+Daytripper N7 I agree 100%! He was one of my favorites also! It's too bad they didn't show the rest of this interview.

Mel was impersonating the voice of Kenny Delmar for Foghorn Leghorn Kenny Delmar was on the Fred Allen Show he also did a movie called it's a joke son so it's more like an impersonation of Kenny Delmar

oohh my!!;) did you see how he was doing that with the voice of bugs bunny!? did anyone see this?;)

oohh yeaa!!;) he was just talented! and to think way before in the past werner bros. didnt want him. because they said noo we already have voices jajajaj and he would just tell them or him. just listen to me he said. and they kept saying noo i toll you. we already have the voices!;) he kept insisting. for 2 years jajaj. and got it!;)

He was also an absolute saint of a human being. A truly wonderful person.

close to bugs bunny.

Mel always described his natural speaking voice as Sylvester without the lisp.

Wile E Coyote is pretty close too

@@jeffchabotte Yeah, albeit with an Ivy League accent.

It is.. it's very nearly the same voice he'd use as a narrator in the off character episodes, like the dog show

That's why he was the best actor in history. Think about it!!

@@bergerfry Mel Blanc was a first class genius.

Any studio, not just Warners, used him. He voiced Tom and Jerry, many for Hannah Barbera, and other live action shows like Buck Rogers.

@@alfredodedarc Quite the career, even on camera.

"I say, I say" that's what I've been saying friend!

Now the cancel culture would call him racist. You know that they would.

Foghorn was hilarious, had a boss at 15 that had similar mannerisms, he didn't appreciate my impersonation of him but everyone else would lose it.

Incidently, the name of the actor on The Fred Allen Show was Kenny Delmar and the character was Senator Claghorn.

Why?

This interviewer talks way to much...and we all know why he(r) does

Bugs Bunny was the king of trolls lol..

The best!

And Don

Where in the hell did you get your facts from ??

@@dewalt4594 I think he said that in another interview

he needs not any rotten candle , he’ll blow it to smithereens! , he oushines the sun with his brilliance .

@@dewalt4594 Mel stated these exact facts on the late show with David Letterman in 1984.

Yes except his son Noel!😊

Would love to know your standards on interviewing if you found that to be good at all

@@Brandon-bc5um I agree. And I suspect Mel wasn't too pleased with the interviewer either (who cut Mel off just seconds into the interview; the interviewer does like to hear himself talk). At 5:33, Mel says, "We're not on the air yet, are we? Jeez!" Hmm . . . And what insightful questions like, "What does it feel like to be 70?" Sheesh. The piece is great -- thanks to Mel -- despite the interviewer's shortcomings.

screamengine I appreciate good sound too, and it made this easy to listen to. Your comment is very profound and clever: black and white is good enough when the content is so colorful!

I just happened on this, pretty sure I directed, lit, and did the sound. I had a thing about NOT using AGC on the audio. Unfortunately this is cropped for 16:9. This was recorded on Sony 1/2" reel-to-reel video tape at Theta Cable, 2939 Nebraska Avenue in Santa Monica, CA., now Spectrum.

@@BC-rc2dq You did a mighty fine job! World class!!! No smoothing filter in modern software could do this, at least not easily. And the cam/video is rock solid. Probably the best I've seen from the era! Is there slight compression on there in place of AGC?

We didn't have anything more than a Shure mixer. Set levels and go, watched levels as we went. The Sony decks had AGC, but it would pump up when anyone paused speaking and then the air conditioning noise became thunderous, so I never used it. No biggie, and we shot about six shows a day Our studio was very small, but many of the people producing the shows had lots of industry connections, so we had many big celebrity guests. Many more than a "Hollywood" PR firm brought in for our pay TV service (Z Channel), which was ironically amusing. I remember Jack Lemmon, Robin Williams, John Ritter, Marty Feldman, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jesse White, Dusty Springfield, Elsa Lanchester, Mervyn Leroy, Jay Leno as just a few. Karen Black was breast-feeding at my desk one day. Public Access was on channel 3, and the cable system had 14 to 36 channels, so viewers clicking between CBS and NBC would often stumble on Public Access shows. I often heard that guests enjoyed just being able to have an uninterrupted discussion without being staged.

Believe me, I'm more stunned than anyone -- it was labelled on the tape but (unlike the Peter Tork one) I had thought I was too late to save it and that Dennis had taped over it to archive episodes of our early '80s show in Texas (where the George Strait feature on this channel came from), until I took a batch of tapes in to be digitized and when I got and watched the discs -- Holy moley, it was all on there intact! And though I posted this here without ads or other monetization, since WB recently licensed some footage from it on their Bugs Bunny 80th birthday program, both Dennis and myself got a nice little paycheck. (BTW, now I'm wondering... is that Bugs special the impetus for the upswing in views and comments of late?) -- KWL aka 1B2S

Kelly Cox Actually, “voices”!

Noel Blanc,Jacob Dylan-the son of Bob Dylan,both Julian and Sean Lennon,as well as Dhani Harrison have one thing in common. They all didn't have the charisma that their fathers had and they're all dead.

@rivk maher My childhood was greatly impacted by Walt Disney, Stephen Hillenburg, Bill Nye, Julie Andrews, Mel Blanc. So happy I grew up with those classic icons throughout my whole life and the rest of us❤️💗! Childhood greatly impacted by the classic Disney movies, science lectures, Saturday mornings etc.🥰

Tom Kenny??? While I appreciate the voice actors you named, you have to at least mention the mel blanc of my generation