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Late Night: Julie Bowen’s frighteningly good pelican impersonation

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Julie Bowen won an Emmy for playing high-strung mom Claire Dunphy on ‘Modern Family.’ Based on her appearance on Tuesday’s ‘Tonight Show,’ Bowen’s got a pretty good range.

The best thing about ‘The Tonight Show’ is that guests usually stick around for the whole hour. It gives the show a slightly more spontaneous vibe and often leads to amusingly incongruous celebrity pairings.

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Take last night, for instance.

Bowen was the first guest to grace Jay Leno’s couch, followed by animal trainer Dave Salmoni, who brought along an enormous pelican for a little show-and-tell. Leno had a bucketful of fish for the giant bird, but it was Bowen who got the pelican’s attention. In a moment of inspired improvisation, the gangly actress locked eyes with the bird and contorted her limbs to look like him: knocked knees, outspread arms, cocked head.

The pelican looked utterly mystified, but Leno’s audience lapped it up. See for yourself below.

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— Meredith Blake
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