Ep. 523 - Jim Meskimen
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Jim Meskimen is an American actor, comedian, and master impressionist whose career spans film, TV, animation and voiceover. His acting roles include the films Apollo 13, There Will Be Blood, The Grinch, Frost/Nixon and The Punisher, and on TV in Parks and Recreation, Friends, Whose Line is it Anyway? and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. His voice credits are just as impressive — from Justice League, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Family Guy to video games like Call of Duty and Red Dead Redemption. Known for his jaw-dropping range of celebrity impressions, which has given Jim a huge social medias following and even took Jim to the final of America’s Got Talent. He is the son of the actress Marion Ross, who played Mrs Cunningham in the classic TV show, Happy Days starring Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.
Jim Meskimen is our guest in episode 523 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 0:56.6 | Music Uncomplicated. Learn more at freshworks.com. Hello, and welcome to another episode of my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, |
| 1:01.8 | and My Time Capsule is a podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. They pick four things they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 1:08.4 | My guest in this episode is the American actor and impressionist Jim Meskiman. |
| 1:13.8 | As a professional actor for nearly 30 years, Jim has appeared in the films Apollo 13, The Grinch, |
| 1:20.1 | Frost Nixon, The Punisher, Not Forgotten, There Will Be Blood, and many others. |
| 1:25.7 | Some of Jim's TV credits include Friends, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, |
| 1:31.5 | Castle, Lie to Me, and Rules of Engagement. |
| 1:35.1 | He's recorded hundreds of voiceovers for TV and radio and many audiobooks, |
| 1:39.8 | which is hardly surprising, as Jim is also a remarkable impressionist, |
| 1:44.8 | performing a one-man show which features over 60 impressions, |
| 1:48.8 | from Arnold Schwarzenegger to George Bush, George Clooney, William Shatner, |
| 1:53.5 | Morgan Freeman, and even Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen. |
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