Maurice LaMarche returns (Animaniacs, Futurama, Disney)

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<v Speaker 3>Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
<v Speaker 3>Jim Cummings. We have a really great episode coming up
<v Speaker 3>for you today at Discussion with Maurice LaMarsh. But before
<v Speaker 3>we get into that, we just wanted to talk about
<v Speaker 3>last week's episode with Walter Jones. That was a good discussion.
<v Speaker 1>What a cool guy. Yeah, yeah, you know, I love
<v Speaker 1>that guy the Ranger. He is greased and ready to
<v Speaker 1>kick butt at a moment's notice.
<v Speaker 3>He really is just tune in ye and his story,
<v Speaker 3>his story about the missing finger. I just thought that
<v Speaker 3>was so so cool of him to be so vulnerable
<v Speaker 3>and share that story. You know, it was really interesting.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know. And he's he's a he's a hell
<v Speaker 1>of a guy. I've known him for a long time
<v Speaker 1>and he's interesting guy. And he's a great salsa dancer.
<v Speaker 1>What are you kidding? Yeah, yeah, true.
<v Speaker 3>Every time I see you've haut a convention, he's always
<v Speaker 3>I'll be like Walter usualing salsa dancing.
<v Speaker 1>Today he says, you know of a place?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and his hand or do you dance? Do you
<v Speaker 1>salsa dance? I don't think good? You know, And next
<v Speaker 1>thing they're dancing.
<v Speaker 5>So you gotta love this guy.
<v Speaker 3>He'll even have the music on at his table, dancing
<v Speaker 3>at the table.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm sitting there trying to do a shout out
<v Speaker 1>to somebody, but could you turn that down a little
<v Speaker 1>bit there, well just for a minute, you know. Great guy.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, have a great episode, and we hope you guys
<v Speaker 3>enjoy this one. We had a great conversation with Maurice
<v Speaker 3>Maurice today too. Maurice's yeah, and like we were saying,
<v Speaker 3>we were saying over on Patreon, you know, we didn't
<v Speaker 3>get to really get into it the first episode with
<v Speaker 3>Maurice Lamarsha. You guys have probably seen it. We interviewed
<v Speaker 3>him like, yeah, it was.
<v Speaker 1>Kind of truncated, a little bit smaller. We tried to
<v Speaker 1>squeeze it in.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because it was at a convention and some of
<v Speaker 3>those interviews or podcasts, I should say, on the road,
<v Speaker 3>they you know, people are a little tired after a
<v Speaker 3>little bit talking to hundreds of people and that'll do it.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's just it doesn't have the same quite flow
<v Speaker 1>and energy.
<v Speaker 3>That we're looking for when we whatever that is in
<v Speaker 3>the studio. So this is it works. Yeah, So this
<v Speaker 3>is a really good conversation with Maurice.
<v Speaker 1>Great guy, I mean, come on.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely absolutely, And a lot of things I didn't know
<v Speaker 3>about him, A lot of things I didn't know about
<v Speaker 3>him that came up in this episode, Like I never
<v Speaker 3>knew he wanted to, you know, be on camera and
<v Speaker 3>be the main comedian.
<v Speaker 1>You know, he did comedic circuit. I remember the first
<v Speaker 1>time I saw him. He wasn't in the room. He
<v Speaker 1>was on television and he was he was the handsome,
<v Speaker 1>dashing Fuji video tape guy. How about that? And he
<v Speaker 1>was doing a sort of a and he comes from
<v Speaker 1>the world of stand up that that was his former home.
<v Speaker 1>And he was pretty damn awesome and and he was
<v Speaker 1>the Fuji guy and he was just dashing, looking like
<v Speaker 1>a leading man. And they went from there to the Brain.
<v Speaker 1>Now he's taking over the world. That was my terrible
<v Speaker 1>brain impression. Sorry, mo, I feel bad. Now I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>go eat worms.
<v Speaker 3>But no, but we really think you guys will enjoy
<v Speaker 3>this episode. And some more guests coming up. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>we have Michael Rosenbaum coming up, Collin O'Shaughnessy. We just
<v Speaker 3>interviewed the other day, Mark meskim in Rolanda, Yes, ROLANDA
<v Speaker 3>Wattsonda Watts. I mean, a lot of great a lot
<v Speaker 3>of great interviews coming up for you guys, and more
<v Speaker 3>to come. We have plenty scheduled, so we hope you
<v Speaker 3>guys are enjoying the content. We're gonna get right into
<v Speaker 3>this Reese La Marsh episode, but before we do, Jim
<v Speaker 3>has some convention dates to announce.
<v Speaker 1>Just want to let you know, just in case you're
<v Speaker 1>in the neighborhood. Coming up this March twenty ninth and thirtieth,
<v Speaker 1>we will be at Anime Las Vegas. It's apparently it's
<v Speaker 1>in Las Vegas Anime. And April twelfth and thirteenth at
<v Speaker 1>Collecticon Chicago, that Toddle in town. And how about April
<v Speaker 1>eighteenth and twentieth, and that will be the amazing Ooh,
<v Speaker 1>I can almost read my own Amazing Art Expo. Where
<v Speaker 1>else would you have it but Phoenix, Arizona. That's April eighteen,
<v Speaker 1>twenty Amazing Art Expo Phoenix. The last, but not least,
<v Speaker 1>April twenty fifth through twenty seventh is going to be
<v Speaker 1>nostalgic on Denver, Denver, in the Mile High City. Every
<v Speaker 1>time I go there, when I accidentally jog, and I
<v Speaker 1>mean accidentally, I just go, oh am, I head, Oh
<v Speaker 1>that's right. I'm ten thousand feet in the air anyway,
<v Speaker 1>So don't do that. But I'll see you there, thank you. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever had alt tooth sickness? I think so. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I got altitude sickness once. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>It was terrible. It was like it felt like the
<v Speaker 3>worst hangover you've ever had in your life.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and your legs were not your friend. Oh no no.
<v Speaker 3>And I got it halfway down skiing and Big Bear
<v Speaker 3>skiing down the mountain halfway down.
<v Speaker 1>And all of a sudden, oh yeah, it was Oh yes.
<v Speaker 1>I remember my daughter Raleigh when she was like nine.
<v Speaker 1>She was we got out of the car and we
<v Speaker 1>were getting ready to go and it just started snowing.
<v Speaker 1>So she was running, having a great time because in California,
<v Speaker 1>you know, you got to go to a mountain to
<v Speaker 1>get some snow. And she started running and she goes,
<v Speaker 1>this is great, look at him, you know, and she
<v Speaker 1>was she was ready to ready to fall down. I said,
<v Speaker 1>it's okay, pawking, don't you don't want to run too
<v Speaker 1>much over here. You're you're not don't have as much air.
<v Speaker 1>So it was it was fun, but she learned. She's
<v Speaker 1>she's fine, by the way, yes, she's all right.
<v Speaker 3>Well, without further ado, I hope you guys enjoy this
<v Speaker 3>episode with Arese LaMarsh.
<v Speaker 5>The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it.
<v Speaker 5>I spent twenty times more for you people than any
<v Speaker 5>other commercial I've ever made.
<v Speaker 1>Your such bests.
<v Speaker 5>Now, what is it you want in your depths of
<v Speaker 5>your ignorance? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver
<v Speaker 5>it because I just don't see it.
<v Speaker 1>There was absolutely fun.
<v Speaker 5>It really was it isn't worth it. No money is
<v Speaker 5>worth it.
<v Speaker 1>Now it can start now, Jimmy, I feel like we're
<v Speaker 1>starting in the Tasmania Show, right, because that's how it started.
<v Speaker 5>Literal.
<v Speaker 1>Every sixty five episodes episode we have a little warm
<v Speaker 1>up with the Orson Wells. Yes, a recitation of the
<v Speaker 1>Orson Wells outtake, and Maryam Flynn would sit there and
<v Speaker 1>go how long do these go? A?
<v Speaker 5>You know, Mariam and I had never worked together before,
<v Speaker 5>so she didn't know what she was.
<v Speaker 1>She didn't know what she was in for. Well she
<v Speaker 1>does now.
<v Speaker 5>She was used to working with professional people.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but we showed her.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Your friend, oh Man, Phil Hartman was the very first
<v Speaker 5>voice on my answering machine in the morning my son
<v Speaker 5>Jonathan was born because we had the same agent at
<v Speaker 5>the time.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, he was actually.
<v Speaker 5>Up early to do a to do a link up
<v Speaker 5>with Al Franken to do those commercials they used to
<v Speaker 5>do together, and and uh Nina and as an old
<v Speaker 5>our agent at the time said, I just got a
<v Speaker 5>got a message from Moe that his son was born
<v Speaker 5>at three am. So it was like it was mighty Mo,
<v Speaker 5>it's Phil, You're a dad. What wonderful news? You know,
<v Speaker 5>I think I still have that microcasset some o the
<v Speaker 5>days of machines. Yeah, you answering machine. I remember those, Yes,
<v Speaker 5>I know, I just don't know if you're your audience. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>I remember the Brontosaurus in the background, right trumping through
<v Speaker 5>and they would always yeah, that's where he had that basket,
<v Speaker 5>and that's where he went and bought them from the
<v Speaker 5>caveman on the back. You bought the answering machines.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, oh man, oh man. Well I'm so glad you're here, buddy,
<v Speaker 1>thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for having me.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, thrilled anybody's interested in my little tale.
<v Speaker 1>Of Oh well, I think I think we qualify as interested. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>God bless I can. I can promise you that much.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, and I was thinking of, uh, just
<v Speaker 1>history mind yours, and they're pretty close, they're pretty yeah,
<v Speaker 1>on par with each other.
<v Speaker 5>We run, we run kind of neck and neck. I
<v Speaker 5>mean really, I was a comic first, yes, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 5>and uh and and you were a musician and also
<v Speaker 5>prior to that, you had your you know, your time
<v Speaker 5>in New Orleans where you're actually doing you know, working
<v Speaker 5>for a living.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, actually working. Yeah, and heavy objects.
<v Speaker 5>Well, we kinda yeah, I kind of came to this
<v Speaker 5>voiceover thing this way like I was going for it.
<v Speaker 5>I wasn't going I want to be a voice actor.
<v Speaker 1>Dot com plug there, d you. How did you find
<v Speaker 1>your way into it?
<v Speaker 5>This is the thing. I just kind of sidewaised my
<v Speaker 5>way into it. It was it was a well I had.
<v Speaker 5>I had a dip of the toe of my of
<v Speaker 5>my toe in the water in Canada. But right when
<v Speaker 5>I was about nineteen years old or just turned twenty,
<v Speaker 5>this company called Nelvana Films had had a oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>they'd had a big success nove animation. Yeah, and they
<v Speaker 5>had a big success with their very first special, and
<v Speaker 5>then they did something called Easter Fever where Garret Morris
<v Speaker 5>from SNL was playing the Easter Bunny, and obviously and
<v Speaker 5>yeah first choice. It was great, and they were the
<v Speaker 5>premise was the Easter Bunny was retiring. They were looking
<v Speaker 5>for another animal to replace him. Was going to be
<v Speaker 5>the Easter chicken, the Easter bat, but they were also
<v Speaker 5>having a roast for him, the Eastern Bat, the Easter bat.
<v Speaker 5>And I played Peter Easter bed here Thomas Peter Easter Bat,
<v Speaker 5>and and they were having a roast and they were
<v Speaker 5>having celebrities, you know, on the roast, and Don Rickles
<v Speaker 5>was a rattlesnake, Don Rattles. Steve Martin was a horse,
<v Speaker 5>Steve Martin. But it wasn't them, it was me. They
<v Speaker 5>came and saw my act at the comedy club which
<v Speaker 5>was called Yuck Yucks Comedy Cabaret, and yu was it
<v Speaker 5>a Vancouver No? No, that that's the offcouver in Toronto
<v Speaker 5>on Bay Street, Mark Breslin's.
<v Speaker 3>And they closed down the one in Vancouver, now did they? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I'm sorry, sorry that got me exciting. Yeah, I played
<v Speaker 3>I played that Yuck Yucks in that time. But but
<v Speaker 3>they this this woman, Arlene Perman, who was the casting director,
<v Speaker 3>saw me.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, it's funny.
<v Speaker 5>All my discoverers are women my career to wonderful women
<v Speaker 5>who saw something in me. And this woman, Arlene Perman
<v Speaker 5>saw me do my act and then you know, she
<v Speaker 5>saw the impressions I did and they kind of wrote
<v Speaker 5>around it a little bit, and I came in and
<v Speaker 5>did my first voice over there at nineteen or twenty
<v Speaker 5>years old, and it would like, you do you must
<v Speaker 5>have felt this great first time you saw your voice.
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, come out of him like saw and heard
<v Speaker 5>come out of an animated mouth the way you heard
<v Speaker 5>Fred Flintstone when you were a kid, right, and you
<v Speaker 5>didn't imagine it was a real person there. And then
<v Speaker 5>you saw you know, Alan Reid in an episode of
<v Speaker 5>the Beverly Hillbillies, and you go, why is his voice
<v Speaker 5>sound so familiar?
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, you know, I'm true.
<v Speaker 5>Isn't that that's really that's who Fred Flintstone really is?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, you know.
<v Speaker 5>And I had that that that that moment of lifting
<v Speaker 5>of going this is like the closest thing the magic
<v Speaker 5>I'll ever experience. Yes, as a cartoon character. And then
<v Speaker 5>nothing happened For five years. I moved here, did stand
<v Speaker 5>up at the comedy store. We got very lucky to
<v Speaker 5>follow Rodney Dagerfield around and be his opening act for
<v Speaker 5>a year and a half.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 5>And you know, it was a real education. And he
<v Speaker 5>was great. He was he was He wasn't like, you know,
<v Speaker 5>mister positivity anything like that.
<v Speaker 1>He really keyed you into the reality show business. And
<v Speaker 1>you know, because he'd be like, yeah, man, I'll tell
<v Speaker 1>you what. Man, as long as I'll tell you what
<v Speaker 1>you put asses in seats, you can you can go
<v Speaker 1>to you can sleep with the chamber of commerces and daughters,
<v Speaker 1>all of them. And they love you, man, they love
<v Speaker 1>you because you're bringing money in, you know. And he just.
<v Speaker 5>Had like little little family life lessons like that for
<v Speaker 5>this naive young guy from Toronto. Jim carrying me both
<v Speaker 5>were like his his proteges. He took much more to
<v Speaker 5>Jim and really stayed in touch with Jim all the
<v Speaker 5>way to the end. But uh, you know, he's doing well.
<v Speaker 5>I heard Jim is great. Yeah, Jim just doing all right.
<v Speaker 5>This voice of this, Actually he didn't. He almost ended
<v Speaker 5>up in voice over. The best thing that could happen
<v Speaker 5>to him, oh was that he didn't end up on
<v Speaker 5>Inspector Gadget.
<v Speaker 1>And he also didn't end up bunkers on Bonkers.
<v Speaker 5>Oh they was he up for Bonkers?
<v Speaker 1>He was up for I it was.
<v Speaker 5>I'll tell you.
<v Speaker 1>I'll have to throw this out there. I hope I
<v Speaker 1>didn't repeat this too much, but uh, this is back
<v Speaker 1>right after Rodger Rabbit was.
<v Speaker 5>And what's that I was on it? Oh yeah, I
<v Speaker 5>was in.
<v Speaker 1>I was I had a whole bunch of I was
<v Speaker 1>a weasel and oh we spent the whole night in
<v Speaker 1>Griffith Park, me and and Bob Hoskins getting to know
<v Speaker 1>each other and hanging out. They cut the whole damn thing,
<v Speaker 1>but I was they kept bullet number two and uh
<v Speaker 1>and yosebody Sam's gun right right yo, he said, you know,
<v Speaker 1>so I ended up in it and but but yeah
<v Speaker 1>it was great and uh and I forgot where I
<v Speaker 1>was going with because that was that was the theory
<v Speaker 1>that there was a real world, a cartoon world where
<v Speaker 1>Lockers may have may have missed the mark. Is he
<v Speaker 1>tried to show us the real world.
<v Speaker 5>Drawn and that you know you're going, but that's not
<v Speaker 5>there drawn.
<v Speaker 1>It's just there.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it was.
<v Speaker 1>It was the thing is after ridiculous. We had so
<v Speaker 1>many callbacks they had to pay us because they had
<v Speaker 1>like literally like Hunter rids of people auditioned. And the
<v Speaker 1>last three were Matt oh gosh, uh, Max Headroom, Matt Frere. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>all there you go, and Jim Carrey and me and
<v Speaker 1>he and we're all sitting there looking at each other
<v Speaker 1>and Jim sitting there, you know, and he was on
<v Speaker 1>he was on television. He was a big star, was
<v Speaker 1>already on TV at that point. Yeah, he was there,
<v Speaker 1>he was ready to kick butt, and he went in first,
<v Speaker 1>Jim Carrey carry so he goes in. This won't take long.
<v Speaker 1>And he goes in and obviously he did whatever it
<v Speaker 1>is he did, and he comes out and he reaches over,
<v Speaker 1>grabs his suitcase and goes, gentlemen, you made and then
<v Speaker 1>he walked away.
<v Speaker 5>But I know Jim would have said that, you know,
<v Speaker 5>archly and then and then to meet experience.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, it was fun. It was It was a joke.
<v Speaker 1>It was a joke. And then I kicked his ass.
<v Speaker 5>Here you go. Well, Towny Coleman, our pale Towny Coleman
<v Speaker 5>beat him out for the part of Corporal cape Man,
<v Speaker 5>a new character they added to the second season of
<v Speaker 5>Inspector Gadget way through as like a young sidekick and
<v Speaker 5>it and Marcia Goodman another of my there you got
<v Speaker 5>another woman who I was going to my discoverer in
<v Speaker 5>his and Old's first agent to take me on. Marcia
<v Speaker 5>Goodman put me in Gadget and Real Ghostbusters and just
<v Speaker 5>about everything deep did I owe that woman in my career?
<v Speaker 5>And and but she said, you know, it came down
<v Speaker 5>to Towny and Jim carrying. And you know, if Jim
<v Speaker 5>had gotten like two comfortable and voiceovers. He might never
<v Speaker 5>have gone after the on camera thing as hard. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>and he went hard and and he you know, he
<v Speaker 5>God bless them, he just really took off. Yeah. I mean,
<v Speaker 5>it's been an amazing ride for him. But I've you know,
<v Speaker 5>we've all had amazing rides. If you're keeping your head
<v Speaker 5>above water in this business, if you're you know, paying
<v Speaker 5>all your bills by doing some form of entertainment, you're
<v Speaker 5>a winner. Then it's only degrees of the one percent. Oh,
<v Speaker 5>I agree, So I not agree more. Yeah, So I mean,
<v Speaker 5>I I'm I'm I'm ever so grateful that this thing
<v Speaker 5>found me because I was going for the stand up
<v Speaker 5>comedy and I was going for the you know, the sitcom.
<v Speaker 1>I remember my name in the title. I remember well,
<v Speaker 1>the first time I saw Marshfeld. Everybody tolerates, Mo. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>you know these are going to be the show it tolerates.
<v Speaker 1>But the first time I saw you, you weren't in
<v Speaker 1>the room. You were on a television and you were
<v Speaker 1>selling me Fuji video cassettes. Video cassettes, well, folks, for
<v Speaker 1>you kids that don't know what those are anyway, uh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and Mo, you were touting them and you were, you
<v Speaker 1>were going, you were going, and you were dashing and
<v Speaker 1>you mister Lee eating man and it was it was.
<v Speaker 5>The premise was that it was a stand up comic
<v Speaker 5>in front of a brick wall, but it happened to
<v Speaker 5>be the Fuji Comedy Club had the Fuji We're still
<v Speaker 5>the logo that they have. And you know, I'm just
<v Speaker 5>standing there talking to a comedy club full of people
<v Speaker 5>and doing rapid fire impressions as though I'm like a
<v Speaker 5>channel changer, you know, You're just going from one channel
<v Speaker 5>to the other. I'm Scottie Captain.
<v Speaker 1>I'm giving it both power and they're still holding together.
<v Speaker 1>Oh it's a demanding job, you know.
<v Speaker 5>And I'm just cutting, cutting back and forth with characters
<v Speaker 5>rapid fire. And that that commercial series of commercials want
<v Speaker 5>of Cleio. I didn't but the but the it won
<v Speaker 5>it for the ad agency. Well, I think Federico and Einstein,
<v Speaker 5>which I don't think is you were you were a
<v Speaker 5>little instrumental, I dare say, well, you know, I mean
<v Speaker 5>it was a cattle call. They told me they read
<v Speaker 5>over three hundred comics, and I remember going to the
<v Speaker 5>thing and Saggot and cool Ya were coming out of
<v Speaker 5>the out of it.
<v Speaker 1>Bob Sagon and Dave, Bob and Dave.
<v Speaker 5>We're coming out and and so I mean, I was like,
<v Speaker 5>I don't know, I shot these guys are more famous
<v Speaker 5>than me. Oh yeah, you know. But I ended up
<v Speaker 5>with it. And that was that was an amazing little
<v Speaker 5>little run. And then I lost it. I lost it
<v Speaker 5>by being too generous. My manager said, oh, I was
<v Speaker 5>opening for George Carlin, Wow in Vegas. And there was
<v Speaker 5>a big you know whatever, the said sperience timed in
<v Speaker 5>at a very tight twenty two minutes. Oh, it's perfect
<v Speaker 5>for an opening act in Vegas. And and so I'm
<v Speaker 5>opening and and then, you know, it used to be
<v Speaker 5>it was always be a music act in a comedy acted.
<v Speaker 5>They never the Twain shall meet. But Joan Rivers and
<v Speaker 5>David brenn Are changed that by going out as a double.
<v Speaker 5>They would flip to see who went on first. So
<v Speaker 5>they had any building and they would flip, and all
<v Speaker 5>of a sudden they went, you know what, comedy opening
<v Speaker 5>for comedy works. So I opened for Rodney Is. I
<v Speaker 5>told you that with that, and then and then I
<v Speaker 5>got it. I got the gig opening for George Carlin.
<v Speaker 5>And my manager said you know, all the Fuji people
<v Speaker 5>are in Town's a big advertising uh convention in Vegas.
<v Speaker 5>Let's invite them to come out and see you. So
<v Speaker 5>you know, you know, my contract was up for renewal.
<v Speaker 5>Let's keep the good feelings flowing. They come out to
<v Speaker 5>the show I opened for George, George goes on and
<v Speaker 5>the next thing I know, George Carlin is the new
<v Speaker 5>spokesman for Fuji Video tape because.
<v Speaker 1>They're there there.
<v Speaker 5>Their tagline was put the good stuff on the good stuff.
<v Speaker 5>That was what it was in my commercials. So then
<v Speaker 5>now the new commercials are George going, hey man, we
<v Speaker 5>all got our stuff. We love to have videotape. Put
<v Speaker 5>the good stuff on the good stuff man, Fuji videotape.
<v Speaker 5>And was like, why did they have to because you know,
<v Speaker 5>one of them, the creative stat went.
<v Speaker 1>Stuff, that's right, that's all. That's a shtick.
<v Speaker 5>We forget the forget the impressionist guy Carlin. Yeah, let's
<v Speaker 5>so that was But that was that was again a
<v Speaker 5>nice little running and no bitterness there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, hardly at all. Hey, there you go. If
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<v Speaker 1>Cummings podcast Do It Now?
<v Speaker 3>Was this before or after the All Night Show? Because
<v Speaker 3>the premise for them Night Show kind of sounds similar.
<v Speaker 3>You know you were doing the Yeah, no, it was
<v Speaker 3>totally different than the All Night Show. But I'm amazed, boy,
<v Speaker 3>that's that's like the that's the thing we go. How
<v Speaker 3>the hell do you know about the All Night Show?
<v Speaker 3>That was another thing Jim.
<v Speaker 5>Carrey and I shared, we think we would do the
<v Speaker 5>lipovers they before. Conan O'Brien did lipovers Chasluthor and Jeff
<v Speaker 5>Silverman in Toronto at a little station called Channel forty
<v Speaker 5>seven pretty much gave us what Nick and Knight now
<v Speaker 5>is TV stations kids. I know you'll find this hard
<v Speaker 5>to believe. Yes, actually went off the air, sometimes at
<v Speaker 5>mid night, sometimes at won but it would just they'd
<v Speaker 5>give you the national anthem and then you just see
<v Speaker 5>what they called a test pattern and a tone. Yes,
<v Speaker 5>and that was to wake you up in case, did
<v Speaker 5>you guys have a TV on?
<v Speaker 1>Did you guys have what what was your picture?
<v Speaker 5>What was the Indian? Or you did Canadians had the Indian? Okay,
<v Speaker 5>well curious just not to ask. Yeah, the native American?
<v Speaker 5>What's the picture of American? It's it's like it's like
<v Speaker 5>a concentric circle or or target and then American or something.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was, but it was just and that was
<v Speaker 1>the way.
<v Speaker 5>That's what you had to focus, you know, at the
<v Speaker 5>station to make sure that the signal was transmitting a
<v Speaker 5>bunch of fine lines in it. And that's what you
<v Speaker 5>got from, you know, two to six a m. When
<v Speaker 5>the Far Show came on. So we had so we
<v Speaker 5>had this. So Jeff Silverman, entrepreneur that he was, he
<v Speaker 5>thought about, what if we did an all night show
<v Speaker 5>and the premise was the security guard who's got the
<v Speaker 5>overnight show, decides to flip the switch back on and
<v Speaker 5>put on old Dick Van Dyke shows and old Outer
<v Speaker 5>Limits shows and old Alfred Hitchcocks with little linkups in
<v Speaker 5>the control room in his wonderful stand up comedian and
<v Speaker 5>improviser named Chas Lawther who did this? Uh, And it
<v Speaker 5>was because it did require a lot of improvisation, and
<v Speaker 5>he would literally do the show all night dressed as
<v Speaker 5>Chuck the security guard. And we had these little wonderful blackouts,
<v Speaker 5>and one of them was the lipovers. We take a
<v Speaker 5>still of Peter Falk and then they do a chiron
<v Speaker 5>or whatever and black out his lips and I'd be
<v Speaker 5>on a separate camera cletch card the clutch cargo effect share.
<v Speaker 5>I don't know about you, but I didn't Chunk the
<v Speaker 5>security God's doing a great job, you know.
<v Speaker 1>And it would be the effect would be, oh my god.
<v Speaker 5>I mean, if you could keep your head stocked still,
<v Speaker 5>that was the yes, less even less than the impression,
<v Speaker 5>so that you didn't have a mouth moving around.
<v Speaker 1>Right right, That's that's one of the first things I
<v Speaker 1>remember about you. We were over at the old B
<v Speaker 1>and B, right and you were sitting there. We both
<v Speaker 1>had black hair and uh and you and there was
<v Speaker 1>something over it and somebody had encouraged I just walked
<v Speaker 1>in on it, and next thing I know, you're you're
<v Speaker 1>sitting there and you're doing the eye and it's and
<v Speaker 1>the next thing there's Peter Falk. I can't do it,
<v Speaker 1>and and I'm going the hell is this guy? And
<v Speaker 1>you were just slaying everybody in the room. It was like,
<v Speaker 1>people are going.
<v Speaker 5>Well that was the ten years of stand up. That was,
<v Speaker 5>you know, you know stand up really you know, was
<v Speaker 5>you know, a training ground on the timing for me
<v Speaker 5>to bring it into into cartoons, because I got to
<v Speaker 5>do a lot of you know, the funny Hajak cartoons,
<v Speaker 5>you know, as opposed to the toy commercial cartoons or
<v Speaker 5>the I was just talking to my my my agent
<v Speaker 5>Natanya today about like, I'd love to do a Batman.
<v Speaker 5>I'd love to do you know, some of the superhero
<v Speaker 5>stuff coming out, and that you know, is it that
<v Speaker 5>they only think of me as a stickmeister, as a
<v Speaker 5>comedy guy. And you know she's going, no, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 5>and she's She's right. I have read for those things.
<v Speaker 5>I just can't seem to click with the straight stuff.
<v Speaker 5>So you know, I that's that's my that's on my
<v Speaker 5>wish list casting directors, So maybe tuning in up. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>I want to be serious.
<v Speaker 1>Well, they all watched this, you know that. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they're all riveted as we speak.
<v Speaker 5>As we speak, they're casting directors all over Rivet, Rivet, Violind, Avenue, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, oh man, oh man.
<v Speaker 3>So it seems like impersonations and impressions have been a
<v Speaker 3>big part of your career now, yes, because you've got
<v Speaker 3>to do a lot of impression. I hate myself on
<v Speaker 3>the critic as well. Oh the critic, Yeah, critic was
<v Speaker 3>got to do a lot. Talk about talk about doing
<v Speaker 3>I mean brilliant writing. The critic was, uh, you know,
<v Speaker 3>like doing rep theater. I got to play so many
<v Speaker 3>people in one episode. I mean there's one episode and
<v Speaker 3>they got played twenty nine people, you know, celebrities, street
<v Speaker 3>street characters. Because it takes place in New York.
<v Speaker 1>Good Chang for multiple Do you want to interrupt you?
<v Speaker 1>But Chang, you always wanted a multiple of three too. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and you're only looking for three yeah, four.
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, yeah, the four it doubles, yeah, and then
<v Speaker 5>and then but but but at six they get it
<v Speaker 5>for the same price as four. But if you go
<v Speaker 5>to seven, then it triples. You know. It's like and
<v Speaker 5>you went to eleven, I would go to eleven most
<v Speaker 5>episodes to bloody eleven. So, oh, by the way, what's
<v Speaker 5>the language thing on this? We were keeping the language
<v Speaker 5>It goes it's fluctuates, fluctuates, do you bleep or no?
<v Speaker 5>So if I let's let uh yes, and that.
<v Speaker 1>Bomb go or there's been bombs there's like that.
<v Speaker 5>What about what about a what about a p bomb?
<v Speaker 1>Like if I say poopoo?
<v Speaker 5>Is that going to be bad?
<v Speaker 3>We might have to these days, all right, we might
<v Speaker 3>have to beat that one.
<v Speaker 5>Was amazing getting to work. I mean, you know, I
<v Speaker 5>grew up watching Taxi Mary Tyler Moore and there was
<v Speaker 5>always this laugh from the studio audience that sounded.
<v Speaker 1>Like this ah ah.
<v Speaker 5>Oh, and that was the laugh of Jim Brooks, James L. Brooks,
<v Speaker 5>who was the co creator of these shows and the
<v Speaker 5>executive producer. And suddenly I'm sitting there and together we
<v Speaker 5>did our table read, first table read for the critic
<v Speaker 5>and uh, I let let go with whatever the impression was.
<v Speaker 5>Did the line and I hear, ah.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, I'm making like the leg and laugh
<v Speaker 1>the guy from television, you know.
<v Speaker 5>And and so get to work on with that writing
<v Speaker 5>staff Judd Apatow. Judd Apatow was on the writing staff there,
<v Speaker 5>Patrick Varone, head of head of the uh, head of
<v Speaker 5>the writer you know, SUTURE, President of the Writers Guild,
<v Speaker 5>Steve Levitat creating a creative modern family. These guys were all,
<v Speaker 5>you know, our our writing stuff. Not to mention Mike
<v Speaker 5>Reese and Algeen who co created the show, and Aljean
<v Speaker 5>is still on this, so is Mike you know, on
<v Speaker 5>the Simpsons. So you know, getting getting to perform great writing,
<v Speaker 5>it was. It has been a really beautiful thing. And
<v Speaker 5>to be so many characters for those people, Yeah, no
<v Speaker 5>hand to work with John lovetts Love, it's is uh
<v Speaker 5>just so free flowing and so I mean so in
<v Speaker 5>you know, in his in his sense of play with
<v Speaker 5>the character and being just just you know, just being
<v Speaker 5>the funny guy. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say he seems like he'd be a
<v Speaker 1>funny guy in person.
<v Speaker 5>He is, and yet he's not, you know, he's not
<v Speaker 5>like always on on Yeah, but he has just he
<v Speaker 5>vibrates it funny. So even when he's kind of being serious,
<v Speaker 5>you can you can you can get there's some humor
<v Speaker 5>there in that fourth string of well, you know, I
<v Speaker 5>do watch funny you should ask, and he's he just
<v Speaker 5>kills it. Yeah, he's great, he really does. And he
<v Speaker 5>took me under his wing, and you know, so we
<v Speaker 5>we would we would go to we would go to
<v Speaker 5>McDonald's afterwards, and he'd get recognized, you know, while we're
<v Speaker 5>in McDonald's and and he go, well, Maurice, that's what
<v Speaker 5>fame is.
<v Speaker 1>Still want it?
<v Speaker 5>You still want it? Fame means interrupted dinners. That's that's
<v Speaker 5>really what fame is. You know, I don't I don't
<v Speaker 5>mind my anonymity in this business quite so much. Turn
<v Speaker 5>that camera off. I don't want people knowing what I
<v Speaker 5>look like that bothering me in McDonald's.
<v Speaker 1>Do you have a favorite impression to do? Oh?
<v Speaker 5>I love doing orson Wells. We've we've already covered that.
<v Speaker 1>Or did we Did we get it? Though? You got it?
<v Speaker 5>I think you got it where we were? We you
<v Speaker 5>were rolling? Are you gonna cut in and you're gonna
<v Speaker 5>come in in the middle of that? Is that how
<v Speaker 5>we're going to start?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's gonna Coverdy Oilson, would you you know? Sorry?
<v Speaker 5>Go ahead around and I have no more time. You
<v Speaker 5>don't know what I'm up against because it's full of
<v Speaker 5>things that are only correct because they're grammatical, but they're
<v Speaker 5>tough on the ear. You see, this is a very
<v Speaker 5>wearying one. I'm pleasant to read. Oh God rewarding.
<v Speaker 1>You know you one of my favorite things that we've
<v Speaker 1>done together out of the eight million. And I want
<v Speaker 1>to say it was I think it was an animated accent.
<v Speaker 1>It was well picking the brain, so right where brain
<v Speaker 1>meets Orson Wells, Brain and Orson Wells run into it.
<v Speaker 5>In the same room. Yeah, it's one of those anachronistic
<v Speaker 5>episodes where it takes place in the forties.
<v Speaker 1>It was so, it was wonderful and I got to
<v Speaker 1>play Orson or the he was of course brain.
<v Speaker 5>And brain sounds like.
<v Speaker 1>Sure for sure. I can remember. We we sort of
<v Speaker 1>noticed it. We came into each other's radar ether or whatever,
<v Speaker 1>and I ended up having wanting to meet this I
<v Speaker 1>want to hear. So it was, well, a little there,
<v Speaker 1>my little friend wales Orson.
<v Speaker 5>And you said brain the and then we both said
<v Speaker 5>one day we'll show them one day we over the world.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I think we just did it again. That's
<v Speaker 1>great And you were there, ladies and gentlemen.
<v Speaker 3>I love those little easter eggs that animation tends to
<v Speaker 3>do I think more than well not even more, but
<v Speaker 3>in a different way than live action. You know, they'll
<v Speaker 3>have little easter eggs of you know, cameos and stuff
<v Speaker 3>in live action but I love There was one and
<v Speaker 3>I think it was an episode of Bonkers that it
<v Speaker 3>was like a concert anyway, And uh, one of the
<v Speaker 3>announcers he's reading off like the list of nominees, you know,
<v Speaker 3>he's reading off the list of nominees and awards show,
<v Speaker 3>and one of them is Jim Goings and oh yeah,
<v Speaker 3>just cracks me up how they put these little things.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, I got Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>There's an episode of Futurama where where U Bender goes
<v Speaker 5>into hiding.
<v Speaker 1>He's on the run from the Robot mafia, and he
<v Speaker 1>goes to US.
<v Speaker 5>So so the gang goes to the moon and it
<v Speaker 5>turns out Bender has a doppel ganger on the moon.
<v Speaker 1>H Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>And and but they think that Bender's like this is
<v Speaker 5>where he's in the witness protection program, so they keep
<v Speaker 5>going Bender, it's us and and and so that's pretty
<v Speaker 5>good and and and and Bender goes and I don't
<v Speaker 5>do a good Bender, nor a good Fry, but he goes,
<v Speaker 5>he goes.
<v Speaker 1>Bender, I don't know Bender. My name's Billy West.
<v Speaker 5>And then Fry play Bablais goes Billy West. What a
<v Speaker 5>stupid made up name?
<v Speaker 2>You know?
<v Speaker 1>That was? That was a good one, Yes, it was.
<v Speaker 1>They were both good. That's funny. Watch his ass. That's right,
<v Speaker 1>to watch your ass. Such a great show. You played
<v Speaker 1>so many characters on that show. Huh.
<v Speaker 5>I've been lucky to somebody with a lot more time
<v Speaker 5>on his hands than me counted all the characters that
<v Speaker 5>people played on Futurama. Oh and this was still what
<v Speaker 5>it was its first run. They were characters added, but
<v Speaker 5>they counted the abillity had done like fifty four. Mmm.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 5>Plus he's carrying the weight of the show. He's playing
<v Speaker 5>you know, the three Yeah, the three of the characters
<v Speaker 5>that are in the main family of the show, the
<v Speaker 5>Chosen family, the workplace family family of the show. But
<v Speaker 5>I I with my you know, tertiary and secondary characters.
<v Speaker 5>I had a count of seventy two characters that were
<v Speaker 5>either one off or trust with Neil seventy four. No kid, Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>she's the most prolific performance. Well, she's stressed, she's tressed.
<v Speaker 1>She isn't, she isn't. You don't even necessary her last name.
<v Speaker 1>That's how you know.
<v Speaker 3>Your So that means there's been almost two hundred Futurama
<v Speaker 3>character voices on this podcast.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, all three of you have been on it. Wow,
<v Speaker 1>you have trust? I missed that episode. Yeah, I will
<v Speaker 1>go back for it. Coming to a You've got trust
<v Speaker 1>leave her house. That's pretty impressive. Again you are you,
<v Speaker 1>you know? But yeah, good stuff, good stuff. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>So yeah, the Futurama has been a wonderful, wonderful ride.
<v Speaker 5>And getting to work with everybody associated with that show,
<v Speaker 5>some of whom came over from the critic days.
<v Speaker 1>Uh.
<v Speaker 5>And of course, you know, getting to know Matt and
<v Speaker 5>getting to work for Matt Groening, who's a genius is
<v Speaker 5>unbeliever and not to mention Billy and Dave Herman and
<v Speaker 5>John Demaggio and Katie Sagal and our beloved tress and
<v Speaker 5>and Lauren tom and oh sure. I mean these are
<v Speaker 5>all a list people in your business and and some
<v Speaker 5>beyond our business, you know. Yeah, I mean that, you know,
<v Speaker 5>to get that core, that much of a core cast
<v Speaker 5>of great people.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's beautiful.
<v Speaker 5>It's playing it's plaining jazz, it's playing jazz with the best.
<v Speaker 3>Speaking of crazy cast, I was, you know, just perusing
<v Speaker 3>through your career and transfer the original Animated Transformers had
<v Speaker 3>another just huge lineup, huge lineup of voice actors from
<v Speaker 3>that I mean both of you obviously, yah, both of you.
<v Speaker 5>And I was in the very last episode I got
<v Speaker 5>that's called one episode. They created this character called six Gun,
<v Speaker 5>kind of a Yosemite Sam but really serious character, you know, voice,
<v Speaker 5>and that's that was it. That was my one flirtation
<v Speaker 5>with the original transfer. Yeah, in and out. Yeah yeah,
<v Speaker 5>but that's a nice little feather. I snuck into a
<v Speaker 5>few of those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's there's a whole
<v Speaker 5>con involved with that called Botkan where that's all they
<v Speaker 5>want to know about is transformer stuff?
<v Speaker 1>Is that so? Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>Never heard of that one pod con.
<v Speaker 1>So many conventions these days. They have conventions for everything,
<v Speaker 1>for everything.
<v Speaker 5>Literally, and you know, I mean you could one could
<v Speaker 5>literally carve out a second career doing cons.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wait a second, I have been too late. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think I'm already there. You are too.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>The thing that blows my mind at conventions is when
<v Speaker 3>you see some of the guests are CAUSE players, I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>whoa wait what theyre?
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Sometimes in the lineup of the guests at the conventions,
<v Speaker 3>there's so and so, Cause.
<v Speaker 5>There's gradations, there's echelons, and there are some of these
<v Speaker 5>CAUSE players who achieve a level of artistry that they
<v Speaker 5>deserve to there and have their own booth and people,
<v Speaker 5>you know, I mean, and then there's people you know,
<v Speaker 5>like you know, tape a you know, tape a picture
<v Speaker 5>of the brain to their forehead, you know that they
<v Speaker 5>drew on a napkin. And then the Peter Griffin guy there. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>the Peter Griffin guy.
<v Speaker 1>He's that's amazing, that's totally amazing.
<v Speaker 5>I know he is. It's like genetically he was programmed
<v Speaker 5>to look like a character he has drawn. Yeah, forty
<v Speaker 5>years after till forty years after his birth. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 5>mean or whatever. I am sure he's and he's younger
<v Speaker 5>than that, but I mean, come.
<v Speaker 1>On, that was Yeah. I met him a couple of
<v Speaker 1>times and then you go, wow, Hi, you know got
<v Speaker 1>the boys down too.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that's the beauty of it. Yeah, yeah, the voice down.
<v Speaker 1>Oh god, if.
<v Speaker 5>They ever do Family Guy the musical, I mean, it's
<v Speaker 5>it goes to him.
<v Speaker 1>No, they're going to go to like Jonah Hill or something.
<v Speaker 5>Just don't have to regain all his weight. He's done.
<v Speaker 1>Well, he's that's true, that's true, he has, he has.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you enjoy these conventions that we do. I do.
<v Speaker 5>I do invariably. I mean I enjoy from you know,
<v Speaker 5>from the second I sit down in the chair, everything
<v Speaker 5>leading up to that, the flight, it's the airport, the yeah,
<v Speaker 5>you know, the you know packing of the luggage. Did
<v Speaker 5>I bring enough pictures? It's the guy here there to
<v Speaker 5>drive us. You know, where is the guy why here
<v Speaker 5>to drive us?
<v Speaker 1>All that stuff. That's that's what I feel like, that's what.
<v Speaker 5>I get paid for for that stuff. Once I sit
<v Speaker 5>down at my booth and start meeting people, then then
<v Speaker 5>then that that's the fun part.
<v Speaker 1>Then you're good to go. I'm good to go. I
<v Speaker 1>love that.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have to agree. I have to
<v Speaker 5>agree and invariable.
<v Speaker 1>You know this.
<v Speaker 5>You hear a story at least once a con where
<v Speaker 5>they talk about the day they were you know, it
<v Speaker 5>was the hardest day of their life. Oh I know,
<v Speaker 5>maybe maybe they were even thinking of doing themselves in.
<v Speaker 5>And they sat down and watched Dark Wing Duck and
<v Speaker 5>they got a laugh and the laugh generated enough you know,
<v Speaker 5>oxytocin in their brain to bring them back to their senses.
<v Speaker 5>And they tell me these stories, and I go, why
<v Speaker 5>are you telling me about Dark Wing Duck. Jim Cummings
<v Speaker 5>is right, over there, go thank him, leave me alone,
<v Speaker 5>leave me, leave me alone anyway, Gang Poo gets a
<v Speaker 5>lot of that, bet Pooh does.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, you know you are the voice of so many
<v Speaker 5>people's childhood. I mean true childhood, not not the adolescents,
<v Speaker 5>not the the coming home after a tough day and
<v Speaker 5>in junior high. You get them. You get them when
<v Speaker 5>they're you know, soft and complete, and then you then you,
<v Speaker 5>you know, literally with your voice, cuddle them and I
<v Speaker 5>never let them go. That's right, that's right. You got them, baby, Yeah, young,
<v Speaker 5>we get them.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, keep on the straight and narrow. Yeah, it's well,
<v Speaker 1>they want they want to be. It's like, what would
<v Speaker 1>Pooh do? That's the you know, that should be the
<v Speaker 1>bumper stick? Yeah, what what character do people? Sorry sorry
<v Speaker 1>writing that down? What would do? Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>It's okay. You don't need to cut me in on
<v Speaker 5>the profits at all on that, you're just taking it.
<v Speaker 1>I was just curre. Is what character people come up
<v Speaker 1>to you the most for?
<v Speaker 5>Oh, brain, brain Brain, followed closely by Egon from The
<v Speaker 5>Real Ghostbusters? Every con has Ghostbusters?
<v Speaker 1>Was that the one you did the theme song for? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the Real ghost I sang your theme so extreme Ghostbusters
<v Speaker 1>Extreme Ghostbusters. Yes, yes, when it's something's strange, that was me. Yep,
<v Speaker 1>I sneak in here and there. Yeah, you're in the
<v Speaker 1>theme song. You're in the Picky and the Brain theme
<v Speaker 1>song too, aren't you. Oh? Yes, oh god, yeah that's right. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>apparently I sing.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but apparently I don't because yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I can tell you that was that was me? Uh
<v Speaker 1>here what and and uh was Cam there? That's terrible.
<v Speaker 5>I can't remember.
<v Speaker 1>It was a long time ago, but they but I
<v Speaker 1>remember they were just sitting around and and we were
<v Speaker 1>all there and they go, well, we need something for
<v Speaker 1>the theme song. Jim, you want to you want to
<v Speaker 1>sing the theme song? And uh and you say, but
<v Speaker 1>you're saying the bass part right uh. And they asked me, well,
<v Speaker 1>they asked me to who else can I get? And
<v Speaker 1>I said, how about? And we were just done the
<v Speaker 1>California Raisins and Dorian was one of them, and I
<v Speaker 1>was one of them. So, uh, myself, I think Cam
<v Speaker 1>Clark and Dorian, I can I can hear you, like
<v Speaker 1>when I listened to the song, I can.
<v Speaker 5>The brain, brain, brain, brain, that's my gym comings and
<v Speaker 5>then you hear the narf. Yes, Robby got in there
<v Speaker 5>with the NARF.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, yes, so that was wherever that came from.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I know, it's it's cool.
<v Speaker 1>You what what you you had? What did you asked
<v Speaker 1>you would? I just asked about what your most popular
<v Speaker 1>characters brain followed.
<v Speaker 5>That's what I was gonna tell you. Because there's there's
<v Speaker 5>popping up almost as often as there are cities with cons.
<v Speaker 5>There are chapters of Ghostbusters. They call themselves ghost Heads.
<v Speaker 1>Oh boy.
<v Speaker 5>And and these men and women they you know, they
<v Speaker 5>go all the way, you know, they have they have
<v Speaker 5>they have an ecto, you know, they they do refurbish.
<v Speaker 1>An older car full full backpacks.
<v Speaker 5>They create their backpacks. It's like a Jedi, you know,
<v Speaker 5>creating his own lightsaber. Their their backpacks all you know,
<v Speaker 5>work and you know they have sound effects. But what
<v Speaker 5>these people do is they do charity events. They go
<v Speaker 5>around to children's hospitals. They do, you know, anything that's
<v Speaker 5>you know, going to bring some smiles to kids' faces,
<v Speaker 5>you know, and I so am flattered they want to
<v Speaker 5>come see me, but I make sure, you know, to
<v Speaker 5>let them know. They're the real heroes. They're the ones
<v Speaker 5>that are out there, you know, boots on the ground,
<v Speaker 5>you know, and and and sliming there and slim dripping
<v Speaker 5>off the boots, plasm dripping off their boots, spreading joy
<v Speaker 5>in the world. And they flatter me by saying, well
<v Speaker 5>you and I hate saying I feel almost like I'm blaspheming,
<v Speaker 5>you know, they say, well, you're my egon. You know,
<v Speaker 5>you're the egon I grew up on. I didn't see
<v Speaker 5>the Ghostbusters movies until left Right was older and I
<v Speaker 5>saw the TV show, you know, and I was doing
<v Speaker 5>my best Harold Ramis impression. But you know, Harold created
<v Speaker 5>those characters with Dan Aykroyd, and I'm just you know,
<v Speaker 5>I was just lucky to kind of stand on the
<v Speaker 5>shoulders of a giant, you know. But you know, these
<v Speaker 5>guys are doing a lot of good.
<v Speaker 1>These guys and.
<v Speaker 5>Gals are doing a lot of good out there in
<v Speaker 5>the world, in the communities. And I'm so for me, Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>egon the next most requested and rightly so, yeah, and
<v Speaker 5>I and I just get so much out of knowing
<v Speaker 5>that these folks are doing good in the name of Ghostbusters.
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<v Speaker 3>Because these were such popular shows and popular characters, I
<v Speaker 3>want to rewind back to the time when they first
<v Speaker 3>started airing. Did you notice your life changing in that moment,
<v Speaker 3>like as the shows are coming out, as they're so popular,
<v Speaker 3>was there like a shift in your life.
<v Speaker 5>Or well I could make rent? You know, it was
<v Speaker 5>no longer struggle. It was just always yeah, it's.
<v Speaker 1>Like, oh well it was.
<v Speaker 5>You mean, I sit and they don't make me memorize,
<v Speaker 5>they said around the music stand, and I read the
<v Speaker 5>words as though it's a radio play. And then I
<v Speaker 5>get a check that you know, one check is my rent.
<v Speaker 5>And then if we do several, you know, episodes in
<v Speaker 5>a session, oh well, you know I've got now now
<v Speaker 5>I can.
<v Speaker 1>I can buy groceries and everything.
<v Speaker 5>I used to do the comedy Store for twenty five
<v Speaker 5>dollars a seton, you know, just to see if I
<v Speaker 5>could just make you know, you know.
<v Speaker 1>You get that kidding And that was be what year
<v Speaker 1>were like eighty eighty eighty one.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it was just after the comic the comedians strike,
<v Speaker 5>where I didn't even know there was one, there was.
<v Speaker 5>There was a big comedy store strike and the comedians
<v Speaker 5>went on strike to get paid because they used to
<v Speaker 5>go on for free.
<v Speaker 1>Well those were dark times. Well there was nothing funny
<v Speaker 1>about it.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, well there was a darkness because one comedians suicided
<v Speaker 5>the Grand Hyatt. The Hyatt was right next door, and
<v Speaker 5>this guy, Greg Lubetkin threw himself off the Hyatt, literally
<v Speaker 5>trying to hit the comedy store with his body. And
<v Speaker 5>that that that brought an end to the strike, and
<v Speaker 5>everybody realized, you know, this is this is serious stuff.
<v Speaker 5>So yeah, from that day on, you know, spots, spots
<v Speaker 5>were even more coveted because you could you know, gas money,
<v Speaker 5>rent money, and uh yeah, you know at the time
<v Speaker 5>when I was starting, like rent was you know, like
<v Speaker 5>two hundred and fifty a month, you know, so you
<v Speaker 5>could make your rent by doing twenty spots, you know
<v Speaker 5>at the store.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, it was it was God.
<v Speaker 5>I think of I think of how easy that was,
<v Speaker 5>how easy, and like it's so much easier for what
<v Speaker 5>it was for us in our day to just make
<v Speaker 5>the daily expenses as opposed to what it is now
<v Speaker 5>for kids who were the equivalent age, you know, the
<v Speaker 5>three and fours of them, are you know, teaming up
<v Speaker 5>to share an apartment because the rent on a one
<v Speaker 5>bedroom apartments three thousand a month at the time of
<v Speaker 5>we record this. It's like, you know, the dollar buys
<v Speaker 5>less and there's less of it, you know, wow, And
<v Speaker 5>it's harder to get Yeah, yeah, harder than ever, you know.
<v Speaker 1>I remember when when I had my first job, it
<v Speaker 1>was it was Dumbo Circus. I was lion O the
<v Speaker 1>Lion and it was on this fledgling channel, Disney Channel,
<v Speaker 1>remember it. And I remember and I bought Gordon Hunt,
<v Speaker 1>the Great Gordon Hunt from Hannah bar Far Hanna Barbara, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and uh and Ellen Hunt's dad got dad he wrote
<v Speaker 1>a book, how to Break into show Business. And I remember,
<v Speaker 1>and we were already doing Dumbo Circus, thank goodness, and I, oh, look,
<v Speaker 1>it's a book that says how to break into show business.
<v Speaker 1>So I got it and I'm reading it and I
<v Speaker 1>think the fourth or fifth check chapter was, uh, voiceover
<v Speaker 1>and here's here's an aspect of show business that you
<v Speaker 1>may not have thought of. It's called voiceover. And and
<v Speaker 1>whenever you hear radio commercial, that's voiceover TV commercial. The
<v Speaker 1>guy who's saying, novel available in suppository form, he's doing
<v Speaker 1>voiceover every cartoon voice Yeah, and so oh, let me wait,
<v Speaker 1>what's this thing?
<v Speaker 5>Don't bother.
<v Speaker 1>This entire area of show business is captured by about
<v Speaker 1>a half dozen people, and they live in southern California.
<v Speaker 1>You don't, so go to the next chapter. Forget it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>And I mean it was all it was about that
<v Speaker 1>long uh huh. You know, you can look it up, guys.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm so glad I didn't read that before I
<v Speaker 1>got my first job, right, because well, this guy knows
<v Speaker 1>once you get your first.
<v Speaker 5>Gig, at least that's the way it wasn't in our day. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>if you did your first gig and you showed up
<v Speaker 5>on time, you didn't cause any trouble and you were
<v Speaker 5>kind of a pleasure to work with, which is probably
<v Speaker 5>the most important piece of advice. I if I did
<v Speaker 5>a workshop, which I don't because I don't know how
<v Speaker 5>to teach this. I don't know how, I don't know
<v Speaker 5>how to I mean, there are wonderful colleagues of ours.
<v Speaker 5>Who do you know, Bob Bergen has a tremendous class. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>And so it was Richie Horwitz. But I don't know
<v Speaker 5>how to But if I, if there was a lesson
<v Speaker 5>I would teach, it would be be on time and
<v Speaker 5>and be a pleasure to work with.
<v Speaker 1>Don't don't be any trouble.
<v Speaker 5>Just more than that, you know, you.
<v Speaker 1>Have to suck up, just be just be a pleasure.
<v Speaker 5>Anybody problems and and that's once you get yeah, and
<v Speaker 5>and and you know, and then you know, do the voices.
<v Speaker 5>But once you show up and show you can do that,
<v Speaker 5>the voice over business is hungry for more like you
<v Speaker 5>and work begets work. I mean I went from you know,
<v Speaker 5>inspector Gadget playing the Chief, which again thank God for Marsha.
<v Speaker 1>Can you give us the chief, give us some of No.
<v Speaker 5>That was so long ago that you, I mean, Chief
<v Speaker 5>Quimby was here's your assignment, Gadget and then it would
<v Speaker 5>blow up in his face. And I and Don Adams,
<v Speaker 5>I worked with the original I worked with Don and
<v Speaker 5>Don Adams the sixties smart, get smart, you could still
<v Speaker 5>dream it. And to me, one of the most brilliant
<v Speaker 5>it comes. Would you believe it's still funny?
<v Speaker 1>Would you believe it's still funny?
<v Speaker 5>And so I got to work with Don and we
<v Speaker 5>did twenty two episodes and then a couple of movies,
<v Speaker 5>a couple of TV. Oh there was one and you know, oh,
<v Speaker 5>when Gadget went back in time, that would be another
<v Speaker 5>voice for Don because his deal said, if you ever,
<v Speaker 5>if you paid him another if he had today play under.
<v Speaker 1>The character, if you doubled him, he had to double
<v Speaker 1>his salary.
<v Speaker 5>And I think he was getting something like twenty thousand
<v Speaker 5>an episode.
<v Speaker 1>It was a big TV star and uha, right.
<v Speaker 5>And so so so if Gadget went back in time
<v Speaker 5>and met his ancestor, guess who played it? Because they
<v Speaker 5>didn't want to give Don another twenty thousand an episode.
<v Speaker 5>So I would play you know, ancient Roman Gadget, Oh wow,
<v Speaker 5>that's or cave Gadget Changanga Hung Kung, you know, or
<v Speaker 5>if Don, if Gadget went scuba diving, you know, Don said,
<v Speaker 5>I can't, I can't do that with the lips makes me,
<v Speaker 5>it makes me hot. Get mouted to it.
<v Speaker 1>So I go, go Gadget scuba diving aquitment you know yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and so told me. I said, he said, you know you.
<v Speaker 5>I used to think Bill Danea did Maxwell smart better
<v Speaker 5>than anybody else, but you're actually the best Maxwell smot
<v Speaker 5>and that's pretty good you thank you very much. So
<v Speaker 5>when he retired, he actually handed me the job on
<v Speaker 5>a silver platter. If I ever if there were to
<v Speaker 5>be more inspector gadgets, he said, get mouted do me.
<v Speaker 5>You know. So that came to me, and I played
<v Speaker 5>Gadget for an entire series called Gadget and the Gadget Teenies,
<v Speaker 5>two TV movies to to two directed video movies, Gadgets
<v Speaker 5>Last Caper and Gadget's Greatest Caper Ever. And I was
<v Speaker 5>the first on camera inspector at it because don didn't
<v Speaker 5>want to do it. Remember a show called the Super
<v Speaker 5>Mario Brothers Super Show back in like nineteen ninety.
<v Speaker 1>Brother Super Show. Yeah, Captain Loue Albato.
<v Speaker 5>And I can't remember the other actor's name, Danny Elfman. Nope, No,
<v Speaker 5>the Montreal actor, very very good comedic actor.
<v Speaker 1>God, I wish I could remember his name.
<v Speaker 5>Phone in, if you remember his name, or look it
<v Speaker 5>up on your on your iPhone on the supercomputer. That's
<v Speaker 5>the size of a pack of cigarettes.
<v Speaker 1>Right, we're carrying around what are cigarettes? Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>Does anybody smoke cigarettes?
<v Speaker 1>Anyway?
<v Speaker 5>I hope no, gosh So anyway, uh and and Don
<v Speaker 5>didn't want to do it because it was it was
<v Speaker 5>kind of physical. You know, the gadget had to fall,
<v Speaker 5>he had to slide down a slide. So again he said,
<v Speaker 5>get mouted to it. So I was the first on
<v Speaker 5>camera inspector. You were the fall guy a voice exactly
<v Speaker 5>and so but except there was no Heather Thomas on
<v Speaker 5>the set.
<v Speaker 1>That was the episode episodes on camera as Don Adams
<v Speaker 1>as go go gadget. Lets that brings me back. That
<v Speaker 1>is so perfect.
<v Speaker 5>It was great because Don Adams gave us another guy
<v Speaker 5>giving us an education, you know, Frank Welker and I
<v Speaker 5>will do. Frank educated me doing this show and then
<v Speaker 5>Real Ghostbusters was a master class. I would just sit
<v Speaker 5>next to Frank and you know he'd showed me, you know,
<v Speaker 5>all these techniques for emoting without making any noise. This technique,
<v Speaker 5>this is an actual technique that we need to doing
<v Speaker 5>what without an emoting without making noise? Like how to
<v Speaker 5>avoid clothing noise, you know, how to turn the page
<v Speaker 5>for to get a four page run without.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, you know see I had to learn all
<v Speaker 1>by myself. Yeah you had Hanue, I had the Welkman.
<v Speaker 1>He taught me everything. And he's the dean of our Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>another guy like you know, I can truly say oh
<v Speaker 1>oh in my career, you know, write in the same
<v Speaker 1>breath with Marshall Goodman. It was between the two of them.
<v Speaker 1>I just like I get it now. That was my
<v Speaker 1>impression of do you remember that the little d ic
<v Speaker 1>would it would come up at the end of the show. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and I go it really just says Hayward's kid. Oh
<v Speaker 1>really it was Andy Heyward's little little boy that did that.
<v Speaker 1>Oh oh boy, got chang for the kid. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>So that, yeah, well that's like you know.
<v Speaker 1>Everybody's you know, talk about your talk about your nepotism,
<v Speaker 1>you know, your babies.
<v Speaker 5>Between that and Robert Altman getting his son to write
<v Speaker 5>the lyrics, his thirteen year old son wrote the lyrics
<v Speaker 5>to the theme to Mash Suicide is Painless. He wrote
<v Speaker 5>the lyrics. I think he was thirteen, he may have
<v Speaker 5>been eighteen, I'm not sure. Somewhere in there, but that
<v Speaker 5>kid wrote soon.
<v Speaker 1>Aside is Painless.
<v Speaker 5>It brings on many changes, and I can take or
<v Speaker 5>leave it if I please. Something only a depressed teenager. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>I made more money like it. He made more money
<v Speaker 5>from Mash the TV show, the movie than his father
<v Speaker 5>did for having directed the movie and whatever rights he
<v Speaker 5>may have had his Because even if they played the instrumental,
<v Speaker 5>if you recorded or know, if you wrote, if you
<v Speaker 5>wrote the lyric, you made you made money.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, Gene Roddenberry, there's lyrics to Star Trek the song. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>there's actual lyrics, so rober song. And of course you know,
<v Speaker 5>and he could you know, so he could changed it.
<v Speaker 5>He could changed it. Uh, you know every time you
<v Speaker 5>know it was on syndication. Not only did he get
<v Speaker 5>his producer's fee, but he also got something from ASKAP
<v Speaker 5>or BMI for having written the lyrics to Star Trek. Wow.
<v Speaker 1>And if Shatner were here, could he sing that song?
<v Speaker 1>Would he know? Would he know that?
<v Speaker 5>I believe he could Star Trek Do Do Do Do.
<v Speaker 6>Star Trek Do Do Do Do and Star Yeah? Oh
<v Speaker 6>Man belongs in the Smithsonian.
<v Speaker 5>This conversation belongs in the Smithsonian. I know it's always funnier.
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't agree. And yet there's so much information that's
<v Speaker 1>all of it made up by is it disinformation?
<v Speaker 5>Well, you know what information.
<v Speaker 1>One of our favorite things that that we did out
<v Speaker 1>of the hundreds was good old Tasmanian you got to
<v Speaker 1>be my dad, blah blah blah, Jack Shmack his son.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 5>He sure looks like a dog. He's got stinking breath.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he sure has away with getting that, you know,
<v Speaker 1>licking himself there. You had a turtle that you thought
<v Speaker 1>was a dog, Yes, and that was rob and Robbie
<v Speaker 1>was dog the turtle, dog the turtle. Or was a
<v Speaker 1>dog the turtle or a turtle the dog. I don't know.
<v Speaker 5>It was dog the turtle.
<v Speaker 1>I think it was.
<v Speaker 5>It was we weren't denying the reality that he really
<v Speaker 5>was a turtle, and the task was so out of
<v Speaker 5>touch that he thought the turtle. He bought it. God,
<v Speaker 5>you know that those sessions were so much fun. Oh
<v Speaker 5>my gosh. You know, they may not have had this
<v Speaker 5>Spielbergian impromat on them, but but because that was the
<v Speaker 5>era when you know, everything was Steven Spielberger. That's had
<v Speaker 5>a maniac Steven Spielberg, and Steven Spielberg was speaking the brain.
<v Speaker 5>And then there was this thing called Tasmania, which dared
<v Speaker 5>to examine the home life of the Tasmanian Devil.
<v Speaker 1>And it was hilarious.
<v Speaker 5>It was sitcom level writing, and we had was in there,
<v Speaker 5>I think so, and we just the thing is, it
<v Speaker 5>was so much fun. It was a it was it
<v Speaker 5>was the way to close out our week. We would
<v Speaker 5>all meet up at the studio and we'd come.
<v Speaker 1>In a little bit.
<v Speaker 5>One of the few things I came in early for
<v Speaker 5>because it was comic book Day. Yeah, we went and
<v Speaker 5>got our comic books. So whether we went to Golden
<v Speaker 5>Apple or the ABC in the comics.
<v Speaker 1>And art would always check out, So what'd you get?
<v Speaker 5>What'd you get? And then we'd like, oh, I oh,
<v Speaker 5>I didn't pick up the X Men. You know, you'd
<v Speaker 5>have you'd have comics I didn't have, and and you know,
<v Speaker 5>and we just sort through got it, got it, needed
<v Speaker 5>got it, and you know, just shoot the breeze for
<v Speaker 5>an hour, and and that put us in the mood
<v Speaker 5>for comedy, for going in there, and just there was
<v Speaker 5>it was so no pressure, it was all let's just have.
<v Speaker 1>I just loved it. It was like a golden era. Absolutely,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm so glad. And we ended up we
<v Speaker 1>did sixty five sixty five of them.
<v Speaker 5>That was and and they're I think they're I think
<v Speaker 5>they were on either to B. Yeah, you can stream
<v Speaker 5>it right now, you can stream it down. It's on.
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't pay much. Yeah, it's on that that you
<v Speaker 1>know what, It's.
<v Speaker 5>Okay because it's living on in a way that you know,
<v Speaker 5>as Robbie says, who's cooking the soup? A cartoon show
<v Speaker 5>you know at sitcom from the nineteen nineties, isn't you know,
<v Speaker 5>nobody's streaming she's the sheriff. But they're still streaming, you know,
<v Speaker 5>they're still streaming Tasmania and saying that those are the
<v Speaker 5>voices of my childhood.
<v Speaker 1>That's true. Yeah, and uh and and you you were
<v Speaker 1>channeling your inner crossing Crossby.
<v Speaker 5>Well, the joke of it was that here's Taz. You know,
<v Speaker 5>we only met him in like what how many WB
<v Speaker 5>cartoons maybe Tops and so, but yet he was such
<v Speaker 5>a memorable character even off those three. Yeah, everybody remember
<v Speaker 5>they'd go who was the character that spun like a tornado?
<v Speaker 1>And and and was trying to destroy bug?
<v Speaker 5>You know, in the Tasmania the Tasmanian devil. So they
<v Speaker 5>they thought he's got the most normal family in the world.
<v Speaker 5>He has the typical sitcom Jake, his little brother, his
<v Speaker 5>little brother played by Debbie Dairy Dairy Perry and uh
<v Speaker 5>and his little sister was sister was Oh gosh, man
<v Speaker 5>when when seniors reminisced coming up next, she ends up
<v Speaker 5>on ther she's such a wonderful little actor. Sorry, she
<v Speaker 5>was on I don't mean a little she was times.
<v Speaker 5>She was little, she was like thirteen, so she was
<v Speaker 5>playing our tween ager and she she ended up she
<v Speaker 5>ended up being on a.
<v Speaker 1>R Yeah, and she ended up Yeah. She was on camera, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>on camera playing a doctor. And I was so proud
<v Speaker 1>to have a daughter who became a doctor. That's so
<v Speaker 1>true the way I don't think, the way I don't.
<v Speaker 1>Are you looking it up, man? I am thank you. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>Center cards and letters. Yes, folks, please, as.
<v Speaker 5>You watch us, slow we go down, memory memory loss, trip,
<v Speaker 5>memory drain. We call it memory drain, memory drain.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>And then Miriam Flynn, wonderful second browling actor as my
<v Speaker 5>totally normal wife, Kelly Martin.
<v Speaker 1>Kelly, we we're just old men.
<v Speaker 5>That's the only reason it's not that you weren't memorable.
<v Speaker 1>You were, you were and we still are and stuff
<v Speaker 1>like that.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but uh, you know we had again.
<v Speaker 1>Just such a party. Yeah, it was a good way.
<v Speaker 1>And I I have to admit that I tucked them
<v Speaker 1>into can we do this on Friday afternoons because it
<v Speaker 1>gave me the weekend to heal because.
<v Speaker 5>Because you were t was for you what Yosemite Sam
<v Speaker 5>was for me.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I wouldn't switch to Fridays. That sounds about right
<v Speaker 5>if I had to do if if I had to
<v Speaker 5>do Yosemite Sam.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but Tess never shoot up for the rest of
<v Speaker 1>the you know, like you know, oh fun trivia. I
<v Speaker 1>don't think we ever said this one. What the we
<v Speaker 1>put the ba We mean you that the the tag
<v Speaker 1>you know that that little spin around was They took
<v Speaker 1>it from the audition. Oh really, they took it from
<v Speaker 1>the audition. It was over the voice caster and Art
<v Speaker 1>Fortello of course, was the genius behind it, and he said, okay,
<v Speaker 1>first thing, you have to give us the task spinning
<v Speaker 1>around and coming out of the thing into the spit.
<v Speaker 1>And so I went, and that's what they used. They
<v Speaker 1>used the audition.
<v Speaker 5>Why not?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So I thought out the gate with it. Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you know that kind of made my day. I'd forgotten
<v Speaker 1>that till this very moment for a long time. I'll
<v Speaker 1>take it. You just made me think of something.
<v Speaker 3>You know, you're talking about how it was different recording
<v Speaker 3>back in the day, and you know it was fun
<v Speaker 3>and everything. I'm curious how since Animaniacs was brought back
<v Speaker 3>in twenty twenty, what was the dynamic shift if any
<v Speaker 3>working on that COVID recorded COVID.
<v Speaker 5>Did you know, change the change the dynamic of the
<v Speaker 5>entire process? So how did you Because we were we
<v Speaker 5>were actors who never didn't work without each other. Robbie Paulson,
<v Speaker 5>I can't believe it's taking us this long to get
<v Speaker 5>to mentioning Robbie Paulson. But Rob Paulson, who like a brother.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, I know who he is.
<v Speaker 5>You know they always do Pinky in the Brains together
<v Speaker 5>in the OG Show back in the nineties, if you
<v Speaker 5>were each one of us, if one of us had
<v Speaker 5>a cold, they actually rescheduled the record of that episode
<v Speaker 5>until we were both well again. Because it was so
<v Speaker 5>much the interplay of Pinky in the Brain. There was
<v Speaker 5>very little Sometimes there were sessions where nobody there was
<v Speaker 5>no other characters in the episode except the two of us.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So we.
<v Speaker 5>Went from that to recording the show in our closets
<v Speaker 5>at home, you know, our home or makeshift homeste And.
<v Speaker 1>So they like send you a script and say record
<v Speaker 1>this and send it back.
<v Speaker 5>Record my lines, and I just go, I need Rob
<v Speaker 5>here to annoy me. I need I need, I need
<v Speaker 5>sure the pinky you know that the littlest note that
<v Speaker 5>he brought to that character, so that I knew what
<v Speaker 5>level of irritation to play is the brain, you know,
<v Speaker 5>And we didn't and we didn't have that going through COVID.
<v Speaker 5>And then then suddenly, you know, they were letting us
<v Speaker 5>back into studios, but masked, and we had to be
<v Speaker 5>in separate studios. I remember one time Rob and I
<v Speaker 5>passed each other in the hall. I was coming from
<v Speaker 5>the restroom, he was going to it. We were both
<v Speaker 5>in masks, and we just stopped and posed for a
<v Speaker 5>picture and said, you know, and and I put it
<v Speaker 5>on Instagram, don't tell them, and uh. And then we
<v Speaker 5>went to our respective studios and they actually set us
<v Speaker 5>up in studios where I could see him in a
<v Speaker 5>little bit in the window. Over in the corner there,
<v Speaker 5>and so there was enough there where we could do
<v Speaker 5>our interplay, but it didn't it. You know, we did
<v Speaker 5>maybe three sessions before this lockdown was called, and that
<v Speaker 5>was magic, and that was wonderful to get to play
<v Speaker 5>the characters you know, together.
<v Speaker 1>In a room.
<v Speaker 5>And then we were kind of hamstrung by.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And it's so so, so much better when you
<v Speaker 1>can play off each other.
<v Speaker 5>Absolutely, And unfortunately the paradigm has shifted so that almost
<v Speaker 5>no shows do cast recordings anymore. Futuramas like the only
<v Speaker 5>thing that I know of that I'm working on that
<v Speaker 5>where there's yeah, the cast is in the room at
<v Speaker 5>a time.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know that the public or the folks out
<v Speaker 1>there can necessarily sense that, but I think if you know,
<v Speaker 1>I think.
<v Speaker 5>If you can't sense that, we're not doing our jobs,
<v Speaker 5>because you're supposed to be as good alone in a
<v Speaker 5>room as you are.
<v Speaker 1>If you've got full cast. Oh yeah, but I still
<v Speaker 1>like it. And you know, for me, I add libs
<v Speaker 1>so much. I screwed things. Well, let's keep that. Then
<v Speaker 1>the next person's line doesn't work right, No.
<v Speaker 5>You have to you know, you got to be wary
<v Speaker 5>of the writing and what's the setup and what what
<v Speaker 5>service is the next piece of dialogue? And and you
<v Speaker 5>know we feed off each other. Acting is listening is reacting?
<v Speaker 1>Good?
<v Speaker 5>Acting is listening and reacting reacting. Yeah, you don't have
<v Speaker 5>the other actor there, it's tougher to do, right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>That's what I've always said. Acting is x amount reacting.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean even for me personally, you know,
<v Speaker 3>I'm an actor too, and like auditions even have changed
<v Speaker 3>so fundamentally. I mean, you know, it's completely different when
<v Speaker 3>you're reacting to like a pre recorded something, or you know,
<v Speaker 3>you go off and record an audition by yourself, and
<v Speaker 3>I honestly like I pay to go to like a
<v Speaker 3>studio and actually do it with like a reader and
<v Speaker 3>you know, a coach, because at least there's other people
<v Speaker 3>and you're getting an energy. You know, Like when we
<v Speaker 3>used to audition before COVID essentially killed it off, was
<v Speaker 3>at least there would be you know, the casting director
<v Speaker 3>and sometimes the director in the room some notes, and
<v Speaker 3>you know, like when you're just recording it. I mean
<v Speaker 3>I've had friends who you know, it's easy to fall
<v Speaker 3>into the trap where you end up doing a five
<v Speaker 3>minute audition for three hours because you're always thinking that
<v Speaker 3>you can get it better, get it better, because there's
<v Speaker 3>no limitation.
<v Speaker 5>That doesn't I mean I've been because that's not unheard of,
<v Speaker 5>even in voiceover again, yeah, in the home studio, and
<v Speaker 5>it's like I don't have the booth director there exactly,
<v Speaker 5>you know, saying okay, that's the one. Yeah, So for me,
<v Speaker 5>it's never the one.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>So I'm fifteen to twenty minutes trying to get you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you know, Hooper Soap is real good.
<v Speaker 3>I've come to the point where I've just been saying,
<v Speaker 3>you know what, like I'll do you know, maybe maximum
<v Speaker 3>ten takes, maximum ten takes, and just be like, that's
<v Speaker 3>as good of an actor as I am. You know,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not going to all of a sudden become Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>doing this one hundred times. You know, it's just in
<v Speaker 3>my opinion, it's not going to happen.
<v Speaker 1>You know. It's all right, that's what I have in here,
<v Speaker 1>you go.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but yeah, it's a tough trap to fall into,
<v Speaker 3>and it's just such a weird well.
<v Speaker 1>We're all our own worst critics for sure, for sure.
<v Speaker 5>And then there's John Love it's he's the worst critic
<v Speaker 5>of himself on the critic Well, well, well.
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<v Speaker 1>dot com slash Jim Cummings Podcast. Do it now? Well,
<v Speaker 1>like I said, I do like funny you should ask,
<v Speaker 1>So that works. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Well, since we're kind of talking our way up into
<v Speaker 3>the present through these topics, I'll bring up Crapopolis, the
<v Speaker 3>show that you're recently on.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I've done a few of those. I actually was
<v Speaker 5>in you know, when they were just just breaking ground
<v Speaker 5>with the show and laying the laying the pipe. I
<v Speaker 5>was in every table read. But then, you know, as
<v Speaker 5>is the trend now, they cast celebrities in those parts,
<v Speaker 5>and so you know, I have to go with it.
<v Speaker 1>I have to go into a you know, place of
<v Speaker 1>I think it's just part of our career. You and
<v Speaker 1>I should be honorary celebrities. Stand Yeah, damn it. Aren't
<v Speaker 1>we like honorary celebrities as was celebrating the brain is
<v Speaker 1>it at? What are you kidding me? Yes, the character
<v Speaker 1>is a star, not you moo.
<v Speaker 5>You know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, well, you.
<v Speaker 3>Know, that's a whole topic I could really go down to,
<v Speaker 3>because I really think that has become a cultural shift.
<v Speaker 3>I think that's why we see less megastars. I'm going
<v Speaker 3>to go on this rant. I'm sorry, I'm interrupting.
<v Speaker 1>I don't care.
<v Speaker 3>So in my opinion, you know, we used to have
<v Speaker 3>the megastars, you know, the Brad Pitts, the Arnold Schwarzenegger's.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like those are fewer and fewer because there's
<v Speaker 3>more emphasis on character now because iron Man is the hero.
<v Speaker 3>You know, it's not Robert Downey Junior necessarily. Maybe that's
<v Speaker 3>a bad example because he kind of is iron Man,
<v Speaker 3>but you get what I'm saying. It's like more emphasis first,
<v Speaker 3>more emphasis on the hero or the character rather than
<v Speaker 3>the actor who's playing that person. It's like, oh, it's
<v Speaker 3>fascinating to see you know, this actor is going to
<v Speaker 3>play this character, and I want to see this character
<v Speaker 3>instead of necessarily it's just oh, I mean, you know,
<v Speaker 3>Jake Jollenhall's in this movie.
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to see Jake jellen Hall.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I mean, you know, that's my thing. I find
<v Speaker 5>a star by. You know, do you go to see
<v Speaker 5>the movie just for them? You know? And I guess,
<v Speaker 5>you know, in that way with all the ips that
<v Speaker 5>are out there, both in Marvel and the DCU, you
<v Speaker 5>do go to see the movie for those, for the
<v Speaker 5>for the intellectual property, for the characters that Marvel owns,
<v Speaker 5>and so there's there's there's something to be said for that,
<v Speaker 5>for that theory. But each actor makes it his own.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>I mean, I can't imagine anybody else but Downy playing,
<v Speaker 5>you know, to start, you know, for.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, I'm sure one day there will be though or
<v Speaker 3>like you know, huge Ackman with Wolverine.
<v Speaker 5>It's right, you know, he can't pass down the at
<v Speaker 5>amandem clause to you know, another generation. They're they're baked
<v Speaker 5>in it, but they're embedded, you know. I accept, you know,
<v Speaker 5>the the the whole you know, celebrity stunt casting thing.
<v Speaker 1>You know. I wish it were such.
<v Speaker 5>I wish it were, you know, sort of a meritocracy.
<v Speaker 1>I wish so too, you know.
<v Speaker 5>And and and I'm a big believer in that one. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>but it's you know, sometimes it's casting directors who just
<v Speaker 5>want to work with as many, you know, big people
<v Speaker 5>as possible because that will make their star ascend. I
<v Speaker 5>can't fault them for that, but you know I I
<v Speaker 5>would love to. It's just be able to get my
<v Speaker 5>foot in the door of a lot of.
<v Speaker 1>Things you can't. A thousand years ago, TV Guide interviewed
<v Speaker 1>me about that about the stars coming in, and I
<v Speaker 1>think it was when Tom Cruise came in and did
<v Speaker 1>two Captain planets. Yes, I remember, and I remember thinking, well,
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's like this. You know, you're a kid,
<v Speaker 1>may You're ten years eight, twelve years old, and you're
<v Speaker 1>sitting there going, you know, this is really a great cartoon.
<v Speaker 1>If only Brad Pitt were Grimy Man number three instead
<v Speaker 1>of Maurice LaMarsh, if only, you know, if only fill
<v Speaker 1>in the blank Robert Downey Jr. Were with the janitor
<v Speaker 1>dog gunn At, this would have been so much better.
<v Speaker 1>You know, No, no, they don't.
<v Speaker 5>Actually the kids don't know. But did they do that
<v Speaker 5>so the parents will go? I said it before it again.
<v Speaker 3>There is nobody in the world that cared to Vin
<v Speaker 3>Diesel was Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 3>I will die on that hill. There's not a single
<v Speaker 3>person that Vin Diesel being that role. It could have
<v Speaker 3>been anybody in the world, and you had to pick
<v Speaker 3>Vin Diesel. I don't even have anything against Vin Diesel.
<v Speaker 3>But why Vin Diesel?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, that's true.
<v Speaker 1>Why I mean, you could have made an actor's career.
<v Speaker 3>You could have made an actress career by saying three words,
<v Speaker 3>I am crew.
<v Speaker 1>You could have gave somebody a huge platform. I could
<v Speaker 1>have been grew. Could you have been bruted?
<v Speaker 5>I think I might have been able to pull it off.
<v Speaker 5>I think so, but I don't think. I mean, you know, we'll.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I can grudging him. Maybe I don't care.
<v Speaker 5>I'm dying on that. Maybe it wouldn't have Maybe it
<v Speaker 5>wouldn't have taken Vin to play Groot. But I'll tell
<v Speaker 5>you nobody else could have played the Iron Giant. But
<v Speaker 5>Vin Diesel. He was not known at the time he was.
<v Speaker 5>What did he bring that was bad character home? Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>when he's flying up and going I am Superman, he's
<v Speaker 5>not a dry eyemotion theater. Yeah, that's one of the
<v Speaker 5>greatest difference get animated films one of the greatest films.
<v Speaker 6>It was a year.
<v Speaker 5>I agree, man, you know, so you know, I'm I
<v Speaker 5>try to be less territorial about the work. As long
<v Speaker 5>as you know, as as long as I can make
<v Speaker 5>a living, you know, long I can pay my shills,
<v Speaker 5>I'm happy. You know, they've got sad cards. I've got
<v Speaker 5>sad guards. You've got a sad guard. You've got a
<v Speaker 5>sad guard. You know, there's there's there's no there's no
<v Speaker 5>restriction of you can't come over here. You know, I'm
<v Speaker 5>sure I love it. If somebody gave me a talk show.
<v Speaker 5>I remember, well, Craig Ferguson, who actually is in real life,
<v Speaker 5>dear friend. He came in to do a guest spot
<v Speaker 5>on Futurama ten years ago.
<v Speaker 1>He's a nice guy.
<v Speaker 5>On our second or third resurrection, I can't remember which,
<v Speaker 5>he walked in and I said, do I come to
<v Speaker 5>CBS and try to host the show? Where?
<v Speaker 1>You know? Do I get behind your desk and try
<v Speaker 1>to host the show?
<v Speaker 5>What are you doing here?
<v Speaker 1>You know?
<v Speaker 5>I was totally kidding with him, But it's like, but
<v Speaker 5>in that joking, I realized that there's a there's a
<v Speaker 5>there's a chasm, but it only goes one way, you know.
<v Speaker 5>I was like, I can't get over there to do
<v Speaker 5>what he does, but he can come in and do
<v Speaker 5>what I do. But again not begrudgingly. I just okay,
<v Speaker 5>tiny begrudgingly. Yeah, a little about the words crag. Just
<v Speaker 5>I wish it kind of was both ways. Once you
<v Speaker 5>establish yourself, it would be nice if, you know, casting
<v Speaker 5>directors wouldn't say, well, he's a cartoon guy, you know.
<v Speaker 1>And well, one thing to piss me off was years
<v Speaker 1>ago is that they were doing gosh, it was a
<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to think of what it was. It was
<v Speaker 1>a Dark Wing spin off. But anyway, I had a
<v Speaker 1>character named Don Carnage from Tailspin and he had a
<v Speaker 1>little cameo on the show, and so instead of getting me,
<v Speaker 1>they had uh Jan Miguel Miranda from Hamlet. Yes, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>one was busy, and so they had him and he
<v Speaker 1>came up and he had one line and he mispronounced
<v Speaker 1>the name. He said, I am done Carnash and I no,
<v Speaker 1>it's Dun Carnage and it and I was thinking, you
<v Speaker 1>really should be able to pronounce the name. I don't know, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. It's just me. I'm sure but say
<v Speaker 1>the name I love, I love, I love that play.
<v Speaker 1>That's true, So he gets past Hamilton. Yeah, it's like
<v Speaker 1>I won't write any fantastic Broadway plays if you leave
<v Speaker 1>Don Carnage alone. I think that's fair.
<v Speaker 3>I forgot who said that about like Michael Jordan. They
<v Speaker 3>were like, Michael Jordan gets to come and do his
<v Speaker 3>own movie. Let me go play in the NBA for
<v Speaker 3>a couple of games, right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, that wasn't me who said that. I'm
<v Speaker 1>pretty sure. Oh man, oh man. So what's what's happening
<v Speaker 1>these days? Anything and any irons in the fire that
<v Speaker 1>we should know about.
<v Speaker 5>Well, I'm doing this show called n d A n
<v Speaker 5>d A and then there's this feature film called NDA
<v Speaker 5>the Movie. And yeah, there's a bunch of stuff that
<v Speaker 5>you know, did you not allowed to talk about? A
<v Speaker 5>lot to talk make me? They make you go, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>you're not allowed to talk about. So I'm there's there's
<v Speaker 5>there's a feature film that you know, you know, from
<v Speaker 5>from one of the two major you know, for across
<v Speaker 5>the wash from each other, uh in more in uh
<v Speaker 5>in the in North Hollywood.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm getting I'm getting to a reprisal role. Let's
<v Speaker 1>just put it this way.
<v Speaker 5>I'm getting to repriseal role in a major Disney soon
<v Speaker 5>to be released film. Oh man, may not sound like this,
<v Speaker 5>but other than that, ye, Lincoln excellent. Yes, so that's
<v Speaker 5>coming up. We just wrapped on our you know, it's
<v Speaker 5>so funny because they're counted different ways. According to our contracts,
<v Speaker 5>it's like season nine, but according to the IMDb, I
<v Speaker 5>think it's season thirteen. Anyway. We just wrapped last week
<v Speaker 5>on the very last episode at a futurama. For now,
<v Speaker 5>we're hoping. We're hoping Hulu sees the wisdom and not
<v Speaker 5>canceling us because all the other people who carried us
<v Speaker 5>and canceled us haven't seen us come back from the dead,
<v Speaker 5>you know. Yeah, so just leave us, leave us, leave
<v Speaker 5>us on.
<v Speaker 1>Just don't cancel this, that's all. Just let us keep
<v Speaker 1>making won't and then you won't have to repriase it, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>or won't have to.
<v Speaker 5>We won't have suscitate exactly. Don't resuscitate. Just have us
<v Speaker 5>be on the like this like they just haven't, you
<v Speaker 5>know they have. We canceled the Simpsons in thirty six years, Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>the same way Simpsons. I think I'm I think I'm
<v Speaker 5>pretty close to thirty now, no kidding, thirty guest spots. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>I just recorded one this week.
<v Speaker 1>Well I'm close to two two because I did one. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>but that was it and ask me my line, oh bother, No,
<v Speaker 1>it was.
<v Speaker 5>I was a frigging horse, fantastic. I was a horse.
<v Speaker 5>He got in the.
<v Speaker 1>Door, I was yeah, and then they then they said
<v Speaker 1>thank you, and then I left. I got out the door.
<v Speaker 1>I keep playing Orson Wells on there. I've been there
<v Speaker 1>ever since. Well that's good.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, so they have me and whenever they have Orson
<v Speaker 5>Wells perfect and whenever there's just like a character that
<v Speaker 5>Hank or Harry go, I don't really have this impression,
<v Speaker 5>and so they called me up perfect. But you know,
<v Speaker 5>the Simpsons getting the guest on that again, it's a
<v Speaker 5>beautiful thing. And as I said, I just did one
<v Speaker 5>last week. I can't tell you who I played, but
<v Speaker 5>it'll be an upcoming episode. And we're just hoping again
<v Speaker 5>for a pickup on Futurama. Yes, yes, yes, you know
<v Speaker 5>we are. Apparently as of this recording, they put out
<v Speaker 5>a little thing, uh in the in the you know
<v Speaker 5>the trades, that we were the sixth most streamed original
<v Speaker 5>programming in all of the myriad of original programming out
<v Speaker 5>on all streamers combined fantastic. So I think I'm not
<v Speaker 5>sure if for Hulu's most streamed, but we're definitely all
<v Speaker 5>of all of streaming's sixth most streamed show damn. So
<v Speaker 5>and that includes movies that so you know, I hope
<v Speaker 5>the algorithm, you know, goes more Hulu.
<v Speaker 1>We need more Hulu.
<v Speaker 5>I mean more Futurama.
<v Speaker 6>More.
<v Speaker 5>Let's get more Hulu, Futurama, Futurama, Hulu, Hulu Rama Future Lulu.
<v Speaker 5>We don't care. More and more and more.
<v Speaker 1>See we just see. I gave you some background, yeah little, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>just subteminal something.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, we hope.
<v Speaker 1>So so there's that.
<v Speaker 5>And picked up a couple of Rick and Mortis. Yeah yeah, no,
<v Speaker 5>Nda there. So I can tell you that.
<v Speaker 1>I'm you know, time to release those shows.
<v Speaker 5>They do they do quality control going on over Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>so you know they've.
<v Speaker 3>Been product phenomenal, show, been almost show. It's real frustrating
<v Speaker 3>as a fan though, it's like when when's the new one?
<v Speaker 3>Can kind of just forget about it for like two
<v Speaker 3>or three years, and then it's like, oh, yeah, that's.
<v Speaker 5>That's the that's the paradigm now with with entertainment, especially
<v Speaker 5>in the streaming ears, where they're making these short seasons
<v Speaker 5>of ten of everything, and then you wait three years
<v Speaker 5>for the next You know, how long do people who
<v Speaker 5>you know, I didn't watch the first season of Severance
<v Speaker 5>and and now I'm finally watching it, and coincidentally, you know,
<v Speaker 5>the second season came. But I understand people waited three
<v Speaker 5>years for the new.
<v Speaker 1>These new shows.
<v Speaker 5>So and you know, nineteen twenty three, again, there's only
<v Speaker 5>gonna be eight episodes, and what a powerhouse show that is? Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>you know, Yeah, but I long for the days when
<v Speaker 5>they made you do thirty nine episodes.
<v Speaker 1>You just knew you were working for a year, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>thirty nine or sixty five.
<v Speaker 3>There was one other topic that I wanted to bring
<v Speaker 3>up that the powers that be would be upset if
<v Speaker 3>we didn't. You have an infamous belch? Is that correct?
<v Speaker 1>The infamous belch? Yeah, when you need, when you need
<v Speaker 1>a serious.
<v Speaker 3>Burp slash belch may have been present for a Well
<v Speaker 3>Farrell if I'm not mistaken.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that's a sound effect. It's not a real belch.
<v Speaker 5>It's a sound effect that I've been doing since I
<v Speaker 5>was I old you. In grade five ten, I was
<v Speaker 5>ten years old. My dad used to take us on
<v Speaker 5>the weekends to you know, the bowling alley, and the
<v Speaker 5>next to the bowling alley.
<v Speaker 1>There was this convenience store.
<v Speaker 5>But they had comic books and they had that little
<v Speaker 5>carousel thing with jokes and gags, you know, and you
<v Speaker 5>got the joy buzzer in the you know, the yeah
<v Speaker 5>yeah yeah, and the plastic puke, you know, the rubber puke.
<v Speaker 5>And so I bought the rubber puke one weekend and
<v Speaker 5>I thought, I'm going to really do this right, you know, Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>I'm going to go to the bathroom, get it a
<v Speaker 5>little wet. Then I'm gonna's I was.
<v Speaker 1>Just gonna say, did you do that? I did that too,
<v Speaker 1>Get it wet, get it wet.
<v Speaker 5>But other people would just have left it on the
<v Speaker 5>floor and you know, have people freak out. But I thought,
<v Speaker 5>I gotta go full performance art with this. You know,
<v Speaker 5>I'm ten years old than thinking that. Okay, So I
<v Speaker 5>fold it, I pume it like like like I'm you know,
<v Speaker 5>and tell her world into one and I pum it
<v Speaker 5>and I put it up to my mouth in class
<v Speaker 5>and I start going and then in my mind, I'm going.
<v Speaker 5>You know, you're going to need a sound.
<v Speaker 1>Effect for this.
<v Speaker 5>Why don't you try a little tuven throat singing while
<v Speaker 5>doing a Georgie Jessel thing with your tongue to give
<v Speaker 5>yourself an echo. I didn't actually think of the approaching
<v Speaker 5>anybody would think of it. Uh So I just did
<v Speaker 5>this and I went and war and everybody was suitably horrified,
<v Speaker 5>and the nurse was called and she came in and
<v Speaker 5>she of course picked up the plastic puke, and then
<v Speaker 5>I was in big Trump, Big Trump. But I never
<v Speaker 5>forgot the feeling that sound. Yeah, and the feeling that
<v Speaker 5>had created in my throat because it hurts, and and
<v Speaker 5>and just how effective it was.
<v Speaker 1>People were like, yeah.
<v Speaker 5>And so that I would do that. They kept saying
<v Speaker 5>to it, rees, do the sound. You did, do the sound.
<v Speaker 5>So that sound became a sort of a scyntho bel
<v Speaker 5>synthopuke and and and then we cut to Animaniacs years later,
<v Speaker 5>where at sound Castle we're making the thing and they
<v Speaker 5>do the the great, the great wakarate. Jess Harnell's character
<v Speaker 5>Wacko is at the Hollywood Bowl and he can burp
<v Speaker 5>in pitch in in key and so he's doing classical music,
<v Speaker 5>but it's.
<v Speaker 1>You know, the Blue Daniel.
<v Speaker 5>Box and and and I guess somebody who worked on
<v Speaker 5>ELF saw that and said, get me that guy, because
<v Speaker 5>they had tried a bunch of electronic you know, you
<v Speaker 5>know sa yeah, stitching together burps and it just wasn't
<v Speaker 5>sounding right. So they said, get us the guy that
<v Speaker 5>burps for Wacko on Animaniacs. And it's a fifteen second long,
<v Speaker 5>sustained sound. And I did it in one take, but
<v Speaker 5>boy did it hurt. Oh yeah, And I get I
<v Speaker 5>still get residuals round about March. I get the Christmas
<v Speaker 5>checks for the streams, for the physical media they sell
<v Speaker 5>for that burp. And Will has never properly thanked.
<v Speaker 1>Me for that.
<v Speaker 5>You gotta love that. I will see him again. I
<v Speaker 5>work with him on the Oblongs and uh yeah, I
<v Speaker 5>love that shot little utility voice player on the Oblongs.
<v Speaker 5>He was very nice, but I don't know if he
<v Speaker 5>even knows that I was the guy who broke for him.
<v Speaker 1>But one day I'll meet him and I was your
<v Speaker 1>stunt Burt. Yeah you hear that, Will, I know you're watching. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's right, you damn right.
<v Speaker 5>He is along with all the casting directors.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right, Maury slamm.
<v Speaker 5>Oh yes, I.
<v Speaker 1>Used to have this thing when when we would just
<v Speaker 1>start off a show Ladies and gentle, but Maury's slommo.
<v Speaker 1>It's Saturday Night Live, no.
<v Speaker 5>One day. I'd love to He makes it sound so real.
<v Speaker 5>It's the best Don Pardo in the business.
<v Speaker 1>Got you.
<v Speaker 5>I mean not that I Darryl Hammond to work, but
<v Speaker 5>you you, you really nailed the Don Pardo sound. They'd
<v Speaker 5>be seamless from you know, the the the original, the
<v Speaker 5>original episodes to now you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, great, oh man, good stuff. Do you think it's
<v Speaker 1>voice swap time?
<v Speaker 5>I do, indeed, voice swamp voice. Oh yes, Oh, I
<v Speaker 5>don't think I got that far along.
<v Speaker 1>It's a little little game that we like to play.
<v Speaker 5>Oh I don't think i've I took a little sample
<v Speaker 5>of the show, but I never got to this point.
<v Speaker 1>So tell me about voice okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well
<v Speaker 1>you pick up one of your signature characters, uh, and
<v Speaker 1>throw out a signature line, and then I'll take one
<v Speaker 1>of my signature characters and do and do a bad
<v Speaker 1>impression of it.
<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, yeah, So you'll do the same line for
<v Speaker 3>each other's characters, right, yes, in the respective one here.
<v Speaker 5>It is, so here we go, the same thing we
<v Speaker 5>do every night, Pinky.
<v Speaker 1>Try to take over the world.
<v Speaker 3>Ah, perhaps, Hondo, I was just about to say, because
<v Speaker 3>there could be something coming from a galaxy far far away.
<v Speaker 1>There could be.
<v Speaker 5>The same thing we do every night, Pinky, we.
<v Speaker 1>Try to take over the world. Love it?
<v Speaker 5>Yes, I think.
<v Speaker 1>And let's see.
<v Speaker 3>About I was thinking about fuzzy Lumpkins on the way here.
<v Speaker 3>I was trying to think about characters that we don't
<v Speaker 3>really do.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's true from the Powerpuff Girls. Okay, I
<v Speaker 1>play a bumpkin named Lumpkin, and and his whole stick
<v Speaker 1>is he's a hillbilly out there and nowhere Bill who knows,
<v Speaker 1>And he said get off my perday.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, so let me try that as doctor Elon Spangler
<v Speaker 5>from Oh.
<v Speaker 1>Here we go, get off of my property. Yes, you
<v Speaker 1>sound just like you.
<v Speaker 5>How about oh am, I supposed to do it like
<v Speaker 5>I wasol to take your character and say it in
<v Speaker 5>my voice, right, yeah, right right, okay, yeah, and then
<v Speaker 5>I can do the brain going oh bother, I would
<v Speaker 5>do that for a schmackerel of honey. Yes, oh mother.
<v Speaker 1>I would do that for a smackerel of honey.
<v Speaker 5>I'm sorry, Smackerrel. It's the Jewish and the maybe.
<v Speaker 1>Schmeckron such a schmack. There's a joke in there. If
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<v Speaker 4>Yes, I can do Kiff? I would do that for
<v Speaker 4>a smackerel honey, which is to shave Captain Brannigan's armpits.
<v Speaker 1>Oh thanks. I love Billy West's man.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's so perfect. It's another it's another thing where
<v Speaker 5>the chemistry of the two characters feed off of each other.
<v Speaker 5>And and so I mean, I I need I can't
<v Speaker 5>record Kiff by myself because I need him there. I
<v Speaker 5>need to know exactly how beleagued is Kiff. In this
<v Speaker 5>tech you can only do that by listening, you know,
<v Speaker 5>acting is listening and listen to the bluster of what
<v Speaker 5>Billy bring us to app I know exactly how down,
<v Speaker 5>down trodden to Kiff in that moment. Oh man, yeah, beautiful, beautiful.
<v Speaker 1>I'm so glad you made it.
<v Speaker 5>Thank you so very much. It was tough getting past
<v Speaker 5>the guard.
<v Speaker 1>But do you explain to him that you were trying
<v Speaker 1>to take over the world, trying to take over the
<v Speaker 1>world starting here?
<v Speaker 5>What I did was I became William Shatner and I
<v Speaker 5>had a Star Trek fight with him, and then we
<v Speaker 5>go to a long shot and it's a completely different
<v Speaker 5>guy with a blonde wig on going.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm gonna look up the lyrics to that song.
<v Speaker 3>I don't believe that song has lyrics. Yeah, the Starshrek.
<v Speaker 1>Theme song has lyrics. Have never heard?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah it does.
<v Speaker 1>Here it is. I don't believe you.
<v Speaker 5>What are the lyrics to Star Trek? What I think
<v Speaker 5>I'm in the keys? What are the lyrics to Star Trek?
<v Speaker 1>Watch this I'm providing mood music. The lyrics to Star
<v Speaker 1>Trek theme song are as follows. Beyond the rim of
<v Speaker 1>the Starlight, my love is wandering in starflight. I know
<v Speaker 1>you'll find in.
<v Speaker 7>Star clustered reaches, love strange, love a star woman teaches
<v Speaker 7>I know his journey ends never his star track.
<v Speaker 1>That was brilliant and that's how you do it.
<v Speaker 3>Kids, taking us so funny. Well, thank every Thank you
<v Speaker 3>everybody for watching Burleie, Maurice Lamar, Thank you everybody for
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<v Speaker 3>In the beginning we're going to start announcing where Jim
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<v Speaker 1>All Right, that was wonderful, Hey I was, And now
<v Speaker 1>the real conversation stuff, so yeah, that's right now that
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