On certain occasions where we have friends over, whether its at a hotel room or at one of their places, there will be moments where I chime in -- politely of course -- and I randomly put on a voice of some kind, usually with a made-up monologue I think of on the spot, or sometimes quotes from well-known movies. For context, here is a brief(ish) comprehensive list of voice impressions and accents I have done so far:
Celebrities:
Sean Connery/James Bond - One of the most "popular" around my inner circle and in-person gatherings with our friends and family. Usually consisting of somewhat vulgar jokes and the like (I grew up around a lot of swear words with VERY frequent usage.... didn't really have much control over that one...). Quotes:
"Ya see that, boys? Fifty no's and one yes.... means yes."
"Schweetheart, I'll have a mango-tini. Shaken, not shtirred." [The "sch-" phonemes are done to make the accent somewhat funnier.]
Ace Ventura - Not one of my better ones, because Jim Carrey is HARD to mimic, even in some of his better-known roles. I'm only able to sound like Ventura at all because I've got somewhat of a deeper range to my voice; can't really explain that one. Quotes:
"I had a dog... and his name was BINGO!"
"Obsess much?"
"SHIKAKAAAAAAAA!" [From the scene in When Nature Calls where Ace is frantically carrying the White Bat between a field where the Wachaati and Hwuahjutuu(I think that's how its spelled?) warriors are just about to engage in combat]
Cartoon Characters
Scrooge McDuck:
"STEP AWAY FROM THE CONTROL PANEL, YE CROOK!!" -- [DuckTales Remastered on the PS3; cutscene before first boss battle where a goon has seized Scrooge's laboratory(?)]
"Och, yer rashin' me on with yer [expletive] malarkey, Charles!!" - [Running gag between me and my stepdad. He's not really a touchy-feely guy so he doesn't always laugh at these but he has told me he likes these impressions I do.]
Lucario (Pokemon: The Mystery of Mew)
"Ya bunch o' cowards."
"Stop it, you sound ridiculous."
Video Game Characters:
Shadow the Hedgehog:
"Where's that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?!"
"Crap, I dropped my cigarette." - [Spoken in a really intense, gritty tone of voice as a joke of sorts.]
"I forgot how to shoot guns again." [Same as above.]
Dr. Kleiner (Half Life):
"Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly-trained professional."
"Blast that little-- where did she get to?! *pulling a file cabinet to the side* Lamarr?! Come OUT of there!"
"Be careful with that; that's an extremely volatile chemical solution!! *beat; imagine the listener not hearing him and throwing it at the wall* NO-O-O!! YOU ABSOLUTE SIMIAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDE-- oh. Nevermind. I'm just stoned." [Part of a weed joke I made up once while we were watching a game review on YT. I had joked about a hypothetical scenario in which you're playing a Half Life mod with a premise that Kleiner has gathered the crew together in his lab to announce that he found a way to create a strain of Delta 8 that can still work in all three natural states eg. liquid/solid/gas and he has a beaker of the liquid form of it as a demonstration, but then somehow upon being destroyed it evaporates and still makes you high.]
Not Important from the banned Steam game HATRED (aka. The Antagonist):
"My name is Not Important. Also, neither is where I'm from. Or my hair color. Or my eye color, my blood type, my favorite movie-- you get it."
"You WILL tell me! Or I'll change your Facebook profile to say you're legally a Capuchin Spider Monkey!!"
Okay, so these are just examples obviously, and some of them are nonsensical because I'm just quirky like that, and I like to carry an abstract sense of humor; I pick up a lot of randomness from things on TV and the internet. How do you guys feel about it? Would you maybe want to hear some of these at some point?
Also, could there be some place near me I could try to find a job doing this? I live in Wilmington NC if that matters. Tell me what you think!
-Scout
Celebrities:
Sean Connery/James Bond - One of the most "popular" around my inner circle and in-person gatherings with our friends and family. Usually consisting of somewhat vulgar jokes and the like (I grew up around a lot of swear words with VERY frequent usage.... didn't really have much control over that one...). Quotes:
"Ya see that, boys? Fifty no's and one yes.... means yes."
"Schweetheart, I'll have a mango-tini. Shaken, not shtirred." [The "sch-" phonemes are done to make the accent somewhat funnier.]
Ace Ventura - Not one of my better ones, because Jim Carrey is HARD to mimic, even in some of his better-known roles. I'm only able to sound like Ventura at all because I've got somewhat of a deeper range to my voice; can't really explain that one. Quotes:
"I had a dog... and his name was BINGO!"
"Obsess much?"
"SHIKAKAAAAAAAA!" [From the scene in When Nature Calls where Ace is frantically carrying the White Bat between a field where the Wachaati and Hwuahjutuu(I think that's how its spelled?) warriors are just about to engage in combat]
Cartoon Characters
Scrooge McDuck:
"STEP AWAY FROM THE CONTROL PANEL, YE CROOK!!" -- [DuckTales Remastered on the PS3; cutscene before first boss battle where a goon has seized Scrooge's laboratory(?)]
"Och, yer rashin' me on with yer [expletive] malarkey, Charles!!" - [Running gag between me and my stepdad. He's not really a touchy-feely guy so he doesn't always laugh at these but he has told me he likes these impressions I do.]
Lucario (Pokemon: The Mystery of Mew)
"Ya bunch o' cowards."
"Stop it, you sound ridiculous."
Video Game Characters:
Shadow the Hedgehog:
"Where's that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?!"
"Crap, I dropped my cigarette." - [Spoken in a really intense, gritty tone of voice as a joke of sorts.]
"I forgot how to shoot guns again." [Same as above.]
Dr. Kleiner (Half Life):
"Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly-trained professional."
"Blast that little-- where did she get to?! *pulling a file cabinet to the side* Lamarr?! Come OUT of there!"
"Be careful with that; that's an extremely volatile chemical solution!! *beat; imagine the listener not hearing him and throwing it at the wall* NO-O-O!! YOU ABSOLUTE SIMIAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDE-- oh. Nevermind. I'm just stoned." [Part of a weed joke I made up once while we were watching a game review on YT. I had joked about a hypothetical scenario in which you're playing a Half Life mod with a premise that Kleiner has gathered the crew together in his lab to announce that he found a way to create a strain of Delta 8 that can still work in all three natural states eg. liquid/solid/gas and he has a beaker of the liquid form of it as a demonstration, but then somehow upon being destroyed it evaporates and still makes you high.]
Not Important from the banned Steam game HATRED (aka. The Antagonist):
"My name is Not Important. Also, neither is where I'm from. Or my hair color. Or my eye color, my blood type, my favorite movie-- you get it."
"You WILL tell me! Or I'll change your Facebook profile to say you're legally a Capuchin Spider Monkey!!"
Okay, so these are just examples obviously, and some of them are nonsensical because I'm just quirky like that, and I like to carry an abstract sense of humor; I pick up a lot of randomness from things on TV and the internet. How do you guys feel about it? Would you maybe want to hear some of these at some point?
Also, could there be some place near me I could try to find a job doing this? I live in Wilmington NC if that matters. Tell me what you think!
-Scout
