 Hey, it's time for voiceover body shop and tonight you got a crowd. Well I've never seen this many people in here for like four or five years Scott Miranda Park and are with us. Say hello. Hi guys, and George is here way over there What how are you over there? Squeeze this all into one set. I know it's you know what's ridiculous. It's a huge Quonset hut It goes back for 400 yards, but they make a sit in this tiny little area So I can get behind the wave there. Yeah, if you've got some questions for Scott Miranda We're gonna talk about all sorts of stuff. So yeah, I know there's going to be a huge crowd out there watching tonight So throw your stuff throw your questions in the chat room I know Jeff Holman is back there somewhere I hope writing down everything and we'll get to those but we got lots to talk about Including something about a project that Miranda's working on with lots of swag sneak preview. Yeah That's true. We have we have the debut of a clip from the comic casino It's only 40 seconds didn't want to give much away, but it sort of introduces you to a good chunk of the cast Yeah, and um, you know, it's it's a big thing because she's been working on it for I probably From inception about two years great and during an 11-minute animatic. There's several hundred hours worth of drawings So it's exciting. We know what that's like. So stay tuned. 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I think yeah, we were back in this Anyway back in the day when you could cough on anyone and spit anywhere you like yes Well, let me introduce our guests. We've got Scott Park and who we've had on before Improv impresario actor voice actor Bobby Vaughan Yeah, I was that was that wasn't in the list Cyclist cyclist cyclist. Yes cyclist surfer rib patient. I was going to ask that was my first question How are your ribs? Well, I really my only experience with ribs Was in Tony Rome was for years and years until I snapped two of them. They said Eight weeks to six to eight weeks and it's it's eight weeks So we're eight weeks in and they don't click as much when I move That's nice. It's still not back in the water and I get winded going upstairs. I've found out a lot about myself The last eight weeks Immobile and isolation those are not good things. I'm not good at either of those So I'm glad to be back back at it. I'm training this week because we have an a-wow a walk on water Where we do surf therapy for kids on the spectrum and I'm doing a bunch of training to try and get my wind up So I can work water safety for that. So we'll see ribs are okay Great. Yeah, now you were an Ireland wall. This was going on too. What was it like? Or Switzerland, I know it was one of the lands one of those like How many figures am I holding up? Stroke right when the show starts I get it out of the way early Switzerland was phenomenal. Oh, it's now It's now was and they're It was with the GMC Euro retreat So it was top shelf everything open bar phenomenal room rained like a bitch every day But it was nice because we don't see rain all the Californian people that it's got brick and I're like, hey, look It's raining. It's it's raining. Hey, my kid gets excited when a rain Yeah, yeah, but it was stunning and such such a great environment small classes and just You know no net gut improv and people it was just a great group of people. Yeah, I you know Trish Trish Ryan has been my esposito when I met her but Trish Ryan has been my agent at DPN for 13 years 14 years I've been with DPN for 21 years and I you know, I used to see her I'd see her for 10 minutes a time a couple times a week when I would go in and the before times But I've never got to hang out with her and I was there with her and her husband all week And it was just a blast her husband as a screen and we went to we went to oh gosh I'm never gonna remember the town but we can't pronounce them anyway We took a we took a boat and it was just the water's ice blue. It's like it looks like a Central casting postcard from Switzerland. It really it really was Switzerland sort of looks like Disneyland really does everything's the Matterhorn. Yeah, I've been there has been a bit about 50 years But yeah, but I'm sure Yeah You know what's interesting is that you can you go through security? Yeah, and then in the airport There's a giant Swiss Army knife store Security and the plane so I I was just I was amazed at that you could buy whatever you know You I guess you couldn't hold up a plane with an ivory toothpick and scissors But you know it seemed odd that you could buy knives in the airport probably been tried. I guess I guess yes So anyway, why don't you introduce your daughter and all right? This person has been like a daughter to me I've known her for almost all of her life There was a couple years there where we didn't talk Zero to one I missed that. Yeah, it seems like your body language would say different Miranda is a voiceover artist and singer and a musician and an animator and Let's bring her out. She's my daughter. She's 22 No Miranda moved out. She was gonna move out just before the pandemic and then it was like Let's go set her an apartment by herself for a couple years and that didn't seem like a good idea So they stayed with me for a while and then she moved out maybe two years Almost I mean nearly two it'll be two years and I'm sure you have a little advent calendar Without therapy No, I still have that other girl Yeah, but so she's over there with a couple of other artists and Just kicking ass. Yeah. Yeah, so Miranda I've had the chance to watch you in action in the studio. I think it was over at over at Soundbox LA I was there one afternoon and you were there recording some stuff and it was very very impressive watching you work there But tell me a little bit about what you've learned from your old man here I Figured that would be the answer. I'm interested in this answer The good stuff said the good stuff not the horrible stuff not the drink it by yourself in the fetal position, right? No, I Learned a lot. I feel like in in our household Comedy was very much at a premium So I you know, you have to be funny and I feel like that's how it is in our side of the family you kind of have to just try and be funny and you know, I make people laugh and Do silly voices and I started doing voiceover when I was very little and Five five. Yeah, you booked commercials when you were five. Yeah, which was very cool It was very cool because I was like, oh my god, I get to read out loud and a funny voice. Hell. Yeah, sign me up, right? and then I didn't do it for a really long time and then but but all those years Of of learning with my dad and watching him teach and watching him do his job Like I would you know, sometimes come in with him to the studio and hang out with you know Voice over pals, but I would also watch him in the studio doing his thing So I would kind of learn by absorption and just kind of like, you know, listen to him do accents and And characters all those years and then when I was 16, I started it up again And so as you were on your own pretty much. Yeah at that point. Yeah The other party didn't want her to do voiceover. So she she was not allowed to do voiceover for years and then at 16 Dpn was like welcome back We've been working on lately lately. I've had some Taco Bell commercials You want to use one the sovis last year for a Taco Bell Taco Bell loves you or for Jack in the box Jack in the box. Sorry fast food. Sorry the nice books from Jack in the box Fast food your thing. I guess. Oh, I mean you do. She does the thing that I do I whenever I get a get something or I'm close to getting something. I'll go buy that product I'm sorry. Yeah, like I bought Taco Bell for me and my two roommates Like after I after I got the first one and then I got like two more in both times I bought Taco Bell because I mean obviously they like me well enough and it's good luck paying it forward somehow to a Corporation which probably probably we should go ahead and give you guys your gift bags Oh, it's a shot. It's a comic casino shot glass and a handy packet of tide These are collectors. Oh, thank you. You can take that tide with you if you're let's say you're traveling Yeah, something in the sink. That's great. Which we will be doing Didn't know dear audience if you couldn't hear him screaming from the rooftops every day He is in a tide commercial and it's incredible. Oh, we haven't seen it Smirre something all over my face. I gave you as much money as they gave me you'd have little packets of it handing them out You'd have underwear that's You'd have like a huge like chest tattoo Sworn to tide Property of time You know I'm a commercial actor so people are like sell out I'm like if they think Scott Park and commercial actors going to sell out you say how fast can he sell out and for how much? That's that's the point. It's what we do for a lovely candy Milo and I are that's still running Think the Lord think Jennifer my agent. You see it all the time. It's it. Do you still okay? No, still more food and shelter for a while. Yeah Well, when we're not watching like, you know YouTube videos yes, yeah and and and all the streaming stuff. It's like well network TV. Oh, well, we know we're gonna see Scott What are you watching lately your TV? Have I been watching been watching lost? Yep House of Dragon. I've been watching that. Yeah house of Dragon for sure Oh He loves he loves lost Smiling Francis tell him about smiling friends. You have to find that Smiling friends on HBO Max. This is not a plug. I'm not sponsored by HBO max But I should be um Now smiling friends is a hilarious animated show and it's super great all the episodes are 10 minutes And I think there's 10 of them. They're so good He has the koala and there's a new show by Michael Q. Sack. Who's the co-creator? He's coming out with a new show called koala man that I'm also really excited for and the female lead is uh Shiv from succession. They got Hugh Jackman. They got everything I even like I feel like I'm plugging this so hard, but it's I know Stuff you like and you know On your instagram you you support stuff and you try hard to get stuff that people haven't seen you try and get them to see it I think that's cool. Yeah. Yeah, I mean My audience they've all watched smiling friends camera two camera one camera's dead. No that camera there Oh that camera's dead That's a little close Right now moranda. You're working on on an animation project Which which if if anybody's like on facebook or something, uh You know, you might know about it. If anyone has visited facebook one time It's in animatic form right now So what we did was we partnered with swampy marsh who creator of finneas and furb and and pete the cat and all things bitching Um, and we were gonna the object was to have hire them to do our animatic And then uh, moranda could sit on bernie bernie's last name bernie peterson bernie peterson Head of visual arts there at surfer jack and she was going to sit on his shoulder and watch so she could learn how to Storyboard and do an animatic But swampy sort of threw a wrench in there by hiring moranda Before we even contracted him to do them to do the animatic So moranda got to sit with bernie for a couple months had her own office and a big waycom and worked on sections of the animatic The old timey section and a couple other things Got work got to work on her own animatic at a big old animation studio So it was pretty fantastic. That was very cool. And uh, and my roommate lauren was there too And they helped me a lot with backgrounds and and then bernie did like kind of a very a very like rough version of the animatic Like a single line Sort of a thing, right? Yeah Well, it was it was very it was rough But it was a lot of like composition and staging and like oh this is where this could go because He storyboarded on finnish and furb and hundreds of other things and no, he's he's freaking amazing. Um, and So what he did was he yeah, you did like the rough animatic. So and then I uh, I went in and I drew backgrounds and characters Well, she said she said dad I want all of it to be my work and I have different ideas and I have stuff I want to add and if I change the angle of this it's going to be funnier But I have to redraw all of these so she basically went over and used bernie's template for the animatic And redrew the entire thing adding characters backgrounds different points of view and Just it's it's just phenomenal when you see it just I've I've been around it for Over a year now this part of it and it still just floors me what you did dude. It's just crushing So yeah, so you're we're gonna show it in just a second. Tell us a little bit about we're gonna show 40 seconds of it We're not showing you all 11 minutes. I'm sorry But tell us a little bit about what what the plot is and and and who the characters are and stuff um, so essentially, uh, this the main character harper Uh, is a defense attorney and she grew up in a kind of space version of las vegas Um, and it's extremely long. So imagine the strip But like 100 miles around the center of like a distant moon and so essentially it's it's like kind of blade runner aesthetic plus jetsons Uh, very mid-century modern, but what like what fifties vegas would look like a hundred years in the future Plus years 200 years. Yeah, and she comes back because she thinks that her dad I don't want you to give away any more of the plot. I think you should just say it's a father daughter story It's a father daughter story And there you go. There's lots of aliens and creatures and robots And there's an evil competition who's trying to take the casino and And uh, she does not want to be back at this. She got off the loop as quickly as possible The loop is 100 miles around a shitty moon at the edge of the galaxy 200 years in the future Oh, okay. The strip. It's the loop. Yeah All right, and the old man who built it loved old rat packed vegas and when vegas was super bitching and And um sort of mid-century modern she loves that style. So so you've had some influence over all of this. Oh, yeah A little bit. Yeah, just a little bit aesthetically. It's all her great. Well, why don't we take a look at it? This is her meeting her found family when I was a kid my dad took us to up to tahoe to see uh glen Campbell and uh At the door was a giant boxer who I'd seen fight like a month earlier Just you know on on uh, uh, we're wild worlds of sports was jerry quarry. Oh, yeah, and he was shaking hands and I said why Why is that guy out there? And he said oh Well, once they're you know, maybe past their prime and they've made money for the casino The casino will bring them on and give them a job Right. So all of these people that sort of raised harper in our story Are found family. So this is her. They're all casino staff. Yeah, they're all casino staff now So this is her re-meeting them. They basically raised her because the old man me wasn't present Big stretch. All right. So so why don't we why don't we run that and uh, we'll come back and discuss a little bit more Also, no, uh, no music and no sound design. So right. This is right. So we're we're this is this is just art and voiceover We're doing sound design with tim west at, uh, Rubble Alliance and over at surfer jack and then your friend adam gubman We'll we'll talk about that in a second. Okay. He's doing the music All right, let's take a look at My mom passed away when I was really small and my dad was never around Even when he was around he wasn't But it doesn't mean I didn't have a family Pardon me, but could one of you gentlemen tell me what time the noon buffet is? Hey, hey guys look at the size of you Who is this classy dame and what happened to our little girl? We missed you so much. I'll give you 20 to 1 veil cries. Well, I will take those odds because I am not going I'm not good Easy money So there you go. We're back. All right. So that was uh Miranda was I was asked to stop being married when Miranda was three And I had was not great at being a single dad didn't have a lot of daycare So I took Miranda with me at all times So she would go into the studio and in the studio would be people like mendy sterling and lorraine newman and billy west And gary anthony williams and mary slamarge Will you say somebody we didn't recognize I know I know I'll get to I'll get to them But uh, so they when I would go into the booth they would watch Miranda So Miranda they've sort of watched her trajectory with Tara strong And um d bradley baker from a different agency, but they've sort of watched her grow up and rooted for her and Tara showed butch hartman from fairly odd parents her stuff when she was 11 And everybody sort of supported this kid. So when she I'm sorry. You're not a kid anymore. I'm sorry This artist she's your kid. So I know but still I gotta I gotta get over that someday. I will by the time I'm 80 um, so Miranda drew all of these characters with those actors in mind It's a weird way to go at it. That's a weird way that just a father and daughter are doing it We're not a studio. We're just a small little entity Um, but we asked all of them and said this is your character that she drew for you and they all said Absolutely. How else can I help? Please? Let me do it. So we have this amazing a list of cast members So you just saw gary anthony williams morise and billy west as wings deep bradley baker as uh Help me come on sleeper. Thank you. Jump in anywhere here. You don't just have to sit there You're talking. You're talking away. That's me. I'll just keep talking then So uh, and you get to meet all those five and also, uh, gray griffin is just phenomenal in this She plays a couple different characters. She's sib her, uh, nanny bot and friend Uh and tear strong is just a symphony. I've looked at I've looked at I know something's funny when I've seen it 40 times and and you still know it still makes me laugh And then when you see it together with the art for that character I said let let's go for something like a cross between Sharon stone and casino and something else So miranda crossed her with the angler fish So that's what that carry the evil aunt mazy is that and when you see it you're going to be like Yeah, that is like a Sharon stone from casino angler fish And it's it's just so exciting. It's at the point now just so you guys know We haven't sold it. I was going to say what does it take to sell something like this? I thought you sold it and I'm like Dan and do I seem like the guy that if I became a millionaire and had a chance to give all my friends jobs I wouldn't be like stopping people on the street going. Did you know we sold the show? So at this point Once we do sound design and score then we take it out to apple tv plus because of miranda We have somebody there to pitch to uh, justin at um What green portal predictions? Why are you giving me this sideline? You just want like this? I'm wait. I'm waiting. Oh, okay She's waiting for a moment. Yeah um, so I mean I've never I haven't I've I've done a couple of little pitches here and there before but never to You know a large studio and Never your own thing that's never my own thing either. Um But you know I To answer your question what it takes to pitch something like this, you know I uh, I I can't tell you the best answer because I've never really really done it before But uh, I will say that I I do think I've watched a lot of pitches and I've seen a lot of pitch bibles And I think what it takes is a lot of tenacity Um a lot of dedication a great product and luck So I think yeah, yeah, not necessarily in that order not necessarily in that order You know, there are a lot of things that are a lot luckier than others Uh, not going to say the product is bad But uh, there are some there are some things that Don't sometimes do not deserve a spot on television and then there they are and then there they are For nine seasons and they had the luck So, you know, it's just gonna be a really difficult process and very scary. Um, especially, you know, because I'm 22 I mean, yes, I'm a young woman. Whatever. That's you know, that's a thing that I am But But it's yeah, I'm young. I'm green, you know, it's uh, and that's our strength But also possibly I don't know. It's it's my first thing, you know, I'm a little nervous and like that might, you know If there's pros and cons to to every situation and it's a pro that I'm young and it's a con that I'm young because I'm like If I don't do this, you know, like what is my next thing gonna be? Oh my god, you know Yeah, but that here's the thing This started out as a way to to build a resume for her So she has storyboarding all the character design all the backgrounds. She helped write it She sang and helped write the theme song and she voices the main character. So it's it's a fantastic resume But the thing is my buddy Ed Yeager who wrote gary unmarried showed for cbs. That was about my life He was on roseanne. He's had a lovely television career He was our our head writer and he put together all these disparate elements and with swampy's ideas And bill daily and and meg ryan the writer We we built a nice script and it's a good story. It's an a-list cast. It's phenomenal art And we're having top shelf studio people and music people So we have we're doing all that we can do and at that point Miranda's gonna pitch it. It's not going to be the old guys in the room. They're not interested in us Oddly we don't think we died 10 years ago, right? So it's going to be Miranda's pitch And we're the show bible is almost done. That's like where it will head in season two and episode ideas and a little back story So you need a show bible. You need a place to take it. You need people to champion it right we need uh An ep that likes it and wants to take it around with us We're taking support from everywhere possible and if we since we are voice actors If this gets through the net everybody's like I I I got a voice. I I'll do it I'm like, which one of our cast you want to get rid of you want to get rid of billy west or you want to get rid of Maurice if help us sell this And everybody gets to audition every we are we are committed to trying to get ancillary characters in Every episode that we do and everyone will get up to bat I don't know if it's going to be in our control to say Yes, we want that guy we want, you know, we want tim freelander is the evil uh casino owner Tim can never be evil. I disagree. I disagree He's wonderfully evil. You just never see it. You pay in a scale. You get evil So but everybody's been so supportive, you know, we we bought about 15 grand worth of merch and we sold about 15 grand worth of merch So t-shirts and stuff is out there so many people have shot glasses And necklaces shot glasses. We've got so many so the first time we started sending out shot glasses We uh smile The first time we started sending out shot glasses We didn't we sent them in a little pad of thing and a couple people were like Oh a couple of these broke and we're like, that's the comic casino shards of glass package You're welcome. That's a collector's item. So we we learned our way. Jen Henry was our uh Our swag hag our mistress of merch and helped us so much finding posters and Different things. That's her name. I tried to call her mistress of merch and she goes no So much support from the voiceover community and the showrunner community A lot of people follow Miranda art art folks follow her on instagram at ad park and art So she's been able to open doors and get us meetings. That's what we need. We need places to take it, right? We have apple tv plus. We have uh green portal We have netflix We're looking for the nice folks at hulu and karting network and disney plus But we've got you know, we'll take help from any direction because we're just a Just a couple of yahoos is the tone of the show. So I've noticed there's like a kind of a wave Of like extremely over-the-edge edgy animated shows lately I wouldn't say this is yeah Which I think is smart I I find those over-the-edge edgy shows like can you give me an example? They tire you out really quick. Yes Do you have an example? No, I'm not gonna throw anybody in the front He just randomly hates something Do you know how many my clients are on those shows? That's true. That's true. Yes I would say I would say a rest of development meets blade runner is a good place to be with a jetsons aesthetic Interesting not super dark or super blue. No, it is definitely there is how many severed heads with squirting blood is there? I mean, well, not in the pilot not in the pilot Not in the pilot I mean, I'm not making a judgment. Oh, no. I'm measuring this. There is no severed heads. I will say no I mean like there is you know, there is a tone that I want to set But you know, if we end up going there if we end up, you know being kind of edgy and violent like more crime drama You know, like if that's where we go, that's where we go as long as it's consistent and as long as it's good You know, I think she's a real tone nazi. She's like really like if it goes off tone Yeah, she's really sharp with that There's a lot of movies and shows that I see where the tone kind of changes over the seasons And that's where it like loses me sometimes like and I'm like, I why didn't I like that? She goes, well the tone doesn't matter the tone change. You got to like establish a certain tone So if it is like that, you know, if the first episode Isn't you know, what the animatic is if it's a little bit more edgy and if it's a little bit more this and that I've seen lots of pilot episodes that are completely different from the pilots that aired on tv For example over the garden walls steven universe rick and morty, etc, etc So like the the original pilot episodes aren't exactly what ended up on tv So with that being said, you know, if we end up being more edgy or violent or you know, whatever or even It'll be funny. It'll be funny for sure But you know, like it depends on what kind of style of humor If we're going to go a little bit more edgy towards that if it's going to be more crime drama, you know Yeah, if they listen if they if they buy it outright And they say we want to do it this way and they we're going to give you two million dollars. We're going to say You put that money in the car Yeah, and then a little creative input at that. Yeah, they might buy it outright, you know And they might and if that happens i'm not going to say No, you're not going to give you're not going to give my daughter a couple million dollars to build the next thing You know, it's always if this thing sells We're gonna do we're gonna be happy with whatever it sells building blocks, right? It's building by gonna be on to the next thing. Hey, why don't we take a little break and sell some stuff Not by angry orchard. 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Okay You're on voiceover, but if you've got a question for scott moranda about whatever it is that they're talking about Uh, throw it in the chat room and uh, we will get to those questions in just a little bit. Absolutely. Uh Scott, you know, one of the things that we talk about whenever you're on is the importance of Doing improv Especially on auditions, you know, and I've worked with you and you're like, hey, you can do it this way That was perfect. It's not like me talking. I know Hey, do it this way That's going on the shirts which which made me want to know try it again Yeah, I've always had problems with improv for maybe because I just don't like to listen. Uh, how's that? Yes, listening is the most important part. Yeah, so how how do you use improv? on your auditions because I mean some people say well, it's not written in stone. You can play with it How and when when is it when is it appropriate? That's really that's really the question How when and how much if it doesn't say if it says Listen improvisers welcome comedians bring it. We paid half a million and we don't know what the hell we want So please write this for us. Uh, if it says that you you've got a little more freedom to improvise And you're probably going to put something on the end of that Mary linds thinks you should put it on the front. I believe that too, but more so I want to get them listening and enjoying what i'm doing and then lay out something funny It's to me the more I teach this class the more I realize it's an acting class It's it's really just acting. They are all characters Doesn't matter if it's right now you get five of those for just eight dollars It's still a character because I don't freaking talk like that. They're they're pointing and stuff Get an air conditioner. There's a there's a fire in the studio. We'll be fine. Don't you worry about it? Just sort of slow it down So so when you're when you're in that situation you have a little more carte blanche and you can improvise If it doesn't say that you're probably not going to improvise a whole bunch You're probably so there's like traffic going on There's like a there's like a a whole freaking uh, uh, what's the game where you act out stuff charades charades I said the word I fucked it up. That's perfect. You're supposed to say the word. Oh in charades. You're not supposed to say the word Oh, that's that's it two words Uh, I got off topic here But the point is yes improvising to build a character improvising to solidify the character and keep it consistent Is a much smaller thing. So once you commit to the character, then you don't have to think Right the guy who used to play soccer with his name is friggin angus mclout Sounds like a Yeah Just pass it off and run into someone. Yes stupid pig I don't have to think about what that guy's going to say. It's a big broad accent, right? But the principle is the same once you pick the character hold on to the character Keep it consistent Right on stage improv if you start the scene with the limp unless jesus comes up and heals you during the scene Which could happen you're going to end with the limp. So listen back is my character consistent If it didn't say add a lot add we want make funny tags Comedians then you're not going to add a lot. You're going to add Three sounds and a couple words But those are all going to be in support of your character and if you can improvise in a much Larger way on your own like establishing the character before you even crack a mic if you can do that You can certainly add one to two words and a few sounds right right improv improvisation and voiceover. Does anyone know what it is? Improvisation and voiceover. Yeah, it's um embellishing the script or it's that yes sing it in your own words. Yes. Yes Add living technically it's anything that isn't written in the script If it says i'd never thought about it like that before and you go, huh Why you know, I never thought about it like that before anything that wasn't written is improv If you if you improvise something in an audition when you're doing the kit when you're going through your characters and you write it down Is it still improv? Fuck yes, it is. It's absolutely. It's your improv that you wrote down. Should I not a cuss intercourse? Yes, it is Uh, if you improvise it and write it down That's still improvised. It wasn't delivered to you on the script So if you want to stand out and that's what we got, you know You're auditioning with 500 other ass actors You want to stand out and the way you can do that is by those little Little things that make your character seem more real Nobody knows what the hell they're gonna say. I'm condensing this stuff. You'll see this at mavo in november I'll be there teasing me too. Yeah, it's gonna be great. I'm really stoked about that. There's still a couple tickets left It's a very small conference. Yeah small small classes Uh, it's in washington dc at the dullis airport, right at the hotel near there Well, we're not in the airport. We're like getting luggage Freeze! All right, give me a new motion. Uh, but that's gonna be a fantastic But this is kind of what the stuff that I teach which is Hang onto your character stay consistent and start from a place of real always start from a place of real and grounded Actually adam aka that's his philosophies. He did uh, don't look up It started on s and l anchor man and all those and he always says when he works, what? succession to She loves I love success I do uh, I do uh, I do a one word kind of royal impression Okay, that's it. It was really good Good job, stewie stewie. Okay, uh, so yeah in closing that's improv It's it's it's a very it's a complex but simple question Improv is anything that isn't that you add to the script If it doesn't say make it funny do all that don't don't do so much Just do what it says If you're gonna do something if you're gonna do something do it on a second take. Yeah, I always feel I always feel that if it's If it's a if it's two seconds long on an audition But it's a better take and I've added more and it's cooler and funnier. It's okay I wouldn't go more than that if you go Three and four seconds as a guy who writes commercials and casts commercials Listen to tapes if it goes more it tends to be editorializing and doing something Different if you're if you're improvising in character and with what the writer was after You've got a much better chance of standing out. That's all we want to do. We want to stand out We want to we want to start eliminating some of those 400 or 500 other actors By by standing out and doing something a little different All right, so when you get it when you get a script when you get an audition script and you start looking at it and you're like Okay, it says, you know what some someone with good comedic chops. That's that's one of our favorite specs that we see Chops I want chops comedic chops. I want someone who's been on vaudeville. I want someone to add half Get me someone while i'm waiting. I don't like you. Who are you what times my 4 30 change it to three and fire yourself No, yeah, yeah take the girl. Yeah And the canola. Yeah, uh, go ahead. I'm sorry Well, no, well when you when you're looking at it and you're you're you're analyzing it for what it's worth Sure How do you determine what you're going to do? To add lib or are you just looking for inspiration because usually that's what I mean I mean you read you read the specs and if the specs are good If it's for you know, if it's progressive or one of those things I I know what the client is. I know that they're funny. I know that they like that I try and find stuff that works with the character That's a funny observation or something that goes with the character because I want to be consistent I well, I don't want to branch out and start. Hey, this is funny. You know, I have a funny joke I'm going to shoehorn this here I was in radio for 11 years and when I started doing improv they had to beat the Joke tell you yeah me too. Yeah, I've got I've had to do that with Kevin Capacic. I love him He's a radio guy and and I get to where I got to work with him in switzerland I work him in New York and we had some major breakthroughs where I got him to stop doing jokes And just the humor comes through the character every great movie that you've seen the humor comes through the character Not an actual Guy works in a bar and says, you know, why the long face right? It's not a joke joke It comes from the character when you say that's true. I was going to say that's true I get a lot of I get a lot of animation auditions and video game auditions And he get all he gets all the commercial auditions Uh, but I I also get some commercial as well But usually like when I'm when I'm trying to be funny I don't like he says I don't rewrite the script for them. I'm not gonna like I'm not gonna Totally I don't know bash their idea, you know, like I'm not gonna completely rewrite the script But I am gonna do something that maybe my character would do like I I'm uh I'm the voice of a character in a video game and she's a total she's a total. What's your name and what's the video game? Dude Her name is nagi and she's from neo the world ends with you which is a sequel to the world ends with you Um, it's on the switch and the ps4 and uh, wherever you can find games, but when I was auditioning for her um I was kind of like obviously I'm putting a lot of myself into this character Characters a giant nerd total nerd, but she's like she's way more nerdy than I am And I would that is very tough and I would I would you know, I would put little like nerdy noises like You know, like I would make you know, weird little nerdy noises that I I hear You know some of the people that I see at conventions make, you know, like I see all these redditors out in the open and you know, and they're talking about and and uh, Yes, I would yes, I would do that absolutely and I would you know, and so they all have all these fun like little These little vocal quirks and I tried to work some of that into uh, I always say be a student of the world Be a student of people. Listen, you know what I mean? Yeah, you can pick up so much if someone in fact, if somebody's rude or mean She and I tend to get trying to get more out of them because it's more. Oh, well, I'm sorry What else is wrong with what we did? I'm sure right right. Okay. You know what? I'm so sorry to bother you But can you bring us another water? I prefer that I prefer something be really great or really awful. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah Um, I think yeah, I think that improv is is really fun But you want to make the script your own and be unique about it But you don't want to completely rewrite their script because then they will get offended and and maybe not like They won't even listen past the first part. No, yeah, I would say like start out No, never mind. I'm not gonna say that. No, you said it. I was gonna say maybe, you know Maybe start out with the script and then maybe as you go along maybe sprinkle a little improv But that's not always necessarily true Um, sometimes I improv right at the beginning, you know, but it's if it fits with the character If it fits with the character it works with what the message of the it's really important to understand What thereafter? To understand what the I know it's very simple. How do you read their mind when well, you don't it's it's in the specs It's okay. It's a food commercial Right. Do they want me to be happy about the food? Yeah, they're fucking paying you $400 to be happy about the food It's amazing how many issues you listen to and they don't smile when they say the product or they go down You know, it's it's from olive garden No, it's from olive garden, you know, if it's a food spot You're gonna romance the food if it says pepper crusted corn served in a parchment with hand farmed blood orange You're gonna want that you can't just flat line that stuff If it's a if it's a commercial for socks that gives money to charity and they're silly socks You're not gonna be flat and and like it's a We give these socks away To help people every day You're gonna be we we give these socks away to help people every day you buy some you get whatever print you want Know what they're after they'll give you really good most of the time They'll give you really good clues in the specs of what they're after and then you look if it's if it's a commercial that you really want Look, who's Who's the agency of record? Do they do funny stuff? Is the last campaign funny? Do they like funny or are they changing right? Do your research? You don't have to go on a giant deep dive for you know selling cheese and blood thinner But but at least try and understand the writer's position The guy's 24. He's been stuck in a cubicle or she Their life expectancy in an agency is 18 months. This means a lot to them They've written it if you if you are a hero and you address what they're asking for in the specs And they're in the meeting with their bosses and and you land the joke Believe me you're you like as a writer you like that person because you can go see unfunny creative non-creative Lawyers, uh, this is funny people like it, right? Yeah, so let's change topics here For just a second because you know fishing to me is one of the best. Oh, you want it? I'm sorry I was I was hoping to maybe touch on your relationship and stuff like that What advice do you have for young voice actors who have parents already in the business? That would be for you specific. Oh, man. It is very specific. I actually No, it's good, um, you know you move out Exactly move out as soon as possible Right now move out Jeremy Get drop what you're doing drop what you're doing and leave suitcase. No, um I think honestly the the thing that I struggle with sometimes and my self-worth is you know Is is everything that I've done because of my dad, you know because because he's you know, he's an incredible talent He's amazing, but he did kind of introduce me to this and and I'm like, oh man, you know, like I really hope that I just I don't do too much nepotism I hope that I actually am talented and I hope I actually have what it takes to do what he does I don't want to be trust fund baby Jonathan. You know That money's gone. No, no, I You know, I don't but I don't want to be you know The the vice president of a company and do absolutely nothing all day And like all there's a lot of people who who have nepotism don't actually have the skills to do what they're doing And I want to comment on this up when you when you're done Some there's a lot of people that don't have the skills that their parents have But they get into the industry anyway because they feel like it or they they want to have money or you know Whatever whatever it is their goal is there's also a situation where the kid is more talented than the parent And this is the case she I can do I can do an accent for her And she can be better than me in that accent in months. Let me say this There's no favors in this particular industry. No one's hiring you because you know the bald dad who's really fun To be around here is here is my advice Uh to the person that is thinking of moving out of their dad's place. Uh, no Here is my advice to to young actors and voice actors who have parents in the game Uh learn as much as you can from that parent Uh learn as much as you can listen to them See what they do if they're successful and see what they do what their practices are You know, what do they what do they do that makes them so unique and special that they got this job in the first place? And then you start working on trying to expand and find your own voice Because that's something that I've struggled to find to to do because I want to I want to be unique I want to be uh, you know successful and funny like my dad, but also I want to be my own person Uh, and I want to have my own style and my own voices that I can do So I want to feel unique and supported and very lucky that I'm in this industry But I also don't want to feel like I'm writing, you know writing the coattails too hard Right, you're not my coattails are short and they're I know they were cut off cut off three years ago From what I've seen you you've already accomplished that because Yeah, I mean, I would never know that you know, you were his daughter by the way you were acting you were totally unique Yeah, we got one question here a couple of questions from our the massive studio audience or out of studio audience from Who are your influences? Is there a particular voice actor you aspire to work with? I have so many influences We'll give us the top one for voice acting. I would say Tara strong gray griffin Laurie Allen Mindy sterling the rain Newman uh, all of the above all these incredible animation veterans that I've God they they they are all of the voice actors that I aspire to work with and I am so proud to call them my friends um, and I've worked with all of them specifically on my pilot and And I work with Tara a lot. We do a podcast together sometimes called the ship it show But like I get to work with her constantly and it's it's why is it called the ship it show? relationship Like oh, yeah, I ship these two characters. They should be together. They should make out a little bit. I totally miss that Here's a quiz if you're over 50, it's relationship. I didn't know either Um, but yeah, like I all these voice acting influences in terms of animation I would say God, uh, Justin Roiland is an is an incredible talent. Sergio, Sergio Pablo. This is an incredible talent That was class. I don't know if you've seen that. It's just phenomenal Michael Cusack who made smiling friends, uh, just just he's also very great. Yeah, no, he's great Oh my god, because he's great voice actor too, but just like just all these young talents over the garden wall Uh pat mackayl. Yeah, Guillermo del Toro All of these people have she has signed art from all of these people Which is really cool because she's a member of a sifa and women in film So we've got to go to screenings and she's I've had bring your art and they'll sign it and they flip out at her Art, what's a sifa a sifa? Is the A sifa Um It is the largest animation organization. They host the annies every year and you can purchase a membership, which is pretty awesome Uh, a sifa a s i f a so I think it's like a s i f a yeah It's a pretty great organization. She gets to go to a lot of screenings Yeah, no, it's great and you can bring your friends. You don't even have to be the barrier to entry to become a sifa You have to have a pulse. There's no barrier. You have to just pay it and like animation Okay, um, there's student members. I'm asking for a friend. No, it's great. No, it's it's great and you can bring your friends I'm going to go see Wendell and wilds early with the q&a with the director It's who uh, jordan peel produced and henry selic directed and he directed jay's nine and core line and Coraline it just goes on forever. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Uh, no, I love henry selic great But guys we're we're we're we're I wanted you to say literally the name of my project It's called the comet casino and you can find me at park in art There's no spaces on instagram. Yeah And we're gonna we're gonna do another showing of the comet for a bunch of buyers and folks Uh, and we do have some more merch and we're we're revamping the store and getting that going right now We're working really hard to get the sound design and score done Uh, and uh, we'll be show we'll be doing a showing. I just want to say thank you so much everybody that's Supported the comet. It's been a long run. It's a animation is so much different than You know a four cameras you sell the script and they decide to make it This is way different. This is from the ground up and without you guys, we wouldn't have been able to do it So yeah, what can they go support it? Uh, currently we don't have The instagram page is up. I will be updating it. It's called it's the comet casino Uh, that's the instagram page the store and the store Is not up right now, but I will be putting it in my bio. I'll be talking about it. Um on my instagram parking art Yeah, we're revamping and we had to we we sold a bunch of stuff Then we got some new jewelry and we had wonderful, uh models do some bunch of stuff And we've been trying to put that together But I broke my ribs and then I went to new york and switzerland, so it's been a little again with the rim Alrighty again with the switzerland Hey, don't forget about mavo. It's gonna be great mr. Dan, and I will be there We'll be there. All right scott miranda. Thanks for being with us Remember in person everything is better. So remember that vio Atlanta. It's gonna be fantastic this year got uh jmc in charge The level just raised immensely. So, uh, we'll see you there in march March, yes. Yeah, it's gonna be fantastic. All right, george, and I'll be right back to wrap things up right after this Thanks guys. 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