Voice Talent Gifts

"Instead of careful interpretation of the prose, maybe try pronouncing even the most basic words like an insane person?"

"Uh oh, Mongrel is subbing in a British voice talent to deliver understated but devastating put-downs."

'How are the ventriloquist lessons going?'

"I'm sorry, we're looking for the voice of a spunky animated turnip and your reading is more fruit than vegetable if you understand what I mean."

'Put some feeling into it. I can't tell the difference between the lion and the mouse.'

"If you insist on doing all the voices, Dad. Don't you think father bear should have a deeper voice than Goldilocks?"

"The 'Sing Only in the Shower' Community Chorus"

"Bill did the voice-over for this commercial."

'We're out of earshot now, so you can drop the phoney, Oxbridge accent.'

"I can't talk louder, I'm a little horse."

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

It's more than a mike!

Chorister's Loose Teeth

'I'm a voice over artist.'

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

Joanna Lumley.

The passing of a radio/tv personality.

Leonard Cohen

Barbara Streisand

"It took years of vocal training, but I now have a vocal range from squeaky right down to tenor..."

Recording Studio

Welcome to California. You may begin your Schwarzenegger imitation now

"I hope they read the fine print that the audiobook is to be voiced by Morgan Freeman."

Ernest Borgnine

Pianist takes his bow whilst the singer carries on singing.

"I was kind of hoping for 'new voices' who'd also sung before."

Sarah Vaughan

'My best attribute? That would be my glottal stop.'

"Cholesterol medicine commercial, Take 3. This time, try to sound less horrified when you say, 'May cause heart to explode through ears'."

Teacher complaning he can't understand pupil in his course on 'Voice projection and pronunciation'

Choir Games

'Hoarse play.'

"There it is again: some kind of weird disembodied voice describing our every move."

"I always knew I wanted to be a voice-over artist because, as a child, I was British."

Amateur singers