Looking for a Boris Johnson impression for an advert, promo, comedy web video, animation or piece of branded content?
I’m Darren Altman, a professional voiceover artist and celebrity impressionist with more than 25 years’ experience. I reached the live semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent performing celebrity impressions and record from my broadcast-quality London studio using a Neumann U87.
Every Boris-style voiceover is tailored to your script, production and audience, so let me know what you need and I’ll be happy to talk it through with you.
Boris Johnson’s hesitant starts, sudden changes of pace and unusual emphasis make his voice instantly recognisable.
I study those rhythms and mannerisms, then shape the performance around what your script actually needs. It can be relatively restrained or pushed further for comedy, with alternative takes provided where agreed.
Here are four examples of my Boris Johnson voice being used in very different commercial projects.
Bill’s Restaurants commissioned this Boris-style breaking news announcement as part of a playful promotional campaign.
It’s a good example of how the familiar pauses, changes of pace and slightly unruly delivery can be adapted to a client’s own message without losing the essence of the impression.
This project for LearnBox shows how the impression can work beyond a conventional advert.
The performance was created for an online learning company and demonstrates how a recognisable political voice can add humour and personality to educational, corporate or internal content.
For this project, I recorded the voice of Boris for a talking greeting card produced by Really Wild Cards.
It’s a completely different commercial application and a good example of how the impression can be written and performed for physical products, novelty items and short-form personalised messages.
My Boris Johnson impression is performed and recorded by me. It is not generated using an AI voice model and it is not presented as the real Boris Johnson.
A human performance gives producers much more control over comic timing, emphasis, pace and delivery. If a line needs to feel more hesitant, more pompous, more energetic or simply funnier, I can respond to that direction during the recording.
The service is intended for legitimate parody, entertainment and commercial productions. I do not claim any affiliation with or endorsement by Boris Johnson and the intended content and usage should always be agreed before recording.
One of the most unusual Boris Johnson projects I’ve worked on was created with Future Advocacy and artist Bill Posters.
I performed the voice and was filmed delivering the script so that my mouth movements could be matched accurately to the visual DeepFake process. Although the finished video used sophisticated visual technology, the voice was a human performance recorded by me rather than an AI-generated Boris Johnson voice.
The project demonstrated how convincing manipulated political videos could become and was featured by the BBC, which also filmed behind the scenes.
You can watch the finished film and find out how the performance was created in my full DeepFake Boris Johnson case study.
In this comedy parody, my Boris Johnson impression is used to give MasterChef a rather chaotic political makeover.
I record from my professional, acoustically treated voiceover studio in London using a Neumann U87 microphone.
You can direct the performance remotely using Source-Connect, Cleanfeed, Zoom or Microsoft Teams, or I can record independently from your brief and deliver the finished audio to you.
Files can be supplied clean and ready to use or as raw audio for your production team to edit. We can agree the format, delivery requirements and whether you need alternative takes before the session begins.
If you’re producing an advert, promo, video, animation or comedy project and need a professionally recorded Boris-style voice, send me the details, let me know the intended usage and where it will be going and I’ll let you know how I can help.