Okay I know I pretty much never post on this journal anymore - now that I'm back on my regular computer I hopefully will be around more; posting from
giftedlinguist has been taking up most of my LJ-related attention span. But this was too good not to share ASAP. For those of you who don't know, Maurice LaMarche is a voice actor from, among other things, Futurama and Animaniacs (most famously he was the voice of Brain in "Pinky and The Brain"). Anyway, here are his tips on how to do a great William Shatner impression in 3 easy steps. He's amazing. Start practicing for "Talk Like William Shatner Day" on March 22nd.
For your further edification, the two recording session debacles that he refers to/imitates are behind the cut:
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In addition he refers to the famous Orson Welles outtakes which, if you haven't heard already, you should look up as well.
Mkay, time to go back to backtracking like 300 flist entries...