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'Brickleberry' stars review new season
SOPHIA TEMPLIN
stemplin@kansan.com
"Brickleberry" is an animated series on Comedy Central that follows national park forest rangers' daily lives. The series was created by Roger Black and Waco O'Guint, and produced by Black, O'Guin and Daniel Tosh. The series recently premiered its second season on Sept. 3. The show received high ratings on the premiere of the new season and continues to surprise audiences with offensive content. In a phone press conference on Sept. 16, college media was able to talk to Tom Kenny, who is known for being the voice of SpongeBob, and Brickleberry's head ranger,
Woody, as well as Jerry Minor from Eastbound & Down and voices Denzel on Brickleberry.
Q: What is different about the second season of "Brickle-berry" compared to the first?
I: It looks better. I was talking to the creators and I don't know what they did with the animation but it does look brighter for some reason, there's one thing, I think there been a few little tweaks with the writing staff. So, I think they've just gotten better with it.
I: I think, you know, you find out how to build your machine both in terms of content and execution. Like Jerry said, when I saw the [new] episode, the animation looks, to me, remarkably better than it did the first season. I think you're just getting your paradigm down better. Also, I think, it's the second season, the show has done well, the season premiere did really well amongst its candid demographic. Everybody settles down and it allows you to make the show that it's supposed to be.
Q: When it comes to doing live action and TV, I know Tom.
you have done a lot of both, is there one you prefer over the other and if there is, why so?
T: Well you know, I started out in stand up and on camera stuff, and then I started doing voice-over. I very quickly realized I liked it better, it was more fun. I thought it was more suited to me, its personality and it also played to my skillset better. You could think of it as a batting average. I could go out and audition for voice-overs and book a much, much, much higher percentage than I ever did on camera where you're kind of a prisoner of what you look like.
Whereas in animation as long as you sound like all these different characters, you're physicality doesn't matter, nor does your age, you know, says the 51-year-old guy. I realized that for my personality, and in terms of career longevity, and in terms of having a functional life, if you don't care about being "famous," then animation is the place to be.
Q: What do you think your favorite moment, this season, is?
T: The episode that they showed at the premiere party was when Woody had his past career as a 70's/80's porn star. There's a scene in there where they go to a porn awards [show], like the Oscars, called Boney's, and the big statues on either side of the stage were very much like the Oscars statuettes, like for the Academy Awards, but with one very important addition. I just can't believe the stuff they were able to get through. Like, yeah man. There's more weiner per square inch in this episode than there has ever been on TV. I think that's a victory of sorts, you know?
Park. What do you think makes Brickleberry stand out from those types of show? What's different about it or what do you enjoy about it that other shows don't have?
Q: I've seen a lot of comparisons to Family Guy and South
J: I think both of those shows take pride in their thought about the subjects they're handling, and I think that this show does the opposite: it takes pride of its reckless handling of sex subjects.
T: Both Family Guy and South Park... have the fingerprints of the creators on them. Seth [McFarlane] definitely has his own point of view and way of looking at things and approach to comedy. Like it or not, or don't like it, it's been very, very successful, and the same with South Park. And I think Roger and Waco, the creators of this show, definitely have a comedic sensibility that is uniquely theirs that they came by very honestly. All those shows are different because the creators of all these shows are different.
The Family Guy sensibility is way different than the South Park sensibility. And they're all way different than the Brickleberry sensibility. But they're all three very strong, identifiable sensibilities.
Q: You've done all of these different shows and voice work, what do you do usually in warm-ups before you go record a voice track?
J: What you should do is take care of your voice, which means not smoking, trying not to get sick, and staying away from things that will give you allergies. This year I had some problems...
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I got sick this summer. And when I came back it was really tough. I forgot that you have to really take care of your voice on your down time.
and stuff, we're people-pleasing weirdos so you want to do a good job for the people who hired you so you'll go to the max, go to the wall, and crash through the wall to do what they want...
T: We all forget that, like Jerry,
I'm probably someone that should
have some sort of regimen or
routine and because I'm stupid,
I don't. But because we're actors
I'm on six or seven other series that I have to keep my voice in tune for... I've had to run to the cartoon voice doctor and he'll put a camera up my nose, down my throat and he's asked me, "Do you work every day?" And I go, "Yeah." And he goes, "Well, duh, if you go to the gym and just work one muscle every day for six hours a day, of course it's going to bust once in awhile." I kind of changed my ways a little bit, like Jerry did.
I try to get a decent amount of sleep, not drinking caffeine all day because it dries out your vocal chords, not eating late at night. There are probably things Jerry and I should be doing for our voices because I don't want to blow it out but it's an effort. You've got to keep your voice right for when you need it.
Q: How have your past acting
careers effected your presentation on Brickleberry?
J: It's a lot easier for me to get into a characterization that I probably couldn't do physically... It's a lot of fun.
T: Everything that you've done in the past in a way kind of goes in the blender when you're doing something like this. I think that having a background in stand up or sketch comedy where you get thrown in to playing these really broadly drawn characters that are broadly disposable...
You have to make a couple really strong decisions and commit to them, and I think that's very much put me in a good stead with voice acting. You just go to go in with what they're giving you, the drawing and the characters' description, and just go balls to the wall, pedal to the metal, go for it and hope they like it. And if not, oh well, I have another audition tomorrow.
Edited by Heather Nelson
NATIONAL
White House delays Latin music festival after Navy Yard shooting
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WASHINGTON - The White House decided late Monday to postpone the taping of a programcelebrating Latin music, citing a morning shooting at the Washington Navy Yard that left at least 12 people dead.
"In light of today's tragic events at the Washington Navy Yard and out of respect for the victims and their families, Musica Latina will be postponed to a new date," said the announcement about an hour and a half before President Barack Obama was to kick off the festivities in the White House East Room.
A new date for "Musica Latina: In Performance at the White House" was not immediately announced. Lisabia Trafonso, Federico Santos.
Gloria Estefan, Romeo Santos,
Other artists scheduled to perform were Ricky Martin, Price Royce, Arturo Sandoval, Raul Malo, Alejandro Sanz and Natalie Cole.
Lila Downs, Marco Antonio Solis, Natalie Cole and other musicians were to join Obama and Michelle Obama for a taping of the latest installment in the decades-old series. Coming at the start of the monthlong celebration of Hispanic heritage, the concert was to showcase the various styles of Latin music.
At a White House event earlier Monday, the first lady said the beats and melodies in Latin music are so irresistible that even the president would "shake his groove thing" Monday night. But the prospect of seeing Obama jiggle
nis hips grew increasingly unlikely as the death toll mounted and other events around town were postponed.
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At the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced that he was adjourning the Senate and postponing votes until Tuesday. The Washington Nationals baseball team also postponed its Monday night series opener against the Atlanta Braves and will now play a doubleheader on Tuesday.
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