and I could approximate anything.

I can do those big dumb announcer voices and everything.

I'd do it when I was a kid.

I thought it was useless,

like a parlor trick or something

'cause no one ever looked up to see

what the hell was going on.

It's like, yeah, we know what you can do.

- Good news, everyone.

- You stupid idiot.

- What's up, Doc?

- What a doofus. [laughs]

- Hi, "Vanity Fair."

This is Billy West, me, and today,

I'm going to be reviewing your impressions of my characters.

Can't wait.

I can't go through with it, Skeet.

What if she says no or starts laughing or something?

- Hi, my name is Doug Funnie.

I just love running around with my friend Skeeter

and my dog Porkchop.

I really like Patty Mayonnaise.

She's probably one of the prettiest girls in all the world.

[Billy laughs]

- That was really darn good.

Bravo.

Thank you for your bravery.

Doug, as it was described to me originally,

he was a 11-1/2 painfully shy tweener.

This voice that you're doing sounds like he might be older,

which to me is a perfectly fine idea for a character,

for a voice for another character

that doesn't look like Doug or someone else,

but you did a really good job with it.

And you know what?

You had the somberness in your voice

and your delivery and your performance.

I would pitch it up higher, if it's possible.

You're kind of like here.

Well, hey, everybody.

This is Doug.

You know, but his voice was higher

'cause he was a young guy when I was doing him.

He couldn't wait, you know, to go to the Honker Burger.

And I got a crush on Patty Mayonnaise, too.

And throw more acting into it.

Don't be afraid to do anything.

Don't be afraid to experiment.

Be fearless.

Ah, who's gonna notice if we mess up anyway.

In five minutes, everybody's gonna be snoring.

- Hey, what the?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Oh, brother.

What a doofus. [laughs]

You see, Doug?

I told you.

You can't dance. [laughs]

What's going on here?

Hey, get me up.

You can't just leave me here.

Come on!

- Nicely done.

That was really good.

He had the pitch.

He had Roger's pitch,

which I could do a lot better

if it was 30 years ago or so

or whenever we did that,

but he had the pointedness of Roger.

I looked at the picture of Roger

and he reminded me of a bully

that used to antagonize me in high school.

He would always bother me.

He had pointy hair, you know,

pointy nose,

and he was always poking me in the shoulder,

and his shoes were pointy.

Everything about him was pointed, and eh!

This performer had the voice

in the right pitch and everything,

and I think he was doing a good performance.

You know, you can stop every now and then

and take your moment.

You don't have to Gatling gun through lines

unless you're doing a tirade or something.

But yeah, he's high energy, Roger.

And I think you captured that.

Good news, everyone.

We were supposed to make a delivery

to the planet Tweenis 12,

but it's been completely destroyed.

- Well, back to the old drawing board, I suppose,

and find our own jobs and businesses.

For me, I'll just go to the home,

where an old bag of dust like me belongs.

Good news, everyone.

We've run out of food supply for the whole year.

Oh well, time to eat Zoidberg.

[Billy laughs]

- That's really funny.

He has the right confidence and he's not afraid to perform.

But the thing is is you had the shake,

the shaky voice at first of like an old man, but,

but he's really old.

I mean, old as the hills.

You know, I'm looking around for that young idiot Fry.

You know, don't be afraid to take your moment with words.

I mean, that's how you draw people in.

You don't rush through stuff.

He, doing the professor,

he began to sound like the guy

that sits in front of a fire at his estate,

and he's got a goblet of Chivas Regal, you know,

leaning back on his laurels, and I've done quite a thing.

I've done many things, and ask me about one of them,

and [mumbles].

Look at me.

I'm Dr. Zoidberg, homeowner.

- I thought that you said that you had good news.

Blah, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.

That was my ink defense, ladies.

[Billy laughs]

- That guy's really good.

He's got the spark.

He plays with the character voices

and he takes his moment.

He did little pauses,

and it's like, you got to milk that stuff.

That's what makes it sound like a real person,

rather than some, you know, cloying annoying,

made-up cartoon voice.

It makes it real.

And he had the tonal quality that those characters have.

He was hitting the right notes

and he was hitting all the right beats.

I thought it was great.

What I would say to him about Zoidberg,

I don't do his voice like with my hand over my mouth,

but you're supposed to sound like that.

I don't know.

What am I doing here?

Get me some cake.

Zoidberg wants cake.

Zoidberg could eat.

If you try to imagine all that cool meat

hanging off your face how you would sound.

Just imagine it.

You're all over the place.

[mumbles]

Oh, you pesky wabbit.

I've got you now.

- I know what you are thinking, Mr. Bunny Wabbit.

You are thinking did old Elmer fire six shots

or possibwy onwy five.

[laughs]

- That's really good.

A for effort.

Totally A for effort.

He's fearless, you know what I mean?

He had the tone in his voice,

but maintaining it is the hard part.

You know what?

I think that was the wabbit.

He sounded like he was from Boston.

I don't know if he was or not,

but there's a lot of guys from Boston

that were like, aw, Cwist.

I don't know.

But, but he's got the spirit.

He's definitely got the spirit,

and good job.

You were expecting maybe the Easter bunny.

- Well, does he say what's up Doc, like this.

Meh.

Once, I need a carrot.

I'm gonna grab a carrot 'cause I need a carrot for this.

[crunching]

Yeah.

What's up, Doc?

I'm just gonna finish the carrot.

Nope, never heard of him.

You know,

maybe there is no intelligent life

out there in the universe after all.

♪ La da dee da da dum ♪

- That was really cool.

I liked the method acting.

Mel Blanc used to use substitutes for carrots

when he did Bugs Bunny because he was allergic to carrots.

He'd chew salary stalks and stuff like that,

and he had the mouth full.

It was real like true Bugs.

You know, that spirit, the smugness and the, you know,

I know something you don't know.

It was in there.

He just needs to keep consistent with the Bugs character.

You know,

it's so easy to drop in and out of character

when there's an extended dialogue.

You know, if you watch the first episode of "The Simpsons"

and you watch the 800th one or whatever it is,

the characters sound totally different because we didn't

know how to be consistent with characters we created.

We weren't sure how far to go or to pull it back.

And it's almost like, I didn't know what I was doing.

I mean, they find themself eventually,

and they become what they're supposed to be.

When doing impressions,

I think that was a good approximation

except to keep hearing yourself doing that character.

Try not to be distracted,

but I think you've got the right general idea.

It's really hard to do that kind of stuff.

Doing impressions of somebody like Mel Blanc.

I mean, forget it.

He was the Mack Daddy, you know.

He led the way for all of us.

At last,

I can have those pec-tor-line plants.

- Today's character voice

is going to be Ren from "Ren and Stimpy."

You stupid idiot.

You worm!

Turn around, you sick little monkey.

Do you have to keep tapping like that,

you bloated sack of protoplasm?

I know what you want.

You coveted my ice cream bar.

No, you don't.

You can't take it from me now.

Oh, this ice cream bar,

since I was a child,

people always tried to take it from me.

Why won't they leave me alone!

- Boy, that was good.

That was really great.

What I noticed was that's an episode

from the first season of "Ren and Stimpy,"

and this guy has the acting

that he was studying from these characters.

He has that acting down,

the voices or, well, actually he just, he did Ren,

and it was really good.

I mean the intensity and that, you know,

I'm going to kill you kind of thing was in there, you know,

like gangsters and then turning

into a little whimpering child.

But that is the John Kricfalusi version of Ren.

It was the original version.

- Do you have to keep tapping like that

you bloated sack of protoplasm?

- He is replicating John Kricfalusi's choices and the voice,

but he's doing a real good job.

♪ Our country reeks of trees ♪

♪ Our yaks are really large ♪

♪ Our country reeks of trees ♪

♪ Our yaks are really large ♪

♪ And they smell like rotting beef carcasses ♪

Bravo. [claps]

You know what?

That was the "Kilted Yaksman Anthem" they were singing,

and it was the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus that we used.

And they came in and sang the fake Canadian national anthem.

I think that was really good,