Driven to MadnessCaptain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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I saw a fascinating interview with someone who used to do those voiceovers for a living*. Apparently there is a very fine line with those 'fake' famous voices. They have to make them different enough to be recognisable but not a spot-on impression, even if the voiceover artist is a super-talented mimic who could nail the voice perfectly - to keep out of legal hot water. I find it odd that you have rights over the way your voice sounds if it's well enough known (what if someone sounds precisely like you by chance?) but there you go.
*it may have been Steve Coogan or the rarely-entertaining Rob Brydon
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 8:28,
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Rob BrydonDid this in interview or on an 'improptu' bit on one of those comedy quiz panel things.
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@><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 11:58,
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I heard thatHe is the guy in the More Than ads, y'know 'I'm Morethan Freeman'. The reason that he could do that voice over is that he clearly isn't Morgan Freeman, being a white chap.
However there is no law to say that you can't impersonate someone in an advert. The problem is it sounds like the said famous person is giving their approval to that product or company.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 10 Oct 2012, 22:37,
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