I’ve done that voice many, many times. Also, “two dollars!”

Stoned SoCal is my favorite.

The Arab on Radar voice is a popular voice for drunken parties.

I used to lapse into scouse when drunk, for some reason (I have only ever spent 1 day in Liverpool).

We've been known to affect the right wing talk show voice.

BTW, everyone should try singing the chorus to Talking Heads' "Burnin' Down the House" this way at least once in life. It's very refreshing. BARNEEN DOOON THA HOOOOSE!

best voice evah? (I think we should make a list/thread of the best comical voices.)

Have been doing it since I was a little child, one of my favs. My mom got quite a kick out of hearing Jack Black refer to this as "inward singing" on the Tenacious D album. Yes, my mom listens to Tenacious D.

Bill Macy in Fargo. Hell, all of Fargo.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!

I think this is funny, mostly in that 99% of today's "country" singers do NOT have that "twang" that is generally associated with "country" music whatsoever.

Actually that twang seems to be the one of the only salient features of contemporary country that actually signifies "country."

i use stupid voices all the time, but i've found that it's best to limit it to conversations with friends, as other people end up thinking i'm veeery strange.

great mental image of your mental processes

And when I was little my sister and I would invent personalities and name for ourselves when in public and that would normally involve a silly put-on British or French accent.

Terry : " ere mum, you gotta pony wot you can lend me"
Mrs. B :" gaw on son, ver's sumfink for yer in the coronation mug. you're a good boy terrence and good to yer old mum"

We've been working on this routine for 20 years or more and it's still crap, but *we* like it.

Mrs. Dr.C is absolutely fantastic at accents and dialects and is liable to lapse into one at any time. She switches between them at beakneck speed which makes it a struggle to keep up with the conversation. She does do it for a living though, so I suppose she ought to be good. Current favourites - jewish NYC housewife, Edith Piaf at home, restoration comedy heroine, Edwardian lady of leisure, cockney charlady, yorkshire farmer's wife.

I said guv because *mentally* I was still being 'Terry'.

Accounts gurl - she uses a sort of exaggerated Beryl Reid cockney to speak to friends. "Oo my LIFE sweetie,'e should've gorn an fixed your wawtah 'eater before the wintah." Her normal voice is nothing like this.

The Boss - barks instructions to his wife about domestic matters, always emphasising the first word of a phrase. "PHONE the insurance company. TELL them I'm too bloody busy. GET them to write to the other driver. LOVE you." Wanker.

My office-mate, an otherwise decent bloke, speaks to his wife in a sort of sing-song baby talk which makes me cringe.

We also have jack-the-lad who talks to everyone in a VERY LOUD, VERY ENTHUSIASTIC BELLOW " NICE ONE! NICE ONE MATE! NICE ONE! SOLID! YEAH! OH SOR-TED MATE! SOR-TED! WICKED! NICE ONE!"

"Puny Humans - do you think you can stand before my power? Such futility - it is touching, yet you will be destroyed like all the others. Mortal FOOLS! Did they think..." (etc)

mew mew mew mew... MEW

"pika pi"

I also forgot about the person in our office who has bizzare fragmented phone conversations where he seems to be talking across the other person all the time : " Yes, Sat-, yes, it's Satur-, no only me, Satur-, no, on the tube, so Satur-, yes if you like..." etc.

wait...

obviously a joke

Me and one of my best friends often lapse into all kinds of silly voices - he does an exaggerated bogan petrol sniffing street kid voice for some godunknown reason ("ey moit, gonna roid in moi schweet toranna moiiit?" etc) , and we're both doing the homie "yo, werd mofo" thing a lot. I suppose its one of those affectionate "I am comfy around you so I can be silly" things.

I've lost my voice at the moment, and every time that happens, I lapse into Cartman voices, running around screeching "GAD DAMMIT! BAD KITTEH!" at everything, because it sounds SO much like Eric Cartman it is scary.

I knew a guy whose voice would go from straight clean Aussie into an unintelligible Glasgow drawl every time he got stoned. Another friend of mine absorbs accents of everyone around him, so I can always tell when he's talking to his mom, cause his philipino accent kicks in and he sounds vaguely american (and he calls her mom instead of mum).

In high school me and my best friend used to pretend we were Scottish, and/or talk like the pepperpot ladies from Monty Python.

I love doing silly voices :)

beavis and butthead (yeah, i know) -- vinnie from brooklyn -- long island yenta -- kommandant schultz -- j-lo nuyorican (this is a new one, and it took LOTS of practice) -- paternal grandma's polish accent -- dad's pennsylvania-polack accent -- maternal grandma's english accent (geography indeterminate)

i'm told that i used to do pretty good Mick Jagger, Dieter from Sprockets, and rastaman-stoned-outta-his-mind-mon impersonation

I've done it since I can remember.

My little brother and I used to play an imaginary game at the basketball goal in the driveway full of funny voices and characters.

We called it Retard Basketball.

I liked the Bucktoothedwhistler.

My goodness!

In that case Jack the Lad's latest from this morning : "OH MATE! OH MATE! SWEET! SWEE-EET! YOU'RE THE GEEZER, MATE, YOU'RE THE GEEZER! NICE ONE!"

As for me...I can do silly voices, but they all seem to be my own.

We've had "I'm just a wictim in all of this".

And as I type : "I said - Sweet'eart, it's a WERY long way to go to pick up a rabbit 'utch"

(ie actually the same identical sound exactly between the two but those who strain to distinguish invariably hear one as the other, whichever it is)

It's a damn shame he's off in the Far East.

I also do an East Tennessee Winkle-Picker voice, pitched as high as I can make it, very querulous. I always order food in a slurred Elvis voice..."yougonnafinishthatsandwich?"

In addition I have a very effective Black '60s Radical voice that usually starts off by my saying "You white motha-fuckers!!" very loudly.

I do voices.

" Oi! I'm not going on a bladdy BAS, I'm going on a COWCH!"

"Oooo darlin' you NEVER! That's TARTY! that's SLATTY, that is!"

"I said look sweet'eart, I ain't owganized this mornin'. Awlroight?"

But it's a really fun accent to affect when you're drunk as piss.

"I tweat 'im like woyalty. WOYALTY! And he calls 'imself 'ard done by"

YOU'RE THE GEEZER, MATE, YOU'RE THE GEE-ZER! NICE ONE!

Update from here. Jack the Lad has left the company now - I miss him. Beryl still here - I will have a listen out for her this morning, she sits quite near me.

A New addition is MBA boy, who talks like a marketing textbook but manages to be very camp at the same time.

I'll be back.

Beryl on the phone : "ee's SO 'igh 'anded! I said next time wemember 'oo you're speaking too"

and

"I said give 'im a chance, Patwick! He's a willin' enough kid."

Then I just met Beryl in the canteen : "OOOOO PWECIOUS!! Wot 'AVE you dun to your eye? Ave you been playin' wugby again?" (Note: I have a black eye, from playing wugby).

(I still do FREEEEEEHHHHHNND voice, in fact we have a new song where I have to *sing* in FREEEEEEEEHHHHHHHNNND voice. It's quite hard to come out of it when it's done. Sounds a bit like Prince.)

"Gwaham's not in, he's gorn off for an afternoon of gentleman's pleasures so he sez. Dwinkin' the whole of London dwy I should suppose".

Earlier to friend from next office :

" It's not in bed it bovvers me, love. It's when I'm just sittin'"

I just looked upthread see that I mentioned "The Boss" - he's gone too thankfully. My wife is still doing many many voices - Edith Piaf is a current favourite of hers, along with breathy 1920's flapper.

Lara complaining about someone not believing she is Irish reminds me that I was in the pub the other night and some bloke bumped my arm and all I said was "sorry mate" and he immediately started on about what a lovely part of the world Ireland was, where was I from, he spent many a lovely summer in Donegal etc. The more I spoke to him, exaggerating my Inverness accent for effect, the more insistent he was that there was no way I was Scottish and I must be Irish. "you're drinking Guinness and everything!", like that was the clincher.

I can do a good ned voice (as in tracksuit-wearing, street-corner-loitering, buckfast-swilling ne'er-do-well, not as in Raggett). I do this a lot, mostly with one of my other mates in imitation of a third acquaintance of ours and the disreputable crowd he has fallen in with.

You just sort of purse your lips and talk thru your nose

*collapses into pool of el-dorado-flavoured vomit*

You do know I'll be calling her Bulgarina in my head from now on... I am bad. Her actual name however has GREAT pronunciation but I aint gonner post it nyer.

"This band is HORRIBLE. Their manner of dress is ATROCIOUS."
"Byron Leftwich on THE SIDELINE."

(dada, I'm not saying you're a lame observational comedian, btw. it just seems geniusly obvious and i can't believe i've never heard it before as it sounds like the sort of thing that should have been flogged to death after someone once noticed it)

I like to talk like the "Famous Historian" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

-- Jon Williams (x...), March 4th, 2003 1:35 AM. (ex machina) (link)

and lol @ beryl

" I'm in accahnts, babe, not shippin'... 'ow big's the package sweetie? By tomorrer? I couldn't say darlin', it's not like I'll be takin' it meself, is it?"

"DEREK! - send me 'ome, darlin'! I aint fit for work today!"

My Action Man voice was a slightly beefed up Johnny Bravo. I chatted the wife up with it once and made her blush :)

I can also do Milo from Tweenies and Shammy Shquirrel (bashically a shqueakier Milo with a Shir Shon Shpeech impediment).

Ned voices are easy, as I'm not that far away from being one. I've even been known to sup the odd Buckie.

I occasionally find myself slipping into Big Man from Chewin' The Fat voice.

It could be worse, we could be contemplating drinking Mad Dog.

(I bow to you pair, the masters of this kind of stuff though. The fact that Onimo keeps the stuff in his drinks cupboard = instant fear)

I haven't bought a bottle of eldo since I was about 22 or thereabouts, I think. We used to neck bottles of it on the Kilcreggan-Gourock boat coming back from work. I know of people who mix it with Irn Bru :-/

I think Sanatogen wine is a Buckfast clone.

(just now, to me) : "Tweacle, me an' Tina's goin' to Starbucks - want a fwapuchino or somethink?"

One of my bestest friends does this quite a lot. I think that's what first drew me to her: the fact she could make me so insanely happy when quoting from the Holy Grail and Monty Python.

My dad and I would go on for hours doing that banana sketch.

"I can't hear you because I've got a BANANA STUCK IN MY EAR."

I feel extremely silly when thinking how this would go on and on and on and on with my mother, understandably, rolling her eyes.

This always makes me think of GNARKILL VOICE, which, unfortunately, I don't have the stamina/resonance to perform.

" Oi! I'm not going on a bladdy BAS, I'm going on a COWCH!"

-- Dr. C (Daveatcrossdee...), March 19th, 2003 11:53 PM.

this is one of my favourites, what is the distinction?

a BAS is wot you go to work on. A COWCH is wot you go on holiday on, innit?

Just now - "Sweetie - I'm thinkin' abaht comin' to that thing tomorrer night. Just thinkin' abaht it, mind"

Any updates, Dr. C? Has anything changed since seeing her in the pub on Chistmas eve?

Oh alright not really...

It's all quiet. She has been away from her desk most of the day today, but she had a fearsome row with someone yesterday apparently. I wasn't in, so missed it. I will keep a look out for her.

I've been having fun making up crap folk songs while I cook. "Oh oh chorizo, chorizo-oh my darling/ and add it to my saucepan fair... etc etc"

What does choosing to put on voices a lot say psychologically, if anything, about someone? Not impersonations or anything. Just that they regularly slip into another voice, saying things at one remove, in quotes almost. I think it can be quite frustrating to deal with, but I am very fond of some of the people who do it.

I do this, probably more than I realize, in regular conversation. Sometimes I'll deliberately affect a lilting 'gay' voice if I happen to be discussing pop culture and celebrity and fashion and such, but I tend to put on my dumb meathead 'townie' voice if I'm talking about idiots and cars or sports or whatever. For what that's worth. I imitate people a lot, but not to their faces.

there's this one really over-earnest-but-clueless voice that my friends and I do a lot, especially when the topic of politics comes up. actually I do a lot of funny voices (conversations with my sister are the worst, we end up doing the most ridiculous voices and just totally cracking each other up) but for the most part they are not accents chosen for their preexisting significance but for their sonic characteristics (does this make sense?)

Certain people (mainly female) in my group of friends often talk in American accents.

And some of the bros often talk like the "classically trained actor" dude from Monkey Dust.
Total lolz. "oi, mate" etc.

..total lolz until it's completely driven into the ground and no longer funny.
We do that with most funny things though.

yeah i do this prob more than i realize too - not imitations though really, just dif voices - my brother and i both do this one that's basically: make your eyes big and vacant, cock yr head to the side, open yr mouth a bit and say 'oouuhh? aaah'
i think it must be a simpsons thing from a long time ago. my brother manages to do it far more sarcastically than i do.

oof I am guilty of doing a lot of Simpsons voices. mostly Homer and Mr. Burns

also Zoidberg

whingy Cartman voice here. And Carl from Aqua Teen.

And some of the bros often talk like the "classically trained actor" dude from Monkey Dust.
Total lolz. "oi, mate" etc.

haha, I do this too! "Oi Keown. I could do better than you. You're a pubic-headed rubbish fucker." "You. Are going home. In. An ambulance." and best of all "Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh yes..."

My favourite assumed voices, however, are cod-Russian and Vivian Stanshall-as-Sir-Henry-Rawlinson. Both unbeatably entertaining.

Cartman I also do, amusingly enough. Mostly to say "Weeeeeak!"