James Austin Johnson is best known for his scary accurate Donald Trump impression, which he’s been doing on Saturday Night Live for years. Real ones who watch the show every week, however, know his stockpile of impersonations is a lot deeper than just the current president. He’s done more than twenty people on the show so far since he debuted in 2021, but he apparently can’t get his absolute best one on the show.
Video from a panel numerous SNL cast members did over the summer at the Television Academy recently emerged, and in it, special guest host Fred Armison tells a story about how he always wanted to get an Ira Glass impression on the show, but it always got shot down because the NPR host of This American Life wasn’t considered famous enough for the audience to get. Johnson spoke up and said he has the exact same problem.
