A Chat w/ Surf Personality Imitator Tyler Allen | “I don’t need to be cool with everyone.”
Surf comedian / personality imitator Tyler Allen blew up when one of the Kook sites re-grammed his ‘surfing Donald Trump’ impersonation. But he’s no one-trick pony. Tyler has used his comedic skills to a full blown surf career even getting flown out to Hawaii multiple times a year to score some waves and make people laugh. Not bad.
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When he did one of his famed Trump impressions, someone sent it to the Instagram account @KookoftheDay, who shared the video. It went viral.
“I thought, well, I can do way more than that,” Allen adds. “Now it’s anyone I can think of that I can do a good skit.” And then Allen eventually nailed his Slater impression.
“I finally picked up on some of the nuances of Kelly’s voice. He’s stoked on the impression,” Allen explains. “I think.”
While the impressions are all in good fun, it’s hard to gauge how anyone will take them. Slater has even commented on a few of Allen’s videos.
“Then I met [Slater] at the Pipe Masters in December,” Allen recalls. “As he was heading out to a heat, he looked at me and said, ‘I’m going to win this for you, bro.’”
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