# Whose voice mannerisms can't you stand? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601 "2008-01-23T01:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/121 "2012-07-03T18:32:13Z")
Zombiezombie or not, I want to play too. > [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Nancy Grace X 10 > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Melanie Griffith, Victoria Jackson, and their bimbo-voiced ilk. Yes. > [@lieu](#): > > **Shannon Sharpe** compounds being difficult to understand by talking way too fast. It’s like he got his tongue stuck to an ice cube tray, then got it off with hot chocolate. Any inherited difficulties aside, just slow the hell down and maybe we’ll then be able to understand you. Yes!! He’s often impossible to understand. Terry Gross (who I tolerate in spite of agreeing with all of the complaints upthread): she asks a question, we all understand her, but then she goes on and on, clarifying and expanding, offering possible answers, setting up a list of Yes/No boxes for her guest to check off. And, the single most irritating voice I’ve ever heard, for 45 years now: _ **RAY MANZAREK, MAN.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/122 "2012-07-03T18:43:08Z")
Nancy Grace, to me, sounds like nails on a chalkboard. And apparantly I don’t care for the sound of the ‘typical’ overbearing, Jewish-mom stereotype. I ran into this for real, before I ever came across it in media, so it wasn’t a pre-conceived judgement call or anything. I was 18, got an offer to be a au-pair in New Jersey. Had several telephone interviews with the lady. It would have been very interesting, as it was the type of kosher household with two sets of dishes, two ovens, etc, and they were quite well off and were very up-to-date technologically. (Well, up to date for 1985, anyway) I thought it would be really neat…but… After a few phone calls it became apparant to me that she would not only be there all the time, but was very, very bossy, adored her little 4 year old like he was god’s own little angel, and her voice…just, no. VERY Fran Drescher, not exaggerating one bit. So I was in the weird position of trying to explain to my mom why I turned it down. Anyway…yeah. That kind of voice still makes me want to run and not stop, lol. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/123 "2012-07-03T22:11:36Z")
Asheville, NC televangelist Ralph Sexton. That voice of his (or the mannerisms thereof) makes him sound very extreme and fundamentalist-like to me (he could actually be a fundamentalist) that I can hardly stand his preaching. My mother watches him all the time, though, and such is her prerogative. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/124 "2012-07-03T23:33:58Z")
Of course you have no clue what this sounds like but I once did a voice that everyone in the family agreed was me obviously trying to be as annoying as humanly possible. It was actually an impersonation of a woman I once worked with. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/125 "2012-07-03T23:41:35Z")
Suze Orman. She has a commercial for life insurance in rotation now, and I can’t change the channel fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![FrillyNettles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ea924/32.png) [@FrillyNettles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrillyNettles)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/126 "2012-07-03T23:53:36Z")
I HATE Chris Matthews’ voice. HATE. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/127 "2012-07-04T03:16:14Z")
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEe4agmULpk) Former US Rep Barney Frank [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/u1Mazjm_A5k/hqdefault.jpg "Barney Frank: Plenty of rich people that we can tax") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k) Hil-dog is truly winceworthy. The fillers, the hard R’s, you can just tell she’s standing there, wide eyed, trying to sound right and failing. ---
**Author:** ![what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/what_do_I_type_here)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/128 "2012-07-04T04:09:55Z")
Dylan Ratigan has the absolute worst cadence of speed of anyone on TV. I just can’t listen to him talk. He pauses unnecessarily after every other word. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/129 "2012-07-04T04:27:50Z")
Leigh Kamman of “The Jazz Image” a now-defunct radio jazz program. Kamman’s voice and heavy (pause) intonation (pause) gave uncalled-for (pause) weight (pause) to his words. Plus, he droned on and on instead of playing the music and letting it speak for itself. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/130 "2012-07-04T06:52:11Z")
I always thought Roseanne Barr sounded annoying, although her lines were usually pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/131 "2012-07-04T07:58:20Z")
Any of the precious, light-in-the-loafers celebs and voice talents featured on radio and TV today. Listen to them sometime and then compare them to the deep, masculine voice-overs in clips from the '50s and '60s featured on YouTube. It’s the proverbial Night-and-Day! I get so damned sick of hearing these lisping, hissing yadadas, I want to grab a Kalashnikov and a bag full of fragmentation grenades and go out looking for them. ---
**Author:** ![gatorslap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gatorslap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gatorslap)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/132 "2012-07-04T08:14:40Z")
I can’t stand Al Sharpton’s voice at all. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/133 "2012-07-04T13:24:22Z")
Too many to list, but here’s a few: George Bush Obama Anderson Cooper Mr. Rogers Ellen Degeneris Diane Sawyer Oprah Sharon Osbourne Rush Limbaugh ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/134 "2012-07-04T22:00:16Z")
Hillary Clinton Laura Ingraham Mitch McConnell Sean Hannity Nancy Pelosi Aw, hell…everybody in politics, really. But those stand out. That All State guy’s voice bugs me for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/135 "2012-07-04T22:34:13Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > George W. Bush yep. But Reagan was even worse. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/136 "2012-07-04T23:06:31Z")
Elliot (Deadliest Catch captain, the one who looks like a drowned rat). . ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/137 "2012-07-05T00:38:02Z")
Russell Brand. Can’t stand his voice or his his face. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/138 "2012-07-05T01:01:48Z")
> [@gatorslap](#): > > I can’t stand Al Sharpton’s voice at all. I could watch MSNBC all day except for “Word Salad with Al”. All the intelligent and eloquent Black political commentators out there and this guy gets a show? Why not have [Melissa Harris-Perry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Harris-Perry) on 5 days a week? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/139 "2012-07-05T01:05:00Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Leigh Kamman of “The Jazz Image” a now-defunct radio jazz program. Kamman’s voice and heavy (pause) intonation (pause) gave uncalled-for (pause) weight (pause) to his words. Plus, he droned on and on instead of playing the music and letting it speak for itself. Jazz dj’s are often tendentious. I think it’s to do with the music losing favor with eclectic intellectual types in the last 25 years - now it appeals mostly to eccentrics and obsessives. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/140 "2012-07-05T23:57:18Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Jazz dj’s are often tendentious. I think it’s to do with the music losing favor with eclectic intellectual types in the last 25 years - now it appeals mostly to eccentrics and obsessives. You may be on to something there. I recently found a jazz DJ in the UK who was almost as bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601.md?page=8)