Edwards in for '08– Frank King celebrates

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on December 28th, 2006

Standup comic Frank King, who bears a striking resemblance to ’04 vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, has at least another year to impersonate the former North Carolina senator for cash! Edwards announced that he’ll run for the White House in ’08 yesterday in New Orleans. (He was depicted in wire photos, appropriately enough, wielding a shovel!) King, whose website is notjohnedwards.com, is undoubtedly rooting for Edwards to avoid a rout in the early primaries and jumping on the opportunity with a press blitz.

“I have an enormous advantage as an impersonator,” King explains, “in that most people who are look-a-likes aren’t actually performers, much less comics. They can stand and wave, grip and grin, and maybe deliver a few canned one-liners as the person they resemble, but that’s it. I can do comedy, in character, and as the campaign progresses I’ll have more and more material.”