Stu Shostak has a great guest today for his popular pop-culture Internet chat show. It's Joe Alaskey, one of the brightest voice talents of his generation. I first became aware of Joe when he was mainly an impressionist…and one of the best. He did the best Shatner I'd ever heard…the best Matthau…and his Gleason was so good, they had Joe come in and dub Ralph Kramden's voice in on some of those Lost Honeymooners episodes where the audio needed fixing.
The last decade or two, he's been one of the best cartoon voice actors…and one of the select few called in to fill the shoes of Mr. Mel Blanc. Joe won an Emmy for voicing Daffy on the Duck Dodgers show and probably deserved a couple for other roles. Sometimes, he does Bugs. Sometimes, Sylvester. Actually, he can do and has done about all of them. He even did Yosemite Sam in Who Framed Roger Rabbit when Mel was still alive. Rumor has it that it was Mel's suggestion that they get Joe since Joe then sounded more like Mel than Mel did.
Anyway, Joe does a lot of non-Mel characters too, including Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures and Grandpa Lou on Rugrats and you'll hear all about the other ones when you tune in Stu's Show today. I've told you before how to do this but I'm going to tell you again…
- Listen live for free! Stu does his show Wednesdays starting at 4 PM Pacific Time. That's 7 PM Eastern Time and if you live in other zones, you can probably figure out what time it starts on your computer. It runs two hours. Sometimes, it runs more than two hours. Go to the Stu's Show website at the proper time and click where they tell you to click. Then you can minimize that window on your computer and listen as you do other things.
- Listen later for 99 cents! Shortly after the live webcast, each show becomes a podcast and you can download it as an MP3 file from the Stu's Show website and hear it at your convenience. This is a great bargain and while you're over there, browse around. You'll probably find plenty of other shows in the archives that you'd enjoy hearing.
That's all there is to it! Tune in and hear Stu talk with one of the most talented guys working a microphone these days. And Stu, make sure you get him to do Jack Lemmon.