November 24, 2025 • 19 mins
Marcus had a chance to hang out with Actor/Comedian/Voiceover Icon Patrick Warburton. You know him from such well-known roles as Puddy on Seinfeld, and the voice of Buzz Lightyear, Joe from Family Guy, and The Tick (among many others). We discussed his character “Mayor Windancer” in the new movie Zootopia 2 (out in theaters 11/26) and how much fun he had in that role (He calls him an absolutely preposterous “gaffoon.”). We also talked about what his favorite role has been, what it’s like to transition from the screen to the VO booth, to the (stand-up comedy) stage. Plus how his family keeps him in shape, in check, and whether or not they care if he’s famous. Such a fun hang!
Catch him in Zootopia 2: In theaters November 26th!
Catch him in Zootopia 2: In theaters November 26th!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we've got Patrick Warburton in studio. You might know
him as Ken from the B movie, Kronk from The
Emperor's New Groove, my favorite Joe from Family Guy. When
I told everybody that you were coming, They're like, oh, Puddy.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How often do you get Puddy from Seinfeld?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I still get that an awful lot. Yeah, yeah, that
are maybe rules some of the younger kids. It's a
series of unfortunate Events, which I did for Netflix. Yeah, okay,
and obviously I'll let you know the cartoon voice and stuff.
I still got the tick a lot, which is cool
because we only did nine episodes of that, but it's
had a cult following for some time.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Was that only nine episodes?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Nine episodes? Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I was remarking to so, my producer Taylor is here,
and your your favorite is Kronk.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yes, I love Emperor's New Groove. Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And the funny part about it is her dad could
be your doppelgonger. I told him we had dinner on Saturday.
I met him for the first time. I said, you know,
there are certain guys that just look like superheroes, so
I would put you in that category. Patrick, what's it
like being a guy who just walks around could be
a superhero.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You feel good about it.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I don't know. You know what's funny.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Before I ever even knew who the tick was, people
will come to me and go, you gotta play the
tick if there's ever a live action version, and then
you know, Barry Sonenfeld did it with Ben Edlund, and
I guess they felt the same way. So I play
the tick, and now you know what I'm getting all
the time, and I've never seen it is if they
do a live action version of Omni Man. And I
don't know yet who Omni Man is. I've heard of him.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So, so do you talk like this all the time
because I am just mesmerized.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Usually I talk like this. Okay, that's what I need.
I need to hear the voice right now.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And you do a lot of different formats, so movies, voiceovers.
We were talking off camera. You have done cobs. You
started doing stand up about a year and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, headliner, I guess I've been doing this live stage
readings of these letters, you know. And I would start
open the show with ten minutes of talking watch so
he became ten minuts of stand up and then fifteen
and that ended up being my favorite part of it,
and decided to bail on the other show and just
do stand ups.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
So it's been fun.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I've been touring for last year and a half and
I've actually hit at this point every major market and
I did Anchorage, Alaska, and I've never been up there,
you know. I just thought, Okay, they want a book,
so I did a couple of shows up there. But
it's been really a lot of fun but exhausting.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Have you bombed yet at all?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, not going, wouldn't know, But you know, there been
just a couple of things that I signed on to
I I agreed to do that weren't a lot of fun.
One was it a corporate and another one was like
a you know, a Benny, which was you know, in.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
A big room with couches.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And people who didn't even know they were going to see.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
It's just it was just kind of an odd at.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You have to be ready for stand up, right if
you're in the audience.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, that's why clubs are still the best, you know.
But I've done theaters, you know. I did the Lincoln
Center and four Collins a couple of weeks ago, which
is a twelve hundred seat theater in Colorado, but the
clubs are still the best environment.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I want to know about your role in Zutopia two
mayor win Dancer. Yes, we want to describe the character.
I told Taylor if if Fabia was a horse.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, is that accurate?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Oh that's spot on. Yeah, and you're the main of hair. Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, So you get the script, you read the role.
Do they have any imaging for you as far as
what he was going to look like to give you
some sort of inspiration? Yes, immediately, okay, and then where
did your mind go in that moment, like to get
ready for the role.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh, Marcus, listen, I'm not exactly a chameleon, and all
my characters sound something less same. Listen, He's just he's
a bit preposterous. He's a movie star action films, Brian
wind Dancer, and now he's the mayor of Zotopia, right,
and so he does an error about him. But at
the same time, he's a bit of a gaffoon, you know,
(04:05):
and caffoon buffoon whatever.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
We he was morally questionable through most of the movie,
and then we were Taylor and I were both excited
to find out who he really was.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's all I'm going to say about that, because I
don't want to spoil anything.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, he's uh, you know, he stepped up to the
plate there, Yeah at the end. What's been your favorite role? Hmm,
There's so many different ones for different reasons.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I'm always always been a Disney follow. Grew up, you know,
in Hunton Beach, and I grew up in a very
strict household. We were allowed to watch two shows every
year at me and my younger every week, my younger
sisters and me, and that was a little house in
the prairie and the wonderful World of Disney and Sunday Nights.
So I love, you know, Kronk with the Emper's New Groove.
That will always be very very close to my heart there,
(05:01):
that one. I love that one. And I have had fun,
you know, obviously doing Family Guy throughout the years. Yeah,
and you know, the adult stuff Venture Brothers was a
lot of fun doing that. I did have a lot
of fun doing the tick because it was live action
and the tick is absurd. I did a film in
(05:24):
Australia years ago, Sam Neil called the dish about the
Apollo eleven mission, which is one of my favorite projects
I ever did, and and of course one of the greatest,
you know, filming experiences I ever had was doing a
series of Unfortunate Events with Barry Soininfeld.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Sure doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Has there been a project that you feel has been
like underrated, that's flown under the radar, that you was
like more people knew about or.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, I did this really interesting little independent film years
ago called The Woman Chaser and its shut sort of
muted colors film no wa style period, and it was
sort of gorilla filmmaking. We had to steal location, you know,
because we couldn't even you know, afford getting permits some
of the times. But we did debut at the New
York Film Festival. You know Jane Campion's picture that year.
(06:09):
She just won the Academy Award the year before, and
so The Woman Chasers had a cult following throughout the years.
But it's one of those little films that a lot
of people haven't seen, and you know, it's on Amazon,
you can check it out. But that's a cool one.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Do you ever have a situation where you get recognized
because of your voice but not because they see you,
but like you're calling to get takeout or something.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yes, that does happen every now and then, Cordell see me.
You know, I'm sort of in disguise with this mustache right,
more like a Tom Sullick.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I'm not gonna lie. The mustache has thrown me off
a little bit. But also, have you been working out?
I mean like I haven't seen you forever, but.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, like I try to stay in shape, I sure
try to hang in there with my three boys. And
how old are the boys? My son Town's thirty two,
My son Shane is twenty seven. Okay, my son Gabriel
is twenty four. My dialexis thirty one.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So you kind of have to perpetuate that superhero stilo
when you have grown men in your house. Yes, handle things.
I was telling you that I had dinner with producer
Taylor's dad, who was a captain in the fire department
in Los Gato's Station sixteen east side San Jose.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And he is also there are certain guys that look presidential. Yeah,
he would almost. Do you have a picture of him?
You can pull up Taylor.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I met him on Saturday and he was just busting
out of his shirt, and he had that deep voice
and he was carrying the table and carrying the room,
and I wanted to be him, like I need more
of that energy in my life. Thank God I have
a daughter who loves Disney, because if I had three boys,
I'm pretty sure i'd be manhandled. Tell me about, like,
(07:53):
what's it like being like an actor voiceover and then
having kids?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Like do they care all the cool stuff that you
get to do?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
They do, and they don't it doesn't you know? Dad's
his dad, right?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I mean my son Gabriel, when he was about maybe
four years old, his favorite show to watch was Buzz
light Year of Star Command, and I did the voice
of Buzz light Year, right. He loved watching it. But
if I walked in the room and started doing the voice,
he would look at me with a friend and tell
me to be quiet.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
He did not want me to ruin it for him,
you know.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And of course we you know sell you know, shameless
self promoters with their kids.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
They'd be like, Gabe, that's me.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And then you know, eventually, like when he's like five
years old, I guess he got it.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, I thought it was cool and that was it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You know, what about the other kids observer a moment
where they realized, oh, Dad might be famous.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, I guess so, you know, it happens gradually, but
there's certain things that really land with them, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I was doing the Venture Brothers, you know, they they
you know, the boys really loved that and all their
buddies loved it, and it was just kind of you know, cool.
They would, you know, love that show whether or not
Dad's doing it.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You sure.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And and I do the voice of Rock Sampson, Yeah,
that one, and they love that because Brac is just
a dangerous, insane person.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, okay, let me ask you Dad.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
To Dad, we have to be kind, we have to
be emotionally available, we have to be strong. But isn't
there a certain merit to like I have this feeling
like the kids have to know that Dad's cool, Dad's collected.
But Dad's got a gear he can get into if
you get out of line. Dad's a little crazy, yes
or no?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well yeah, but look, you know they always go to
mom with you know, all their problems, right, total freak out.
I don't freak out freaking out right now because that
irritates me. I don't and I'm usual. I feel like
I can give them, especially the boys, a lot of
intel and insight from my own experiences.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You know, do they listen though?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I feel like it lands you know, you know one
of them, you know, we have you know, great communications.
The other two I think just like they they think
that they I feel differently about things than Dad.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
My son, who's the pilot, Yah know, he thinks everything's funny.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
He's chill on all of it. My two sons, Roy
and the Biz.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You know, they're a little bit seem to be a
little bit more pinchy about certain things, especially like the
material I do on stage when I do stand up,
which is essentially throwing my wife and my kids all
under the bus.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Does your wife care about that?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I have a hard time convincing my wife that they're
all just jokes.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
She's okay with that's She's very literal though.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
You know. I'll pitch something to her and she's like,
I don't get it, it's stupid. And then I'll go,
that's a winner, and I do it on stage and
it kills you know, because she's just so literal, right, Yeah,
But she gets it and she gets that it's a
whole different thing. Sometimes she's concerned about my brand because
I'm a little dangerous. You know. I wish I could
be funny and clean like my Nate Bargatzi, but I can't.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And she's like, you gotta be careful about your brand
and go.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, stand up's an entirely different thing, right, you know,
you have to have that freedom you're on stage. There's
no safety in that. You gotta have the freedom though too,
is you know, as dangerous as you want. People sign
away every when they go into clubs, you know, if
you're friended or whatnot done you know, split. But that's
there's got to be that for centuries and maybe even millennia.
You know, like the Court Jester always had immunity even
(11:12):
if they were on funny and they'd say something that
would get there anybody else's head chopped off.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
They couldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Is that a fact that it was against the laws, against.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
The law the court Chester had had.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Oh that's amazing. I had no idea. And that's the
way it's got to be, you know, with comics too.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But it's not like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Well it is, I think it is, you know, I mean,
if you can take things out of context. That's why
you know, Twitter killed so many people, very very funny.
But you have to hear delivery in this and that.
Otherwise they're just looking at exactly what was.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Said, right, you know. And uh.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But because you played different characters on stage and things
come from different places stage, you know, and you have
to have that freedom.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
When you're switching between mediums.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So you've done sitcoms, you've done dramas, you've done animation.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Now we're doing stand up.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Are there any like creative challenges in switching between all
those like different formats.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, I guess understanding the format, I understand what you're
you know what you're getting too. You know, cartoons, you're
doing voices, and you've got to do something bigger than life.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Live action is obviously for the most part mostly you
know much more you know, reality based, toned down. You know,
stand up is a whole other thing. One of the
things I've really dug about doing this the last year
and a half is that it's an autonomy I've never known.
I've always been told what to do, what to say,
where to say it, how to say this and that, whatnot?
You know, and stand up you write all your own material.
(12:38):
You do it when you want, how you want, or
you want, and you're not you know, it's the opposite
of waiting for your agents to.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Call it like a gig or something.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Once you start doing stand up and rolling, it's like,
you know, then it's like, look, I can only you know,
do so much because there are clubs all over you know,
the country, and they can you keep your rolling? I mean,
I've probably been on sixty to seventy commercial flights this year,
not to my all the miles I put on, you know,
rental cars, like you know, do you got a manager
this or that? And now I'm booking my flights on Expedia.
(13:07):
I'm rolling into town getting a round car, and I'm
driving from city to city. And if I had to
do that my whole life, it would be wearisome.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
But it's for me. It's just been an adventure this
last year and a half.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I was gonna say, does that level of autonomy freak
you out? Or does it? Is it absolutely liberating, like
a whole breath of fresh air.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Been liberating?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Okay, And it's interesting too, you know, it's for the
first time in years, I feel like I'm earning when
they give you a check. You know, you walk out
of a club after you know, three days.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Fifty American dollars. That's what I got from I opened
one time.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
A little bitter than that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But I feel like I earned it, you know, because
I wrote the material, I got in the stage. You know,
I performed, you know, I filled your seats and a
lot of you know, smiling happy faces. So it's like, yeah,
give me my check, Ellie. But you know, for years,
you know, I haven't really felt like I earned my money.
Sure you do when you do stand up, you feel
like you earned it.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, what does it feel like? As someone? How do
I put this? The average person.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Doesn't know what it's like to be the paid entertainment,
the paid entertainer to be What does it feel if
to be responsible for putting butts in seats and then
making it happen the show sells out or you know,
your movies is a hit because and partially because of you.
But in stand up, but it's all you like, what
does that feel like?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, it's rewording.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
It really does feel great because you're you're wholly responsible
for what you're doing there for that seventy minutes you know,
that's about what I.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Run seventy minutes. That's a lot of comedy.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, I want to get back to Sutopia.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I want to know.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
The great movie.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
By the way, we saw it on Friday, Taylor and
I went to the premiere. And what was the most
fun part of doing that particular project.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, you know, when you do voiceover, it's you're not
spending that much time letting your voice to characters. But right, so,
it's so fantastic to see it all come together because
there are so many artists involved in regards to the concept,
in writing, all the artists that do the characters and
create these fantastics. Utopia is one of those films, you know,
where there's always so much going on that there are
(15:15):
little things here and there that are making you giggle
or laugh because it's so clever and smart.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
It just moves like that. Plus there's you know, a
lot of heart to it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
There's enough adult humor in it, and I think that
keeps you know, it's just really it's so fun to
be a part of something that appeals to you know,
every gen. But I I love doing it because you
just get you get so inspired knowing that not only
the work that you're doing, but the work that so
many are doing, just makes it look so grand and
(15:45):
sure spectacular. Yeah, especially when you're talking about Disney.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's one of my favorite parts about about Disney movies,
or just movies in general. To your point, like you
are appealing to so many generations. You're lobbing the adult
jokes over the kid's heads. Watching that happen in real
time is pretty awesome. Yeah, that's one of my favorite
parts about it. Yeah, Patrick Warburton here in studio, I
don't want to keep you too much longer.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
We could.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I could talk all day. To be honest with you.
A couple of quick questions.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Your go to snack on your one of your seventy flights?
What are you packing?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Wow? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
High protein? Watching your macros? What's happening?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah? You know I always grab some of those like
barbell you know, candy bars. You know they taste like
a cheat, like a Snicker's bar, but they're kind of
low carbs. Okay, you know stuff like that. I guess
you know nuts, I don't know. You know, do you
do karaoke?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I love carry it. We love it in our household.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Our motto is a good buzz wasted without carryo. Yes,
so we've never had a part of our house. I mean,
you know my dad's you know, you know, funeral reception
turned into karaoke after that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
We had Mariachi's at my dad's at his celebration of life.
This is a karaoke room. By the way, Taylor and
I are both I don't even call it karaoke. I
call it band practice. That's what it's called.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And if I didn't go to if I wasn't going
to the hockey game, I'd say we all go.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Crow say less, what's your song? Or give me your
top three.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I had a Pearl.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Jam cover band for a while. Yeah, we were the
Bearded Pearl Clams. And so I love doing you know
better stuff. I did just cover hurt with a band
called Ballroom, and so we're doing that right now.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Nine Inch Nails Johnny Cash.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, okay, this is kind of a cross between Johnny
Cash and nine inch Nails. Okay, a little bit more
casi ish. I did do a song with them called
Goddess of the Rain, which is on Spotify. It's kind
of fun, yeah, like a sounds kind of like an
eighties rock song.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So you do all the things on stage, like so
my best friend calls me the fastest land animal to
a microphone. I think you and I are one of
the same. Like, if there's a mic to be had,
like let's get on it and do something.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well I will, you know I have fun doing it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I guess I don't. Yeah, you know, listen, you're right,
you know there's a stand up don't do that music.
But then again, you know I can sing a little,
but I'm not, you know, going to quit my day job.
I did find that, you know, stand up with something
that was really easy for me to lean into. I
always felt like I was kind of built for it,
you know, in my and my stand up too.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I'm not on stage doing a bunch of industry anecdotes.
Otherwise it would be like a night with which is
not what stand up comedy is, right, being that I've
been married for thirty four years, you have four kids,
and if at seven dogs, my life is relatable, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I you know, you've covered all the basis.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
There's too much.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, that's really well. I do a couple of few
industry anecdotes, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, don't miss Patrick as Mayor wind Dancer in Zutopia.
Too fantastic movie. I can't say this so fun to
be a part of. So good she did cry. Taylor
cried a little bit. My man, thank you for coming
in studio. We appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Thank you, Marcus, thank you Taylor. It's been awesome and
being Yeah,
So we've got Patrick Warburton in studio. You might know
him as Ken from the B movie, Kronk from The
Emperor's New Groove, my favorite Joe from Family Guy. When
I told everybody that you were coming, They're like, oh, Puddy.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How often do you get Puddy from Seinfeld?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I still get that an awful lot. Yeah, yeah, that
are maybe rules some of the younger kids. It's a
series of unfortunate Events, which I did for Netflix. Yeah, okay,
and obviously I'll let you know the cartoon voice and stuff.
I still got the tick a lot, which is cool
because we only did nine episodes of that, but it's
had a cult following for some time.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Was that only nine episodes?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Nine episodes? Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I was remarking to so, my producer Taylor is here,
and your your favorite is Kronk.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yes, I love Emperor's New Groove. Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And the funny part about it is her dad could
be your doppelgonger. I told him we had dinner on Saturday.
I met him for the first time. I said, you know,
there are certain guys that just look like superheroes, so
I would put you in that category. Patrick, what's it
like being a guy who just walks around could be
a superhero.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You feel good about it.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I don't know. You know what's funny.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Before I ever even knew who the tick was, people
will come to me and go, you gotta play the
tick if there's ever a live action version, and then
you know, Barry Sonenfeld did it with Ben Edlund, and
I guess they felt the same way. So I play
the tick, and now you know what I'm getting all
the time, and I've never seen it is if they
do a live action version of Omni Man. And I
don't know yet who Omni Man is. I've heard of him.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So, so do you talk like this all the time
because I am just mesmerized.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Usually I talk like this. Okay, that's what I need.
I need to hear the voice right now.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And you do a lot of different formats, so movies, voiceovers.
We were talking off camera. You have done cobs. You
started doing stand up about a year and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, headliner, I guess I've been doing this live stage
readings of these letters, you know. And I would start
open the show with ten minutes of talking watch so
he became ten minuts of stand up and then fifteen
and that ended up being my favorite part of it,
and decided to bail on the other show and just
do stand ups.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
So it's been fun.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I've been touring for last year and a half and
I've actually hit at this point every major market and
I did Anchorage, Alaska, and I've never been up there,
you know. I just thought, Okay, they want a book,
so I did a couple of shows up there. But
it's been really a lot of fun but exhausting.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Have you bombed yet at all?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, not going, wouldn't know, But you know, there been
just a couple of things that I signed on to
I I agreed to do that weren't a lot of fun.
One was it a corporate and another one was like
a you know, a Benny, which was you know, in.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
A big room with couches.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And people who didn't even know they were going to see.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
It's just it was just kind of an odd at.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You have to be ready for stand up, right if
you're in the audience.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, that's why clubs are still the best, you know.
But I've done theaters, you know. I did the Lincoln
Center and four Collins a couple of weeks ago, which
is a twelve hundred seat theater in Colorado, but the
clubs are still the best environment.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I want to know about your role in Zutopia two
mayor win Dancer. Yes, we want to describe the character.
I told Taylor if if Fabia was a horse.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, is that accurate?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Oh that's spot on. Yeah, and you're the main of hair. Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, So you get the script, you read the role.
Do they have any imaging for you as far as
what he was going to look like to give you
some sort of inspiration? Yes, immediately, okay, and then where
did your mind go in that moment, like to get
ready for the role.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh, Marcus, listen, I'm not exactly a chameleon, and all
my characters sound something less same. Listen, He's just he's
a bit preposterous. He's a movie star action films, Brian
wind Dancer, and now he's the mayor of Zotopia, right,
and so he does an error about him. But at
the same time, he's a bit of a gaffoon, you know,
(04:05):
and caffoon buffoon whatever.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
We he was morally questionable through most of the movie,
and then we were Taylor and I were both excited
to find out who he really was.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's all I'm going to say about that, because I
don't want to spoil anything.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, he's uh, you know, he stepped up to the
plate there, Yeah at the end. What's been your favorite role? Hmm,
There's so many different ones for different reasons.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I'm always always been a Disney follow. Grew up, you know,
in Hunton Beach, and I grew up in a very
strict household. We were allowed to watch two shows every
year at me and my younger every week, my younger
sisters and me, and that was a little house in
the prairie and the wonderful World of Disney and Sunday Nights.
So I love, you know, Kronk with the Emper's New Groove.
That will always be very very close to my heart there,
(05:01):
that one. I love that one. And I have had fun,
you know, obviously doing Family Guy throughout the years. Yeah,
and you know, the adult stuff Venture Brothers was a
lot of fun doing that. I did have a lot
of fun doing the tick because it was live action
and the tick is absurd. I did a film in
(05:24):
Australia years ago, Sam Neil called the dish about the
Apollo eleven mission, which is one of my favorite projects
I ever did, and and of course one of the greatest,
you know, filming experiences I ever had was doing a
series of Unfortunate Events with Barry Soininfeld.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Sure doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Has there been a project that you feel has been
like underrated, that's flown under the radar, that you was
like more people knew about or.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, I did this really interesting little independent film years
ago called The Woman Chaser and its shut sort of
muted colors film no wa style period, and it was
sort of gorilla filmmaking. We had to steal location, you know,
because we couldn't even you know, afford getting permits some
of the times. But we did debut at the New
York Film Festival. You know Jane Campion's picture that year.
(06:09):
She just won the Academy Award the year before, and
so The Woman Chasers had a cult following throughout the years.
But it's one of those little films that a lot
of people haven't seen, and you know, it's on Amazon,
you can check it out. But that's a cool one.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Do you ever have a situation where you get recognized
because of your voice but not because they see you,
but like you're calling to get takeout or something.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yes, that does happen every now and then, Cordell see me.
You know, I'm sort of in disguise with this mustache right,
more like a Tom Sullick.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I'm not gonna lie. The mustache has thrown me off
a little bit. But also, have you been working out?
I mean like I haven't seen you forever, but.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, like I try to stay in shape, I sure
try to hang in there with my three boys. And
how old are the boys? My son Town's thirty two,
My son Shane is twenty seven. Okay, my son Gabriel
is twenty four. My dialexis thirty one.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So you kind of have to perpetuate that superhero stilo
when you have grown men in your house. Yes, handle things.
I was telling you that I had dinner with producer
Taylor's dad, who was a captain in the fire department
in Los Gato's Station sixteen east side San Jose.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And he is also there are certain guys that look presidential. Yeah,
he would almost. Do you have a picture of him?
You can pull up Taylor.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I met him on Saturday and he was just busting
out of his shirt, and he had that deep voice
and he was carrying the table and carrying the room,
and I wanted to be him, like I need more
of that energy in my life. Thank God I have
a daughter who loves Disney, because if I had three boys,
I'm pretty sure i'd be manhandled. Tell me about, like,
(07:53):
what's it like being like an actor voiceover and then
having kids?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Like do they care all the cool stuff that you
get to do?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
They do, and they don't it doesn't you know? Dad's
his dad, right?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I mean my son Gabriel, when he was about maybe
four years old, his favorite show to watch was Buzz
light Year of Star Command, and I did the voice
of Buzz light Year, right. He loved watching it. But
if I walked in the room and started doing the voice,
he would look at me with a friend and tell
me to be quiet.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
He did not want me to ruin it for him,
you know.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And of course we you know sell you know, shameless
self promoters with their kids.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
They'd be like, Gabe, that's me.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And then you know, eventually, like when he's like five
years old, I guess he got it.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, I thought it was cool and that was it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You know, what about the other kids observer a moment
where they realized, oh, Dad might be famous.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, I guess so, you know, it happens gradually, but
there's certain things that really land with them, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I was doing the Venture Brothers, you know, they they
you know, the boys really loved that and all their
buddies loved it, and it was just kind of you know, cool.
They would, you know, love that show whether or not
Dad's doing it.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You sure.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And and I do the voice of Rock Sampson, Yeah,
that one, and they love that because Brac is just
a dangerous, insane person.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, okay, let me ask you Dad.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
To Dad, we have to be kind, we have to
be emotionally available, we have to be strong. But isn't
there a certain merit to like I have this feeling
like the kids have to know that Dad's cool, Dad's collected.
But Dad's got a gear he can get into if
you get out of line. Dad's a little crazy, yes
or no?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well yeah, but look, you know they always go to
mom with you know, all their problems, right, total freak out.
I don't freak out freaking out right now because that
irritates me. I don't and I'm usual. I feel like
I can give them, especially the boys, a lot of
intel and insight from my own experiences.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You know, do they listen though?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I feel like it lands you know, you know one
of them, you know, we have you know, great communications.
The other two I think just like they they think
that they I feel differently about things than Dad.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
My son, who's the pilot, Yah know, he thinks everything's funny.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
He's chill on all of it. My two sons, Roy
and the Biz.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You know, they're a little bit seem to be a
little bit more pinchy about certain things, especially like the
material I do on stage when I do stand up,
which is essentially throwing my wife and my kids all
under the bus.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Does your wife care about that?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I have a hard time convincing my wife that they're
all just jokes.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
She's okay with that's She's very literal though.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
You know. I'll pitch something to her and she's like,
I don't get it, it's stupid. And then I'll go,
that's a winner, and I do it on stage and
it kills you know, because she's just so literal, right, Yeah,
But she gets it and she gets that it's a
whole different thing. Sometimes she's concerned about my brand because
I'm a little dangerous. You know. I wish I could
be funny and clean like my Nate Bargatzi, but I can't.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And she's like, you gotta be careful about your brand
and go.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, stand up's an entirely different thing, right, you know,
you have to have that freedom you're on stage. There's
no safety in that. You gotta have the freedom though too,
is you know, as dangerous as you want. People sign
away every when they go into clubs, you know, if
you're friended or whatnot done you know, split. But that's
there's got to be that for centuries and maybe even millennia.
You know, like the Court Jester always had immunity even
(11:12):
if they were on funny and they'd say something that
would get there anybody else's head chopped off.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
They couldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Is that a fact that it was against the laws, against.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
The law the court Chester had had.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Oh that's amazing. I had no idea. And that's the
way it's got to be, you know, with comics too.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But it's not like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Well it is, I think it is, you know, I mean,
if you can take things out of context. That's why
you know, Twitter killed so many people, very very funny.
But you have to hear delivery in this and that.
Otherwise they're just looking at exactly what was.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Said, right, you know. And uh.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But because you played different characters on stage and things
come from different places stage, you know, and you have
to have that freedom.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
When you're switching between mediums.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So you've done sitcoms, you've done dramas, you've done animation.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Now we're doing stand up.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Are there any like creative challenges in switching between all
those like different formats.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, I guess understanding the format, I understand what you're
you know what you're getting too. You know, cartoons, you're
doing voices, and you've got to do something bigger than life.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Live action is obviously for the most part mostly you
know much more you know, reality based, toned down. You know,
stand up is a whole other thing. One of the
things I've really dug about doing this the last year
and a half is that it's an autonomy I've never known.
I've always been told what to do, what to say,
where to say it, how to say this and that, whatnot?
You know, and stand up you write all your own material.
(12:38):
You do it when you want, how you want, or
you want, and you're not you know, it's the opposite
of waiting for your agents to.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Call it like a gig or something.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Once you start doing stand up and rolling, it's like,
you know, then it's like, look, I can only you know,
do so much because there are clubs all over you know,
the country, and they can you keep your rolling? I mean,
I've probably been on sixty to seventy commercial flights this year,
not to my all the miles I put on, you know,
rental cars, like you know, do you got a manager
this or that? And now I'm booking my flights on Expedia.
(13:07):
I'm rolling into town getting a round car, and I'm
driving from city to city. And if I had to
do that my whole life, it would be wearisome.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
But it's for me. It's just been an adventure this
last year and a half.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I was gonna say, does that level of autonomy freak
you out? Or does it? Is it absolutely liberating, like
a whole breath of fresh air.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Been liberating?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Okay, And it's interesting too, you know, it's for the
first time in years, I feel like I'm earning when
they give you a check. You know, you walk out
of a club after you know, three days.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Fifty American dollars. That's what I got from I opened
one time.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
A little bitter than that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But I feel like I earned it, you know, because
I wrote the material, I got in the stage. You know,
I performed, you know, I filled your seats and a
lot of you know, smiling happy faces. So it's like, yeah,
give me my check, Ellie. But you know, for years,
you know, I haven't really felt like I earned my money.
Sure you do when you do stand up, you feel
like you earned it.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, what does it feel like? As someone? How do
I put this? The average person.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Doesn't know what it's like to be the paid entertainment,
the paid entertainer to be What does it feel if
to be responsible for putting butts in seats and then
making it happen the show sells out or you know,
your movies is a hit because and partially because of you.
But in stand up, but it's all you like, what
does that feel like?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, it's rewording.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
It really does feel great because you're you're wholly responsible
for what you're doing there for that seventy minutes you know,
that's about what I.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Run seventy minutes. That's a lot of comedy.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, I want to get back to Sutopia.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I want to know.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
The great movie.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
By the way, we saw it on Friday, Taylor and
I went to the premiere. And what was the most
fun part of doing that particular project.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, you know, when you do voiceover, it's you're not
spending that much time letting your voice to characters. But right, so,
it's so fantastic to see it all come together because
there are so many artists involved in regards to the concept,
in writing, all the artists that do the characters and
create these fantastics. Utopia is one of those films, you know,
where there's always so much going on that there are
(15:15):
little things here and there that are making you giggle
or laugh because it's so clever and smart.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
It just moves like that. Plus there's you know, a
lot of heart to it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
There's enough adult humor in it, and I think that
keeps you know, it's just really it's so fun to
be a part of something that appeals to you know,
every gen. But I I love doing it because you
just get you get so inspired knowing that not only
the work that you're doing, but the work that so
many are doing, just makes it look so grand and
(15:45):
sure spectacular. Yeah, especially when you're talking about Disney.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's one of my favorite parts about about Disney movies,
or just movies in general. To your point, like you
are appealing to so many generations. You're lobbing the adult
jokes over the kid's heads. Watching that happen in real
time is pretty awesome. Yeah, that's one of my favorite
parts about it. Yeah, Patrick Warburton here in studio, I
don't want to keep you too much longer.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
We could.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I could talk all day. To be honest with you.
A couple of quick questions.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Your go to snack on your one of your seventy flights?
What are you packing?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Wow? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
High protein? Watching your macros? What's happening?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah? You know I always grab some of those like
barbell you know, candy bars. You know they taste like
a cheat, like a Snicker's bar, but they're kind of
low carbs. Okay, you know stuff like that. I guess
you know nuts, I don't know. You know, do you
do karaoke?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I love carry it. We love it in our household.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Our motto is a good buzz wasted without carryo. Yes,
so we've never had a part of our house. I mean,
you know my dad's you know, you know, funeral reception
turned into karaoke after that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
We had Mariachi's at my dad's at his celebration of life.
This is a karaoke room. By the way, Taylor and
I are both I don't even call it karaoke. I
call it band practice. That's what it's called.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And if I didn't go to if I wasn't going
to the hockey game, I'd say we all go.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Crow say less, what's your song? Or give me your
top three.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I had a Pearl.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Jam cover band for a while. Yeah, we were the
Bearded Pearl Clams. And so I love doing you know
better stuff. I did just cover hurt with a band
called Ballroom, and so we're doing that right now.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Nine Inch Nails Johnny Cash.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, okay, this is kind of a cross between Johnny
Cash and nine inch Nails. Okay, a little bit more
casi ish. I did do a song with them called
Goddess of the Rain, which is on Spotify. It's kind
of fun, yeah, like a sounds kind of like an
eighties rock song.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So you do all the things on stage, like so
my best friend calls me the fastest land animal to
a microphone. I think you and I are one of
the same. Like, if there's a mic to be had,
like let's get on it and do something.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well I will, you know I have fun doing it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I guess I don't. Yeah, you know, listen, you're right,
you know there's a stand up don't do that music.
But then again, you know I can sing a little,
but I'm not, you know, going to quit my day job.
I did find that, you know, stand up with something
that was really easy for me to lean into. I
always felt like I was kind of built for it,
you know, in my and my stand up too.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I'm not on stage doing a bunch of industry anecdotes.
Otherwise it would be like a night with which is
not what stand up comedy is, right, being that I've
been married for thirty four years, you have four kids,
and if at seven dogs, my life is relatable, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I you know, you've covered all the basis.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
There's too much.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, that's really well. I do a couple of few
industry anecdotes, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, don't miss Patrick as Mayor wind Dancer in Zutopia.
Too fantastic movie. I can't say this so fun to
be a part of. So good she did cry. Taylor
cried a little bit. My man, thank you for coming
in studio. We appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Thank you, Marcus, thank you Taylor. It's been awesome and
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