# Does anyone else hate Ira Glass's voice? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 21, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-ira-glasss-voice/183343 "2003-06-21T02:50:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-ira-glasss-voice/183343/41 "2003-06-24T15:33:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by widdershins \* > \*\*I remember who else Ira Glass reminds me of when he speaks. Does anyone else remember the Ernie Kovacs character Percy Dovetonsils? The similarities are spooky. \*\* Yes, yes, yes. That’s it exactly! ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-ira-glasss-voice/183343/42 "2003-06-25T22:40:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > I’m glad NPR puts people on the air for what they have to say and not the melodious manner in which they say it I have respect for this, too, but with Diane Rehm, my objection is not that she’s not “melodious”, it’s that her voice is actually getting in the way of the information she’s trying to get across. Not only does she speak too slowly to keep a conversation flowing, but she’s hard to understand on top of it. Her inflection is so erratic that often whole syllables drop out of words, and I frequently have to think back and reinterpret things that I heard wrong (for example, when an awkward pause made me think she was starting a new sentence, but she really wasn’t). I just change the channel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-ira-glasss-voice/183343.md?page=2)