The reason posting was sparse here for a while recently was that I had to get three half-hours of The Garfield Show done in about six days — four for the writing, two for the voice-recording. The recording sessions were Monday and Tuesday.
Tuesday's session was attended by two up-and-coming voice actors who took the class that I taught last month at Voice One up in San Francisco. One of them, a gifted lady named Cia Court, wrote up the experience for her blog.
If Cia and her friend Chuck had come to Monday's session, they would have seen/heard (along with our regulars) Laraine Newman and Jason Marsden recording. Laraine has been on the show several times now and she keeps reminding me why I always thought she was the best actor/actress in the original cast of Saturday Night Live.
Jason, who voices Nermal and many other recurring characters on the show, wasn't in on Tuesday because I gave him the day off…and for good reason. Some of you may remember a fascinating video I linked to here…a video Jason made of his son Clark, who was born way prematurely, on February 17, at the weight of one pound, ten ounces. On Monday afternoon, shortly after our recording session, Jason and his wife Christy were finally able to take Clark home from the hospital. The kid now weighs a hefty six pounds. We are quite happy about this.