Published by Joe on 30 Jun 2009 at 10:47 pm
June 30, 2009
One of my favorite pics taken during a Rocko’s Modern Life recording session of Tom Kenny and Carlos Alazraqui. I think it’s true that a cartoon character can possess the actor who does the voice. I think this photo of Heffer and Rocko proves it.
Had lunch today with my good friend Tom Kenny ( voice of Spongebob, Heffer, Scoutmaster Lumpus among zillions of other characters).
All I can say is, what an amazing human. For all of his success, he is still so down to earth with a heart of gold.
Thats all.
Jane on 30 Jun 2009 at 11:38 pm #
In a post you wrote a few months ago (before the hacking happened?) you talked about people’s confidence and how it related to their talent. You mentioned that on one hand, you’d dealt with animators whose blind faith in their amazing skills didn’t save them from producing poor work. Then you went on to say that the likes of Tom Kenny seemed to have no concept of how truly brilliant they were. That’s really stuck with me. I hope you and Mr. Kenny get to join forces for another project someday!
Dan McCormick on 01 Jul 2009 at 11:55 am #
I’ve always enjoyed seeing film/video of voice actors doing their characters. Maybe it’s just the surreal nature of hearing the voice of an anthropomorphic sponge come out of a regular-looking Joe. The video of the voice recordings were the best part of the first Spongebob DVD back in 2002.
Times like this, I wish someone had filmed Mel Blanc during his taping sessions. I can just envision him doing the voice of the Dog from the end of the Foghorn Leghorn short, “Sock a Doodle Doo”. Imagine seeing Mel being quiet one moment, and then going, “Whoa-hoo-hoo-hoooo Nelly!!! Bring on the dancing goils! Bay-bee!!! Twenty-three skidoo!!!”
Connor O'Brien on 01 Jul 2009 at 5:14 pm #
out of curiousity, did you and Tom talk about any of the mild controversy of one of those characters he played in a recent film (for the record I acknowledge that it was completely the directors fault, not Toms). I would understand if you don’t want to comment.
Joe on 01 Jul 2009 at 6:30 pm #
I’m not sure what you are talking about.
Joe
Kris on 01 Jul 2009 at 8:44 pm #
I think Connor is referring to the two robots in the new Transformers movie that some people took to be racist caricatures. I spotted and article on it the other day, the whole thing is pretty ridiculous, in my opinion.
Tom always did seem like a nice guy, from videos I’ve seen. Nice to hear it’s true
Mr. Semaj on 01 Jul 2009 at 9:48 pm #
Tom Kenny is a super talented voice artist, and I’m always surprised at how many voices he can take on. I don’t think anyone can do SpongeBob the way he can.
Noel Doss on 02 Jul 2009 at 10:14 am #
Tom Kenny rules I love when he plays that beaver Character on Camp Lazlo that character is one of my favorites.
Tommy on 03 Jul 2009 at 12:06 am #
I love to hear Tom Kenny’s voice by Time-to-Time. Someone should give this a Myspace.
P.S. He would be great for “Fish-Head” also Alazraqui would need a role.
Reg on 17 Jul 2009 at 3:15 am #
Aw, man.
Legends.