Name: The Voice Behind 250 of Your Favorite Cartoons
Uploaded: 2018-03-22T08:07:11.000Z
Duration: 3 min 28 s
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[Narrator] Tell me if this voice sounds familiar.

[Man] In brightest day, in blackest night.

[Narrator] Okay, you definitely know this one.

[Narrator] We could easily keep going through his 300 other characters

This is Phil LaMarr, and he's a voice actor.

I'd say the ones that I'm probably best known for,

Virgil, Virgil Hawkins, aka Static Shock,

John Stewart, Green Lantern, from “Justice League.”

Ollie Williams, the weatherman, from “Family Guy.”

Wilt, from “Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.”

from “Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.”

And of course, the samurai known as Jack, from the cities of the same name.

He who wears a mask cannot see what lies within himself.

When I was working on “Pulp Fiction,”

(record scratches) [Narrator] Wait, you were in “Pulp Fiction”?

I'd knock that (expletive) off if I was you.

[Phil] And I was one of the original cast members on Fox's“MADtv.”

Then you must have been a 14-year-old boy in the '90s.

[Narrator] Very funny, Phil, anyway, you were saying?

- With Samurai Jack I felt there should be some tie to his roots.

So it was a very light Japanese accent on English,

we began to refer to as a young Asian Clint Eastwood voice.

[Narrator] And Hermes from “Futurama,”

When I first started out doing the Jamaican accent for Hermes,

so eventually your Hermes accent got pulled back,

[Narrator] What about John Stewart from “Justice League”?

My name is John Stewart, Green Lantern of Sector 2814.

That voice was basically just myself at 14.

It was just that idea of, you know, a young kid,

you know, who's a responsible guy but, you know,

he just happens to have electrical powers.

And to me, that is the character I relate to the most.

The differences between stage, film, voice acting

If that plane leaves and you're not on it,

One of the benefits we have in animation is,

I can play this guy, and I can also play this guy.

Just right there in the same day, same room,

same microphone, you know 'cause that's why we got into it, to play characters.

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The Voice Behind 250 of Your Favorite Cartoons

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