Ullman : The Runaway Political Impersonator

What’s it like meeting someone who has imitated you in the best and worst of ways?

Well last night MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow found out when she invited comedian Tracey Ullman on her show. Ullman impersonated Maddow on her recent hilarious Showtime program, “Ullman’s State of the Union,” which airs Mondays at 10:30 p.m. EST.

Maddow wanted to know how Ullman picks her subjects and how she went about creating her rendition of the lefty host.

“I’m a huge fan of yours and I found these glasses in a pharmacy, and I don’t know I went, huh huh huh, you have a goofy laugh! I don’t know, I just wanted to be you,” the comedian told Maddow, adding, “You have a long face.

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