Forbes

During the 1992 presidential primaries, Florida real estate salesman Timothy Watters turned on the television and saw the then governor of Arkansas for the first time. "I saw this fellow who looked awfully like the the guy I shave each morning." Watters recalls. So the 37-year-old Watters got some silver hair dye--and an agent.

For $5,000 to $7,000 an appearance, Watters delivered Gennifer Flowers jokes for the opening of a Shop-Rite supermarket in Panama City, and pretended to inhale marijuana for the opening of a new high-rise office building in Hong Kong. Plus airfare, of course.

Booking up to 18 gigs a month, Watters has shown up as Bill Clinton at corporate meetings for Motorola, AT&T, Merck, and Ford--and regularly makes the rounds of TV talk shows. Watters figures he'll earn $500,000 this year and hopes to hit $1 million during next year's election campaign.

Former Florida real estate salesman Timothy Watters and Nashville housewife Elaine Kouba in their look-alike roles.