Hayley Joel Osment has been praised for parodying Republican vice president nominee JD Vance with some people claiming that the actor should be awarded an Emmy. Osment, who recently revealed that he maintained a close friendship with Bruce Willis after they finished filming The Sixth Sense , played Vance in a sketch for Jimmy Kimmel Live . The Boys and What We Do In The Shadows actor, now 36, imitated the Ohio senator’s infamous trip to a bakery in Georgia, where he awkwardly attempted small talk while ordering some donuts, which he later admitted was “terrible”.
On Wednesday’s edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live , the moment was resurrected, with Kimmel stating that the skit was a new ad campaign for Vance where he makes “his donut shopping a top priority”. “Hi. I’m Ohio Senator JD Vance,” Osment begins by saying.
“The mainstream media? They want you to think that I’m weird. They call me ‘creepy,’ ‘cringey,’ ‘awkward,’ that I give people something called ‘the ick.’ They want you to think that I can’t order a simple doornut — donut.
S**t. But that’s ridiculous.” The scene then goes on to recreate Vance’s interaction with the shop employee in an over-the-top fashion.
After telling her to “hold the pickles” on his donut order, Osment smashes through the glass on the counter to retrieve one of the treats. He then attempts to talk to other customers in the shop by asking one man “how long have you been Black?” and is then told by a.