and I eat angel birds.

They are your souls [gobbles].

Hi, I'm Phil LaMarr.

I've played a lot of different characters.

I played Hermes on Futurama.

the samurai known as Jack on Samurai Jack,

the Green Lantern in Justice League,

Bolbi on Jimmy Neutron, Ollie Williams.

- It's gonna rain.

- On Family Guy.

I'm about to play some new characters,

based on some images I have never seen before,

so hopefully it'll be voices you've never heard before.

The man alone in bed, awake at 3:20.

Oh, this is the third act of that Pixar movie.

I am wrought with guilt.

Everything is not going to be right.

I can't sleep.

I can't even close my eyes.

Or, maybe he's a little calmer.

Maybe he's just more of this guy.

Well, there we go.

I'm just gonna be up,

'cause I just got home from the club.

And until I come down off all of these drugs,

I'm just gonna lie here in my pajamas.

Honey, turn out the light in that bathroom, would ya.

All right, now we've got a young probably a teenager

in his karate gear.

There's two ways we can go with this one.

He can be a real black belt.

Yeah, hi-yah.

I have studied the martial arts since I was four,

and I can break all the boards.

Or, he might be the dude

who just like watching karate movies,

but he's not actually [mumbles].

Uh, no, I ain't never actually done karate

or spelt it, but I love it, man.

Ka, don't you look at me wrong.

I'm a karate chop your butt.

Now we've got our stereotypical, cartoon, smart kid.

I'm guessing he's not our hero.

He's somebody who's in our heroes class,

and always gets the A's when our hero doesn't.

He doesn't understand what you need to be socially cool,

so he speaks in equations [gasps] sigma [mumbles].

You know?

Or, he might be a little bit cooler,

'cause you know nerds are running

all the studios now [laughs].

Sure, I can do that, Mrs. Watkins.

Can I have the chalk please [mumbles].

R squared pi [inhales].

Can I go the bathroom, please?

And now we have

a big, goofy, hairy monster.

This of course makes us think of Cookie Monster.

But that's copyrighted,

so we gotta go a different direction.

We've got the one big guy.

So maybe he's a little off,

but he's got a big smile [laughs].

Hi, is everybody ready for dinner?

He could be something that we encounter in the woods.

Maybe he's a little scary, huh [laughs]?

Don't worry, I won't hurt you.

I just going to chew you a little.

This is an owl.

But he looks very sort of Old World,

so you have to have sort of a black and white voice here,

something in the continental realm,

plus the fact of all of that detail and cross hatching.

This is someone that you take very seriously.

This is a man of breeding and wisdom from the Old World.

I've got a top hat behind my back,

so you know that I have status

and I will not deal with foolishness.

Or, he might be a little softer.

He could be, even though he looks very serious,

he could also be a comic character.

Hi, I am your silly uncle [laughs].

Oh, I'm sorry I accidentally signed over

the deed to the castle, we're homeless.

Now you've got a guy with a grill

who's very happy to be grilling.

I mean, he's not George Foreman, but he might be.

I can't afford a George Foreman grill,

so I got a Forge Georman grill.

How ya' doing?

I'm Forge Georman, and this here is my little tiny grill.

You can only fit one burger on it,

but it's one good burger.

He's your uncle, who's running the cookout,

that's also the family reunion.

Hey, boy, where you been?

I ain't seen you in so long.

Get on out here and bring me that ketchup.

I'm gonna make my special sauce [chuckles].

And tell you momma to bring me out some my special drink,

the purple one.

Now we have a great, big,

white Sasquatch, guerrilla type guy.

But he's also in a good mood,

so basically you've got a big primate here, right?

Oh yeah, oh, hi.

Welcome to the forest.

You're looking for the bathroom?

It's this tree right here.

Or, I love this.

This design might work might nicely for a villain.

Well, if you come into my forest at night,

it's not just good night moon,

it's good night you.

Well, now you've got a delivery guy.

I got a little experience playing these guys.

So hey, maybe he's somebody

who's just happy to be here, right [laughs]?

I got all these packages.

Although, I don't know.

This guy's got that big man chin.

I think he's got a little more ego than that.

Oh, don't you worry,

I've got your package right here [chuckles].

I've got all your packages right here.

What, you mean some people

make more than one trip [chuckles], amateurs.

'Cause it looks like Patrick,

if I ever wore a baseball cap which I never do.

Okay, wow.

We've got some late night

Adult Swim type stuff happening here.

Hey, when I created this cartoon

I was like a little high [giggles].

Don't worry about it, it's cool.

But I have created a person,

I have antlers,

and I have jagged teeth,

and I eat angel birds,

so try and make sense of that, hey.

Oh, and I'm a little bit of the devil.

Yeah, see the fire and my trident?

Yeah, so these birds, they are your souls [gobbles].

Or we could just go, oh, man.

I'm up here on this thing

and anybody else hungry?

So we got cocky guy on a skateboard.

[laughs]

Who's either got a very crazy path behind him,

or yo, man that's my tag, dude.

Right, what's up?

You see what it says, right?

You know I'm an influencer and escape artist,

so get with it, dude [hisses].

Or, yeah, man maybe it's like this cool cat, right?

What you waiting for, let's hit it, yeah.

Let's go, olly, olly, oxen free [chuckles].

What I'm seeing here is sort of a period guy,

and he's got a folder that says secret

so he looks like a detective

but he's obviously a secret agent,

probably one of these hard boiled types.

I've got the secret files that I need right here.

Don't you worry, Jerry's not gonna get these.

We're gonna fight the axis powers, you better believe it.

So he's in the '40s, he's got a '40s hat.

He's gotta be in the '40s.

He's fighting the war.

Or if this guy wasn't our hero, if he was the bad guy.

Yeah, he's still in that period, sure,

but I got what I need,

and you're not getting it back

till I get some sommeliers.

The he just gets a little more edge to him,

gets a little more edge, right.

Don't make me fill you full of lead, something like that.

Now this is something I can relate to,

tribal wolf wearing a cow skull.

I am a predator,

and I live a predator life.

All in my tribe we eat meat.

Ew, who put these plants in my meat food?

You know, a lot of people come up to me and say,

"I wanna get into voice acting.

"How do you get into voice acting?"

I'm like, I don't know.

Get on a sketch comedy show on Fox

and then do cartoons, probably not the best path.

I came from a world that was very different

when voice acting wasn't a thing.

I didn't choose to be a voice actor, yes.

I was an actor who got a job on a cartoon, yes.

But with acting, or with anything,

the key is find a way to do it.

If you have friends who are artists or animators,

they're gonna need voices.

Go in there, help them out.

The thing is you gotta get in your mic time.

You gotta get in your practice.

Figuring out ways to solve the problem of performance.

Every role you're given is a problem to be solved.

There's a character on a page,

how do I make that real for an audience

who is going to watch or listen to it?

That's your job,

and you gotta practice it to get it right.

I'm Phil LaMarr, and this has been my personal take

on some really new cartoon voices.