6988b340a988ca6dc36ba787/celeb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"celeb","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4596207/best-celebrity-impressions-2/","name":"Watch 17 Celebrities Do Their Best Impressions of Other Celebrities"}}]}] ```