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" Every impression that I do is just a terrible variation on an awful Bill Cosby impression. You're doing an Australian accent, but it's just Australian Bill Cosby; or that's just British Bill Cosby; that's Pirate Bill Cosby. "

Wyatt Cenac

Pirate

Impression

Terrible

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Lot

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Funny

Say

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