Tyson coaches Bush in King’s Speech spoof

Mar 03, 2011 |

Los Angeles

Mike Tyson played vocal coach to former US President George Bush Jr in a spoof of The King’s Speech which sees the boxing legend try to correct his student’s famed “Bushisms”.
The skit, which was aired during a special Oscar edition of Jimmy Kimmel’s US chat show, saw the former boxer helping a Bush lookalike get ready for an important public address, reported People magazine online.
Tyson recited lines from Hamlet with the doppelganger, massaged his jaw, rolled him along the floor and helped him perform voice exercises. His role in the skit, the President’s Speech, was a hilarious take on Geoffrey Rush’s Oscar-nominated part.
Tyson, 44, was filmed wearing a suit and hat and painting a watercolour, when he was approached to be Bush’s vocal coach. The ex-heavyweight champion repeatedly held his head in his hands as he watched the former US President fluff his lines during live broadcasts. “The worst delivery in the history of speeching,” he bellowed during one blunder.
But after some intensive training, which mimicked Rush’s scenes with Colin Firth in the King’s Speech, Tyson’s tactics worked. The former boxer stood in the sidelines, a tear trickling from his eye, as Bush got through an address unscathed.

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