Zombiezombie or not, I want to play too.
Yes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Suze Orman. She has a commercial for life insurance in rotation now, and I can’t change the channel fast enough.
I HATE Chris Matthews’ voice. HATE.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Former US Rep Barney Frank
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.
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.
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.
I always thought Roseanne Barr sounded annoying, although her lines were usually pretty good.
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.
I can’t stand Al Sharpton’s voice at all.
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
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.
yep. But Reagan was even worse.
Elliot (Deadliest Catch captain, the one who looks like a drowned rat).
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Russell Brand. Can’t stand his voice or his his face.
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 on 5 days a week?
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.