# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/141 "2012-07-08T11:57:27Z")
I have no idea whom she is, but there is a female umpire at Wimbledon (she probably umpires other tournaments, but I only watch Wimbledon), I’m not sure what nationality she is, so English may not be her first language, but she sounds like she’s either asleep or is sooooo bored she can’t be arsed. “ad. van. tage. \” I can visualise her rolling her eyes/making a snoring noise as she speaks. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/142 "2012-07-08T18:49:58Z")
Mitch McConnell, Joe Lieberman, and Sarah Palin are my current trifecta of ugly political voices, especially when Palin does the little tongue click thing. GAH. Guy Fieri SHOUTS ALL THE TIME. Julie McCarthy of NPR sounds like she’s doing a Thurston Howell impression, which sometimes amuses me and sometimes annoys me. ---
**Author:** ![ScarletNumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@ScarletNumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScarletNumber)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/143 "2012-07-08T20:02:39Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > NYC 101 WINS radio spokesperson Patrician McCann. Just hearing her voice makes me _shudder_, and jump to change the station. From the same station, WINS 1010 AM, John Montone, whose voice is a monotone. I can’t believe no one said Christopher Walken. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/144 "2012-07-09T04:18:48Z")
The Deschanel (Zooey & Emily) sisters have nice enough voices but annoying speech patterns. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/145 "2012-07-09T06:55:31Z")
Adam Savage’s Pirate voice. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/146 "2012-07-09T09:01:15Z")
I am probably the least manly man you’ll ever find, I have worn my wife’s panties when out of clean underwear(hey the jeans were really scratchy!). Yet everytime I hear Michael Cera or his apparently seperated at birth twin Jesse Eisenberg talk I want to take them out for some kind of acitivity which will put hair on their chests, it is embarassing for a grown adult of either gender to have so much self doubt. I guess some people find their mannerisms cute, I find them annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/147 "2012-07-09T09:44:14Z")
> [@Even seven](#): > > I can’t believe no one said Christopher Walken. I used to hate hate hate Walken, but over the years, I’ve grown to love his odd-paced. . . delivery. I’ve even taken the position that everything is better with Walken. I’d like to see an on-screen team-up of Walken and Shatner 😃 If I could do one great celebrity impression, it would be Walken. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/148 "2012-07-09T11:05:35Z")
Has anyone mentioned Jay Baruchel yet? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/149 "2012-07-10T04:46:52Z")
Kristen Wiig. It’s part of the reason I never could understand why people thought she was funny. > [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > The Deschanel (Zooey & Emily) sisters have nice enough voices but annoying speech patterns. I think Emily sounds all right, but Zooey gets annoying, because she sounds like a whiny brat. The one time I saw her acting like one (when Craig Ferguson didn’t want to give her the golden mouth organ because she obviously couldn’t play the harmonica), I stopped liking her altogether. Well, no more than any random hot person. ---
**Author:** ![Larula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc29f/32.png) [@Larula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larula)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/150 "2014-04-07T19:05:09Z")
Definitely the guy I sit next to at work. This fellow spends a lot of time on the phone managing a project, and he’s pugnacious and sounds like an idiot because he doesn’t seem capable of varying his speech patterns. Ed has about 6 stock phrases that he uses so repititiously that I swear I could make his calls for him. “Let me say it this way…”; “in a sense”; “Let me spin you back to…”; “I’ve been scratching my head over…” Jumpin’ Jehosaphat, somebody get me some cyanide before I have to listen to one more phone conversation! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/151 "2014-04-07T19:46:00Z")
> [@limegreen](#): > > Is there a term for a double zombie? Triple zombie! A zombie hat trick! ---
**Author:** ![fishbite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fishbite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbite)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/152 "2014-04-08T00:40:31Z")
**Paula Zahn** … host of the crime show O **n the case with Paula Zahn** … Changes speeds, stresses syllables after long pauses. Every sentence. Wouldnt be so bad if she did it occasionally. To make it sound dramatic I suppose. But it comes off as phoney. Mispronounces words such as ‘immediately’ as Ah-mediately… A newlywed with a broken hip … … DIIIISSSS … AHHH … ppears. Fran wasn’t John’s … … … FIIII … RRR … st wife … As Johns COMMMM …-pooee-sure … … started to _CRACK_ And she’s not above asking heartless questions of a victim’s family while feigning sympathy, in this style, as in 'How did you feel as you … … WAAA-tched him _DIE_?" ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/153 "2014-04-08T01:30:22Z")
I don’t care if this name has been mentioned before or not. This voice is soooo grating. Nan Freisher. Er, Fran Dryshift. The nanny. Not the _real_ nanny - she’s sweet. Not the nanny with the professor. (Juliet Mills - hubba hubba! I mean, everyone talks about her sister Hayley, but I don’t see the attraction myself. Did you see _ **Avanti!** _? And with an English accent, no less. Not that I have anything against a French accent. Although they can get quite nasal. {lookin’ at you, Jean Reno} Speaking of nasal, how about that nanny woman’s voice. I don’t know if it’s “voice mannerisms” or not, but it is quite annoying.) ---
**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:** [April 8, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/154 "2014-04-08T02:00:25Z")
That idiot who does “Odd News” on Yahoo. His voice is that of perpetually adolescent male. It must be in his contract to make his voice crack at least twice per video. ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/155 "2014-04-08T02:45:59Z")
Stuart Margolin (Angel from _Rockford Files_) When Christopher Walken and William Shatner … share the spotlight, add Jerry … Seinfeld. He also tends … to add unnecessary pauses … when speaking. Oh, also, Joe Pesci is annoying. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/156 "2014-04-08T03:22:28Z")
Stuart Margolin was in last week’s (I think it was ) _NCIS_. His voice mannerisms have softened considerably with age. Having been a _Rockford Files_ viewer though, I heartily agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/157 "2014-04-08T03:32:03Z")
I know this was mentioned earlier, but the Deschanel sister who plays Brennan on Bones has such an annoying voice and method of speaking that it hurts my ears to watch the show. I don’t know if it’s the hesitations in the wrong places, or the droning, but it’s painful. I have never heard her outside of the show, though, so I don’t know if it’s something she has developed for the character, or if it’s her natural voice. ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/158 "2014-04-08T03:39:44Z")
That hemorrhoid Ryan Seacrest and his inspiration, Adenoid voice Casey Kassem. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/159 "2014-04-08T04:21:01Z")
She’s been mentioned before and will undoubtedly be here again, Fran Drescher. I was channel surfing once back when Anna Nicole Smith had a tv show. That lasted about 3 seconds once she started talking. And of celebrities that are generally well though of, I absolutely hated Paul Harvey’s intonation and inflection. I couldn’t change the station fast enough when he started talking. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/160 "2014-04-08T06:14:54Z")
Heidi Klum. Thank goodness I don’t like that nasty show of hers. She sounds like a cross between Alvin the Chipmunk and Mickey Mouse. Gah! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601.md?page=7)