How to do the perfect Liz Truss impression

How to do the perfect Liz Truss impression | Jan Ravens

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Jan Ravens is an English actress and impressionist, known for her voice work on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers.
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@johnsonrob Жыл бұрын

The best description of Truss that I have heard - "... little girl whose daddy had always told her that she was funny..."

@LambsyLamb Жыл бұрын

Daddy was too kind!

@thewomble1509 11 ай бұрын

@@LambsyLamb Daddy should have pulled out.

@anonUK 27 күн бұрын

Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar?

@barriewilliams4526 Жыл бұрын

At the age of 85 I've seen a lot of politicians come & go, but modern politicians don't seem to have what it takes. Perhaps it's just that people of the right calibre do not wish to be politicians, so we are left with mediocre?......

@MrUniman609 Жыл бұрын

Liz Truss is more on a town councillor level, than an M.P.

@petyrkowalski9887 Жыл бұрын

I agree… and the ones tht do want it see the opportunity for self-enrichment. They dont actually care about British people one jot.

@fancyhat6505 Жыл бұрын

It's a catch 22, you can't be a politician without being a sub-par human

@matty7758 Жыл бұрын

@@priapus56 wouldn't call Blair and thatcher mediocre

@mareksieczko7329 Жыл бұрын

@@matty7758 I would reserve worse terms for those two

@DavoInMelbourne Жыл бұрын

She's still gorgeous. Love the grey too. Hollywood actresses could take a look at what growing old gracefully looks like.

@21Diddley Жыл бұрын

How wonderful! The lovely Jan Ravens has nailed Truss completely. I'm going to enjoy the next few months hugely thanks to this fabulous woman. Thanks Jan!

@alexandregarden6260 Жыл бұрын

Let’s just hope that it is a matter of days. Apologies to Jan!

@sjgsteve21 Жыл бұрын

Wishes do come true!

@markcarrington8380 Жыл бұрын

Not quite two months then

@MartinParnham Жыл бұрын

Love Jan Ravens! Could never watch Kirsty Wark on Newsnight without thinking of her impression from Dead Ringers. More on that story later…

@LaurenceBoyce Жыл бұрын

Fascinating and brilliant.

@Chardonbois 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant Jan!

@Scotlanz Жыл бұрын

Wow. Jan is 3yrs and one day older than me…and she is gorgeous! 😀

@j.b.9260 Жыл бұрын

She's 31 years older than me and I think she's dreamy.

@TC_83 8 ай бұрын

Great impression... reminds me of Miranda Richardson's Queen Elizabeth in Blackadder II

@davidspencer5380 Жыл бұрын

Jan - your a genius!

@alecbryant817 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant as ever

@orraman5427 Жыл бұрын

"You're cracking on a bit, give us the crown". I don't see that travelling well somehow.

@billydeeuk Жыл бұрын

It really didn’t

@geoffreyplow7255 4 ай бұрын

Poor timing at the very least.

@spartybrearly7221 8 ай бұрын

Jan is absolutely superb!

@brianwilkinson6891 Жыл бұрын

Jan is perfect !

@cmasseylynch Жыл бұрын

Spot on . impressed as always ,thanks.

@SuperTed19021 2 ай бұрын

*CORNEILA* and many others from 1989's BBC children's show "Barney the Dog". Now *that was* a huge part of my childhood. *God, am I getting old?!*

@janegreen9340 Жыл бұрын

Liz Truss = QE1 from Blackadder

@edcosgrove9730 Жыл бұрын

If only Liz Truss had the energy of Jan Ravens...

@danielcrafter9349 Жыл бұрын

Replacement batteries for those units are hard to come by, and very expensive....

@therespectedlex9794 Жыл бұрын

@@danielcrafter9349 Are they slightly a hurdy gurdy too?

@arthurpewtey Жыл бұрын

Or the intelligence. Not to mention decency.

@therespectedlex9794 Жыл бұрын

@@arthurpewtey Are you sure? You like actresses as people, or actors?

@edcosgrove9730 Жыл бұрын

@@therespectedlex9794 Hurdy Gurdy would be fantastic! Hari-kari is the Liz Leader solution.

@chrislambe400 Жыл бұрын

Nerine Skinner has some great sketches here on YT

@jonathanbarraclough5917 Жыл бұрын

Nerine Skinner has the mannerisms and parody material but hopefully deliberately not the voice.

@markcarrington8380 Жыл бұрын

Jan is a genius.

@SuperTed19021 2 ай бұрын

Why she and Harry Enfield made "Barney" such a *wonderful* success!

@robertfrancis7767 10 ай бұрын

Please also have a look at Nerines portrayals especially "Liz Struss" she deserves a larger audience very talented.

@andydinesguitar Жыл бұрын

Uncannily good!😂

@andressanchezcasado4433 Жыл бұрын

When a door shuts another one slams your face

@robertpodbery242 Жыл бұрын

Jan Ravens is a great impressionist, but her comments about truss acting as a girl that has been told by her dad etc, was dead right

@sarangistudent8614 Жыл бұрын

She also annoyingly nods her head whilst speaking when she lies. It’s as if she’s trying to persuade you to believe that whatever she’s saying is true. It’s quite obvious once you realise it.

@unthenner5519 9 ай бұрын

Same as Sunak

@Firebrand55 Жыл бұрын

Nerine Skinner IS Liz Truss.

@zzhughesd Жыл бұрын

Solid content

@billywoodward584 Жыл бұрын

I've had Goods delivered into my wheelie bin, Dizzy Lizzies Deliveries will probably end up in the bin also.

@robertsmith5744 Жыл бұрын

Boris Johnson is Benny Hill's son.

@cobbler40 Жыл бұрын

Fred scuttle

@ronaldsimpson8890 Жыл бұрын

Robert Smith , i have met Benny Hill and believe me Johnson is not Benny Hills son, for starters Benny was coherent and didnt tell lies .

@cobbler40 Жыл бұрын

They said whoever replaced dear old cheekie chappie fascist Johnson would be worst. I thought it could never be possible. But I was wrong !

@elric6084 Жыл бұрын

How exactly do you define fascism?

@londonalicante Жыл бұрын

@@elric6084 Boris certainly had (and still has) one of the elements of fascism: He wants to be in power FOREVER! And just like Cincinnatus (obscure reference to Roman politician in his resignation speech), Arnold Schwarezenegger and every kid's TV baddie: he reckons "he'll be back."

@Qatari2007 Жыл бұрын

Sure sure. They said Cameron was the worst, then May, then Boris, now Truss

@Aspartame69 Жыл бұрын

@@londonalicante Thats not in any definition of fascist. You are confusing it for dictatorship. I dont recall the last dictator that left office because someone he peripherally knew pinched someones bottom followed by 12 months of media activism to depose him.

@petyrkowalski9887 Жыл бұрын

@@elric6084 go and read Umberto Echos 14 steps to fascism… the tories tick most of the boxes.

@spartybrearly7221 8 ай бұрын

Liz didn’t mention growing up in Paisley and Leeds.

@janein6491 Жыл бұрын

David Davis, your master negotiator !

@damiebconnor2370 Жыл бұрын

Jan has the posh Liverpool down to a tee

@Broadmaynewood Жыл бұрын

Brilliant 👍😂

@courcheval Жыл бұрын

It s fascinating and tragic at the same time to watch an ex global Empire fall into the abyss of insignificance. English people are falling into mass poverty and the Times, a former respectable institution, dances on the brink of the social volcano with a record level of inconciousness. That s truely fascinating! Keep the show going on!

@sarfaraz.hosseini Жыл бұрын

The Times has a fun little piece about impressions, it's not the basis of an existential crisis. Chill out, and stop being so weird.

@russellsmith6476 Жыл бұрын

AH AH YOUR RUSSIAN BOYS ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED

@Randomstuffs261 Жыл бұрын

Bro, we were always in poverty, Empire basically only benefitted the 1%

@chrislambe400 Жыл бұрын

A freight train crash in slow motion for the last 12 years. One wagon piling onto the next and no sign of it stopping. It is hard to look away.

@edmunddonnelly3881 Жыл бұрын

And apparently you can´t spell, either.

@largeladsteve25 Жыл бұрын

she's too charismatic to be truss lol

@shantibel Жыл бұрын

Best LT impersonation ever.

@LambsyLamb Жыл бұрын

WOW Jan Ravens does the perfect impression of the feckless Liz Truss! Quite possibly the best rendition of Liz Truss I've ever heard!

@jellymollett Жыл бұрын

Genius.

@StratsRUs Жыл бұрын

Jan is gorgeous

@j.b.9260 Жыл бұрын

She's dreamy (and I'm 33).

@johnsykes9623 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jan, very good with the voice. You need to develop your look of dazed and confused and blink a lot more

@BongoAboutBedfords 8 ай бұрын

She looks like Liz Truss after a night on the tiles !!.

@martinsmith8487 Жыл бұрын

The Grimleys 👍

@fearnpol4938 Жыл бұрын

Jan Wavens?

@illwobble Жыл бұрын

Shame Jan didn’t get a chance to do any Dead Ringers before Liz was ditched.

@alistairsavoury1074 Жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahaha quality!

@Nuevo_tipo-amoladora_angular Жыл бұрын

Мучас грасиас пара ту видео!

@pglsib Жыл бұрын

Haha! Sprussian?

@Nuevo_tipo-amoladora_angular Жыл бұрын

@@pglsib сиииииииииииии.........

@Nuevo_tipo-amoladora_angular Жыл бұрын

@@pglsib зато быстро и много говорю на кубинских жаргонизмах

@pickyricky820 Жыл бұрын

this didnt age too well two days later.

@csharpe5787 Жыл бұрын

Truss, is simply aunt Sally.

@sunilmajevadia3865 Жыл бұрын

when will the conservative politicians answer a simple question every time you ask a question to them say waffle on about something

@58JMG Жыл бұрын

"All those Boris Johnson impersonators will be out of work soon..." As opposed to the Liz Truss impersonators? Aged well.

@JAMAICADOCK Жыл бұрын

Liz Truss sounds like some a Victoria Wood caricature

@andrewmark2783 26 күн бұрын

This was old school Truss before she took speech lessons to sound like Thatcher

@sairhug Жыл бұрын

Much as I love Jan, her Liz is nowhere near as good as Nerine Skinner's ... taken out of context I would have had a very hard time knowing who she was meant to be doing.

@benyomovod6904 Жыл бұрын

Only hard masochists want to be Lizz Truss

@nrobertson33 Жыл бұрын

🤣

@DavidHolliday Жыл бұрын

De-liver, de-heart, de-kidneys, de-lungs, what’s next?

@tonib5899 Жыл бұрын

De ar*eholes. Of which we now have in abundance.

@tomgl6684 Жыл бұрын

De-feet at the next election with any luck.

@DavidHolliday Жыл бұрын

@@tomgl6684 Yes, let's hope so!

@regina1892 Жыл бұрын

Keir Starmer obliterated Liz Truss during PMQS!

@samanthathompson9812 Жыл бұрын

To a Canadian Truss sounds like she has a plugged nose but maybe it's a type of accent over there.

@fatbelly27 Жыл бұрын

Nerine Skinner has nailed the gormless grin. Needs better material though

@ttoughtask7296 Жыл бұрын

Who knew Jan would be out of a job within 45 days

@StPiter111 Жыл бұрын

We have a lot of expectancies from her in Russia 😎

@rob4214 Жыл бұрын

Be the same as Boris. Plenty of support for Ukraine.

@andrewbutcher3391 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see more Liz Truss from Jan….but you’ll have to be quick Jan….🙄

@damienocallaghan2648 Жыл бұрын

UNLUCKY JAN She is on the DOLE QUEUE NOW😀

@PeteMachini6732 Жыл бұрын

That is a disgrace 😡😡😡 pork market 😀😀😀

@MrChiefWeasel 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant lady. (Not Liz Truss).

@farokudahitam Жыл бұрын

De,liver and bacon

@DouglasBrightman-yb8ry 3 ай бұрын

Yeah Liz got to be PM then she f….. it up

@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 Жыл бұрын

*cackles in Clintonese*

@annepoitrineau5650 Ай бұрын

And soon after, adly, the queen did die.

@shuddupeyaface Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Her Fiona Bruce is better than Fiona Bruce!

@jonathanwalker8730 Жыл бұрын

Nerine Skinner's impersonation is better; good content too, check her out.

@patricka.crawley6572 Жыл бұрын

Easy. Lisp the 'S' whispily. Lizszs Truszsz. Sounds so afsfecetstatioszs.

@marcor4706 Жыл бұрын

This didn't age well (re Queen Liz)

@michaelmouse4024 Жыл бұрын

How to do an impression of Liz Truss? Have your brain removed.

@marklimbrick Жыл бұрын

Come on and do the resignation with the smile and smirk. Coughy should be good because the next PM! Truss was shire speeches because she didn't trust pro writers. Churchill had Bracken as wing man.

@perfumeaddict1204 Жыл бұрын

And that's poor Jan out of a job after 45 days.

@A_kiwis_view Жыл бұрын

De liver just a part of de body

@dufus7396 Жыл бұрын

Truss put on that working class drawl..now she cant break out of it.

@jstone247 Жыл бұрын

Truss comes across as bland. She appears to have had a personality bypass. How would a mime or comedian extract anything to parody her?

@tomgl6684 Жыл бұрын

You've just seen how. Personally I thought Ravens nailed it.

@phil2854 Жыл бұрын

She's bland, but also incredibly goofy and pleased with herself. A perfect combination for mimicking.

@redalert2834 Жыл бұрын

Liz Trus has a stilted, childish way of speaking. She seems to be incapable of fluid speech - completing sentences without inserting irritating pauses. And it's not as though she ever says anything that demands much brainpower to interpret.

@negativeone7151 Жыл бұрын

Oh dear Liv Struss is far more accurate

@KevTheImpaler Жыл бұрын

Is Liz Truss working class then?

@karlos543 Жыл бұрын

Short career

@karengayehammat4199 Жыл бұрын

He needs elocution lessons another who can't get the Ts Ws and Rs correct

@portcullis5622 Жыл бұрын

Nothing to do with elocution lessons. He has a rhotacism. So what?

@portcullis5622 Жыл бұрын

@Pete Cockcroft Maybe, but it didn't stop Jonathan Ross or Lucy Worsley. Also some of the finest singers have lisps and rhotacisms.

@GG-ml3vr Жыл бұрын

Get a life

@peterrenn6341 Жыл бұрын

Nasty troll comment

@karengayehammat4199 Жыл бұрын

@@peterrenn6341 some people do improve these afflictions with speech therapy my daughter is one of them and others don't bother trying to include every letter of the alphabet especially if they've been raised that way as if have doesn't start with H but A because family and community say it that way then it appears an issue of "class" . My older brother used to say thecoz instead of because until I corrected him now I wonder why our parents didn't pay any attention to it .