# Celebrities whose voices grate on your nerves

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-voices-grate-on-your-nerves/248220>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 2, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-voices-grate-on-your-nerves/248220 "2004-06-02T05:43:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-voices-grate-on-your-nerves/248220/61 "2004-06-04T12:44:06Z")

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> [@Evil Death](#):
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> No need to bring God into it. When Fran Drescher laughs, _she_ kills every kitten in earshot. Milk curdles, silver tarnishes and **pregnant women miscarry** as she expresses her mirth, and at last count fourteen religious cults had added the sound to their list of signs indicating the forthcoming apocalypse.

Gee, I wonder if that is what caused the miscarriage of Fran Drescher’s only pregnancy. And maybe her ovarian cancer too.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-voices-grate-on-your-nerves/248220/62 "2004-06-04T14:21:59Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> Gee, I wonder if that is what caused the miscarriage of Fran Drescher’s only pregnancy. And maybe her ovarian cancer too.

Don’t get snippy about it, please. Had I known about these things I would have said something different, but in the UK we’re not so obsessed with celebrity trivia (not that it was trivial to _her_, you understand). Most people here probably don’t even know who she is.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-voices-grate-on-your-nerves/248220/63 "2004-06-04T15:12:00Z")

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Sandra Bernhard. It’s just way too Bostonian valley girlesque.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-voices-grate-on-your-nerves/248220/64 "2004-06-04T16:01:15Z")

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Sandra Bernhard does have a surprisingly good singing voice. Her CD “Excuses for Bad Behavior” is worth getting for the combination of Hendrix’s “Maniac” with Jesus Christ superstar’s “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.”

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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-voices-grate-on-your-nerves/248220/65 "2004-06-04T16:28:58Z")

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I add my vote to Jennifer Tilly, Gilbert Gottfried, and Rosie Perez. Yeeech.

I would also like to nominate the woman (no idea what her name is) that Fox News drags out for political panel discussions now and then. I believe she was a strategist for the Clinton presidential campaigns, and has a voice that sends me sprawling for the almighty mute button every time. A strong nasal accent with a raspy throat. Fran Dresher meets Bonnie Tyler. Oh, the pain! The pain!

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