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  • - She sells seashells by the seashore.

  • Polly want a cracker.

  • Cheese and crackers, cheese and crackers.

  • The red rabbit runs right near the rec room.

  • I forget what those things are that people do

  • to warm up your voice.

  • Hi Vanity Fair, I'm Will Forte.

  • I'm coming to you from my home today.

  • Uh, you may recognize my voice as Abraham Lincoln

  • from the 20 years ago MTV show Clone High.

  • The more recent Lego movies, 1 and 2,

  • I was also Abraham Lincoln.

  • And I am in the upcoming Netflix movie,

  • The Willoughbys, as Timothy Willoughby.

  • I will be improvising some new cartoon

  • character voices for you today.

  • Hope you enjoy.

  • This is a hot dog, who is about to eat a hot dog.

  • So, he is you know, wham looking at a cannibal hotdog.

  • [Silly dopey voice]

  • Would be more more in this zone.

  • Just kind of oblivious to everything 'cause

  • he's just he's just going to naturally be happy.

  • Because he's, you know, he's okay with eating

  • one of his own kind.

  • He's going to be pretty much okay with everything,

  • so he's, you know, he's definitely

  • got some very kind wonderful eyes.

  • And yeah, he's just going to fry up a,

  • what could be, his brother or his sister.

  • And, he's going and, or serve it

  • to somebody and be okay with it.

  • Or, you know, or this could be one of those guys

  • who is a serial killer.

  • I mean.

  • I think with that he would be,

  • [crazed laughing]

  • he's kind of excited, but there's also an edge to him.

  • [nervous laughter]

  • he's just like, no I don't see anything

  • wrong with this.

  • What would be wrong with this?

  • I'm just, uh, frying up some of my own kind,

  • and I'm about to eat them.

  • [crazed laughter]

  • What are you up to today?

  • How are you?

  • [manic laughter]

  • [normal voice]

  • Oh my God, this is like going to therapy.

  • This guy, I don't know what's going on with this guy.

  • He's like, a an alien zombie.

  • He does not have good dental,

  • I don't think he's got great grasp

  • of the English language.

  • And he definitely has an underbite,

  • so let's see.

  • What would he, what would be something?

  • [silly voice]

  • Hi, how are you?

  • How, how are you?

  • I want to see what his mouth looks like when he opens it up.

  • But, maybe there is some friendliness in there.

  • [silly airy voice]

  • Oh, hi there!

  • How are you?

  • [normal laughing]

  • What if that was the voice?

  • [effeminate airy voice]

  • Hi, how are you!

  • I know I don't look great right now.

  • I have been running around doing errands all day.

  • And, I have not been able to take a shower yet,

  • so don't, so just excuse me for

  • the way I look right now.

  • [normal voice]

  • For some reason, I am not sure which

  • which person I should be doing a voice for, but oh!

  • Do you know what I just noticed?

  • I noticed the breasts on the alien.

  • Which for some reason when I looked at the aliens face,

  • I thought it was a male alien, a malien.

  • Um, but I think it is a femalien.

  • But, who knows?

  • Maybe, 'cause for some reason when I look at the face

  • of this alien, it's just a smooth, it's like,

  • James Earl Jones.

  • Smooth, suave with the voice like,

  • [Relaxing smooth voice]

  • Don't you worry, we're going to get through this.

  • We're going to get you back down to Earth.

  • I'm in love with you, Trent.

  • You're a great astronaut.

  • And you believe in yourself, Trent.

  • Because, I believe in you.

  • And then Trent, the astronaut, is like,

  • [goofy innocent voice]

  • Thank you so much, for believing in me.

  • Because sometimes it's hard for me.

  • I was brought up in a family where I was told,

  • and taught, not to believe in yourself.

  • I was ridiculed, I was, I could never do anything right.

  • So, for you to compliment me in such a way,

  • I'm starting to believe it.

  • [silky voice]

  • Well believe it, because you're the real deal.

  • [normal voice]

  • So, this guy is just like, he's given up.

  • He just is he's lying down on the ground.

  • He's just given up on life.

  • He's hanging on by a thread.

  • I hear you, bro.

  • I hear ya.

  • [Whiney nasally voice]

  • Oh!

  • This guy is just so upset about everything.

  • It's the world's not going good for him.

  • And, everyone has it out for him.

  • What do I have to do to be treated fairly?

  • [whining moans]

  • I woke up this morning and the toaster was broken.

  • And so, I had to eat my bread un-toasted,

  • and then I went in I ran out of gas,

  • as I was driving my car.

  • And it was just so unfair.

  • And, I know I should have put gas in, but god.

  • Then I got to work, and I got fired.

  • Why does the world?

  • Why is it so against me?

  • [normal voice]

  • Okay, so for this one, I'm just as interested

  • in this dude to the left, as I am to the

  • this ghoulish zombie to the right.

  • [crazed spooky voice]

  • Zombies, coming for you.

  • [grunting sounds]

  • Uh,

  • [normal voice]

  • And then, this guy on the left, is just like,

  • [cheery silly voice]

  • Hey, hey buds!

  • Come on, just relax-relax.

  • I don't, you know.

  • I know that I look, you know, like

  • good lean meat for you, and you would like to

  • take some of my, take some of my flesh and put it

  • in your mouth, and eat it.

  • But, uh, hey there is probably a lot of more other

  • tasty people that, you know, there's some

  • I know- I have a couple fat friends

  • who are just right down the road.

  • [normal voice]

  • Okay, if he was the leader of a Shakespearian

  • zombie movie.

  • [Shakespearian voice]

  • Hither, yon hither thy-thy-thy zombie,

  • hunger do not, do not come after me.

  • There be meat down the way.

  • Beware my wash [unclear]

  • [normal voice]

  • they've got some kind of taming of the shrew line

  • that I can't remember what it is.

  • [Shakespearian voice]

  • But 'tis it's just down the road.

  • Is where the-the better meat is.

  • I would just say, go down there, what do you have to lose?

  • [Deep voice]

  • Ah, but certainly want some meat with

  • a little more fat on it then myself.

  • [normal voice]

  • And then the zombies would be like,

  • [deep airy voice]

  • Yes, we will go hither down the road,

  • [normal voice]

  • god that does not sound.

  • I've got to work on my zombies.

  • Okay, so here we've got, we've got a guy.

  • This is a, what looks to me, to be a waiter.

  • And, for some reason, this guy looks French.

  • Very French, to me.

  • [ speaking with French accent]

  • To me, this is a guy, he does not like

  • what he's doing.

  • So, he is kind of automatically pissed off.

  • He has a French accent, like this.

  • I do not do accents very well, so I do not know

  • if this is coming across as French.

  • Whatever happens happens, and this is what

  • is happening, so deal with it.

  • Here's the wine.

  • Um, Go f*ck yourself.

  • [chuckling]

  • [normal voice]

  • Okay.

  • Okay, this guy is flat out crazy.

  • I mean, you would have to be the worst detective

  • in the world to not know he's crazy.

  • He's got a straight jacket on.

  • And his tongue is hanging out of his mouth.

  • And his eyes are all, one eye is looking one way,

  • the other is looking the other way.

  • [incomprehensive sounds]

  • What are we talking about again?

  • I don't- did anybody hear that?

  • Did anybody see that?

  • I could have sworn I just saw a bird

  • come here in the wing.

  • And, uh yeah, but maybe not a bird.

  • But, [unclear] had a little hair on it.

  • [laughing]

  • [normal voice]

  • I'm never going to get a job again.

  • `Okay so, what I am seeing here is, basically,

  • a big nose with some eyes on the top of it.

  • Um, seems like this is going to be a character

  • that should probably have a lot to do with its nose.

  • [nasally voice]

  • Oh hey, how ya doin'?

  • [normal voice]

  • I don't know maybe it's kind of,

  • it's a big nose though.

  • Maybe it's, maybe its nose wouldn't be blocked up,

  • because he's got such huge air passages.

  • [loud booming voice]

  • He definitely seems like this kind of guy.

  • Who is kind of, kind of real excited.

  • His arms are out to the side,

  • and his eyes are up on the top.

  • So, uh yeah, he's really loving being with people.

  • Very animated, uh or, maybe these aren't

  • even animations.

  • Maybe that's just his eyebrows.

  • [normal voice]

  • I don't know.

  • It seems like the voice kind of shifted.

  • But, sometimes that happens!

  • Sometimes your voice just kind of changes.

  • I bet if you listen to Homer Simpson in the

  • first year of "The Simpsons" he probably-

  • probably changed, uh, each season.

  • Do you know what this guy reminds, this,

  • I felt like this was the same guy.

  • The one guy, who was stopping the ghouls.

  • He's either scared of music, or he's, or he like

  • woke up from a coma- that's it.

  • He woke up from a coma with the

  • ability to play expert piano.

  • And he didn't have any idea how to play piano before.

  • You can see in his eyes, it's like,

  • [goofy voice]

  • What is?

  • What is coming out of my fingers?

  • I was a, I don't know what I did, I-

  • in the coma lasted for so long that

  • I can't remember what I used to do.

  • But, I know I didn't play piano.

  • And now I do!

  • I'm a piano player!

  • Gifted, in a way that I never knew!

  • Oh my god!

  • But, I know one thing's for sure,

  • I can't improvise well.

  • Dialogue wise, on a piano I can do very well.

  • Quite well, surprisingly.

  • When I touch these keys, the music

  • is pouring out of me.

  • It's like my soul knows how to play the piano,

  • but my body didn't.

  • [normal voice]

  • I don't know what the voice of this guy sounds like,

  • but I know his backstory, and definitely it's

  • that he had never played the piano before.

  • But now, he can play beautifully.

  • Not every voice is going to be a winner.

  • Getting to be a voice actor is

  • the best thing of all time, it's so fun.

  • Like, when you're acting being cartoony

  • can be a bad thing.

  • But, when you're doing a voice for

  • an animated-animated show, obviously it is cartoony.

  • Look at pictures, make voices come out

  • of the pictures, just have fun with yourself.

  • You'll eventually figure out what voices are your

  • favorite ones to do, and you can just

  • keep experimenting and adding layers and adding layers.

  • Just, uh, just don't stop.

  • Just keep working on it.

  • I am Will Forte, uh, that was my take

  • on some new cartoon voices.

  • I hope you enjoyed watching.

  • Uh, thank you for watching, and stay safe.

- She sells seashells by the seashore.

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