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  • - On the show, we have to actually talk to ourselves.

  • Rod, Todd, this is God.

  • What are you doing on our radio?

  • I invented the universe, stupid kid.

  • I've got a job for thee.

  • Bring forth all the cookies.

  • But those are our parents cookies.

  • Do you a happy god or a vengeful god?

  • Happy god, happy god.

  • - Ay, caramba.

  • - I'm learneding.

  • - My house, my house.

  • - Ha ha.

  • - Hi, I'm Nancy Cartwright and you may recognize my voice.

  • Hi, I'm Bart Simpson.

  • Who the hell are you?

  • Ralph Wiggum.

  • I'm Idaho.

  • Nelson Muntz.

  • Ha ha.

  • Todd Flanders.

  • I get to anoint their feet.

  • Chuckie from "The Rugrats."

  • Oh no, it's clowns.

  • I don't like clowns.

  • [wails]

  • [laughs]

  • And one more, doesn't talk much,

  • Rufus the naked mole rat from "Kim Possible."

  • [mimics rat]

  • Did you get all that?

  • I'm here today with "Vanity Fair"

  • and I'm gonna listen to some up and coming artists

  • do some impressions of the characters that I do.

  • Let's check it out.

  • - Why, where's he working?

  • - The Kwik-E-Mart.

  • [Bart laughs]

  • - Maggie.

  • [laughs]

  • I don't mean to be bad.

  • I don't know why I do the things that I do.

  • [laughs]

  • - That's pretty good.

  • You know, the challenging thing about

  • doing a voice is that there has to be a consistency.

  • She touches on it just a little bit

  • and she's got the ability to do...

  • To do that sound.

  • But you have to be able to maintain a consistency

  • in a certain sound.

  • Even--

  • [laughs]

  • when you're laughing.

  • I've never really thought about the placement of my voice

  • when I do Bart Simpson.

  • He's really easy to just slip into

  • and I think it's kind of in the back of my throat.

  • It's not nasal.

  • If it was nasal, it would be like that.

  • She had an open

  • but again, it's just that finding the exact, right placement

  • for it so she can maintain that sound

  • throughout the show.

  • You go all the way back to the beginning of "The Simpsons,"

  • we had no idea we were still gonna be on the air

  • after all these years.

  • And some of my characters have evolved.

  • And Dan doing Homer, same thing.

  • When you're on as long as we've been on,

  • it becomes an evolution.

  • Bart at the beginning was one note.

  • He's like,

  • "Lisa, come on, man--"

  • and he was angry

  • he was a rascal.

  • But as it developed into a half hour show,

  • there was more opportunity for him

  • to become a fleshed out character.

  • So I had more range and freedom in

  • like the sound of it.

  • So instead of being like, down here

  • and being like that all the time,

  • there was like,

  • "Mom, aww."

  • ♪ Happy birthday Lisa ♪

  • And you know, and you got to see a softer side

  • of Bart Simpson, which was great.

  • So Mom, what's our plan?

  • - What are you doing up there?

  • - Looking through peoples' luggage.

  • I'm the mascot of an evil corporation.

  • - So Mom, what's our plan?

  • - What are you doing up there?

  • - Looking through peoples' luggage.

  • I'm the mascot of an evil corporation.

  • [laughs]

  • - Oh wow.

  • You could tell immediately that she loves

  • what she's doing.

  • She is having so much fun.

  • Various characters here.

  • She's doing Bart, she's doing Marge.

  • Even putting the nose on to help her out.

  • The first thing she did, it sounded a little--

  • it did sound a little bit like Bart.

  • Her Marge, I think, was the best

  • of the ones that she did.

  • Her enthusiasm and her passion

  • to be able to have the opportunity to entertain people

  • on YouTube, you gotta admire that.

  • Practice, practice, practice.

  • The more that you do, the better that you will get.

  • I believe that there's innate talent

  • and there's also talent that you can develop.

  • You don't necessarily have to have innate talent

  • in order to succeed in what it is that you're doing.

  • You know, it's interesting, people have asked me

  • this question before about the difference between

  • doing voiceover work and doing on camera work.

  • In terms of development of a character,

  • I don't see a whole lot of difference.

  • The biggest difference is that in voiceovers,

  • you don't have to do makeup unless you're doing

  • a photo shoot or a video shoot for "Vanity Fair,"

  • and then you have to like, doll yourself up.

  • But when you go to do a regular job,

  • there's no makeup, there's no hair,

  • you don't have to hit your mark for the camera.

  • In that regard, it's a lot less pressure.

  • But in terms of development of the characters,

  • honestly, I don't really see a whole lot of difference.

  • You have to commit 100% to what it is

  • that you're doing, the decision that you made.

  • So for you, again,

  • consistency and commitment to that particular sound.

  • [dramatic music]

  • - Did you replace me with this tinker toy?

  • - Replace is such an ugly word.

  • We upgraded.

  • - Bart, we can be friends.

  • - Eat my shorts.

  • - Here we go.

  • Ay, caramba eat my shorts.

  • Oh.

  • - Oh my gosh, are you kidding?

  • She is such a fan.

  • She's got a lot of enthusiasm,

  • she's got a lot of passion in what she's doing,

  • she's cute as a button.

  • I think she's got the makings of doing

  • a Bart Simpson impression.

  • Bart Simpson, his normal voice is like this.

  • I'm gonna make him go down to two years old.

  • So this is Bart Simpson age 10 years old.

  • What's happening, man?

  • Now this is Bart Simpson at eight years old.

  • Hi, hi.

  • As we get a little bit younger,

  • you can hear my voice it's getting,

  • it's getting a little bit like a helium balloon

  • so when I get to be like two years old,

  • this is Bart Simpson.

  • Mommy.

  • Bart at 40.

  • Okay, we bring it way down into a low register.

  • You can get a bass.

  • And if I'm doing Bart Simpson and I decide

  • to do another character like that.

  • Hey Ma,

  • ma, what's going on?

  • Where's the grits?

  • I'm hungry.

  • That would be Bart Simpson, you know, from Tennessee.

  • It's all the same voice.

  • In order to build a house,

  • you have to have a good foundation.

  • And right now, I don't quite see the foundation.