For the last couple of decades of his life, Clayton Moore always appeared in public as the Lone Ranger.
When the owners of the character got a court order for him to stop, he traded the mask for a pair of wraparound sunglasses.
After they dropped the litigation, he went back to the mask.
He is a strange, crazy weird comedian. But the voice was a put on. Even then he didn’t do it all the time like when he was on shows like Howard Stern which gave him a longer time to talk and not just do his act.
The Pearl Necklace was named after her.
Funny though… I listened to his comedy album ‘I Don’t Mean to Insult You, but You Look Like Bobcat Goldthwait’, and surprisingly, it was hilarious. I had expected the police academy crap(and, unsurprisingly, he does do a bit in a self mocking kind of way), but wow, great performance, and a truly funny comedian.
And Teller even talked in Penn & Teller Get Killed.
He did “God Stuff” segments for the Daily Show as John Bloom.
The guys in Green Day are transforming themselves into muppets, especially Tre Cool.
Lemony Snicket
Does Leon Redbone count?
I think that was a put-on that he went with as his career started to flag. From what I can tell, he’s pretty darn close to the Diceman in real life. He did a reality show recently where he was trying to break back into the stand-up circuit. It was rather sad.
Not quite. Minnie Pearl would show up at awards, benefits and other public gatherings as her real self, the wealthy and cultivated Sarah Coffey of Nashville. To my knowledge she never performed as any character other than Minnie Pearl, but it was just a character.
I don’t think he varies the pronunciation according to whether he’s in his persona. From what I understand, he switched to the Frenchified pronunciation while in college and has stuck with it since then.
I don’t think I ever saw Paul Rubens appear in any other form than as Pee-Wee Herman (excepting his mug shot from the arrest).
Paul Reubens played a vampire in the movie version of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
And a cameo appearance as the Penguin’s father in “Batman Returns.”
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned Cassandra Peterson. She has had a few small credits playing other characters but she’s essentially always appeared as Elvira.
It may be that you just didn’t recognize him, since he’s been in quite a few movies and tv shows since then. He was in Mystery Men (underrated but great flick, in my opinion) and on 30 Rock, Pushing Daisies, Reno 911, and so on, including doing voices for many cartoons.
I’ve seen those bits, but she also has an entire video of her not as Elvira.
She also did the feature on The Making of Elvira’s Haunted Hills entirely out of character.
(I strongly recommend that flick – better than her earlier film, at least to fans of the Roger Corman/Vincent Price Poe filoms, which it spoofs wonderfully.)
Yeah, you’re probably right. Now that you mention the voice thing, I remember his as one of the voices of the horrible kids in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Hunter Thompson got to the point where he wasn’t even sure anymore.
As well as the ones mentioned above, he had a recurring role on the last season or 2 of Murphy Brown. He was very recognizable, but not Pee Wee in any way.
He’s got 2 movies coming out this year, apparently.