Is this an art?! ! Can anyone do impressions?

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I can do:

pingu
a dolphin
Michael Jackson's(dancing, ok!)
Barney saying that bit from the simpsons-"don't cry for me i'm already dead"
any accent
There is more, my minds gone blank

and also if I hear something and copy it straight away, I can sometimes sound identical, I used to do it at school, mainly to teachers!

art? well if it sounds good then yes

I can mimic most accents if I have any exposure to them.

I do a perfect Mr. Burns from the Simpsons.

I can do my impression of...

a hot dog
Leslie Nielsen
Richard Mulligan (the guy from Soap and Empty Nest, but only because he sounds like Leslie Nielsen)
Johnny Olson (game show announcer)
Gene Wood (another game show announcer)
Alex Trebek
Tom Kennedy (game show host)
Mr. Burns
Smithers
Stewie (from Family Guy)
Eric Cartman
Mr. Mackey
Larry the Cable Guy
Jeff Foxworthy
Shin-Chan
William Shatner (when he was on Rescue 911)

I can do a few impressions. Some better than others. In fact, some are horrible and most I've forgotten.
The ones I've been doing lately are Jar-Jar Binks, Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Emperor Palpatine, Shaggy (the artist, not the character), Pingu (and other characters from the same show), Mr. Burns (accompanied by a less than perfect Smithers), and also a few announcer/trailer-type voices and such, plus a bunch of voices and accents that aren't connected to any particular characters.
I used to be able to do Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady, Michaelangelo (best as portrayed by Townsend Coleman, but I could also approximate Wayne Grayson's version to some extent) The Shredder (mainly as James Avery, but my Scottie Ray Shredder wasn't too far off either), Ted "Theodore" Logan (including body language), Wakko Warner, Pinky (the lab mouse), Bugs Bunny, Captain Kirk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Popeye, a few voices fron Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, a few muppets and a whole bunch of others I've forgotten. I can probably re-learn them if I just listen to them for a while.
I'm currently working on my Christopher Walken and Sean Connery, with varying results.

I can also do an awesome dalek, an alright C-3PO, a pretty good Marvin and a decent Jeltz if I'm allowed to use an effect box.

Also, I can approximate drum sounds and rhythms and various sound effects, such as turntable scratches.

I would, but being the perfectionist that I am, I would want to write them into some type of context first, like a comedy routine of some sort, but I'm just too lazy to have done that yet. Unless you count the Star Wars stuff, 'cause me and a friend have written dialogue for a planned edit-and-dub parody of the entire Phantom Menace movie, and we've gotten pretty far into Attack of the Clones aswell, but that whole project's gonna take a while to dub and edit and do foley and all that stuff, so I probably should just cobble something together for now, eh? I think I will. When I'm feeling less with the lazy. Or when inspiration hits me with a situation for a couple of characters to be in. Once I have an idea, I can usually elaborate on it in weird directions, but after sweating over a script for the past year I'm kind of dry on the idea front.
I mean, I guess the idea of Palpatine meeting Krang in an evil overlord bar and bonding over the incompetence of their respective b*****s right after Vader let the rebels blow up the Death Star and right after the Shredder got the Technodrome stuck in Dimention X for the 42nd time or something could be an idea for a sketch, but it doesn't really show off more than two voices (which, I might add, are slightly similar). (Whoa. Long sentence.) I guess I could use a flashback structure to have more characters, but that would be confusing without visuals. Anyway, I still feel I should be able to come up with a better idea. I don't think my Palpatine and Krang voices are all that good.