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The Big Impression was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 comedy sketch show. It was formerly known as Alistair McGowan's Big Impression after impressionist Alistair McGowan
Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan is an England Impressionist , comedian and actor. McGowan is best known for his work with Ronni Ancona on The Big Impression , which spawned his culturally popular impressions of David Beckham, Sven-G?ran Eriksson, Gary Lineker, Nicky Campbell, Richard Madeley, Tony Blair, Ross Geller and Dot Cotton ....
, but renamed The Big Impression towards the end of its run to accommodate female impressionist Ronni Ancona
Ronni Ancona

Veronica 'Ronni' Ancona is a Scottish Impressionist and actress of Italian/Jewish ancestry who won the Best TV Comedy Actress award at the British Comedy Awards 2003 for her work in Big Impression....
, who did almost as many impressions as McGowan.

Alistair McGowan's Impressions There have been many characters that Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona have impersonated.






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The Big Impression was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 comedy sketch show. It was formerly known as Alistair McGowan's Big Impression after impressionist Alistair McGowan
Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan is an England Impressionist , comedian and actor. McGowan is best known for his work with Ronni Ancona on The Big Impression , which spawned his culturally popular impressions of David Beckham, Sven-G?ran Eriksson, Gary Lineker, Nicky Campbell, Richard Madeley, Tony Blair, Ross Geller and Dot Cotton ....
, but renamed The Big Impression towards the end of its run to accommodate female impressionist Ronni Ancona
Ronni Ancona

Veronica 'Ronni' Ancona is a Scottish Impressionist and actress of Italian/Jewish ancestry who won the Best TV Comedy Actress award at the British Comedy Awards 2003 for her work in Big Impression....
, who did almost as many impressions as McGowan.

Impressions


Alistair McGowan's Impressions

There have been many characters that Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona have impersonated. Some celebrities that McGowan has done impressions of include:
  • Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen
  • Richard Madeley
  • David Beckham
    David Beckham

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  • Michael Parkinson
    Michael Parkinson

    Sir Michael Parkinson, Order of the British Empire is an English people broadcaster and journalist. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson , from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007....
  • Robert Kilroy
  • Angus Deayton
    Angus Deayton

    Gordon Angus Deayton is an England actor, writer, musician, comedian and television presenter. He is best-known as the presenter of the satirical panel game Have I Got News for You, a job from which he was sacked in October 2002 after a second round of tabloid allegations about his personal life....
  • Jonathan Ross
    Jonathan Ross (television presenter)

    Jonathan Stephen Ross Order of the British Empire is a triple BAFTA Award-winning England film critic and presenter of radio and television. Working extensively with the BBC, Ross has presented The Film programme since 1997, his own chat show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross since 2001, and a radio show on BBC Radio 2 beginning in 19...
  • Huw Edwards
    Huw Edwards (journalist)

    Huw Edwards is a Welsh people BAFTA Awards journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Huw presents Britain's most-watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast....
  • Gary Lineker
    Gary Lineker

    Gary Winston Lineker Order of the British Empire is a retired England international soccer striker and is currently a Broadcasting of sports events for the BBC and Eredivisie Live....
  • Robert Winston
    Robert Winston

    Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is a United Kingdom medical doctor, scientist, Politics of the United Kingdom, and television presenter....
  • Sven-Göran Eriksson
    Sven-Göran Eriksson

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  • Alan Davies
    Alan Davies

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     (As Jonathan from Jonathan Creek
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    )
  • Michael Douglas
    Michael Douglas

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  • Alan Titchmarsh
    Alan Titchmarsh

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  • Tony Blair
    Tony Blair

    Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007....
  • June Brown (As Dot Branning
    Dot Branning

    Dorothy "Dot" Branning is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera, EastEnders, played by June Brown.Dot first appeared in EastEnders in July 1985 and has worked as a launderette assistant for most of that time along with Pauline Fowler....
     from EastEnders
    EastEnders

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    )
  • Cary Grant
    Cary Grant

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  • Terry Wogan
    Terry Wogan

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  • Trinny Woodall
    Trinny Woodall

    Trinny Woodall is an English fashion journalism advisor and fashion designer, television presenter and author. Woodall was raised in a wealthy family, and was privately educated....
  • Billy Connolly
    Billy Connolly

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  • Griff Rhys Jones
    Griff Rhys Jones

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  • Leonard Rossiter
    Leonard Rossiter

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  • Kevin Keegan
    Kevin Keegan

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  • Nicky Campbell
    Nicky Campbell

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  • Jeremy Clarkson
    Jeremy Clarkson

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  • Brian May


Ronnie Ancona's Impressions


Some celebrities that Ancona has done impressions of include:

  • Judy Finnigan
  • Carol Smillie
    Carol Smillie

    Carol Smillie is a Scottish people television personality. Smillie is probably best known for presenting the award winning British Broadcasting Corporation series Changing Rooms ....
  • Victoria Beckham
    Victoria Beckham

    Victoria Caroline Beckham is an England singer, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and Model .During her rise to fame with 1990s pop group the Spice Girls, she was dubbed Posh Spice, a nickname first coined by a United Kingdom pop music magazine....
  • Ruby Wax
    Ruby Wax

    Ruby Wax is an United States comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s....
  • Barbara Windsor
    Barbara Windsor

    Barbara Ann Windsor, Order of the British Empire is an English people actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders; she is now considered by many to be something of a British national institution....
     (As Peggy Mitchell
    Peggy Mitchell

    Margaret Ann "Peggy" Mitchell is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. Peggy was initially played by Jo Warne when she first appeared in the series on 30 April 1991....
     from EastEnders)
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones
    Catherine Zeta-Jones

    Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Wales actress, presently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom , The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late...
  • Davina McCall
    Davina McCall

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  • Christine Hamilton
    Christine Hamilton

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  • Nigella Lawson
    Nigella Lawson

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  • Audrey Hepburn
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  • Jennie Bond
    Jennie Bond

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  • Jerry Hall
    Jerry Hall

    Jerry Faye Hall is an United States Model and actor, also known for her long-term relationship with Mick Jagger, with whom she had four children....
  • Charlie Dimmock
    Charlie Dimmock

    Charlie Dimmock is an England gardening expert and presenter. She was one of the hosts on Ground Force, a BBC gardening makeover program, and well known for going braless under a t-shirt in all weather....
  • Jessie Wallace
    Jessie Wallace

    Jessie Wallace is an English actress....
     (As Kat Slater from EastEnders)
  • Lorraine Kelly
    Lorraine Kelly

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  • Nancy Dell'Olio
    Nancy Dell'Olio

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  • Susannah Constantine
    Susannah Constantine

    Susannah Caroline Constantine is an award-winning England fashion journalism, style advisor, television presenter, bestselling fashion author and fashion designer....
  • Sharon Osbourne
    Sharon Osbourne

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  • Penelope Cruz
    Penélope Cruz

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Special Episodes

There have also been numerous one-off specials, including:

  • Alistair McGowan's BigEnders;
  • Alistair McGowan's Big World Cup;
  • Posh & Becks' Big Impression.


Awards


In 2000, 'Alistair McGowan's Big Impression' won Best TV Comedy Series at the British Comedy Awards. In 2003, Ancona won the Best TV Comedy Actress award at the British Comedy Awards
British Comedy Awards

The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year....
 for her role in the series.

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