SETH MACFARLANE Does FAMILY GUY & KERMIT The Frog Voices - The Graham Norton Show on BBC AMERICA

because when you were directing yourself said how hard was it as an actor not to do voices because that is kind of your life yeah I mean it was it was it was it was less of a leap than I was then I feared it would be you know they're doing Family Guy I had gotten into the into the habit of being able to record a line and then go into the booth and listen to it and switch off my brain and kind of feel like I was listen I'm listening to somebody else yeah and that did kick in pretty early on into the process where I was able to run into video village and look at the you know look at the footage and see if I was doing doing it let me take over just like how many can you do you know just enough to avoid being myself the characters you do you do Peter Brian Stewie quagmire and then a smattering of others okay and are they all based on people or you just there they come from various places Peter I knew a thousand Peter Griffin's growing up in New England guys who would not think before they spoke like there were no self editing mechanism everything it's coming out here with no gateway and Stewie is is based on your own Rex Harrison was a big fan of wow where's quagmire from that can't be a perfect quagmire if it is he's not happy no he's a bad egg he hit quagmire when I was a kid my father used to buy me old radio dramas from the 40s and 50s so I would listen to these things and the commercials were intact you hear these old commercials you know all the like brand sparkplugs the only sparkplug for you and like everyone had this high pitched voice which I guess the mics were more sensitive to the mid-range voice at that time and they all sounded like quagmire and so that kind of stuck with me and when I was coming up with a voice for him that he began as a as a as an impression of 1950s admin and when you're doing because you know those characters are in scenes together yeah do you do one line after the other do you all do all one and then go back to the other one when I do a table read yeah I have to jump back and forth right hey how much going on hello that man doing away [Laughter] [Applause] but then sometimes you do them separately yet when I when I record the shows I kind of literally do it one line at a time just to just to make sure that I but that's not really because of the voices it's just because you have to be naked completely naked for Brian completely the essence of yourself yeah completely emotionally and physically nude you think these people accept you as one of their own but they do some cool whip but like why are you saying like that what am I think cool quip you're saying cool clip yes I think cool quits on the Aged cool quip I think who quit cool say whip whip it's all recycled vaudeville humor not the only person on the couch who does who does voices because we've heard releases Bach the asada fiend coke I'm sampling it it's gonna be my ringtone but no Emily Blunt I heard you earlier you do do at ECW come on goat noise do you wanna do one line at all what time should I do I don't know I feel the need the need for speed [Laughter] [Applause] how'd you down with that you do Donald Duck yeah do you do it okay now it's your turn adorable that's gonna be my text message alert and Mike my last bit of getting a stick and poking Seth is I don't know what that means - Liam Neeson Liam Neeson in a million ways to the West so did you ever do your takin your version of the taken phone call for him our version on Family Guy was Kermit the Frog doing doing tape I'm not gonna be all remember the speech I don't have any money [Laughter] [Applause] I do have a very specific set of skills make me a nightmare for somebody like you if you don't let the girl go I will track you down all right we'll find you [Applause] [Music] see America

Channel: BBC America

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Rating: 4.9293227 out of 5

Keywords: The Graham Norton Show, Graham Norton, Series 15, Season 15, talk show, red couch, red chair, celebrity, chat show, BBC America, BBC, BBCA, BBC One, Hollywood, television, funny, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Edge of Tomorrow, Movie, Blockbuster, Summer, Charlize Theron, Seth Macfarlane, Family Guy, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Coldplay, Ted, American Dad!, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Peter Griffin, Voices, Daffy Duck, Glenn Quagmire, Impersonate, Perform, Voice, Impression

Id: IxnePg0J9zM

Length: 6min 27sec (387 seconds)

Published: Sat May 31 2014