Podcasts about Samurai Jack

This week I sit down with Samurai Jack Storyboard Artist Chris Mitchell to chat all things Samurai Jack, Chris Reccardi and an ep of Jack that was deleted.   Join our Patreon: patreon.com/nmyheadpod   Follow Chris: https://www.instagram.com/kikaida/ Checkout his store: https://qpopshop.com/   Follow Us On Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nmyheadpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmyheadpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/nmyheadpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatsInMyHeadPodcast/featured   Don't forget to subscribe and follow us across all social media platforms Intro Audio By: Lakey Inspired   #SamuraiJack #GenndyTartakovsky #CartoonNetwork #CartoonNetworkStudios #ScottWills #Aku #Animation #Cartoons #AdultSwim

Star Wars: Clone Wars – The Forgotten 2D Micro-SeriesThe Star Wars Generations podcast dives into one of the earliest Star Wars animated series—the 2003–2005 Clone Wars 2D micro-series. Released between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, this unique series introduced several key characters and plot points that would later become staples of Star Wars lore.How does this series differ from the later Clone Wars show? The hosts explore how the micro-series format, with episodes ranging from 3 to 15 minutes, allowed for experimental storytelling and distinctive animation styles. They discuss the series' origins as both a bridge between movies and a vehicle for toy sales.What made the show's portrayal of Force powers unique? The hosts examine how Jedi abilities were depicted more dramatically than in other Star Wars media, particularly in scenes featuring Mace Windu and other masters demonstrating their full capabilities.Key topics discussed:The first appearances of characters like General Grievous and Asajj VentressThe show's unique atmospheric storytelling and minimal-dialogue approachThe series' connection to Samurai Jack creator Genndy TartakovskyHow the show bridges directly into Revenge of the SithThe portrayal of Anakin's relationship with Obi-Wan and the lingering influence of Qui-GonCharacter designs that never made it to other parts of the Star Wars universeThe series' balance of serious character moments with humorThe kidnapping of Chancellor Palpatine on CoruscantThe episode concludes with the hosts debating whether certain elements from this experimental series should have carried over into later Star Wars productions, while acknowledging its place as an interesting artifact of early 2000s Star Wars animation. **************************************************************************This episode is a production of Star Wars Generations, a The Ethical Panda Podcast and part of the TruStory FM Entertainment Podcast Network. Check our our website to find out more about this and our sister podcast Superhero Ethics.We want to hear from you! You can keep up with our latest news, and send us feedback, questions, or comments via social media or email.Email: Matthew@TheEthicalPanda.comFacebook: TheEthicalPandaInstagram: TheEthicalPandaPodcastsTwitter: EthicalPanda77Or you can join jump into the Star Wars Generations and Superhero Ethics channels on the TruStory FM Discord.To learn more about co-host Erin and her incredible cosplay check out her Instagram, LadyTanoCreates.Want to get access to even more content while supporting the podcast? Become a member! For $5 a month, or $55 a year you get access to bonus episodes and bonus content at the end of most episodes. Sign up on the podcast's main page you can even give membership as a gift!You can also support our podcasts through our sponsors:Purchase a lightsaber from Level Up Sabers run by friend of the podcast Neighborhood Master AlanUse Audible for audiobooks. Sign up for a one year membership or gift one through this link.Purchase any media discussed this week through our sponsored links.

In this milestone episode 400 of the Fortress of the Comic News podcast, hosts Chris and Mike reflect on their journey, celebrate the significance of reaching 400 episodes, and dive into a variety of topics including the legacy of Conan the Barbarian, new comic releases, the Creature Commandos animated series, the Madden documentary, the future of Sony's Spider-Man universe, casting news for Avengers Doomsday, and the exciting announcement of a Clayface horror movie. They also share their emotional experiences watching the documentary about Christopher Reeve, highlighting his legacy and impact on the disabled community. In this episode, the hosts discuss the emotional impact of disability through the lens of a documentary about Christopher Reeves, the competitive landscape of podcasting, and various comic book news and announcements. They also share their thoughts on recent comic book releases, highlighting the importance of storytelling and character development in both DC and Marvel universes. In the engaging interview with Jim Zub they discusses his journey in the comic book industry, focusing on his work with iconic characters like Conan the Barbarian and his experiences writing for Dungeons & Dragons and Samurai Jack. He shares insights into the creative process, the importance of character voice, and the challenges of transitioning between different publishers. Zub emphasizes the significance of storytelling in comics and the joy of connecting with fans through his work. Jim Zub's Socials: X – @JimZub BlueSky - @jimzub.bsky.social Instagram - @Jim_Zub https://www.jimzub.com/ https://titan-comics.com/graphic-novels/?tag__creator=jim-zub https://www.youtube.com/@JimZub https://jimzub.substack.com/ Comics we discuss in this episode: Shiver Suspenstories #1 JSA #2 DC Horror Presents #1-2 DC Horror Presents: Creature Commandos #1-3 Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #3 Shazam #15 Batman: Dark Patterns #1 Batman #155 Absolute Superman #2 The Ultimates #7 Blade #2 Ultimate Universe: One Year In #1 Get your Fortress Comics merchandise with the link below https://www.teepublic.com/user/fortress-comics FortressofComicNews.com https://chriscomicscorner.substack.com/ YouTube.com/FortressComics Find Chris: https://bio.site/chrisrundt Mike twitter @fortressricker Patreon.com/FortressComics https://www.tiktok.com/@chriscomicscorner Thanks for Listening! #marvel #marvelcomics #mcu #dccomics #comicbooks #comicnews #podcast #indiecomics #batman

ATLANTIS & THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE!!  Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Hotel Transylvania 3 Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en It's another Animation Monday, so Tara Erickson & John are BACK to hang with some of their favorite animated movie monsters as they give their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Breakdown, Analysis, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for the 3rd film in the Franchise directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Primal). While on their Summer Vacation, Count Dracula & company participate in a cruise for sea-loving monsters -- unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the monster-hating Van Helsing family!! Part 3 features the additions of Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along, Step Brothers) as Ericka & Jim Gaffigan (Super Troopers, Hotel Transylvania 4, Bob's Burgers) as Van Helsing along with Adam Sandler as Count Dracula along with Selena Gomez as Mavis & Andy Samberg as Jonathan + Keving James as Frankenstein, Steve Buscemi as Wade the Werewolf, David Spade as The Invisible Man, Keegan Michael Key as Murray the Mummy, & Fran Drescher as The Bride. The Voice cast also includes Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Molly Shannon, Dana Carvey, Rob Riggle, Mel Brooks, Chris Kattan, & MORE! Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DRAC IS BACK!! Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Hotel Transylvania 2 Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en We're headed out to our favorite Supernatural Hotel for another Animation Monday as John & Tara Erickson CONTINUE the Hotel Transylvania journey they started many moons ago! This time, Dracula & his friends attempt to bring out the monster in his half-human, half-vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel... The Sequel sees Director Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, The Warriors Eternal) returning along with the voice talents of Adam Sandler as Dracula along with Selena Gomez as Mavis & Andy Samberg as Jonathan + Keving James as Frankenstein, Steve Buscemi as Wade the Werewolf, David Spade as The Invisible Man, Keegan Michael Key as Murray the Mummy, & Fran Drescher as The Bride. The Voice cast also includes Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Molly Shannon, Dana Carvey, Rob Riggle, Mel Brooks, Chris Kattan, & MORE! John & Tara REACT To all the Best Scenes & most hilarious moments including Drac's Social Media Game, Werewolf Birthday Party, Wayne the Were-Wussy, Learning to Fly, Camp Vamp, You Can't Change Him, Dennis Gets His Fangs, Family Bat Fight, I'm in Love with a Monster, Dennis Loses His Baby Teeth, the Monster Party Scene, & Beyond! Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Dustin d'Arnault, a Los Angeles-based character designer and visual development artist whose work spans print, television, and film. Dustin shares his experiences working on high-profile projects like The Book of Life, Samurai Jack, Maya & the Three, and Nickelodeon's upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature. We also explored the craft of illustration, discussed traditional drawing and painting techniques, and got his insights on breaking into the visual development, concept art, and character design fields.Kickstart Your Art Career with Visual Arts Passage | Online Art ClassesAre you ready to turn your passion for art into a thriving career? Visual Arts Passage offers top-tier online art classes in Illustration and Fine Arts, designed to help you master the skills you need to succeed in the competitive world of art and design. Our courses are taught by world-renowned mentors who have worked with industry leaders in publishing, entertainment, and fine art.

Cameron's back and he's wanting to talk the classic 2D Clone Wars series! Before the 3D series we've come to know and love was a micro-series put together by the team behind Samurai Jack. Tyler had never seen it and your boys have a great time discussing it. Plus, we discuss the reports that Disney will be cutting back on Star Wars TV and Tyler updates his Star Wars Outlaws experience. Hosts: Cameron Porter, Tyler Bodkins  Podcast Production & Music: Tyler Bodkins Additional Engineering: Jake Goude You can check out our Patreon for bonus content, access to our Discord server, and more over at patreon.com/starwarsafterparty if you'd like. We hope it can add to your enjoyment of Star Wars content as well as be a place where fun and civil discourse occurs and excitement is shared. We'd be honored if you would join us.  If you'd like to support the podcast in other ways, here's how to do so. Keep listening first off, send the podcast to a friend, subscribe/follow and leave a rating and review. We greatly appreciate you checking us out! For contact, hit us up at starwarsafterparty@gmail.com. Let us know your thoughts and maybe we'll read them on air! Until next time, this party is over. 

This week I sit down with Samurai Jack Art Director Dan Krall and we are talking everything Samurai Jack!Join our Patreon: patreon.com/nmyheadpodFollow Dan Krall: https://www.instagram.com/dan_krall_animation/Join Dan's Patreon: patreon.com/DanKrallAnimationFollow Us On Social Media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nmyheadpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmyheadpodTwitter: https://twitter.com/nmyheadpodYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatsInMyHeadPodcast/featuredPodcast Sponsor: Animation DestinationInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationdestination/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/263EAbcFHuPBECSplwQ6ta?si=3782198b410c44f7Don't forget to subscribe and follow us across all social media platformsIntro Audio By: Lakey Inspired

Host Octaviano revisits the introduction movie of one of the greatest cartoons of all time, Samurai Jack.

Wir machen weiter mit den Interviews. Unsere Fragen richten sich dieses Mal an Phil LaMarr: Sprecher von Hermes & Dwight Conrad, Bubblegum Tate, Preacherbot bei Futurama. Darüber hinaus hat Phil bei Pulp Fiction mitgespielt, war Teil der Originalbesetzung von MadTV, hat Vamp in Metal Gear Solid gesprochen, Samurai Jack, Static Shock. Wir könnten noch lange so weiter machen. Hört einfach rein, wie auch schon beim letzten Mal ist das Interview auf Englisch und wir kommentieren und erklären auf Deutsch. 

It's episode 250 of the Cryptid Creator Corner podcast and we got a good one for you today. Breakout comics writer Murewa Ayodele joins me to talk about two of his projects, Akogun: Brutalizer of the Gods from Oni Press co-created with friend and artist Dotun Akande and Storm, everyone's favorite elemental omega mutant in an solo ongoing series with artist Lucas Werneck for Marvel that relaunches the X-Men franchise as a part of the larger From the Ashes storyline this fall. We get into what the local comics scene looks like there in Nigeria, some of what makes up his comics DNA as a writer (spoiler Samurai Jack among other things,) and how a background in software engineering can be applied to writing comics. It's a fantastic chat that gave me an opportunity to dust off my minimal Yoruba skills from university days, hopefully I pulled it off. Murewa is such a positive and open person. It was a true pleasure to talk with him. From Oni Press In an age thought forgotten . . . when man, monster, and the divine all strode the Earth . . . a lone warrior emerges to test the immortality of the cruel gods who would deal destruction with impunity . . . He is a one-man reckoning that stands in defiance of his divine masters with a sword in hand and a thirst for godblood. His name: AKOGUN THE BRUTALIZER! In the tradition of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Thor, and the best-selling God of War franchise, superstars-in-the-making Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande—the creative duo behind I Am Iron Man and Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood—usher in a new epoch of African dark fantasy on the ancient continent of Alkebulan with a mythic cycle of cosmic destiny and unrelenting warfare colliding man against god . . . and blade against blade! Told across three powerful oversize bi-monthly chapters, steady your mind and spirit for a glorious new comics milestone revealing the fabled origin and battle-tested fury of . . . Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods! From Marvel EARTH'S MIGHTIEST MUTANT, NOW HEADLINING HER OWN SOLO SERIES! Ororo Munroe has lived many lives. She's been a thief, a goddess, an X-Man, a queen and now an Avenger! She is the most prominent, most respected and most powerful mutant on the world stage – and in that role, she intends to be a force for positive change! First up: A major meltdown at a nuclear facility in Oklahoma City draws Storm from her Sanctuary in Atlanta – and into a moral conflict that will test her iron resolve! Guest-starring X-FACTOR's FRENZY! Our episode sponsor Arkenforge Play TTRPG games? Make sure to check out our partner Arkenforge. They have everything you need to make your TTRPG more fun and immersive, allowing you to build, play, and export animated maps including in person fog of war capability that let's your players interact with maps as the adventure unfolds while you, the DM get the full picture. Use the discount code YETI5 to get $5 off your order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the 78th episode of Triple KO!Triple K.O. is a bi-weekly fighting game podcast featuring Matt McMuscles, Maximilian Dood, and Justin Wong.Joining us this work for discussion is fighting game tournament organizer, commentator and show host LI Joe!  We discuss EVO Las Vegas 2024, speculate on the future of the event and future competitive titles, talk more about the forthcoming Marvel vs Capcom Arcade collection, Tekken 8's latest updates & surprises and more!*SHOW CHAPTERS*    =================[00:00:00] Intro![00:00:08] EVO Las Vegas 2024 Discussion[00:12:55] MvC2 Quirks and Port Differences[00:18:04] Hayao Captivates EVO[00:25:37] SVC Capcom Surprise Shadow Drop[00:28:29] Kevin Rian City of the Wolves Reveal Trailer[00:33:21] Mature & Vice Teaser Trailer[00:39:30] New Art of Fighting/Samurai Shodown Action RPG Announcement[00:41:53] Street Fighter 6 Terry Bogard Reveal Trailer[00:47:34] Guilty Gear Strive Character and Gameplay Updates[00:52:43] Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising new character and Gameplay Features Announcements[00:54:25] Orcane Announcement for Rivals 2[00:55:47] Samurai Jack & Beetlejuice are coming to MultiVersus![00:57:35] The Future of EVO, Future Competitive Game Titles[01:06:16] Heiachi Meshima... Is ALIVE!![01:19:16] Outro!Matt McMuscleshttps://www.youtube.com/c/MattMcMuscleshttps://twitter.com/MattMcMusclesMaximilian Doodhttps://www.youtube.com/user/Miles923https://twitter.com/maximilian_Justin Wonghttps://www.youtube.com/user/IAintJWonghttps://twitter.com/jwongggLong Island Joehttps://www.youtube.com/@thisislijoehttps://x.com/thisislijoe?lang=enIntro music by Little V Millshttps://twitter.com/LittleVMillsTripleKO voiceover by Gianni Matragranohttps://twitter.com/GetGianniLogo Design by Lee Mounsey-Smithhttps://twitter.com/leemounseysmithGraphics by Deonte Martin & Brandt Cooleyhttps://twitter.com/KAINONAUTEditing by Tom Keelyhttps://twitter.com/Kilgore777Produced by Screenwave Mediahttps://screenwavemedia.com#TKO #TripleKO #TKOPodcast #EVO2024 #LasVegas #Tekken8 #Heiachi #CapcomFightingCollection #MarvelvsCapcom #MvC2 #JustinWong #MattMcMuscles #MaximilianDood #Granblue #GuiltyGear #SNK #Mature #Vice #Rivals2 #MultiVersus #KevinRian #CityoftheWolves #ArtofFighting

Gen Con is only a few days away now, and I was lucky enough to get at least one more guest in the studio to talk about the big convention. Today it's our old friend, Jim Zub! Jim is best known for his work in the comic book industry, which he has been creating since he self-published Makeshift Miracle in 2001. Over the past 21 years, he has created a vast library of titles ranging from creator-owned books like Wayward, Skullkickers, Glitterbomb, and Stone Star - to big-name properties such as Samurai Jack, Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Uncanny Avengers, Wolverine, and even a Rick and Morty / D&D crossover. These days Jim is writing for Conan the Barbarian and continues to work away at more upcoming A Young Adventurer's Guide books. So please, grab a seat and join in. Gen Con Links: -> ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠Twitch⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ Jim's Links: -> Facebook⁠ -> Instagram -> Twitter⁠ -> Patreon -> Website -> YouTube The Corner of Story and Game: -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gerald@storyandgame.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please let me know if you have any questions or comments on this or any other episode. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear more conversations with professionals in the video game, tabletop, and fiction industries. #GenCon #JimZub #ComicBookWriter #GameWriter #DungeonsAndDragons #WritingAdvice #ConanTheBarbarian #PathfinderComics #D&DComics #TheCornerOfStoryAndGame #PodcastsToListenTo #Narratology #Ludology

And on the next episode of Who Would Win...We are going sword to sword on a battle between an immortal and a time traveler!Will Cartoon Network's Samurai Jack (Repped by Ray) bring it down or will The Yet to be revealed Highlander (Repped by James) be the only one? Special Guest Judge Kevin Gootee is back again and he's got his work___CUT___out for him!!!You can now support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/WhoWouldWinShowCheck out the Who Would Win YouTube Channel!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvvgEElLPGQG2GXkqMhQ5JwCheck out our brand new Who Would Win Merch Store:WhoWouldWinStore.comCheck out Factor: http://factor75.comFollow us on Twitter: @WhoWouldWinShow @JamesGavsie @KevinGooteeFollow us on Threads: @AlmightyRay316MUSIC:"Makai Symphony - The Army of Minotaur" is under a Creative Commons music (CC BY-SA 3.0).   / makai-symphony  Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/the-army-minotaur-song&music by Twisterium / freebackgroundtracks.netWhoWouldWinShow.tvSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/who-would-win/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Superman Series Updates, Samurai Jack Joins MultiVersus, Doctor Jeckyll New Trailer, Arcane Season 2 Clip. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's Daily Fix:Since the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine movie is a team-up, it just makes sense for that Xbox Deadpool butt controller to get a partner, too. So of course Microsoft would tease a Wolverine-themed controller, complete with a curvy backside—unfortunately just like the Deadpool one you can't just buy this. You'll have to check Microsoft's Instagram account for details. In EVO 2024 news, Bandai Namco has announced the return of a popular Tekken character. And on the other side of fighting games, MultiVersus is also getting two new characters: Beetlejuice and Samurai Jack.

Samurai Jack debuted on Cartoon Network back in August 2001. Being sent into the future by evil wizard Aku, Samurai Jack makes it his mission to try return to the past and undue everything Aku has done. For this episode, William, Tyrone, and Brandon discuss their memories of Samurai Jack and discuss why it should be considered an honorary anime. Join in on the conversation and get the latest updates on the podcast by following Comic Talkers on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @comictalkers. Also, let us know what you love about Samurai Jack! You can listen to Comic Talkers on: Spotify For Podcasters - ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/comictalkers⁠ Apple Podcasts - ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/.../comic-talkers/id1560772306⁠⁠⁠ Spotify - ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0mLHZQajx81j0iFDqD1vGE?si=9b8f2313487d463f

Rebecca and Tori are joined by some special guests, including Zebby the dog, to discuss the first three episodes of The Mandalorian Season 1. We get to hear a great Werner Herzog imitation, identify Easter eggs, and simply have a blast talking about the episodes with our guests.YouTube | Ice Cream CamtonoYouTube | Baby Yoda Love SongWatch Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian | Disney+The Mandalorian episode 3 answers an old Star Wars fan mystery - PolygonSamurai Jack: The essential episodes - PolygonThe Mandalorian episode 2 is basically Samurai Jack for Star Wars - PolygonStar Wars Bet Mandalorians Ranked

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! Today, we're slicing through cinema and animation with a focus on legendary blades. We'll kick off with our top 5 iconic swords in film and television, explore the philosophical depths of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and then jump into the animated adventures of Samurai Jack.Top 5 Iconic Swords in Film and Television:Excalibur from "Excalibur" (1981) - The legendary sword of King Arthur, symbolizing true power and right to rule, is one of the most iconic blades in cinematic history, rich in myth and magic.The Bride's Hattori Hanzo Sword in "Kill Bill" - Crafted by the legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzo, this sword is central to Uma Thurman's quest for vengeance in Quentin Tarantino's stylized action saga.Sting from "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" - Frodo's and Bilbo's elven-made blade that glows blue in the presence of orcs, combining utility with elven elegance.Lightsabers from "Star Wars" - Though technically energy weapons, lightsabers function as swords with their distinct hum and combat style, becoming cultural icons synonymous with space opera heroics.Longclaw from "Game of Thrones" - Jon Snow's Valyrian steel sword, bestowed upon him by Lord Commander Mormont, symbolizes his growth from a bastard son to a leader and protector.Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Forest Whitaker, is a unique blend of American gangster cinema and the samurai tradition. The film follows Ghost Dog, a hitman who lives by the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book "Hagakure." The movie explores themes of loyalty, honor, and the clash between old-world values and modern realities. It's a thoughtful, meditative approach to the crime genre that uses the way of the samurai to delve into existential questions.Samurai Jack, created by Genndy Tartakovsky, is an animated series that follows a samurai prince who wields a magical sword in his relentless quest to defeat the shape-shifting demon Aku. Known for its visual style that blends Eastern and Western aesthetics, the show is celebrated for its storytelling, art direction, and the way it addresses themes of good versus evil. It's not only entertaining for kids but also captivates adults with its depth and creativity.Whether you're fascinated by the legendary swords that have defined heroes and villains alike, drawn to the philosophical musings of a modern-day samurai, or a fan of animated adventures that span time and space, today's episode promises sharp insights and cutting-edge entertainment. Join us as we celebrate these blades and their bearers in another thrilling installment of Bad Dads Film Review.

Phil LaMarr is an actor, improviser and writer and is perhaps best known as one of the original cast members of MAD TV, the voice of SAMURAI JACK, “Hermes” on FUTURAMA, “Static” on STATIC SHOCK, “Green Lantern” on JUSTICE LEAGUE and as "Marvin" in PULP FICTION. For over 30 years, Phil has thrilled audiences with his work on camera and behind the mic on tv shows such as Family Guy, Young Justice, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Flash, Supergirl, Get Shorty, Lucifer, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Veep; feature films like Madagascar 2, Incredibles 2, and The Lion King (2019) and video games including Jak & Daxter, Fortnite, Shadow of Mordor, and The Metal Gear Solid, Injustice and Mortal Kombat series. His stage work includes productions with the actor's gang, south coast repertory, sacred fools theatre, and Phil also portrayed “Cowboy Curtis” in "The Pee-wee Herman show" both on at the Stephen Sondheim theatre on Broadway and in the Emmy-nominated HBO special. Currently, in addition to writing and producing the animated series "Goblins," (goblinsanimated.com), Phil is performing monthly onstage with "the black version" (theblackversion.com), performing onscreen in Hamster & Gretel, The Craig of the Creek Movie, Invincible, Mulligan, AMC's Cooper‘s bar, a new season of Futurama on HULU and performing the role of “Sherlock Holmes” in Audible's series Moriarty. We chat about the courage to walk ones path, old school thinking, Futurama, Mad TV, Improv, his many voices, when shows come back, gratitude towards the fans, rejection, value of your art, Pulp Fiction and paving the way. The video footage of this entire chat is now out as well (one day after release)! So check them out on YouTube under Michael Kahan Check Phil out on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phillamarr Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@phillamarr X / Twitter: https://x.com/phillamarr Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/phillamarr Website: https://www.phillamarr.com/ The Black Version: https://www.theblackversion.com/

In this episode Mike Suderman joins me in talking about a samurai warrior who was flung into the future where aku's evil is law with Samurai Jack.

Anna and Paul discuss swords, Miyamoto Mushashi, phase diagrams, Samurai Jack, studying the blade, Ghost Dog, Guinness World Records, steel, and dueling. Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

A Los Angeles native, Phil is an alumnus of Yale University and The Groundlings Theater and is perhaps best known as one of the original cast members of MAD TV, the voice of SAMURAI JACK, “Hermes” on FUTURAMA,  “Static” on STATIC SHOCK, “Green Lantern” on JUSTICE LEAGUE and as "Marvin" in PULP FICTION. For over 30 years, Phil has thrilled audiences with his work on camera and behind the mic on TV shows such as FAMILY GUY, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, STAR TREK:LOWER DECKS, THE FLASH, SUPERGIRL, GET SHORTY, LUCIFER, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and VEEP; feature films like MADAGASCAR 2, INCREDIBLES 2, and THE LION KING (2019) and video games including JAK & DAXTER, FORTNITE, SHADOW OF MORDOR, and the METAL GEAR SOLID, INJUSTICE and MORTAL KOMBAT series. His stage work includes productions with The Actor's Gang, South  Coast  Repertory, Sacred  Fools  Theatre,  and Phil also portrayed “Cowboy Curtis” in "The Pee-wee Herman Show" both on at The Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway and in  the Emmy-nominated  HBO  special.  Currently, in  addition  to  writing  and  producing  the  animated  series  "GOBLINS," (goblinsanimated.com), Phil  is  performing monthly  onstage with  "THE  BLACK  VERSION" (theblackversion.com), performing onscreen in HAMSTER & GRETEL, the CRAIG OF THE CREEK movie, INVINCIBLE, MULLIGAN, Amc's COOPER‘S BAR, a new season of FUTURAMA on Hulu and performing the role of “Sherlock Holmes” in Audible's series MORIARTY. You can catch Phil LaMarr at Supanova Comic-Con & Gaming 2024

“Water? Do you think Odin would serve water?!”Time to begin the journey through Norse mythology in earnest! First stop: Valhalla. Other topics include a brief examination of how far away Iceland is from the rest of the Nordic countries (Thank you, Owen!), a correction on the number of floors in Hotel Valhalla, Odin's penchant for costumes, a typical day in Valhalla, the best of meats, and the prettiest of trees. Spoilers for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Discovery, Samurai Jack, The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Hades, Mad Max: Fury Road, Wonder Woman, Thor: Love and Thunder, InvincibleContent Warning: This episode contains mentions of and conversations about death, the afterlife, animal death, alcohol consumption, war, and murder. We Check Into the Hazbin Hotel Bunker 9 Bonus episode available now! https://www.patreon.com/musesofmythologyAbout UsMuses of Mythology was created and co-hosted by Darien and DJ Smartt.Our music is Athens Festival by Martin Haene. Our cover art is by Audrey Miller. Find her on Instagram @bombshellnutshellartLove the podcast? Support us on Patreon and get instant access to bloopers, outtakes, and bonus episodes! Patreon.com/musesofmythologyYou can also leave us a 5-star rating and review on your favorite podcatcher at Lovethepodcast.com/musesofmythologyFind us @MusesOfMyth on Instagram. Find all of our episodes and episode transcripts at MusesOfMythology.com-----------------------Support the show

It's time to get back, back to the past! No, not Samurai Jack, I'm talking about Monarch: Legacy of Monsters! What SECRETS will be revealed about the origins of this secret organization? Also, if this really IS the CIA, but for Godzilla, does that mean that Monarch is smuggling cocaine into the Hollow Earth to fund illegal war efforts in Axis Mundi? Find out, or don't, this time on TOKYO LIVES!SHOWNOTES01:35 - The News! GxK toys are everywhereGodzilla Vs Power Rangers 2 announcedMore kids books and a cook bookMinus One box office success and Minus ColorSon and Bone game trailer15:42 - Monarch: Legacy Of Monster (Spoiler Free for the first 6 minutes) DiscussionCREDITS Our music comes from the extremely talented Eclectic Method. We thank him for the permission to use the song "Monsters" throughout the show.If you'd like advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail tokyolivescast@gmail.com. Also check out our Patreon here!

Marcos Fernandez Montana joins Meg to talk about some out-of-the-ordinary experiences from growing up and how they relate to the traditions and stories of other cultures. They also learn about some mischievous ghost kids. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realchills/message

This week Jim catches up with voice-acting royalty, Phil LaMarr!Whether it's seeing him getting his head shot off in Pulp Fiction, or falling in love with his various animated character such as Hermes Conrad, Kit Fisto, Samurai Jack and more, Phil LaMarr is a national treasure.Support Jim on Patreon for EXCLUSIVE CONTENT including EARLY & AD-FREE ACCESS, DISNEY AUDIO COMMENTARIES, PRIZE DRAWS and more by joining the Toon'd In! family today at patreon.com/jimcummingspodcastFor more information on Jim's upcoming appearances, visit jimcummingsworld.comCHECK OUT FOUR FINGER DISCOUNT'S OTHER PODCASTS:Four Finger Discount (Simpsons) - spreaker.com/show/four-finger-discount-simpsons-podcastGoin' Down To South Park - spreaker.com/show/goin-down-to-south-parkSpeaKing Of The Hill - spreaker.com/show/speaking-of-the-hill-a-king-of-the-hill-Talking Seinfeld - spreaker.com/show/talking-seinfeldTales Of Futurama - futuramapodcast.comThe One About Friends - spreaker.com/show/the-one-about-friends-podcastThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5863067/advertisement

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Episode 420."Pulp Fiction"Actor: Phil LaMarr.Actor Phil LaMarr joins me to talk Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, his career in acting and so much more.A Los Angeles native, Phil is an alumnus of Yale University and The Groundlings Theater and is perhaps best known as one of the original cast members of MAD TV, “Hermes” on FUTURAMA,  "Marvin" in PULP FICTION, “Green Lantern” on JUSTICE LEAGUE and as the voice of SAMURAI JACK.For over 30 years, Phil has thrilled audiences with his work on camera and behind the mic on TV shows such as STATIC SHOCK, FAMILY GUY, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, THE FLASH, SUPERGIRL, GET SHORTY, LUCIFER, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and VEEP; feature films like MADAGASCAR 2, INCREDIBLES 2, and THE LION KING (2019) and video games including JAK & DAXTER, FORTNITE, SHADOW OF MORDOR, and the METAL GEAR SOLID, INJUSTICE and MORTAL KOMBAT series.Welcome, Phil LaMarr.https://www.instagram.com/mondaymorni...https://twitter.com/mdmcritic?lang=enhttps://www.tiktok.com/@mondaymorning...https://www.facebook.com/mondaymornin...www.mmcpodcast.commondaymorningcritic@gmail.com#starwars #pulpfiction #clonewars #greenlantern #dc #dccomics #interview #podcast #samuraijack #madtv #justiceleague #futurama #familyguy

Dustin d'Arnault is a Character Designer and Visual Development Artist based out of Los Angeles, California. He has worked on various projects that span a variety of media, including print, television, and film. The most notable of these projects include “The Book of Life”, the final season of “Samurai Jack”, “Maya & the Three” and Nickelodeon's upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature film. Studio List: Netflix Animation / Disney TV / Warner Bros. Animation / Cartoon Network Studio / Nickelodeon Animation Studio / Sony Pictures Animation / Reel FX Creative Studio / Six Point Harness / Framestore / Carbon VFX Publications: Spectrum 22 / A Hero's Journey (The Book of Life)

This week on Heroes Three podcast we are joined by Swimfans host Alex Hocking to discuss the 1963 Japanese creationist myth animated feature by Toei Animation, The Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon! Full cast and credits at ANN Find us online - https://linktr.ee/Heroes3Podcast Find SWIMFANS online - https://linktr.ee/swimfans Check out some H3 art and merch! - https://www.teepublic.com/user/kf_carlito Email us! - heroes3podcast@gmail.com Full blogpost with gifs here! Animation Obsessive takes a look at the Dance Sequence in Little Prince! Sadao Tsukioka Discusses Animating on the Film! Timestamps (0:00) Intro (1:22) Why this movie (4:28) Big video game influence (5:15) Famous staff (6:51) Wind Waker and Samurai Jack (7:47) Move looks real good (10:57) Releases of the movie (13:13) Japanese mythology (21:57) Susano and Tsukuyomi (23:04) Ifukube is real good (25:57) The Fire god (29:59) Amaterasu and Takamagahara (34:56) Dance sequence (39:41) Orochi and the Village (47:46) Art quality isn't a linear progression over time (52:05) The value of "I could do that" (54:05) Alex's thoughts (57:56) Aspect ratios, letterboxing, and pan and scan (1:00:23) Final thoughts (1:02:19) Plugs and training for next week

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Howdy toonfans! This week we dove into 90s Cartoon Network goodness, and watched two episodes of Dexter's Lab and two episodes of Samurai Jack, both created by Genndy Tartakovsky! --- Toonhounds are: Rich Masters David Spyve Full links at toonhounds.carrd.co Email at Toonhounds@gmail.com Keep the lights on at Toon Towers by supporting us at Patreon! patreon.com/toonhounds Episode edited by David Spyve

Gotta get back, back to podcasts! Paige and Chris return after our unscheduled break to deliver some contemplative sword-swinging commentary about this absolute early 00's masterpiece that answers the question, "How do we show gratuitous violence but get around the censors?! ROBOTS!"

After being forced to listen to the world's most dangerous podcast by a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. On Episode 575 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Sympathy for the Devil, from director Yuval Adler! We also pay tribute to the late great Paul Reubens, talk about how virtual sound stages are changing cinema, and how the bar for getting canceled has changed over the years. So grab your tuna melt with cheddar not mozzarella, make sure your underwear aren't too tight, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Metalocalypse, Dethklok, Brendan Small, the Underground Lair of Lost Swag, long intros, Iron Chef, Samurai Jack, Most Xtreme Elimination Challenge, Takeshi's Castle, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Invader Zim, Jackass, CKY, Primal, Genndy Tartakovsky, RIP Paul Reubens, Pee Wee Herman, The Tony Atlas of Testicles, Tommy Hil-FIGH-ger, Beau is Afraid, the origin of Rufus and Renaldo, ball reduction surgery, The Belvedere of Balls, Cheech and Chong, Midnight Madness, Phil Hartman, The Gong Show, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Howard Dean, getting canceled, Cobweb, Talk to Me, overdraft charges, Barbie, Ryan Gosling, Blackout Tapes, Rolling Stones, Joel Kinnaman, Sympathy for the Devil, Martin Freeman, Black Panther, Shooter, Nicolas Cage, Stagecraft, Yuval Adler, Luke Paradise, The Hitcher, Locke, Tom Hardy, Collateral, Tom Cruise, Tuna Melts, Hitch-Hike, Vince Vaughn, Swingers, Altered Carbon, Children of Men, Jason Mamoa, Liam Neeson, Keanu Reeves, My Own Private Idaho, hair helmet, Werewolf Women of the SS, Reservoir Dogs, Wrath of Becky, Wrath of Becky, BSO at the B-House, sitcom couples sleeping in the same bed, Stephen Scarlata, Sharksploitation, Elio's Pizza, “I Am A Real Italian”, how do you make butter, butter flavored topping, Weird Science Table Read, Zombie Grrlz Podcast, Six Degrees of Sitcoms, Olive Garden breadsticks, Dementia is a Hell of a Drug, and Mr. Ballvedere.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

This week I am sitting down with Character Designer Stephen DeStefano. Stephen has worked all over the place within animation and comics. He got his start on one of Nickelodeons foundational cartoon, Ren and Stimpy. Stephen has since worked on 2 Stupid Dogs, Felix the Cat, The New Batman Adventures, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Venture Brothers, Samurai Jack, Primal, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal and so much more. We chat all things Samurai Jack, Primal and we even delve into some really great stories about Stephen's time with DC Comics.If you want to help support this show, check us out and sign up for our patreon. Early and Ad Free access to audio, video and so many other cool perks. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nmyheadpodcast Follow Stephen: https://www.instagram.com/no_but_sdestefano/Follow and Subscribe to the What's In My Head Podcast across all social media platforms and wherever you listen to podcasts! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-in-my-head-podcast/id1604643239 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nmyheadpod Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL25teWhlYWRwb2QvZmVlZC54bWw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmyheadpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7lKoC7V7kfuNUhCxKZSxsL?si=MqtwMp2UTUmLdshs8_9d9Q Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/whats-in-my-head-podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/nmyheadpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhatsInMyHeadPodcast/videos Don't forget to subscribe and follow us across all social media platforms.

Phil LaMarr is an actor known for being one of the original cast members of MadTV, Pulp Fiction, and his voice acting roles in Samurai Jack, Futurama, Beavis and Butthead, Family Guy, Teen Titans Go! and a host of other animated series.Show NotesPhil Lamarr on IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482851/Phil Lamarr on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/phillamarr/Phil Lamarr on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@phillamarrFree Writing Webinar - https://michaeljamin.com/op/webinar-registration/Michael's Online Screenwriting Course - https://michaeljamin.com/courseFree Screenwriting Lesson - https://michaeljamin.com/freeJoin My Watchlist - https://michaeljamin.com/watchlistAutomated TranscriptionPhil LaMarr:I was developing an animated show based on a friend of mine's web comic called Goblins. Okay. And my partner, Matt King and I, we are both performers, but we adapted the comic into a script. And I called a bunch of my voice actor friends, cuz we were, we were gonna make a trailer, you know, to bring these, you know, comic characters to life Yeah. In animation. And it was funny cuz Matt and I are actors. We had, you know, written the script and we'd acted out these scenes. And so in our heads, we, we thought we knew exactly how they'd sound. But then we brought in amazing Billy West, Maurice LaMarr. Mm-Hmm. , Jim Cummings. Mm-Hmm. Steve Bloom, Jennifer. And it was funny because when they performed the scenes we had written, they took it to a whole other level. Right. Beyond what existed in our, in our heads. Right. Like, oh my God, they made it so much better than I even imagined it could be.Michael Jamin:You're listening to Screenwriters Need to Hear This with Michael Jamin.Hey everyone, it's Michael Jamin. Welcome back to Screenwriters. Need to hear this. I, another, another. Cool. I got another cool episode. I, I was so excited about this. I, I tri over my own words. I am here with actor writer Phil LaMarr and this guy. All right. So I'm on his IMDB page cuz he going through his credits. Phil, I'm not joking. It's taking me too long to scroll through IMD,B to get through all your credits. It's nuts how much you work. But, so I'm gonna give you real fast an introduction and then we'll talk more about, what're gonna talk about but okay. So this guy does a lot of, a ton of voiceovers. I guess I think we met on King of the Hill and I know we worked together on Glenn Glenn Martin DDS, but fu you know, him from Futurama.From Beavis and Butthead family guy the Great North. All every single adult animated show, a ton of kids shows Star Bob's Burgers. That's adult, of course. Rick and Morty Bob Burgers, Bob's Burger's movie as well. I mean, I'm going through all your stuff here. It's nuts. You were a writer performer on Mad TV for many years. Mm-Hmm. . And I think the pro, I'm sorry to say this, but the, the coolest role that everyone knows you, that you maybe you get recognized most from. Right. We, you know what it is, is you were, you were in Pulp Fiction and you had your head blown off in the back of the car. And I remember watching like, oh my God, they killed Phil Phil LaMarr:.Michael Jamin:I mean, how awesome was that role? Oh man. But so Phil, thank you for doing this. Welcome, welcome to this. I want to talk all about your amazing career. But now tell me, so how did you get into acting? When did you decide you wanted to be an actor?Phil LaMarr:Well, it's funny because there are a couple of double steps in terms of how I started being an actor. And when I decided to be an actor and when I got into voiceover, both my first time performing was in eighth grade. My school was doing a production of a book that I loved. I didn't consider myself a performer. Right. It was the phantom toll booth. Right. And there's this little character towards the end of the Phantom toll booth. The senses taker who will take your sense of purpose. Your sense of duty, but he can't take your sense of humor. Right. And I wanted that part. So that's why I went and auditioned. But I wound up getting cast as one of the leads.Michael Jamin:Wow. Okay. AndPhil LaMarr:Opened a show alone on stage under a spotlight doing a two minute monologue.Michael Jamin:Okay. AndPhil LaMarr:It flipped a switch in my head. I'm like, oh, I love this. You were, that's what, so I started, you know, being an actor because I liked to bookMichael Jamin:. Right. But then, but okay. But it's one thing to be acting in as a kid in eighth grade and then to commit your career to it. What, what, what happened next?Phil LaMarr:Well, and it's funny because I didn't consider that a career or what I was doing. It's just, it's fun. Yeah. I get to play well, and also I went to an all boys private school. Yeah. So the time you got to see girls was when you did a playMichael Jamin:. Okay. That makes, now you're, makes sense. Now we know why you're being an actor, .Phil LaMarr:And I wound up graduating and I applied to colleges that had, you know, drama programs, Northwestern nor Carnegie Mellon, Yale University. But I wound up deciding not to go to Carnegie Mellon and I went to Yale. I was like, no, no, I just want to go to college. And I did not decide to pursue acting as a career. I just majored in English. It was on the flight back home to LA I said, you know what, maybe I should pursue this acting thing. I mean, I enjoy it. And you know, some people say I'm pretty good at it. I mean, I either gotta do it now or wait till my mid forties when I have a midlife crisis. Yes.Michael Jamin:But this is Yale undergrad. Yes. Yale's really not for the grad school of the school of drama. But youPhil LaMarr:Go back to thing. Cause when you were an actor and you say you went to Yale, people assume, oh, like Moral Streep and Henry Wiggler. It's like, no, no. I didn't know thatMichael Jamin:. But so after you got outta college and you got outta, we went to Yale and there was some pressure on you to are they Princeton over there? We're gonna continue, we'll continue our, we'll set aside our differences long enough to have this conversation. But so, but after college you're like, okay, I got a big fancy Yale degree and I'm gonna become an actor.Phil LaMarr:Right. And, you know, had I decided to be a comedy writer with a Harvard degree, that would've beenMichael Jamin:Yes. That would make sense.Phil LaMarr:A career path that made sense. Right. As a Yale, there were no famous Yales as writers or producers or anything. There were a handful of, you know, drama school actors. Right. But again, I didn't go to that drama school. So I'm like, okay.Michael Jamin:Yeah. There's no connect. People talk about the connections. No, there's no connection. Just because you, there's no inroad. Just cuz you went to Yale, you know, to No,Phil LaMarr:Yeah. No. The the only famous undergraduate actors at that time in the eighties were two women who were famous before they came to Yale, Jennifer Beals and Jodi Foster.Michael Jamin:Right. Exactly. Exactly. All right. So then you made this commitment to, or this, this leap. How long your parents must have been thrilled , how long before you started getting work and how did you start getting work, getting work?Phil LaMarr:Well, and, and this is another one of the double steps, Uhhuh I, when I made this decision, I already had my SAG card.Michael Jamin:How did you get that?Phil LaMarr:Because back in high school, a friend of my mother's worked for NBC Uhhuh. And I think my mother had dragged her to see a couple of my plays. And so she said, Hey, we're doing this cartoon and we're gonna use real kids for the kids' voices. Which back in the eighties was a rare thing. Yeah. And she asked me to, to come in and audition for it. And I got a job on the Mr. T cartoon in the mid eighties.Michael Jamin:Oh, wow. AndPhil LaMarr:That got me my union card. Now I did not, again, did not consider this a career path. I it was just a cool summer job.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Now, the thing is, cause I hear this a lot. People say to me, yeah, I, I can do a million voices and you could do literally a million voices. I, how do I get into you know, voice acting? And it's like, they don't seem to put the connection that it's not enough that you do voices. You have to know how to act. You have to be a trained, you have to, you know, know, be if you're trained or even better. But you have to know how to perform and act. And so yeah.Phil LaMarr:That's, that's what I always tell people who ask me that question. I say, the first thing you need to know is voice acting the term is a misnomer because the acting comes before the voice.Michael Jamin:Yes. Yes.Phil LaMarr:You know, that's why you have amazing people like Cree Summer, who has a really distinctive speaking voice, but she has the acting ability. Right. To make every character completely different and real. It's the same thing like, you know, a a movie star, it's the same face, but it's always a different character.Michael Jamin:But there's something else that you bring, and I say this because you are a consummate pro. You are truly a pro. It's well for what you bring to that other actors, that non-voice actors, I guess, I don't know what you would call 'em, but have, but what I'm directing a voiceover actor, sometimes if they haven't done avo, a lot of voice acting, they don't realize they're using their face or their body . And, and you say, no, no, no. I, I see you're acting the part I see you're playing mad, but I have to hear it in my ear. And so I don't look at them when I'm directing. I wanna hear it. And Right. And so to talk about that a little bit.Phil LaMarr:Yes, yes. I remember, cuz I started out, you know, even though I had that job in high school, I did not consider it a voice acting career. It was just a, a goofy summer job on a cartoon that nobody I knew watched. So I came home after college and pursued on camera acting and stage mm-hmm. . And so a few years later, actually it was after a several years of Mad TV where we did Claymation pieces and it got me doing multiple characters on mic as opposed to just multiple characters on camera, which I was also doing on Mad tv. And I remember I decided to actively pursue the voice acting thing. Cuz at this point, you know, in the post, you know, early nineties era when cable blew up, voice acting became a job. Right. You know, cuz when we were kids, it was just something that six guys that Mel Blanc and five other dudes Right.Voiced every cartoon of our childhood. Right. You know, Mel Blanc, dos Butler, you know, that was it. But in the nineties, once Nickelodeon had 24 hours of children's programming, there was a lot more cartoon voices. And so like, oh, this could be a path now. And I remember one of my early sessions, I fell into my on camera acting face, face acting mm-hmm. . And they said, okay, Phil, stop. Try it again. Do that line again. Angrier, I did it again. They said, hold on, we're gonna play them both back. And they sounded exactly the same. And I realized what you just said. Right. Oh my God, I just made an angrier face.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:And that's one of the, you know, skills of voice acting the same way that you have singers, singers can, you know, put forth feeling or fun or whatever through their voice.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:You know, dancers do it through their bodies.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:You know. ButMichael Jamin:When you perform, let's say you're doing something on camera, how much thought do you give? Do you, is it, is it just second nature to go, okay, now I can use the rest of my body? Or how much thought do you have to go in between different, you know skill sets, I guess, you know?Phil LaMarr:Well, the, the good thing is, you know, you do have to, you know, get a switch in your head because when you're on stage, it's the exact same job bringing this script to life. But you have to do it with different tools. Right, right. And the same thing when you're doing it on camera. And the same thing when you're doing it on microphone. You have to, you have to gauge. Okay. Cuz you know, you read the script, you see the character, you embody it. Yeah. But then it's how do you communicate it to the audience?Michael Jamin:Right,Phil LaMarr:Right. You know, and it's funny because with voice acting, you know, we learned to run the character through our, our ears. You know, when you see in the old days, you see, you know, announcers doing this. Do you know what that is about? No.Michael Jamin:What what is that?Phil LaMarr:It's because all of us, you know, regular people hear our voices from inside our heads. Right. We're not hearing what other people hear. But when you do this, you are channeling your voice.Michael Jamin:That's whatPhil LaMarr:Mouth into your ear. So you hear what your voice sounds like outside your head.Michael Jamin:Oh, I see. I, that's so funny. I thought they were stopping their ear, but they're not. They're just re redirecting the voice Yeah. Into their ear. Yes. Oh wow. I had no idea.Phil LaMarr:So you can hear the subtlety, you know, because if, if you don't do something with your teeth, you don't hear that inside your head. Yeah. It's only what people hear. But that's something you might want with a character. Right. You know, I always, when I teach workshops, I always try to tell people, like, there are things we hear. There's, it's the same thing with your face. Mm-Hmm. when you want to, you know, express anger. You don't just do your face flat. You, you know. And it's the same thing with if, if there's something about a character, let's say I'm doing this character, but then I see the drawing and the guy's got a big beard. Oh, well let me make him sound, let me make him sound beier.Michael Jamin:Right. Right.Phil LaMarr:Which isn't necessarily true, just growing a beard doesn't change your voiceMichael Jamin:Uhhuh.Phil LaMarr:But there are things that when we hear something, we get the sense of it.Michael Jamin:Right. Do you have a preference now, Kami? Cuz do you have a preference? You work so much in voice acting, but do you have a, do you prefer that overlap? You know, like on camera?Phil LaMarr:No, it's funny cuz you know, at Comic-Con, people will ask, what's your, you walk in so many media, what's your favorite? And the truth of the matter is, and this is what I tell them, it's not about the media, it's about the quality.Michael Jamin:Quality. The writing or, or what Yes.Phil LaMarr:Uhhuh Well, the, the, the quality of the writing, the quality of the directing, the quality of the experience. Because to me, the, the cartoon Samurai Jack, which is I consider a work of art that has more in common with pulp fiction. Right. Than it does with, you know, pound puppies or some like goofy little Saturday morning cartoon that's more focused on selling toys than on actually putting out story.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right, right. But in terms of voice, a I mean, you don't have to get into hair and makeup. You don't have to memorize anything. And that's a whole nother skill as well. Memorizing the, the, the text.Phil LaMarr:Well, but that, that's actually harder because when you work on stage or on camera mm-hmm. , you get time to rehearse.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:You get to practice with a director helping guide you, your people, someone watching you, and you build the character over time. And then you don't have to make it work till the camera says, till they say action.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:But when you're doing voiceover, you're handed a sheet of paper, you're reading words off a page, and you have to bring those to life instantly.Michael Jamin:Yeah, that's exactly. Now do you, cuz when we work together on, on Glen, well we did King Hill first, but on Glen Martin, just so people know you didn't audition, we just, we call you up. Hey, we book you Theor agent, and you come in, you show up, you, you got the job, and you show up. And I remember approaching you saying, okay, Phyllis, the character, I remember the character's name was Rasmus, and the only thing you knew about him was that he had a milky eye. He was like seventies. He had a milky eye. And I go, what voices did you bring ? And you, you, you gave me like three different voices. And I think I said that one a little more gravelly and boom, that was it. You jumped right into it. Exactly. That was it. You're ready to go. . And that was the benefit of direction you got go .Phil LaMarr:Right. See, and we did that in a minute and a half.Michael Jamin:Yeah.Phil LaMarr:Had we been working on a movie, I would've had to go in for wardrobe, had them try on seven different outfits, had them send you the pictures, , you know, over two weeks. Right. While I was memorizing all the lines for us to come to that conclusion.Michael Jamin:But on most of the voiceover judo, is that how it is? It's just basically they book you for the day and you know, unless you're a regular, they just book you, you come on in and you spend an hour or two, and then that's it. Is that how it works for you? Mostly?Phil LaMarr:Well, ho hopefully. I mean, most of the time you get the script ahead of time, so you get to read the story, know the context. Right. But that's just one episode. You don't have the entire, you know, arc of the story. You know, don't know everything about the, you know, if you're playing the villain about the, the hero. So you learn most of it when you come into the session,Michael Jamin:But then there's another thing that you have to bring to the table, which is a whole, like, you okay, you're an excellent actor, but you also have the, the, when you do these voices, they don't sound like they're coming from you. Like, they sound like they're coming from 10 different people. And so the, how do you, like how do you approach that? How do you making voices that don't sound anything like the, any, any other voice that you do.Phil LaMarr:Well, it varies. I mean, there are, it's funny because now over the years, you know, people will bring up some old character. And I realize, okay, that sounds a little similar to that other one. But I realize it's not about, I used to think when I was younger, starting in voice acting, I used to think it was about no, no. Every voice should not sound anything like the other one. Right. You know? But I realize it's more about embodying the character. And the thing is, you know, these characters are all different. So I need them to, I want them to sound different.Michael Jamin:Right. I don't mean like, like when I first got the King of the Hill, I was shocked when you hear the voices that you've been watching the show forever, and then you see the actress playing, you go, whoa, that voice is coming from that person. That, that doesn't sound anything close to their, like, there's a transformation that you're able to do with your voice by, like, that's a different skill. I mean, forget about even, yes, I know embodying the character, but you're really playing with your vocal chords in a way that almost seems impossible to someone like me.Phil LaMarr:Oh, thank you. Well, I mean, in, it's, it's a, it's a skill set that not everybody has. Like I said, some people just like when on Samurai Jack, I worked with Mako Iwatsu Uhhuh, you know, an older Japanese actor who was an icon. He had starred in movies, starred on Broadway, you know, his name was above the title on a Stephen Sondheim musical. Right. But he had a very distinctive, you know, heavy, very textured, heavily accented voice. And I figured, okay, he's just doing his voice. And I remember there was one episode where they cast him as a secondary character mm-hmm. in the episode. And I remember thinking to myself, oh, Jesus, what are they doing? Uhhuh, his voice is so dis. I mean, that's like casting the rock in two characters in a movie. Right. You know, like, nobody's gonna get fooled. But he blew my mind and taught me a masterclass because what he did was, he did not completely transform his voice, but he acted the second character from a completely different perspective. You know, Lowe's dead, you know, complete, he performed it completely differently than he performed Aku the villain, Uhhuh . And I, and when you watch the episode, you can't tell it's him.Michael Jamin:You can Right. You can't tell.Phil LaMarr:Now, part of that has to do with the art, you know, because you're change your changing your voice, but they're also changing the drawing.Michael Jamin:Yeah. That, that's true. But I wonder how much work do you on your own at home? Like, how much do you think about other voice? Do you pra you go, do you hear a voice and you go, Hey, that's an interesting thing. Maybe I should, you know, do you practice at all? Do you, I don't know. Are you, are you constantly trying to invent new, new voices for yourself?Phil LaMarr:Well, I'm, I'm not a singer, but I've always had an ear. Right. For speech. It, I do a lot of impressions. Uhhuh, , you know, comedically and sometimes just job wise. Actually, weirdly, 10th grade, my second year of acting, I got the part in our, one of our high school plays. We did a production of Play It again, Sam.Michael Jamin:Okay.Phil LaMarr:And in 10th grade, I played Humphrey Bogart .Michael Jamin:Okay.Phil LaMarr:And I spent the entire production trying to do my best impression of Humphrey Bogart. If that plane leaves and you are not on it, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. And for the rest of your life. And so I watched a lot of, you know, videotapes of Humphrey Bogart. And I, and I also had to learn how to do that impression and projectMichael Jamin:It Right.Phil LaMarr:In a, in a theater cuz there was no microphone. But I think maybe that helped start me right on the, you know, aping People's Voices thing. Which, when I started doing sketch comedy Right. I leaned into that too. Oh, I'm gonna do a Michael Jackson sketch. You know?Michael Jamin:Right. Cause you, so how is that you're talking about, so that, that brings us to Mad tv. So there goes your, I dunno, how, how did you get that that audition? What did you bring, what did you bring to that audition, you know, for yourself?Phil LaMarr:Well, I, when I was in college I was part of a improv comedy group that started and I loved it, you know, having been taught that the, you know, the key to drama is conflict, but then being introduced in your late teens, early twenties to this concept of Yes.Michael Jamin:And, and yes. And yeah.Phil LaMarr:You know, improv is collaborative theater, make your partner look good. Right. Work together, you know, all of this very positive energy. It's like, huh, wow. This isn't just about performance. This is a great life philosophy. Yeah. So after graduation, and I came home to LA and I started taking classes at the Groundlings Theater mm-hmm. , the sketch, comedy and improv group. And, and I did that not for the career, but because I wanted improv back in my life.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:And doing improv that led me into sketch comedy and writing.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:Because that's what the ground wings do. It's like, okay, that's a great improv. Write it down.Michael Jamin:Right. .Phil LaMarr:Yeah. Now do that character again. Come up with another scene for him.Michael Jamin:And so that's what you, you brought to the audition, like what, three different characters or something?Phil LaMarr:Y well, by the time Mad TV came around, I had been doing sitcoms, you know, from the early nineties to the mid nineties. This was 95. Right. So I went to audition for mad TV and the people at Fox had seen me guest on a bunch of shows. Right. And in fact, I went to audition for Mad TV in what they call second place because I had done a pilot for Fox right before Mad. So it's funny because I went in there thinking, no, this pilot is gonna, is amazing. We're gonna be the new Barney Miller. Alright, fine agents, I'll go for this sketch thing, whatever. I've been doing Sketch for six years, but whatever. And so I went in and they said, okay, bring in some, some of your characters.Michael Jamin:What Century is calling ah, . That's your phone from 1970, right?Phil LaMarr:?Michael Jamin:Or is it an alarm clock?Phil LaMarr:Ah, no, it's, I forgot toMichael Jamin:What's your phone? It's your iPhone.Phil LaMarr:It's my agent calling. Oh, you, you don't need to talk to them.Michael Jamin:That's Hollywood.Phil LaMarr:Yes.Michael Jamin:I can't believe your agent actually calls you. Mine doesn't call .Phil LaMarr:Alright, let me, let me go back.Michael Jamin:Yeah.Michael Jamin:We're gonna put all this in. This is all funny. .Phil LaMarr:Well anyway, I went to audition for Mad TV having done several years at the Groundlings and having been voted into the main company of the Groundlings, alongside Jennifer Coolidge. So youMichael Jamin:Were perform Oh, so you were, that's great. So you were performing regularly on stage. Yeah. Okay.Phil LaMarr:So, so sketch comedy was solidly in my backMichael Jamin:Pocket. Yeah.Phil LaMarr:And, you know, I'd been, you know, I'd finally started making a living as an actor. I didn't have to do my day job, you know, just doing guest spots and whatnot. And I went in there without any sense of desperation. I don't need this.Michael Jamin:Right. I'vePhil LaMarr:Already got this pilot. And they said, okay, bring us your characters and a couple of impressions and we'll show you a couple of our sketches. You know, so there were three steps to each audition, Uhhuh. And it's funny because later after I got the job, I talked to the showrunner and he said, oh man, you were so relaxed. We loved it.Michael Jamin:Oh wow.Phil LaMarr:You know, cuz I remember when we had a, a callback and there was somebody from the studio. This woman was sitting there like this. And I said, oh, I'm sorry. Did I wake youMichael Jamin:? And then wow. I mean, good for you. And then, but what became of that pilot, it didn't go to seriesPhil LaMarr:The other. No.Michael Jamin:Boy, had you known that ? IPhil LaMarr:Know. Well, and when we, when we got the call back from Mad tv, I'm like, what the heck? And might have said, yeah. Yeah. somebody at Fox said, don't worry about the second position.Michael Jamin:Right. Oh wow. Wow. . So, right. So you did that for a number of years. And then, and what, what along the way, when did pulp Fiction occur during this?Phil LaMarr:Actually I did Pulp Fiction before Mad tv.Michael Jamin:Okay.Phil LaMarr:It's funny cuz the first episode of Mad TV had a Pulp fiction parody in it. AndMichael Jamin:Did you play yourself?Phil LaMarr:Yes. They pitched me playing myself. OhMichael Jamin:My God, it was so fun. I mean it's such a classic role. I mean, do, do you, and does, do people want to talk to you about that all the time?Phil LaMarr:Not, not really. What I, I find that people only bring up Pulp Fiction around the time when a new Tarantino movie comes out.Michael Jamin:Okay.Phil LaMarr:But I mean, there are some people who, you know, are big fans of it. But the funniest thing is there will be a friend, somebody I've known for several years, but it's the first time they've watched Pulp Fiction since we met.Michael Jamin:Right. OhPhil LaMarr:My God, Phil. I didn't realize that was you.Michael Jamin:That's so great. I mean, so Right. Just to remind people again. So that was a scene was, it was Samuel Jackson and and John Travolta. They, yes. I guess the, the pla that plot line was a bunch of like straight-laced kind of college kids, kind of up, you know, they, you know, good kids who probably made one bad decision. Right. But they weren't troublemakers. They were good kids. And then they owed money and then, and then I guess they, you know, so they shoot, I guess they come into the apartment Right. And they they wind up shooting up the place and they take you, I guess they, they're gonna take you to the big guy, you're hostage and then he, you're in the back of the car and they got a gun trained on you and it hits a bump and they accidentally blow your head off . Right.Phil LaMarr:Well, well actually, the backstory that Quent and I talked about is that cuz my character is Marvin, he's the kid who gets his brains blown out in the back of the car. Right. but we decided that the story was Jules Uhhuh knew somebody who knew Marvin and arranged for Marvin to, that's why Marvin gets up and opens the door.Michael Jamin:Okay. AndPhil LaMarr:Lets them in. He's on their side.Michael Jamin:Oh, is that right? Is that, I should watch that again. I don't, I didn't pick that up at all.Phil LaMarr:And so he's not, they're not taking him as a hostage. Cause actually, Sam's like, how many, because John asked him how many are in there? It's like, well, there's, oh,Michael Jamin:There'sPhil LaMarr:Five plus our guy.Michael Jamin:Oh, I gotta watch that again. I missed that. Okay. It's been a while. Okay. So,Phil LaMarr:So the idea is that Jules knew somebody who knew one of the kids that took Marcellus briefcase. So he made a connection and was like, okay, we figured it out. He's our man inside is gonna open the door for us at 7 45. We're gonna come in, we're gonna get the briefcase. But of course, in my head, the idea is that Marvin didn't realize they were gonna kill everybody.Michael Jamin:Right. Right. He thought theyPhil LaMarr:Were just gonna take the briefcase.Michael Jamin:Right. So he'sPhil LaMarr:Freaked out.Michael Jamin:And so how many days is, were you, how many days of a shoot is that for you? Is that a week or what?Phil LaMarr:I spent about two weeks. There was the car scene and the apartment scene. But the, the most ironic thing was I shot my scene after they had shot the Harvey Kittel cleaning up my body scene.Michael Jamin:Right. So whenPhil LaMarr:I came onto set, everybody was looking at me like they recognized me because they had been see, looking at me dead for two months.Michael Jamin:. But how? Wait, but but when you say looking at you dead was, were there photos or something or what? No, no.Phil LaMarr:They built, they built a dummy. The dummy. Oh. Because there's a se there's a sequence where the Harvey guy tell character comes to clean up Yeah. And then carry the body out of the car into the Tarantino character's apartment. YouMichael Jamin:Know, that must been freaky. SoPhil LaMarr:Everybody been looking at this body in the trunk body, you know, and then when I walked on, they were like, it's, it's the same thing of like, when you walk into a room and you forget you're wearing a name tag.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Did you know how great that movie was gonna be at the time? Yes. I mean, you, you can tell. How can you tell? IPhil LaMarr:Couldn't tell how successful it was gonna be because, you know, reservoir Dogs was really good. Right. But it wasn't, you know, it was a big indieMichael Jamin:Movie. Yes.Phil LaMarr:Right. But when you read the script for Pulp FictionMichael Jamin:Uhhuh,Phil LaMarr:It leapt off the page.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:It's funny because like, when I went to audition for it, after meeting Quentin Tarantino, we did a Groundlings improv show.Michael Jamin:Oh, is that right? BecausePhil LaMarr:He's, he was friends with Julia Sweeney, who was a Groundlings alum. Right. And she invited him to come do a show. I was in the cast. Right. And when he was casting pulp Fiction, he was thinking about Marvin. He told the casting lady, Hey, there's this black guy at the Groundling, he's go find him.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:And I remember preparing for the audition, reading through the scene three times. It jumped into my, I w I had it, I was off book by the time I memorized. Because the way it's written, even though it's not everyday life, every line follows exactly what the one before it would say. And it feels natural, even though it is such a heightened world he's created.Michael Jamin:Yeah. He really is. I mean, you know, he's a master with, with words. He doesn't, does he, he doesn't, I can't imagine allow much improv. I mean, it seems like he knows what he wants, right?Phil LaMarr:Oh, yeah. No, no, no. Yeah. The, the script is like a Rosetta Stone. It is carved, yes. Actually, the, the only two things that changed in the script were one a line of Samuel Jackson's character about porkMichael Jamin:Uhhuh ,Phil LaMarr:Because originally they're talking about a pig and he is like, oh, that's the Kerry Grant of pigs. And Sam was like, no, Manam my guy. I don't think this guy would ever think Kerry Grant was cool.Michael Jamin:Right. So theyPhil LaMarr:Changed it to the, the reference to the the at Albert showMichael Jamin:Oh, oh green Acres. Green Acres, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Right.Phil LaMarr:Yeah. It's like the pig on Green AcresMichael Jamin:. And,Phil LaMarr:And the o and the other moment that changed from the script to what, what we shot was because of what a thought that John had.Michael Jamin:Uhhuh GunPhil LaMarr:Travolta. Yeah. Oh. Because, because this was a low budget indie movie. They made this movie with all those stars for only 8 million.Michael Jamin:Are you kidding me? Really?Phil LaMarr:Yeah. And part of that saving money was we rehearsed the entire movie on stage before we started shooting. Right. And I remember going to a sound stage at, at cul in Culver City on Sony and meeting John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson for the first time in rehearsal.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:And I remember walking in there and it's like, Quinn's like, oh, hey Phil, this John Sam, this is Phil. And John Tra goes, oh geez, this is a guy. I had to kill this guy. The eyes is gonna hate me.Michael Jamin:That's a pretty good Travolta sound just like him. . Oh, thanks.Phil LaMarr:And he just, I thought he was just joking. But eventually he talked to Quintin. Cuz originally in the back of the car, the gun is supposed to go off accidentally. Yeah. And shoot Marvin in the throat.Michael Jamin:Okay.Phil LaMarr:And then he sits there g gurgling while they go back and forth bantering, oh, dad, what are we gonna do? Right. Well, we can't take him to the hospital. Well, I don't have nobody in the valley. Well, alright. Put him out of his misery. When I, on the count of three, I'll hit the horn. And so John's character was supposed to shoot me the second time on, and John said, no, no. Quentin Quinn. Quinn. If my character kills this kid on purpose, it's gonna ha people won't, won't like him. And he was right. It would've negatively affected his sequence with Umma Thurman.Michael Jamin:That's absolutely right. But do you think he was, Travolta was interested in protecting the character or protecting himself as an actor? You know, like how people saw him? What do you think?Phil LaMarr:I think it was, he had a connection to the audience, which I guess was mostly through him, but also through the character. Because I mean, I mean, I guess, you know, Quintin's could have just said No, no, the character's just, he's a nasty, you know, junky. Yes. He does nasty stuff. But I think John was like, no, no, no. This whole sequence with the girl, he's not nasty.Michael Jamin:Right. So, right. I see. And andPhil LaMarr:Quintin agreed with John Yeah. His take on the character.Michael Jamin:Yeah. That's so interesting.Phil LaMarr:Isn't thatMichael Jamin:Wild? Yeah, that is. See, it's so funny listening to you, you can so hear like how thoughtful you are about acting, how mu how much, how it's not, it's a craft, it's a, you know, you, I really hear that from you, how much you put how passionate you are about the craft of acne. Not just being on stage, not just you know, doing voices, but the craft of it. You know? Exactly. Yeah. How do, do you miss, or do you get a chance to perform on stage a lot? Because that was your original lovePhil LaMarr:Mm-Hmm. . Yes. Thankfully. I'm still holding on to my performance foundation. My friend Jordan Black, who is another Groundlings alum Uhhuh about what, 12 years ago now, created a group. And we do a show monthly live on stage, an improv show at the Groundlings Okay. Called the Black VersionMichael Jamin:Uhhuh. It's,Phil LaMarr:It's an all black cast, and we take a suggestion from the audience of a classic or iconic motion picture, and then we improv the black version of it. ButMichael Jamin:What if you're not familiar with the, the classic?Phil LaMarr:Well that's the tricky part is our director Karen Mariama mm-hmm. , who was one of my teachers at the Groundlings and is now one of my peers, has an encyclopedic knowledge mm-hmm. , she can take a movie from the black and white era and know the entire structure or something that dropped that dropped on Netflix last week. And she knows everythingMichael Jamin:But you, but if you don't know itPhil LaMarr:Well what we do, what she does is she, she, as the director, she guides the scenes Uhhuh . Okay. Alright. Phil, you are gonna play this, you know, like let's say we're doing the black version of Princess Bride. Phil, you'll, you are this you know, swordsman who is incredibly skilled audience, what do you think his name? Okay. In Negro Montoya, that's your name.Michael Jamin:That's funny. AndPhil LaMarr:Like she'll assign the characters Right. And then guide us from scene to scene. But, you know, our choices, you know like when we did the black version of Princess Bride, it was called her Mama and them, and Prince Humperdink was Prince Humpty Hump. Right. You know, and sometimes the choices will change the, the, you know line, line of the story. But she tries to keep us, you know, take us through the iconic scenes.Michael Jamin:Right. And this is once a month you do this.Phil LaMarr:Yes.Michael Jamin:Yeah. That's a big commitment.Phil LaMarr:Yeah. And for 12 years. Yeah.Michael Jamin:Yeah. I mean, you must, you probably took a break during the pandemic for a little bit. Yes,Phil LaMarr:Yes, yes, we did.Michael Jamin:But Wow.Phil LaMarr:And recently we've you know, we've built an audience and a reputation and we've started booking on the road. We've we've played the Kennedy Center in Washington DC twice now.Michael Jamin:So you take it on the, and, and how were you able to sell tickets on the road? I mean, so easily.Phil LaMarr:It's, I I think it's, it's the, the venues and also you know, somewhat just the, those of us in the group. I mean, Jordan was a writer on SNL and part of the guest cast on community Cedric Yarborough from Reno 9 1 1, and tons of other shows. SoMichael Jamin:Just your name. Just your name. So it's kind of just your names people like, Hey, we want, you know, we recognize these names, we wanna go see it. If you, you know this.Phil LaMarr:Yeah. I, I mean, I'm, I'm not exactly sure how we managed to sell out, youMichael Jamin:Know? That's amazing. All overPhil LaMarr:TheMichael Jamin:Place. That sounds like a lot of fun.Phil LaMarr:It's so much fun.Michael Jamin:Hey, it's Michael Jamin. If you like my videos and you want me to email them to you for free, join my watch list. Every Friday I send out my top three videos. These are for writers, actors, creative types. You can unsubscribe whenever you want. I'm not gonna spam you and it's absolutely free. Just go to michaeljamin.com/watchlist.Wow. I mean, is there a limit to how much you can, I mean, just organizing that to get everyone to get the time off. I mean, that's gotta be logisticallyPhil LaMarr:Gotta be hard. Yeah. The, the tours aren't that we don't do them that often because, you know, Gary Anthony Williams from, you know, Malcolm in the Middle and stuff, everybody in our cast works a lot. Yeah. So we can really only guarantee the show once a month. Right. but sometimes when we tour, not everybody goesMichael Jamin:Because Yeah, you have to, I mean, if someone books apart and you're shooting that at night, what, what are you gonna do? That's the way. Right.Phil LaMarr:Or you or you have to fly to Vancouver for six months.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right. Right. And that's part of, that's, I mean, that's part of the, the plus of, of the do for you for doing a lot of voice acting is that, you know, you probably get to lead a pretty sane in life if for an actor it's, it can be very hard, you know, being onPhil LaMarr:Their Well, and, and it's also one of the wonderful things about the progress that has come since we started the show, because part of the reason Jordan created the show is because those of us in the improv world, you know, who are people of color, oftentimes spent the majority of our time being the one.Michael Jamin:Yeah.Phil LaMarr:But over the years, the, you know, the numbers, the diversity in the improv world, you know, expanded, it used to be a very suburban art form.Michael Jamin:Yeah.Phil LaMarr:But now, you know, I I I credit this mostly to Wayne Brady doing whose lives in anyway.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right. Yeah. And so that really opens up more opportunities and more of what Yeah. That, that's, that's interesting that, you know, that really has changed a lot. How, how have you seen it change your opportunities in the past, I don't know, whatever, 20 years, 30 years, you know, however long?Phil LaMarr:Well, it's, it's, it's changed be in a lot of ways. One, when I got voted into the Groundlings in 1992, I was the first black person to get voted into the company in its 18 years of existence.Michael Jamin:You're kidding me. Yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy.Phil LaMarr:And now the pool of, you know black people, you know, who are Groundlings has expanded. It's not just one every 18 years.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right. But, and in terms of more, you know, more opportunities for you even, you know, I mean, everything's, everything's really opened up for you. Right. I mean, I imagine Well,Phil LaMarr:Well, because we have, you know, the, those of us in entertainment have expanded. Yeah. You know, what we consider will work. You know, I was talking my son just graduated from NYU and one of his classmates is the son of the woman who directed the woman king. Okay. At Viola Davis, you know. Right. Action movie. Right. And I remember watching and thinking, oh my god, when I was 18, no studio in the world.Michael Jamin:Right. Would touch that. Right. Would'vePhil LaMarr:Would've, you know, green lit Yeah. A action movie, you know, about black women.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right.Phil LaMarr:And, and the fact that, you know, it's out there now and is just another big movie. It's, it's not considered, you know you know, a once in a lifetime thing anymore. That's the progress and the fact that we have, you know, middle-aged women mm-hmm. leads of s of TV series. Yeah. You know, back in the old days, the only lead of a TV series was one beautiful person or one famous, you know, hilarious person. Yeah. But now they've opened it up.Michael Jamin:I wonder, is your son planning to going through the arts now that he graduated from nyu?Phil LaMarr:Yes. Yes. He's, he's musician. He oh, writes and sings and dances and raps and produces, and he's part of the Clive Davis recorded music program where they teach them music and the music business.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Wow.Phil LaMarr:One of his teachers was Clive Davis's daughter. Wow. Who's a lawyer.Michael Jamin:And do, I mean, it's, but it's, the music is different from what you do. I wonder, I wonder if you're able to, does it all feel like, I don't know how to help , you know? Yeah.Phil LaMarr:Yeah. There's a lot of that uhhuhMichael Jamin:Like,Phil LaMarr:Dad dead. Because when your kid goes into, you know, show business, you think, well, I've been in show business for 40 years, like, you haven't been in the music business. I'm like, you're right.Michael Jamin:That's true. So interesting. Wow. Wow. And, and, and so what about, I guess, you know what's next for you? Is you just, is it more of the same? Is there more, well, actually I know you have a pilot that you, that you were, you're working on, you know, you're getting into the writing side of the business. Yes.Phil LaMarr:More so. Yes. And that actually over the last couple of years has been a, a slight shift you know, having been performing. Yeah. You know, for so long now, since the eighties. I've also, and I've also been writing since the nineties when I started at the Groundlings. Right. I was writing sketches and I wrote on Mad tv. But just recently, earlier in this year, I took a job as a professional writer on a television show for the first time.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:And it was pretty wild to have 30 years of sitcoms under your belt and then suddenly see it from a completely different angle.Michael Jamin:And what, and what was your impression of that?Phil LaMarr:It, it was wild to cuz like you were talking about the way I look at acting and break it down. Yeah. And, you know, look at all the subtle distinctions. I had never looked at, you know, TV writing that way. Okay. But to suddenly be in a room with people who look at who see it that way for decades, you're like, oh wow. How do I feel like a rookie at 56?Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right. And so there's a lot of catching, a lot of catching up little Yeah. You know, that's so, and, and are, are you enjoying it as much or as much as you thought? Or what do you think?Phil LaMarr:Well it, the challenge part was, was a little bit, you know, tough. Yeah. But it was great to be working on a really good show with great, talented people and to be learning something new. It's like, yeah. Oh, like for me, like when we would write sketches at the Groundlings Uhhuh, you didn't think about anything about like, well, beginning, middle, and end. Right. Three minutes.Michael Jamin:Right, right.Phil LaMarr:You know, but now you have to think about, you know, character arcs and the, you know, okay, well if you introduce the character's father, we have to think about their entire family. Is the mother still a alive? You're like, oh, right. When you write a sketch, you don't have to think about,Michael Jamin:You don't think about any of that. Right. And when you, and when you're acting the part you, you know. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's, it's so interesting cause I always say like, acting and writing are really, they're two sides of the same coin. It really helps to study both whatever you want to do, study both. Exactly. it's all, and so yeah, that, that finding that emotional arc and, you know, it's all, it's all new for you, but yeah. I wonder, you know, but you're enjoying it.Phil LaMarr:Well and, and working alongside, I mean, cuz there were people who, you know, one guy at show run Will and Grace, another guy worked on Arrested Development. I mean like, you know, one guy was showrunner on five other shows to, to watch how they mm-hmm. . Cause for me, I would like, Hey, I would just pitch out a joke. I'm just gonna say something I think is funny. Right. But they had this like s you know, Superman MicroVision where they could take that joke and see Yeah. How it could affect the mm-hmm. the entire scene, the entire episode and the entire season.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right. It's like, where does that, but offPhil LaMarr:The top of their head.Michael Jamin:Right. And where does it go? Where does that moment go into the script, into the, you know, is it act one or is it Act three? And so that Yes.Phil LaMarr:Yeah. That yes. I mean I'm sure you have that, that x-ray vision too. Yeah. Where you can look at a script and see the act structure Yeah. And you know, and or just even the structure of just the scene. Yeah. Like what does this character, where do they start and where do they finish?Michael Jamin:Yeah, that's right. Well we were, we ran a show for Mark Maron for four years and you know, he was one of the writers in it and he would pitch an idea, cause I wanna say this, and then we'd put up Neck one and then I remember at one point , we were talking about it and we said, mark, I don't think this can go in Act one. Is it okay if we put a neck three? And he'd say, oh, I don't care where you put it is. Right. long as in the script,Phil LaMarr:I'm just thinking about what the character would say.Michael Jamin:Yeah. That Right. I was like, was like, oh, that's a relief. I thought you were gonna get mad for, you know, you didn't care about that. So funny.Phil LaMarr:Right. Yeah. Just cuz as performers we are not looking at the app structure.Michael Jamin:Right, right. You know,Phil LaMarr:Most of us, I, I may imagine there are some people who do like, well I wanna build up from act two to act three, you know? Yeah. But most of us don't. We're just, what is the guy feeling in this scene right now?Michael Jamin:Right. And how to get to that, the truth of that, how difficult is it for you to make yourself vulnerable like that on stage to like, to go there, you know, whatever, maybe it's crying or whatever it is. How difficult it is for you just to allow yourself to go there?Phil LaMarr:Well, it's not necessarily easy. It's definitely something that I had to, you know, a skill set to build Uhhuh . You know, I was not one of those people when I started acting who could make themselves cry on cue, UhhuhMichael Jamin:,Phil LaMarr:You know. But I remember I had to do a scene on a, a Steven Boko show called Philly. And it's like, okay, well this character is really, you know, emotionally, you know, I gotta figure out how to make sure I'm putting that out there. Right. So I thought about something sad and let it, you know, something different than what the character was thinking about mm-hmm. . But it's again, like, you know, with the voice acting like what sounds bey you also have to think about your face, what looks Yeah. Sorrowful and how do you make yourself look sorrowful. Right. You know, although one of the things that helped me learn where to, to try to go was working on Pulp Fiction with Samuel L. Jackson.Michael Jamin:What he what? Go on. He gave you some great advice or what?Phil LaMarr:No, he just, what he showed because you would stand there offset talking to this cool old guy who was amazing, you know? Yeah. He's just talking about golfing or his daughter. But then when the camera started rolling Yeah. The person you were just talking to disappeared. Right on set. I looked over and I was looking into the eyes of someone completely different than Samuel L. Jackson. Right. And I remember standing there in my twenties thinking, oh my God, he transformed himself internally. And so that it shows externally. Yeah. That's like, I gotta learn how to do that.Michael Jamin:And then how did you learn how to do that?Phil LaMarr:Well, I, I'm still haven't gotten to his level , but what I learned is you have to figure out one, how you look and how you get, it's, it's like a map. Mm-Hmm. , you know you know, if you figure out how to guide your internal self to a place where your external self does what's on the page, that's what acting is. You know, otherwise you would just be reading words to be or not to be. That is the question. You know, it's not just about the words. It's how do you express the feeling? And Sam taught me there is a way where you don't have to do nine minutes of to get into character.Michael Jamin:Okay. IfPhil LaMarr:You know the root within yourself, you can do it like that. Right. So I, I realized it was about learning your internal, you know, where do, where do you put your sadness? Where do you put your anger and where's, what's the difference between your anger and this character's anger? Guide yourself there and then, you know, connect the two.Michael Jamin:And do you have moments where you feel like, I I didn't do it. I didn't get there. You know. Well,Phil LaMarr:I mean that's the, the one good thing about on camera work and what we were talking about about the rehearsal Uhhuh is you can find, take the time to find it, but yes, no, there's, there's always, you know, not every job is a home run. Mm-Hmm. , you're like, oh, I wish I had gone a little bit deeper with that. Right. You know and sometimes you feel it there. Yes. Other times you don't realize it until after you see it. And maybe it's, they picked a take that Right. You didn't No. That wasn't the best one. Why didn't they, you know, not nothing is ever perfect.Michael Jamin:Right, right. YouPhil LaMarr:Know,Michael Jamin:And, but do you, like sometimes I'll watch, I'll be on set and I'll watch an actor do something. Usually it's drama and or a dramatic moment. Right. And, and they let it all out. And after you, you'll cut. I'm always like, I wonder if they need a moment alone. You know what I'm saying? It's like Right. I mean, what are your, what's your take on that?Phil LaMarr:Well, I mean, I'm not a, a method guy. I don't put myself into, because Yeah. You, you hear a lot about that, about a guy's like, yeah man, I had to play this character and my girlfriend hated me for a month because when I went home I was still part of that dude. Yeah. You know? And I don't know if it's my improv and sketch background where I take my character off like a hat,Michael Jamin:Uhhuh . IPhil LaMarr:Don't take them home and, you know, I, I try to embody it during the performance, but I don't feel it's, you know, required to have to be the character.Michael Jamin:Right. But if you spend a whole day as a character,Phil LaMarr:It can, it can be draining.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right. It can be draining. Right. You have to wash yourself up that if, if you don't like that, you know, if you don't like that person, you have to wash yourself of that. Right. And how do you do that?Phil LaMarr:Yeah. Well, I mean that's, that's about, you know, when you leave the set mm-hmm. , you leave those feelings behind, although some actors don't, but you'veMichael Jamin:Just experienced, you spent the whole day experiencing that mm-hmm. that whatever it is, and yes, I understand you left it, but you spent the whole day angry or, or mournful or bitter or whatever it is. Like how do you, you still have to wash yourself from that, don't you? Well,Phil LaMarr:But I mean, the, for me, I'm not fooling myself. I'm not trying to convince myself that the script and the character is real and me. Cuz that's the thing. Like, if you spend all day with your drunken uncle who's nasty on Thanksgiving, that's not fun.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:You know, and then when you leave, you're like, ugh. You can, you can still be right, you know, upset about it, but you're, you're con but because you're connected to that person. For me, it's about, that is fiction. Right. I only, you know, I'm connected to the fiction while performing. I don't feel like I have to be, you know, like when I play Hermes on Futurama, I don't have to speak in a Jamaican accent for the entire season.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:You know?Michael Jamin:But are there moments, and maybe this is less so for a voice acting, but when you're, when you're on, when you're on camera, are there moments when you're like, you're cognizant that, oh, I'm acting now. Mm-Hmm. , you know, and then you, and you have to, oh, I gotta get back. You know, and you're, you're delivering your lines right in the middle of the line, you realize I'm acting.Phil LaMarr:Well, it, it's interesting because I think part of this mental philosophy I have is, you know, comes from watching Sam Jackson Uhhuh because he wasn't method, he wasn't acting like Jules, you know, acting like a gangster, a man with a gun the whole time.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:And he showed me that. And it's funny because while he was doing that, Frank Whaley who had worked on the doors was telling anecdotes about how when Val Kilmer was playing Jim Morrison, he was the exact opposite. Right. He, before they started shooting, he sent out a memo. Everyone is to refer to me as Jim or Mr. Morrison.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:You know, and he had a tent set where he would, you know, work to be in character and would only come on set as Jim Morrison. Right. He was ne They never s they never spoke to Val.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:Right. So, you know, what about, yes. It's definitely difficult for some people if that's their approach. No, no. My approach is I have to live this character.Michael Jamin:Right. You know, so you're, so you, okay, so that's not your problem. You don't have to worry. That's not something you have to Yeah, no. Interesting. I, I'm so interested in the, the actor's approach to the material, you know? Yeah. Because, you know, we write it, but how do you guys do, how do you guys do it? Because there's a difference. There really is a difference. You know, we hear it one way we envision it, but we can't do it. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. We can't get it out of our heads onto, into reality, but you can. And so I'm always like, how did you do thatPhil LaMarr:? Right. Well, it was, it was, it was interesting experience, you know, from the writing, acting, you know, crossover. Mm. I worked on a, I was developing an animated show based on a friend of mine's web comic called Goblins.Michael Jamin:Okay.Phil LaMarr:And my partner, Matt King and I, we were both performers, but we adapted the comic into a script. And I called a bunch of my voice actor friends, cuz we were, we were gonna make a trailer, you know, to bring these, you know, comic characters to life Yeah. In animation. And it was funny cuz Matt and I are actors. We had, you know, written the script and we'd acted out these scenes. And so in our heads we, we thought we knew exactly how they'd sound. But then we brought in amazing Billy West, Maurice La Marsh. Mm-Hmm. , Jim Cummings. Mm-Hmm. Steve Bloom, Jennifer. And it was funny because when they performed the scenes we had written, they took it to a whole other level. Right. Beyond what existed in our, in our heads. Right. Like, oh my God, they made it so much better than I even imagined it couldMichael Jamin:Be. Right, right.Phil LaMarr:And it was wild cuz I'd heard writers, you know, express a similar kind of thing. It's like, oh my gosh, you guys did such, such amazing with, and, but to have it, you know, as someone who'd been a performer, to have someone take your and do that miracle with it was an eye-opening experience. Like, ah, butMichael Jamin:There's something else that you do. Cause you know, there's a handful ofri actors, voice of actors, they always work. You're one of them. But pro you call 'em in and it's, it's knowing, especially in comedy, knowing where, how to hit the joke. I mean, we always say, can they hit a joke? And knowing where the laugh falls, not just somewhere, but which word makes it, makes it funny, you know? Mm-Hmm. , you know. And do you think that's your instinct? Or is that just something you've gotten better at?Phil LaMarr:Yes, I think that's something that has grown from performing, especially in the sense of, in the sense of comedy. Because I remember, you know, starting out on stage doing, you know, plays, then doing, doing improv, which is specific comedy cuz when you're doing a play mm-hmm. , the writer has decided which moments are funny, which moments are dramatic, you know. But when you're doing improv, you and the audience are deciding what's funny. Right. And, and I remember coming, you know, back to LA and pursuing acting and then starting to get work on camera and doing comedy. And I realized, huh. Oh wow. I don't have an audience.Michael Jamin:Yes. And youPhil LaMarr:Have, you have to create a gauge in your head for, is this funny? Because when you're on stage and you're doing a funny bit, you're, you know, you can feel from the audience whether, oh, I need to push that up a littleMichael Jamin:Bit. Right.Phil LaMarr:But when you're working on camera, this, the crew is not allowed to laugh outMichael Jamin:Loud. Right.Phil LaMarr:You know, so you have to create an audience inside you, an internal audience in your head to help, you know, is, is this the timing of this?Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:And, and it's funny because I've developed that and a couple of years into it, I remember I got a job working on N Y P D, blueMichael Jamin:UhhuhPhil LaMarr:Playing a guy who was being questioned, you know, interrogated in the police station and then gets roughed up by Ricky SchroederMichael Jamin:Uhhuh.Phil LaMarr:But the, the lines, because this guy's on drugs. And I remember like, oh wow, I gotta be careful. This could be funny . Cause he's like, you know, like, you know, cause Ricky Schroeder, you know, sees blood on his, on his clothes, like, take your clothes off. It's like, and the guy take my clothes. What you wanna do? What you ain't gonna put no boom on my ass. Right. And I remembered I have to gauge the funny way to do this and not doMichael Jamin:That. Yes. Right, right. Because,Phil LaMarr:You know, there was, I, and I realize no, no. Pull back the tempo and lean into the anger, not the outrage.Michael Jamin:Right. Right. So, andPhil LaMarr:Then it'll be, then it'll be dramatic, not comedy.Michael Jamin:It's, again, here you are approaching it really from the craft. It's not Yeah. I just wish it's, when I hear people, I want to be an actor. Okay. Take it serious. Are you gonna study? Are you just gonna, do you wanna be famous? Which, what is it you want? You know?Phil LaMarr:Right.Michael Jamin:And well, let's talk about that for a second. What, what's your relationship with, with fame? How do you, you know?Phil LaMarr:Well, that's a very interesting thing because I feel like that has changed mm-hmm. from the generation, like when you're our age, when we were growing up pre-internet mm-hmm.Michael Jamin:Phil LaMarr:Fame only applied to stars.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Right.Phil LaMarr:Now, you know, I mean, nobody knew voice actors, only voice actor anybody knew was Mel Blank.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:You know, people to this day still don't know what Das Butler looks like. Right. But the now anybody who appears on anything, even a YouTuberMichael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:Has some level of fame. Right. You know, and, and it's wild because, because of the internet, the, you know, it now matters what you say. In the old days, if you were a television character actor, like if you were Richard MulliganMichael Jamin:Yeah.Phil LaMarr:It never, nobody was ever gonna post what you said about something.Michael Jamin:Right.Phil LaMarr:It was only if you were Joan Crawford. Right. Or

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This week I sit down with character designer, Carey Yost. From the get go, I am laughing while talking to Carey. He is so charismatic, funny and an extremely talented artist. We hear some great stories about the late Chris Reccardi, Early days of Cartoon Network, Ren and Stimpy, Samurai Jack, The PowerPuff Girls Movie and so much more! Follow Carey: https://www.instagram.com/careyyost/Follow Carey: https://distortionglassmemory.com Follow and Subscribe to the What's In My Head Podcast across all social media platforms and wherever you listen to podcasts! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-in-my-head-podcast/id1604643239 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-In-My-Head-Podcast/dp/B09WZVF55F/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=Julian+Hester&qid=1660599356&sr=8-3 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nmyheadpod Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL25teWhlYWRwb2QvZmVlZC54bWw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmyheadpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7lKoC7V7kfuNUhCxKZSxsL?si=MqtwMp2UTUmLdshs8_9d9Q Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/whats-in-my-head-podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/nmyheadpod Don't forget to subscribe and follow us across all social media platforms. #animation #powerpuffgirls #craigmccracken #popculturenews #cartoonreview #cartoonnetworkshows

We're going back to past! Well, sort of. Back to the early 2000s in which we will then go forward into the future with a samurai from the past. Does that make sense? It's Samurai Jack! Created by Genndy Tartakovsky, this Cartoon Network animated series enthralled an entire generation and was left confused with it's cancellation. Luckily, in 2017, after 13 years of waiting, we received the conclusion to this epic story and it does not disappoint! Hop into the portal with us as we accompany Jack on his journey in a dystopian future trying to find his way back to his time.This episode is sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn and presented to you by The Barn Media Group.

We're back!! In the premiere of this 50's episode we talk about getting deep and machismo, alluding to the orgy episode, Jughead being Samurai Jack, the return of Mr. Turtle, being useless, and hot dog AND hamburger?? It's more likely than you think.

This week I sit down with Storyboard Artist, Bryan Andrews. Bryan is one of the OG's when it comes to Cartoon Network. He's worked with folks like Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken, Rob Renzetti, Randy Myers, Robert Alvarez on Samurai Jack, PowerPuff Girls, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Symbiotic Titan, Clone Wars, Primal, Hotel Transylvania, Marvel Studios and so much more. We chat any and all things Samurai Jack. This one was a blast getting to delve deep into the early days of Jack, Cartoon Network and a lot of the cool folks Bryan has met along the way. This is one of those convos that I was truly left in awe. I hope you all enjoy this one as much as I did. Follow and Subscribe to the What's In My Head Podcast across all social media platforms and wherever you listen to podcasts! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-in-my-head-podcast/id1604643239 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-In-My-Head-Podcast/dp/B09WZVF55F/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=Julian+Hester&qid=1660599356&sr=8-3 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nmyheadpod Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL25teWhlYWRwb2QvZmVlZC54bWw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmyheadpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7lKoC7V7kfuNUhCxKZSxsL?si=MqtwMp2UTUmLdshs8_9d9Q Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/whats-in-my-head-podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/nmyheadpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatsInMyHeadPodcast/featured Don't forget to subscribe and follow us across all social media platforms.

And on the next episode of Who Would Win...One of the most controversial matchups in show history!Will the people's choice Samurai Jack (Repped by James) slice his way to the top or will Composite Samuel L Jackson (Repped by Ray) have too many references for Jack to keep up? Will special guest judge Rama Vallury make the people happy to end season 4??You can now support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/WhoWouldWinShowCheck out the Who Would Win YouTube Channel!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvvgEElLPGQG2GXkqMhQ5JwCheck out our brand new Who Would Win Merch Store:WhoWouldWinStore.comFollow us all on Twitter: @WhoWouldWinShow @JamesGavsie @AlmightyRay @ScoopsPopeSONG - Giosafat (Le Jugement)ARTIST - Etteilla&Upbeat Dance Funk by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Ritmo&( “music by Twisterium / freebackgroundtracks.net”)WhoWouldWinShow.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/who-would-win/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this very special, bittersweet episode, Nick and Brendan reunite to give their final thoughts on the time-traveling samurai warrior known as Jack. After delivering final thoughts, we plow through a series of rankings of our all-time favorite (and least favorite) things about the Cartoon Network classic. Thanks for supporting us throughout this journey- our next project is coming soon! 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:21 - Brendan's Best Bets 00:23:25 - Talking about Samurai Jack Rankings of Samurai Jack stuff: 00:38:36 - Top 5 characters 00:48:00 - Ranking the seasons 00:53:10 - "All Cool Style" moment 01:00:27 - Most frustrating moment 01:06:14 - Funniest moment 01:12:33 - Best fight 01:19:18 - Best/worst Samurai Jack video game 01:23:12 - Best Samurai Jack fit 01:29:55 - Best Aku form/disguise 01:35:55 - Best setting 01:40:17 - Best episode title 01:43:14 - Worst episode title 01:48:13 - Bottom 3 episodes 01:54:03 - Top 5 episodes 02:09:07 - Our final thoughts on Samurai Jack Special thanks to Jake Lester for our theme song. Brendan does our artwork- find him on Instagram. Follow us: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram Have a question or comment about the show? Email us at gottarecap@gmail.com and we may read your message on a future episode.

Zach talks with creator Dan Price about his sci-fi, action adventure comic about a martial artist sasquatch and other various cryptids and kaiju that he comes to blows with as a larger story unfolds!---------------------------------------------------Get more on Dan and Bigfoot Knows Karate!Back Bigfoot Knows Karate on Kickstarter!Follow on Instagram!Follow at their website!Also: If you're an aspiring creator, check out:Co-writer and editor, Casey Allen's The Comic Jam! ---------------------------------------------------Check out Dreampass and all their killer tracks on Spotify!---------------------------------------------------Join the Patreon to help us keep the lights on, and internet connected!https://www.patreon.com/tctwlWant to try out all the sweet gigs over on Fiverr.com? Click on the link below and sign up!https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=323533&brand=fiverrcpaTune in here for every episode of the show!https://kite.link/the-comics-that-we-loveFollow on Instagram for Comics Obscure and More!The Comics That We LoveFollow on Tiktok!The Comics that We LoveFollow on Twitter!@Z_Irish_Red

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