Stellar advice and tips about what it takes to make it in the VO biz.

Stacey

reads another great viewer email from Charlene in Seattle and Chuck

reminds viewers if they like the show they can support it through the

website’s SUPPORT page. Time to chat with the Emmy and Annie award

winning VO superstar, Maurice LaMarche, who engagingly shares how he

sometimes gets a little lazy about his appearance being a voice actor

and the benefits of being the spokesperson for Lexus.

He takes us

through how he made the transition from stand-up comedian to voice

actor and tells a story about his very first gig doing Inspector Gadget

with Don Adams.

Maurice offers advice and specific tips about

what he thinks it takes to make it in the business today, recalling that

it took him a year of auditioning before he booked his first job. He

stresses the importance of the relationship in any script whether it’s

for Lexus commercials or in animation like working with Rob Paulsen on

Pinky and the Brain.

He addresses the question of whether or not

he still auditions everyday and talks about his process of creating

characters. He shares how he records his multiple characters in Futurama

with fellow cast members Billy West, Katey Segal, Phil LaMarr, Lauren

Tom and John DiMaggio.

The episode closes with Maurice doing some

of his first, stellar impersonations of entertainment icons Peter Falk

and Tony Curtis and how the years he spent studying and perfecting his

Orson Welles impersonation changed the course of his career.

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