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Will Sasso Does Impressions Of Jesse Ventura, Scott Hall, Macho Man, Triple H, Ric Flair & MORE!
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Will Sasso (@willsasso) is an actor and comedian. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, CA to discuss performing his Jesse Ventura impression in front of the WWE Hall of Famer, how he perfects his impressions, his thoughts on celebrities in wrestling including IShowSpeed and Logan Paul, at the Raw on Netflix premiere, wrestling Bret Hart in WCW and he does impressions of Andre The Giant, Triple H, British Bulldog, Ric Flair and more!
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“[Impersonates Jesse Ventura] Because I live in the Baja six months out of the year. And you know that, Chris, I don't have TV. Why would I watch American TV there? We have satellite. I have solar. I'm four miles from pavement out there, and I can't watch American news. But I tell you what I can do. I can put my hand into a whale shark's mouth in a lagoon. They love having their gums scratched, and you look into their eyes and they're intelligent. That's why I don't know who Will Sasso is, or whatever a name only a proctologist could love. I'll be down in the Baja riding my electric bike. I charge my electric bike, and then I ride out and I get mangoes and I bring them back to the house. Of course, I always see large birds and I think they're drones. I'm afraid of drones because if you say the wrong thing about the government and then you go picking mangoes, you'll see an American drone. You can tell, they're huge. And I'm like, That's not a tropical bird of any kind. That's not even a raven or a crow. That's a big drone coming to kill me. So no, I don't watch the American news."
"I remember him going, ‘Hello Will.’ Which was like, it is one of those things where I'm like, I actually truly revere Jesse Ventura, I love that guy and it's like, I don't want to break his balls on. So when he's like, ‘Hello Will.’ I'm like, let me get this Hackney bullsh*t out and try not to f*cking offend him. And, yeah, ‘Hi, hello, me. How am I doing?’ And then it was, were you in the studio going, let's wrap it up. Because he's not gonna go zoom, back and forth with you."
"I don’t. If I can do it, I do it. Sometimes I can't stop doing it. And then you're like, that's what I mean by annoying my wife. If we’re just doing anything like [impersonates Randy Savage] Shopping for throw pillows. It's a Saturday afternoon. Yeah, you might want to do something with your time. Household projects, maybe catch a Lakers game. No way! My wife wants to shop for throw pillows. We're going to reformation hardware, yeah. A little more expensive than some of the other stores. Not bad if you want to get a couch, yeah sexual couch, you're going to want to invest some money, dear, aren't you? Yeah, but throw pillows. Let's go to Target. No, I don't want to go to Target. Let's go to reformation hardware."
"In my opinion, the greatest in-ring performer of all time. Or let's call it like it is, the greatest pro wrestler of all time. I've said this about that match that Bret could have a match with a 300-pound bag of rice, which he did on that night. For those who don't know what the hell we're talking about, when I was on this television program Mad TV we concocted this feud that happened between Bret and I over a year or two from two different seasons. He gets mad at me, he attacks me. It was all cooked up and then all of a sudden, it turns into a wrestling storyline where I'm going to be [in a match] It is an homage, sort of, to the Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler thing. Bret was so game, and it was great. But Bret is also so old school that it's like, we're doing the match fly to Tampa, A couple of my buddies flew out to see it, because they're like, we're not going to miss this. We go out to a bar the night before, and we're all in the same car, along with Brian Hart, no relation, writer, executive producer at Mad TV, also a huge wrestling fan, made this whole thing happen. It was Brian who was like, let's get Bret on the show, I got a sketch for him, what if we did this? Brian was the guy behind this whole thing. We go into this bar and the night before, and Bret’s like, Okay, I'm gonna go in first, and then you guys can come in later. And my buddy's like, no, we want to go in with you. Okay, so you guys and Brian, you come in with me, and then we'll just wait a half hour and then come in and don't sit near me. I was like, come on, we gotta [do this]? He's like, no, no, no, the match is tomorrow. So we kayfabed it. I go into this bar that is also where Bret Hart is so people were coming up to me who are following this thing. I'm on TV, I'm on entertainment magazine outlets going, No I'm gonna sue the f*cking guy. He attacked me on Mad TV. I'm talking to Access Hollywood going I'm suing him. It looked legit. He hit me with a chair. He goes How hard Should I hit you with the chair? And in order so that it would look gnarly on TV, I said to the excellence of execution, go ahead Bret, hit me as hard as you can. You can't hurt me. Because I really wanted him to hit me. I had raised welts on my back for like, a couple of weeks. [It wasn't a steel chair]. It was like a steel framed with plastic. So it was probably better than getting hit with a real steel chair. But there was still a lot of apparatus there to raise and split your skin, and then I had an alligator pad on my knee and leg, and he starts wailing on my knee, and then he puts me in the Sharpshooter, and I'm screaming. Bret never hurt anybody. Taking a thing to your back, even that was a surface thing and I pissed him off, so he did it. And then we get to this thing, and cut to me in a bar with people going, you know, who's right over there? Bret Hart's over there. I'm like, no, what? Oh, holy sh*t. Then we got a match the next day. Come on, we're doing this. We're doing the thing. But crazy for him to be like yeah that sounds cool, let’s do it!"
"They did it right because he got his just desserts for stepping in the ring, and that's what it should be. If someone comes into the ring, it should be [they get beat up]."
"So our thing is here's this big, goofy guy from Mad TV who's had this problem with Bret Hart. Now it's getting settled in the ring. You've got Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, and the greatest of all time Bobby Heenan, which that alone, having Bobby Heenan call [my match], just unbelievable. Someone was like, well maybe Will Sasso had some experience with wrestling, perhaps in high school. What do you mean? We're not detailing his high school wrestling career. He's in there with The Excellence of Execution. They’re just calling what they are calling. But I bet in the back of their heads they're like, Man, I hope he doesn't get a move on Bret. This is dumb. So Bret just kind of beats the sh*t out of me the whole time. And Brian wanted him to. He's like, maybe you just even take a chair like, Oh, is he gonna hit him with a f*cking chair now? Now he just puts the chair in the middle of the ring and drinks a bottle of water. I'm like, I love that. I might have even said it on the program here, so sorry if you've already heard this, but we go out there in the afternoon. He goes, Well, let's just go feel the ring out. He gave me a Russian Leg Sweep and then I went and took the ropes. I think we talked about this. I took the ropes the wrong way and I was like, f*ck. It's like that elevator cable from WCW. La Parka can jump off it. I go, okay. He's like, you know, you'll figure it out. You've watched this shit. I'm like, exactly I've watched this shit. What are you talking about? I haven’t been in there."
"He's built for it. He's such a natural heel. But also, you look at him, all the stuff he's ever done, you just remember as a kid on Vine he's jumping out of windows in college. He's already, like a beefy, athletic acrobatic dude. It's shocking to see the stuff that he can do. He's got that new finisher that looks crazy. To me, that's one of the coolest, weird things. You can't even call it a crossover because he's legit a professional wrestler. He's a guy who's like, I'm gonna do this. But also, the bulk of his sort of work, his existence right now is Impaulsive. So he does his show. It hasn't gotten in the way of that, it's made it better. He's a savant at it, and not for nothing, they say he's training with Shawn Michaels. So to have Shawn Michaels go here's how you do a kip up, kid."
"My wife, the new program that I am working on and the people I get to work with."
