Insight with Chris Van Vliet
Will Sasso Does Impressions Of Jesse Ventura, Scott Hall, Macho Man, Triple H, Ric Flair & MORE!
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: Who is Will Sasso and what are his famous impressions?
And I know that people know him for his Jesse Ventura impression. Us wrestling fans know all about his Jesse Ventura impression. But he also absolutely nails his Jake the Snake Roberts. He nails Scott Hall, Ric Flair. He also does a rare impression of British Bulldog. Like, who does a British Bulldog, right? Will Sasso does a British Bulldog. That's who.
And I'm sure you already know this, but he is a massive wrestling fan. So he gives us his thoughts on what the matches at WrestleMania might look like. He also talks about the match that he had with Bret Hart in WCW. Yeah, Will Sasso, the guy from MADtv, wrestled Bret Hart in an actual match on Nitro. Incredible. Snap a screenshot. Let us know you're with us on this one and tag us on social media.
He's at Will Sasso on Instagram. I'm at Chris Van Vliet. And are you ready? Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Mr. Will Sasso. I just got to say thank you for answering my FaceTime. Of course. But that day was so ridiculous. I bet. I'm with Jesse Ventura. Karrion Kross is there. He's doing Jesse Ventura for Jesse Ventura. Hey, should I FaceTime Will Sasso? He does the best Jesse Ventura.
Chapter 2: How did Will Sasso perform his Jesse Ventura impression for Jesse Ventura?
And he's like, who's that?
I don't know who that is. You'll have to educate me on who that is. How does he not know that you're doing these impressions of him? 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?
You know, I can't. 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 the lagoon i can bet 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 say so is or whatever you sasshole or whatever name only a proctologist could love would you stop a little mean jean in there yeah
He goes, I don't have a cell phone. I said, well, how are we supposed to reach you? Yeah. You're not.
Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. You're not supposed to reach me. I'll be down in the Baja riding my electric bike. You know, 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 bird.
That's not a tropical bird of any kind. That's not even a raven or a crow. That's a drone coming to kill me. So, no, I don't watch the American news. Oh, shit. Oh, my gosh. Sasso came on to just pull out a bunch of hack. Can you do that for five hours? You got it. Yes. It's the Jesse Ventura. You know what?
The thing to do would be to do the Jesse Ventura podcast because he's not here for six months.
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Chapter 3: What was Will Sasso's experience wrestling Bret Hart in WCW?
Chapter 4: How does Will Sasso perfect his celebrity impressions?
It was so funny when your face popped up on FaceTime. He's like, oh, hello, Will. That's right.
That's what I remember him going. Hello, which was like, uh, it is one of those things where I'm like, I don't like, I, I actually truly revered Jesse Ventura.
I love him.
I fuck, but I love that guy. And, and it's like, I don't want to break his balls on, you know what I'm saying? So when he's like, hello, well, I'm like, uh, let me get this hackneyed bullshit out and, you know, try not to fucking offend him. And yeah. Hi, hello me. How am I doing? And then it was, I, Were you in the studio going, let's wrap it up.
He's not, he's not going to, cause he's not going to go like zoom, zoom back and forth with you.
Well, what's funny is I had switched spots with carrying and carrying came in and I'm like, well, I guess I'll just sit in the middle of them, but now I'm not mic'd up. So it's strange. Like I'm watching them do this interview and I thought it would be like back and forth, back and forth, like this gag. Yeah. Instead, he's giving serious answers to carry his questions that were asked as Jesse.
And I'm like, these are actually really good stories. That's hilarious. But now what am I going to do? Like, so after, I don't know how many minutes it was. It felt like a long time. I was like, Well, thank you so much, Karrion. You are the man for doing this. And I'm like, get out of here because I don't know what's happening.
I also had to run out of the shot because Karrion's gigantic, much larger than me. And the shot was framed for me. So the very start of it, Karrion's head is like half cut off because that's huge. So I had to run out of the frame and zoom out. Okay, that looks good. And then run back into the frame. Yeah. Just a, yeah, whatever. I mean, but he's just larger than life from the moment he got there.
Yeah. He just has this, this presence about him. Sure. And we did the interview like an hour or two before that. Now,
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Chapter 5: What are Will Sasso's thoughts on Logan Paul and other celebrities in wrestling?
Chapter 6: How did Mad TV influence Will Sasso's career?
Can I sit behind Kieran Culkin? I don't have to beat man. Macaulay Culkin's. Oh, what a pop. What a pop. And he's like, got the hat and the whole thing. Yeah, that was fucking. He gets it.
Yeah. But isn't it amazing that Mad TV went off the air 2013?
Mad TV stayed on the air until 2009. You were on it till 02? I was on from 97 to 02, yeah.
So I love that it meant that much to so many people.
Well, some kids have had their minds warped by Mad TV at a very crucial age. Like they're like, I was one of them. Well, sure. And I'll always, you know, cause there was that sort of put the kids in front of the TVs before all the tablets and shit, people that, and you know, the, there's a lot of people that come up to me and they were like, yeah, dude, I was watching that when I was six.
Oh, I'm sorry. What were your parents up to? And yeah, they used to fight a lot. Dad wasn't around and mad TV raised me. Well, see you later. Um, Yeah. People are really, that show has always resonated with people in the weirdest way. And when I go back now and watch it, I'm like, like there's, there's no way we could get away with. Oh yeah. Got away with then was so insane.
And it was always look, mad TV always punched up. We, we never, you know, made fun of people. Uh, if, if, if we did make fun of, Well, if it was anyone in particular, it was always a celebrity. We always punched up. But it takes on social stuff and this and that. Some of it is obviously not for today. Comedy changes, our social views sort of collectively change.
You can make a case for none of it being hateful. But wow, when I go back, I'm like so...
so stoked that i got to do shit before anybody gave a fuck and i'll be like if anyone ever complains to me i'll be like there's a network signing off on this shit like sorry yeah oh by the way i was in my early 20s i didn't know what the fuck i was doing you know what i mean like what's the don't blame me what's the bid or who's the character people always talk to you about
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