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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Will Sasso Does Hilarious Impressions of Jesse Ventura, Stone Cold, Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart & More!

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Will Sasso (@willsasso) is a comedian and actor and is known for his five seasons on Mad TV from 1997 to 2002. He joins Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood to talk about how he got started in comedy, growing up in British Columbia, Canada, who his comedic heroes were as a kid, what he had to do for his Mad TV audition, his AI podcast called "Dudesy", what show or movie he gets recognized for most, why John Candy in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" is his favorite performance, the match he had with Bret Hart in WCW, taking a stunner from "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in WWE and he does hilarious impressions of Jesse "The Body" Ventura, British Bulldog, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Check out Dudesy here: https://www.dudesypod.com/ For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

All systems are gone.

0:01.0

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris VanVee!

0:08.3

Hello friends, welcome back to the show.

0:10.7

I am so excited about this one.

0:14.6

Will Sasso is a comedic genius.

0:17.0

Really just a genius in general.

0:19.3

And I've been a fan of his work dating back to the late 90s, mad TV.

0:24.6

You are now watching mad TV, mad!

0:28.2

Remember that?

0:29.2

And as a big wrestling fan, I was so excited when he did that stuff with Bret Hart.

0:34.4

And then of course that segment with Stone Cold Steve Austin and WWE.

0:37.5

And I gotta say, Will Sasso takes a pretty good stunner.

0:41.7

So we talk about all of that and also just how he got into this.

0:46.4

And he does so many great impressions.

0:48.8

I know if you're listening to this, you're probably a wrestling fan.

0:51.4

So you're going to be excited to hear his perfect Jesse Ventura impression.

0:56.1

And yes, of course we compare it to the carrying cross Jesse Ventura impression.

1:00.8

And it was so cool to hear this.

1:03.0

Will was very aware of that impression that he did during the workout that me and carrying

1:07.2

cross did.

1:08.2

He also does Bret Hart, British Bulldog, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan.

1:13.4

Am I leaving any out here?

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