Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday

droopus writes "So, what does Dan Castelleneta look like? (He's a kinda weasly looking bald guy.) See Dan, Hank, Harry, Yeardley, Julie, Nancy and the rest of the Simpsons cast this Sunday at 8PM (EST) on Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo. According to the website: "In anticipation of the landmark 300th episode of The Simpsons, James Lipton sat down with the series' accomplished ensemble to meet the actors behind the voices in order to discover how they have managed to create such a wealth of believable and beloved characters." I saw a quick preview, and seeing that thin, weasly bald guy go "Aggggggh, donut" was alsolutely hilarious. Watching Nancy Cartwright morph effortlessly from Bart, to Nelson, to Ralph is waaaaay cool. My TiVo is set for this one. One hitch: it's on at the same time as the usual new Sunday Simpsons episode, so Bravo has thoughtfully repeated the show at midnight so fans can record both."

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[ianmalcm]

I wonder if any of the writers will be on the show too. Most of the success has relied on excelelent writing. I think this is the first time ever the voice actors have been allowed to do their characters on a television show other than the cartoon itself. James Lipton sure knows how to negotiate for his guests!

First Informative Post

[Anonymous Coward]

For all things Simpsons, head over to http://www.snpp.com.

I'd rather see Will Farrell interview them.

[mikeophile]

I think his impersonation of James Lipton is much more entertaining than Lipton himself.

Lisa / Yeardley Smith

[green pizza]

Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa) is kinda cute in a geeky foreign way... I saw an interview of her a few years ago. Apparently more than a few guys have told her that it's their fantasy to make love to her while she screams the famous "More More More!" Lisa Simpson line.

Re:Lisa / Yeardley Smith

[Aronymous Coward]

Anyone ever see her as a little kid on the Square One TV math show on PBS? I'm revealing my relative youth here (maybe not, Slashdot seems full of teenagers who might not know what Square One is), but on the detective story segment on the show (called "Mathnet" as a parody of Dragnet, I think), she played the caretaker of a gorilla that had gone missing. And the detectives she hired used math to find it, as expected. Getting back on-topic, Ms. Smith sounds EXACTLY the same now as she did then, in the eighties and when she was a little kid. Not like that's some big revelation, but when I first started watching the Tracy Ullman show and later on Herman's Head (which starred both her and Hank Azaria as major characters), I couldn't shake the association of that voice with that of the "Mathnet gorilla girl." ....Well, after some quick googling, apparently it looks like Square One is being shown on the Noggin educational cable channel. Found that bit of info on a site dedicated to the show.

Dan Castellaneta

[Otter]

So, what does Dan Castelleneta look like? (He's a kinda weasly looking bald guy.)

Married With Children fans will remember him from the "Dance Show" episode, where Peg went dancing with Marcy and had a flirtation with a gay guy, whose husband (Castellaneta) went complaining to Al.

Incidentally, how stupid does Bravo have to be to put this on in that slot? Why not Sunday at 10 pm?

Re:Dan Castellaneta

[maladroit]

And L. A. Law fans will remember him as the guy who worked at an amusement park, wearing a Homer Simpson costume. He was fired from his job when he got sick and took off the costume head. Of course he was suing, this was L. A. Law after all.
The best parts were when he would put on the costume and talk in his Homer voice, and the jury of Homer Simpsons was a nice touch, too.
imdb says it was an episode in 1992.

Marge Costume

[Inexile2002]

One halloween, a friend of mine got up green tube dress, white choker pearls and did her hair up like Marge. We went to a halloween party, and seriously I've never seen one girl get hit on so many times at a party. Nor have I heard so many attempted Homer-isms as pick up lines.

Well, no kidding...

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course Nancy Cartwright has no trouble shifting between different characters. According to her religion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcult, she's infested with the souls of dead people & aliens, many of whom were blown up 75 billion years ago by the Galactic Overlord Xenu in volcanoes by H-bombs.

Because of this, and other dirty deeds done by the cult of $cientology, I personally boycott The Simpsons, JAG, Dharma & Greg, South Park, and other TV shows and movies that employ $cientologists. (And yes, my local affiliates and the networks know why I don't watch their shows!)

Re:Well, no kidding...

[garethwi]

That's a bit over the top isn't it? These shows have scientologists working on them, true, but they aren't promoting the thing.

Damn kids these days.

[majcher]

Hello? Haven't any of you people seen the Tracey Ullman show? Nobody remembers Herman's Head?

Excuse me, I'm just going to sit here and yell at the kids to get off my lawn now.

Wow

[Breakfast Pants]

yeah.. sure you did.

Surprised they are going to do the voices

[McQuaid]

I remember reading somewhere a few years ago that in their contracts, it restricts them from doing the character voices in public or on something televised. There was an episdoe of LA Law where Dan Castelleneta plays a character who works at an amusement park as Homer Simpson. Throughout the show you hear the Homer voice but only when he's in the costume. I thought that was a way of getting around their restriction in their contracts.

Anyone know if they actually had to get permission to do the voices for this ep of actors studio?

Re:Nancy Cartwright?

[Wakkow]

Simpsons producer Mike Reiss spoke at my school about the Simpsons among other things. He said that she's the reason they haven't really made fun of Scientology (if mention it at all?). Cartwright refuses to let them.

My brush with Nancy Cartwright, Scientologist...

[Anonymous Coward]

It was a few years ago in Sydney, Australia. As has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread she's a Scientologist. The local AO (Advanced Org - god I know too much about these whackos) had spent over a hundred thousand dollars to open a "Dianetecs Center" on the main street in town, right in the middle of all the movie theaters, video arcades and fast food joints. To that end they constructed a huge two story volcano with a bigscreen TV embedded in it on top of the awning in front of Planet Hollywood (how apt).

I happened to be on the sreet on opening night and was witness to what followed. There was a large rent-a-crowd of local Scientologists gathered in front of a stage setup on the street, with many more inside the theater they had rented for the evening, in addition the street was packed with the usual Friday night revelers who where all totally perplexed. All of a sudden the loudspeaker came on, and Bart Simpson's voice blared out "Hello, Sydney!" The the video hookup from inside went live and she appeared on the screen, welcoming everyone to the opening. Shortly after Kate Cebrano (tubby Aussie songstress and devout Scientologist) came on stage to annouce the big opening, blah blah blah to the bafflment of the most non-Scio crowd present, then she and the tuxedo wearing tanned yank Scio out from head office began the countdown to the "grand opening". Drums rolled, they hit one - I should mention at this point thaty it had been raining - nothing happend. these two fuckwits are standing on a damp stage in front of what looks like a two story paper mache science project while the only sound is the passing traffic and the noise of hundreds of cinema goes trying to push through the crowds of the faithful to get to their movies. After much running around, swearing and thumping the pyro guys get TWO roman candles to sputter to life as Cebrano and captain Dickhead from LA clap and go "woo.", and the local devotees clap wildly on queue. You know, with so may OT-III's and above present I'd have thought their Thetans could have put on a better lightshow - but what the fuck do I know, right?

Anyway, the point is: Nancy, you got busted going "Bart" to promote your "Church". Betcha thought no-one stateside would ever find out, huh?