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01:00:35 28.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton No, I didn’t to any voice work till about 10 years ago, and um, met some neighbors Scott and Drew, there like an old married couple, dear, dear friends of ours, Scott is a voice over Actor and Drew worked at the agency and I said, Dude, a lot of people have mentioned that to me maybe they thought I could do cartoon voices, I sure as hell cant sing, and I always thought it would be fun, also having a slew of kids I thought, you know, it would be fun to be able to do that, you know do character voices, so I went and took a meeting, had a really good first year, really good opportunities did Buzz Lightyear and Cronk that first year, and then so got the ball rolling, and I’ve been working pretty consistently in voice over more or less since then.
01:01:42 95.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Which is alarming, and that has happened, then it’s like I’m not doing enough on camera stuff, I need to be doing more on camera stuff, OC: Speaking of on camera stuff. Patrick: I mean this close, then I open my mouth, “Oh, I knew you were that guy!” uh, do I look like him?
01:02:05 118.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Now when you say, “Rules of Engagement” you’re referring to the hot new show. OC: Yes “Rules of Engagement” back for its 3rd season? Patrick: 3rd season, yes. OC: Talk about that character and what you bring to that role. Patrick: Um, it’s a lot of fun playing Jeff, I think you know, the writers, we have a great writing staff, and I think that they figure out a lot more what this guy is, rather than just a loafer, a groaner and a gripe’er, cause if that is just all that he is, that can get old fast, he obviously into his relationship with Audrey and you know it’s got to make sense that these two people are still going to make this work, you know 14, 15 years later, so, I like the fact that he’s a bit more complex, you know, which you might just see, you know, your immediate take on him might be, I think the whole show has gotten sharper, it’s better written now, and um, the writers are really figuring out you know, what works and what doesn’t with this show, it feels even better this year.
01:03:56 229.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton I am the glue, uh, uh, well I don’t know about that, I, I, I appreciate that thank you, I’m not sure, OC: Well you and Audrey, Patrick: Well that’s right, you know there’s me and then there’s Audrey, it is a true ensemble you got um, Bianca, Jennifer’s character and Audrey, hanging and all of us guys, we all just, it’s just interesting when you have 5 really, really, fantastic characters that, it’s fun to but them in different situations, let’s throw these two together, let’s throw these two together, or these three, the dynamic always changes, because each character is pretty specifically, who they are you know, and um pretty well defined, so, it did seem pretty simple on paper, you got the older married couple the one that’s been around the block a few times, you’ve got the newly engaged, very optimistic love birds and then you got the dirt bag, ok, I hate to refer to Dave’s character as the dirt bag, um, I guess, I don’t, oh, just to be him, just for a month, all right, not David, Russell, I confuse the two, so, um, it’s you know, um, it’s um, when you put it, it all seems to work well, the mechanics of it.
01:06:00 353.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Joe likes, Joe yells a lot, got a lot of stored energy there, uh, and angst apparently, yeah, often time I think, I would love to do different stuff with Joe, Joe, you know, he serves his purpose you know, he’s not there that much, you know, I would like to do something, out side the box with Joe, Seth, just think outside the box, something a little different, um, but it’s all fun, um, you know sometimes I just wish that Seth would become a little bit more spiritual, you know, acting is a dark path he’s walking down I really do.
01:06:54 407.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Eh, I think they did do, didn’t they, OC: I mean for theatrical release. Patrick: For theatrical release? Not as of yet. But I’m sure that’s down the road. Just another thing for my Mother to get upset with me about.
01:07:18 431.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton OC: Tick? Patrick: A bug, insect, nasty, blood sucking, lovable, enigmatic, child like, sweet, enduring, eight legged, I was mixing the two up, a real tick and of course everybody’s cartoon favorite hero, The Tick, yeah that was a lot of fun. OC: I have a seen you wear that costume, first impressions putting that suite on. Patrick: Yeah, um, K-Y jelly, that’s what it took 2 tubes of K-Y to get into her, you refer to costume in the female, get into her, like boats, and planes they her’s, we have a motor home in real life and her name is Pammy, named after Pamela Anderson, we have a 39 foot Fleetwood Providence that we call Pammy, just to irate the wife, it bugs her, my father-in-law have always had a thing for Pammy, so, a motor home called Pammy, um, back to her, but I digress, um the costume was a bit cumbersome and tough to get on, but once you got it on, it stay there, for the next 12 hours, really hard to go potty, OC: I imagine you don’t drink a lot of coffee. Patrick: You see I’ve been around kids too long, I have to say potty, none of my four kids even say Potty no more, I don’t know why, that’s what I refer to it as, so, um, I didn’t drink a lot of coffee, when I was wearing the costume, not fun to wear, but you know what a great costume and definitely worth the discomfort.
01:09:28 561.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Putty, I don’t know like silly Putty, the mechanic putty, um, that was fun, brief, and that was a great experience, more than 10 years ago now, actually, 10 or 11 years ago, but I certainly have got putty a lot or The Tick that seems to be, that seems to be the thing that folks like to talk almost more than anything, The Tick, actually, because Seinfeld is always out there, but The Tick is one of those cult things.
01:10:28 621.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Well in the past, if there was something clever that really didn’t get a shot, it would just sort of maybe drift off into obscurity, in this day and age, you know, lots of things have a second life, you know, just because of you know all the different avenues of media, and um, if something you know, if there’s some merit to it and there’s some leg’s, then you know, it will have that opportunity, I always thought that The Tick, was brilliant and very clever and we had a great team, between Barry Sonnefield, Larry Charles, Ben Edlund the creator, so I was just thrilled with that opportunity that I got to step in those shoes for a little bit, The Tick will always be around, there will be more incarnations of The Tick, The Tick will survive like Superman, Batman, and there will be many other Actors have the good fortune to play The Tick, as I did, um, but um, it’s just one of those things that guys in the suites the networks didn’t get. See now we know 10 years later that they were wrong, I just want to rub it in their nose a little bit. (he mouths) you were wrong.
01:12:18 731.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Well “Rules of Engagement”, I mean if you, imagine the TV show “Dallas” and “Charmed” they got together and had a baby, it would be nothing like “Rules of Engagement” and I don’t know, why it was important for me to make the point, I’m just trying to say, if you can’t, if that doesn’t all spell it out for you, it’s um, it’s a four camera show, so I think it almost seems antiquatied at this point, cause there’s a lot more focus on the single camera shows, or half hour shows and its great, but I think there always be a place for the four camera show, sometimes you need to work on them a little bit to sharpen them up, make them a little smarter, I think that’s the path that we’ve been on, and fortunately, we have a great writing staff, although the show did well early on, numbers wise you know, it wasn’t as sharp as it couldn’t been and it’s a lot sharper now, so.
01:13:24 797.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton We got some great new additions, Adair, who plays Russell’s assistant is very funny and there’s Orlando Jones, you know, who’s my Gay friend who I didn’t know was Gay, everybody had to tell me he was Gay, Jeff can be a little clueless I guess, um, it’s fun, so the show has grown a bit, it’s got a little bit more breath,
01:14:10 843.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton I write most of my lines, OC: That’s the one line we’re going to keep out of this. Patrick: Yeah, I didn’t know we had writers on the show, I guess that changes everything, um, no, every now and then, we might throw something out, they keep about 10% of all my ideas, um, but every now and then you get inspired through your character, oh I should do or say this and it works, but for the most part that’s all in the hands of the writers.
01:14:55 888.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton It does a little but fortunately, everybody’s pretty well as I said defined their character, so, it’s easier for the writer’s to put us in situations together and I think that it feels, pardon me, since the writing, I would have to say, has gotten a bit more interesting, it’s easier for everybody, we need to figure things out on the acting side, they need to figure things out on the writing side and you do that in the off season, and you come back and you figure out through out the season and that’s how shows grows and gets sharper, smarter, I said sharper again, it’s the only adjective I know for a show getting better, sharper, um, OC: It’s good word though. Patrick: It is a good word, my day, used that word a lot, you look sharp. OC: (Talk) Patrick: That’s a sharp suite.
01:16:00 953.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Right, well I find that a lot of, um, you know a lot of folks think or under the misconception that everybody does voice over work together but you don’t, you’re always isolated in that booth, sometimes you have to wake your self up and give your self a slap in the face, because since it’s everything, it’s all coming, it’s just strictly your voice, if your tired, if it’s not just driving at all, it just doesn’t work as well you have to use your imagination and make it spunky, it’s different, you know, on camera stuff there’s so many different elements, it’s just isolated with voice over, to I prefer one over the other, naw, it’s great some days, when your doing a little voice over work, for an hour and you have the rest of the day for golf.
01:17:00 1013.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton A few more animated projects coming up this year a few more independent films that I know my agent wished I hadn’t done, and um, yeah you know, just keeping busy right now, mostly just doing, going to back to work on Family Guy, and The Venture Brothers and a couple of animated features and we’ll see how that all goes, but uh, just keeping some what busy, I got to get 4 kids through college so I cant get to crazy, we’re done shooting the show for the season so I do have a hiatus’ right now before the big European Warburton vacation. OC: Take lots of home videos Patrick: Oh yeah, put it all on youtube, I’m going to make as much off my family as I possibly can. OC: (Talk) Patrick: I’m going to tell the kids not to look at this as a vacation but as a big movie set. How horrible, nobody’s doing that today in society, using their children.
01:18:23 1096.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Rumors, I think he is a notoriously ladies man, did I just pronounce him one, I hope I’m not revealing something that was meant to be a secret, I think he does pretty well for himself. OC: He seems like a fun guy. Patrick: I’ve always been a fan of David’s, I love working with him and when I found out that, I was on the show before he was, they were going to bring David in, I was just thrilled, cause you know he’s always funny, and Russell’s a great character for him, and um, I think that the writers too have figured out how to better write for him, better write for everybody, but I think that was really evident this season, that they were figuring that out too.
01:19:30 1163.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton I play the idiot, a lot of times I’m always playing the dope or the idiot, cause its fun, cause now it’s Oliver Hudson’s job, Oliver was noticing this season that he feels like he’s getting stupider and stupider, and welcome to my world, yeah it’s you it’s you this time.
01:20:05 1198.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Really no, no, and Seth works really fast, so it’s not like I’m really working on, really working on 2 shows, Rules is a little bit more of time commitment than Family Guy, you know, these shows you go in it’s ten minutes, it’s ten minutes you’re in and out, that might be 3 episodes in ten minutes, Seth works very fast, he’s quit brilliant.
01:20:40 1233.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Um, if you read and it makes you laugh out loud you know that it’s funny, and um, it’s not always going to hit, I think that Family Guy it going to be a little bit hit and miss, cause it takes huge chances, more often times then not they hit it, but every now and then I think something is just going to fall flat, well you know it seemed funny on paper, um but um, you know in my participation of something like that is so minimal.
01:21:25 1278.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton An on the spot question like that, thank you for that, I have to go back in my memory banks, you know my memory banks go back about 2 to 3 days that’s about it, what’s the most embarrassing thing that happened to me in the last 2 to 3 days as an actor, um, um, honest to God. OC: (Talk) Patrick: There’s just a barrage of humiliating horrible instances I can’t even come up with one, um. OC: (Talk) wow this is going to be fun. Patrick: Oh, well wait a minute, an embarrassing situation; I had to run out of house naked, yes, yes, yes. OC: Back track and tell us the story there. Patrick: Yeah, it’s a little film called “The Civilization of Maxwell Bright” and um, it was pertinent the opening of this film there are two people that are in a knock out drag out, bare fisted, some what of a brawl, man and women, um apparently they were in the midst of a love making session and things went terribly wrong and they just come barreling out of the house, fighting in each others face naked out in the middle of the street, middle of suburbia, they are so incessant, they had forgotten that they’re naked, I’m sure this has probably happened some where before, um, so anyway, there was no skating it at first, you know, initial shot we were coming out, we are naked, OC: Is this on location in a real neighborhood? Patrick: On location, real neighborhood, and it was a November day and it was very cold, and um, of course you’re doing something like this, you are wondering, not only what’s Mom going to think but good Lord will the kids ever see this one day, and you know, I’ve always been very particular of what the kids see, I did a film with Tim Allen called “Joe Somebody” where I actually smack right across the face in front of his child, it’s a movie that even my 16 year old son Talon hasn’t even seen, I ask all of them not to see it, even though it’s a family movie, cause there is nothing uglier in my opinion than hitting a man in front of his child it really is pretty ugly, so um, “The Civilization of Maxwell Bright” is a movie I hope they don’t see until there 80, till I’m long gone, how about that, I’m proud of the film, it’s a gritty little art film, but um, yeah I had to get naked.
01:24:35 1468.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Freshman year, freshman year in Jr. College, in Orange County, I sort of realized mid way through the year that I wasn’t going to make the transfer to any worth while university, I wasn’t really getting the grades, I was borderline narcoleptic I was falling a sleep in class everyday, and um, I guess, that’s where, I was always intrigued by it, I was, you know, I grew up watching my mother do community theater, between that and watching Jerry Lewis movies, I thought that was something of an inspiration and that’s where I decided ok I’m not going to college, the college thing is not working out, you know, decided to seriously pursuit it that’s how I found my self getting involved early on, it was all about doing equity waiver theatre and commercials, print work here and there, I was a model I had a book with pictures the whole deal, I was horrible at the time. OC: Underwear? Patrick: Oh, sure I did a little bit of underwear modeling, yeah, yeah, you have to embrace the past.
01:26:01 1554.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Seinfeld definitely, I was working pretty steadily up to that point, I was doing a lot of guest spots on shows, but those can become, the night after they air, they go into obscurity, but when I got an opportunity to do an episode on Seinfeld, it was just one episode, um I was thrilled it was my favorite show, and um, it was just a great opportunity, fortunately the character, they brought me back a few times, and um, that helped open up other doors, at the same time you know, there’s always a blessing that occurs with everything, everybody wants to see you do the same thing again and then you become responsible as yourself, as an actor, if your going to keep doing the same thing, you know, you got to except it you know,
01:27:00 1613.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Johnny Johnson, yeah the evil Johnny Johnson, yeah that was a lot of fun I did about 6 episodes of uh that show News Radio but it was tough to be on that set. It was the year after Phil Harper died and they were trying to keep the show alive and we brought Jon Lovitz on and we did a few episodes and it was a great experience but tough to see what everybody was going through because of the tragic tragic circumstances of, but you know in back going back to and really doing you know working on characters that are outside and far removed from one that you did that everybody enjoyed, you can do things that um you know maybe there’s a similarity between the character you know I also have to focus on doing other things otherwise it’ll be hard to continue to find work so I’ve tried to diversify.
01:28:21 1694.73	Sound Bite: Patrick Warburton Yeah Puddy was more of a singular dimension, he was more of a caricature, you know. And then Jeff is a bit more multi-faceted but uh but um yeah.
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