Everyone Wants This Austin Powers Impersonator to Play Their Birthday Party
Austin Powers: the ultimate gentleman spy. Irresistible to women, deadly to his enemies and the most in-demand feature for a birthday party since numbered candles.
The sad reality of growing older is that, with every passing year, your birthday becomes less and less of a cause for celebration and a larger source of dread as you continue to find more gray hairs in the mirror while waiting for your friends to RSVP to the Partiful invite. When we’re kids, our parents are (hopefully) in charge of making the day special, and they’ll hire a clown, a magician or a theater school graduate dressed as Spider-Man to play around with the kids and kill time until the pizza shows up.
But for all the magic we miss when we celebrate our birthdays as an adult, birthday entertainment is one area where grown-ups have the upper hand — after all, Austin Powers is notoriously PG-13.
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This week, Twitter exploded in excitement after a viral video showed a picture-perfect Austin Powers impersonator named Richard Halpern surprising a lucky twenty-something on his very shagadelic birthday:
From what we can gather, Halpern operates out of Los Angeles, so he’s likely only available to make West Coast birthday parties exceptionally groovy. However, given the Mini Cooper with the Union Jack painted on the roof, he’ll likely be willing to negotiate some sort of travel arrangement — so long as he doesn’t need to travel through time again. Halpern is also available for corporate events and trade shows, preferably ones that aren’t centered around laser sharks.
Halpern is also having a live chat on Instagram later today to celebrate his newfound fame playing the International Man of Mystery, and we just hope it doesn’t get crashed by any of his arch-nemesis impersonators.
Though Halpern doesn’t list any pricing information on his social media accounts, we can only assume that the rate has increased given the explosion in interest in his services. For all we know, his appearance fee may already be up to one. Million. Dollars!
