# Actors who voiced cartoon characters of themselves **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [May 18, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-voiced-cartoon-characters-of-themselves/964607 "2022-05-18T12:33:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-voiced-cartoon-characters-of-themselves/964607/21 "2022-05-18T16:35:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > [Family Guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Family_Guy_guest_stars) has also had quite a few. The most well known being [Adam West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_West_(Family_Guy)). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-voiced-cartoon-characters-of-themselves/964607/22 "2022-05-18T16:48:07Z")
Which reminds me, there was a (very) short-lived Car Talk animated series as well (Wikipedia says 10 episodes on PBS in the summer of 2008). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-voiced-cartoon-characters-of-themselves/964607/23 "2022-05-18T17:24:36Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I think there were some then famous radio and vaudeville guys in old Warner cartoons giving voice to their characters, but are unknown now. Sorry I can’t be more vague. I’m not sure about that. Warner Brothers and other cartoon factories very often didn’t even try to get the original actor, often effectively “stealing” that actor’s schtick. Helen Kane, the “boop oop a doop Girl” , pretty famously tried to sue Fleischer studios, saying that Betty Boop stole her act. Kenny Delmar’s “Senator Claghorn” was taken hook, line, and sinker by "Foghorn Leghorn’, practically down to the name. Comedian Joe Penner is virtually forgotten today, except by vaudeville and radio fans, but he’s supposed to have been the inspiration for the Warner Brothers character Egghead, who arguably morphed into Elmer Fudd. Interestingly enough, though, Elmer’s speech pattern and his later appearance were due to voice actor Arthur Q. Bryan, who Warner Brothers DID hire. Several Warner brothers cartoons used the appearance and in some cases even the voice and mannerisms of comedian Jerry Colonna, although he didn’t voice any of these. (particularly The Wacky Worm and Greetings, Bat!, the title of which is a riff on a Colonna catchphrase) The first Tweety Bird cartoon feature, _A Tale of Two Kitties_, had two cats that are obvious caricatures of Abbott and Costello, who are even named Babbitt and Catstello. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-voiced-cartoon-characters-of-themselves/964607/24 "2022-05-18T17:26:52Z")
The 1959 Warner Brothers Cartoon _The Mouse that Jack Built_ features a cast resembling that of The Jack Benny Show, and voiced by them > **[The Mouse That Jack Built](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Jack_Built)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > The Mouse That Jack Built is a 1959 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodie cartoon short starring Jack Benny and the regular cast of The Jack Benny Program as mice. The short, released on April 4, 1959, was written by Tedd Pierce and directed by Robert McKimson. > Somewhere in Beverly Hills, in the house of Jack Benny (a sign out front proclaims, "Star of Stage \* Screen \* Radio \* Television...also cartoons"), a mouse version of Jack is practicing his violin—of... They didn’t have to go far to find the guy who provided the “voice” of his Maxwell (and several supporting characters) – that was Mel Blanc, their standard voice actor. Another parody done about the same time, **The Honeymousers,** however, didn’t use the voices of anyone from **The Honeymooners** (The show may have been long gone by then, but they continued to do Honeymooners skits on Jackie Gleason’s weekly show) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-voiced-cartoon-characters-of-themselves/964607/25 "2022-05-18T17:30:46Z")
Burt Reynolds voiced himself on _Archer_: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tCvBUHMB8ZY/hqdefault.jpg "Archer meets Burt Reynolds") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvBUHMB8ZY) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-voiced-cartoon-characters-of-themselves/964607.md?page=1)