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Cartoon voice actor April Winchell (Tak & The Power of Juju, The Legend of Tarzan, and the voice of Disney character Clarabelle Cow for more than a decade) shares an anecdote and photos on her blog about getting to meet TV star Judge Judy. April also mentions, “I was invited to sit in the front [...]

A representative for 80′s pop singer Rick Astley announced today that the singer is officially launching his career as a voice-over artist via his new website: RickAstleyVoiceovers.com. Astley has quietly been lending his voice to a variety of animated projects over the last decade, with uncredited roles on King of the Hill, Family Guy, The [...]

SpongeBob SquarePants voice actor Tom Kenny is hosting the first-ever Tom Kenny Awards at Hollywood’s Chinese Mann Theatre on July 13th, 2009 (which coincidentally also happens to be Tom Kenny’s birthday). Kenny, who has already been declared winner in the category for “Best Day Ever,” said in a press release: “Since I’ve hosted so many [...]

DreamWorks has hired Steven Spielberg to direct what is described as a “fantasy biopic” based on the life of voice actor Frank Welker. The Curious Case of Frank Welker tells the true story of how Frank as a young boy befriends a leprechaun who for reasons unknown stabs him in the throat with a magical [...]

Following the recent release of Apple’s new “VoiceOver” iPod feature which features a digital voice reading song titles and artists to users too lazy to look at the screen, Apple has announced a new downloadable app for the iPod called “VoiceKill.” “VoiceKill” is a revolutionary new nano-technology from Cyberdyne Systems which is designed to hunt [...]

Weird Al Yankovic released a statement Tuesday that he is tired of being labeled “weird” and is retiring from his career as a musical comedian to pursue a “normal” profession as a bus driver, which has been his dream since childhood. In related news, the artist formerly known as Weird Al Yankovic has been hit [...]