Who's the worst voice in movies? (or TV)

[Kat45]

It might be an overall annoying voice that grates on everyone's nerves. Might even be a voice that annoys you for some reason, but may not be generally annoying to others.

I'd say Fran Drescher is one overall grating voice. Rosie Perez also annoys a lot of people.

For some reason, I don't know why, Tom Bosley's voice annoys the crap out of me.

I'm sure you all can come up with a lot more.

[stopbush]

1. Tom Brokaw & Kewin Kostner

one can't get over his tongue and the other is a whiner.

[muchacho]

2. Urkle

bar none.

[Kat45]

4. Oh yeah, I forgot about Urkle.

His voice is real bad.

[TNDemo]

3. Bobcat Goldthwaite.

Nails on a chalkboard.

[ReadTomPaine]

7. Did he ever drop that voice schtick?

Steve Martin almost ruined his career by refusing to change his routine, alot of comics lose relevance that way.

[geniph]

8. Oh, you beat me to it!

that voice makes me want to puncture my eardrums with roofing nails so I NEVER have to hear it again!

[newyawker99]

41. Congrats TNDemo!! 600 posts

:toast:

[PunkinPi]

5. i agree

- Fran Drescher, Rosie Perez
also,

- Rosanne Barr
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

and on the political circuits

- Terry Jefferies (Human Events) - I want to run and scream everytime I hear him on my TV. AHHHHHHHHH!

[geniph]

9. I forgot Rosie Perez

I love Rosie - she's just as cute as a bug's ear - but that VOICE - UGH!

from Singing in the Rain:

"It's my VOICE, isn't it?" (everyone within earshot cringes in pain)

[Blue-Jay]

6. Harvey Firestein

I love the guy, but listening to him almost makes me want to stop smoking.

[BurtWorm]

22. If you saw him in "Hairspray"

you'd be amazed at what an instrument that voice is. And, man, can he play it!

[CBHagman]

10. Michael Barone

He gets points for meanness, though. :puke:

[thermodynamic]

11. Fran Drescher

That's not to say I don't like her voice, I love it - and all the people who parody it too! :D

[nini]

12. Victor on 'Young and The Restless"

drives me f'ing nuts because he talks so low - you can't hear him.

[Chicklet]

16. I love how Jack calls him "Mumbles"

[Throckmorton]

45. So much for the Forbin Project

This is the Voice of Colossus!!!

[Kat45]

13. Ray Romano's whiny voice is so annoying.

I can't believe I almost forgot about him.

[zekeson]

14. Andie MacDowell

Horrible, flat, kinda western accent. Maybe its just bad acting, but... Anyway, so bad that when she starred in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, they had to dub her voice. \
4 weddings and a funeral
Groundhog's Day
Sex, Lies, Videotape
all movies that were less due to her involvement and whiney voice.

Of course, there is Urkel...

[newyawker99]

42. Congrats zekeson!! 600 posts

:toast:

[Bossy Monkey]

15. Joy Behar, Joan Rivers

possibly the same person

[Benevolent_Rabbit]

17. OK - need help with this one

She was (to me) beautiful and has been in a couple noteworthy movies and played the part in the old show TAXI of the polish guys girlfriend/wife. Andy Kaufman's wife in the show. Why can't I remember her name?

[Chicklet]

18. Carol Kane?

[Benevolent_Rabbit]

20. Yea!!!!

Thanks ! That was driving me nutso.

[Pert_UK]

19. That stupid ***** from Chasing Amy.....

I can't even be bothered to look her name up, but she annoyed the living piss out of me.

P.

[tjdee]

36. I HATE wittle girl voices on women! ARGH!

Nothing against that actress (is it Joey Lauren Adams?), but right around the time that Chasing Amy came out, there was this prickly rash of wittle girl voices everywhere. Jewel, Rene Zellweger...those two plus the Chasing Amy girl all looked like each other as well, it made me crazy.

People can't help their voices I guess (actually, mostly they can)--but ugh those voices!

[SPICYHOT]

38. I hope then you

don't see any sexy japanese movie, cause there are voices like that a lot

[smirkymonkey]

46. Ugh, yes Joey Lauren Adams!

Her voice drove me insane...I refuse to ever see another film with her in it. Also, Rosie Perez and Andie McDowell. For the guys, it would be Chris Matthews and Shrub (make my skin crawl) I know they aren't really in the same category, but I had to get it off my chest.

[Jim Sagle]

21. Chris Matthews.

And his foaming at the mouth doesn't help much.

[mitchum]

23. Ray Romano and Rosie Perez are annoying as hell

I also think that Anthony Hopkins' voice is just too ridiculously plummy

[Capn Sunshine]

24. Joe Lieberman

[Benevolent_Rabbit]

26. weeelllll

gggrrraaavvveeeelll sssouuuunnndddsss gggoooddd to some.

I am Super Gravel Man!!!!!!!!! Fear my defence of Israel!!!!

(that'll get a response)

[newyawker99]

43. Congrats Capn Sunshine!! 500 posts

:toast:

[Spirochete]

25. Gilbert Gottfried

AFLAC! AFLAC!

[JackSwift]

31. Geez yeah

how did it take so long to come up with this one?

[AntiCoup2K4]

35. Actually, the AFLAC duck was his LEAST annoying performance

If Gilbert Gottfried was really a duck, I'd take up hunting as a sport.

[jus_the_facts]

27. Jay Leno....ranks way up there...

*gag*

[-..__...]

28. "This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I work here... I'm a cop."

Jack Webb


"It's awkward having a policeman around the house. Friends drop in, a man with a badge
answers the door, the temperature drops 20 degrees.

You throw a party and that badge gets in the way. All of a sudden there isn't a straight man
in the crowd. Everybody's a comedian. "Don't drink too much," somebody says, "or the man with
a badge'll run you in." Or "How's it going, Dick Tracy? How many jaywalkers did you pinch today?
" And then there's always the one who wants to know how many apples you stole.

All at once you lost your first name. You're a cop, a flatfoot, a bull, a dick, John Law.
You're the fuzz, the heat; you're poison, you're trouble, you're bad news. They call you
everything, but never a policeman.

It's not much of a life, unless you don't mind missing a Dodger game because the hotshot phone
rings. Unless you LIKE working Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, at a job that doesn't pay overtime.
Oh, the pay's adequate-- if you count pennies you can put your kid through college, but you better plan
on seeing Europe on your television set.

And then there's your first night on the beat. When you try to arrest a drunken prostitute in a
Main St. bar and she rips your new uniform to shreds. You'll buy another one-- out of your own
pocket.

And you're going to rub elbows with the elite-- pimps, addicts, thieves, bums, winos, girls who
can't keep an address and men who don't care. Liars, cheats, con men-- the class of Skid Row.

And the heartbreak-- underfed kids, beaten kids, molested kids, lost kids, crying kids, homeless kids,
hit-and-run kids, broken-arm kids, broken-leg kids, broken-head kids, sick kids, dying kids, dead kids.
The old people nobody wants-- the reliefers, the pensioners, the ones who
walk the street cold, and those who tried to keep warm and died in a $3 room with an unventilated gas heater.

You'll walk your beat and try to pick up the pieces. Do you have real adventure in your soul? You better have,
because you're gonna do time in a prowl car. Oh, it's going to be a thrill a minute when you get an unknown
trouble call and hit a backyard at 2 in the morning, never knowing who you'll meet-- a kid with a knife,
a pill-head with a gun, or two ex-cons with nothing to lose.

And you're going to have plenty of time to think. You'll draw duty in a lonely car, with nobody
to talk to but your radio.
Four years in uniform and you'll have the ability, the experience and maybe the desire to be a
detective. If you like to fly by the seat of your
pants, this is where you belong. For every crime that's committed, you've got 3 million suspects
to choose from. And most of the time, you'll have few facts and a lot of hunches. You'll run down
leads that dead-end on you. You'll work all-night stakeouts that could last a week. You'll
do leg work until you're sure you've talked to everybody in the state of California.

And paperwork? You'll write enough words in your lifetime to stock a library. You'll learn to live with
doubt, anxiety, frustration. Court decisions that tend to hinder rather than help you. Dorado, Morse,
Escobedo, Cahan. You'll learn to live with the District Attorney, testifying
in court, defense attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, judges, juries, witnesses.
And sometimes you're not going to be happy with the outcome.

But there's also this: there are over 5,000 men in this city, who know that being a policeman is an
endless, glamourless, thankless job that's
gotta be done.

I know it, too, and I'm damn glad to be one of them."

(sorry for the long quote, but it's such a classic)


Marlon Perkins (any of you old timers remember "Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom"?)

Georgette from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"

[Stephanie]

29. Wolfowitz

absolute worst - SO freaking PHONY

[stanwyck]

30. Newt has an irritating voice

Of course, I really don't like him. But he has a weird voice.

[Kenneth ken]

32. Joe Pesci n/t

[saoirse]

33. Dennis Miller

That whiny little creep has always annoyed the hell out of me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. Pat Summerall and/or John Madden

I just hated it when those guys teamed up on a Packer's game. One, I don't like their voices. Two, they always screwed up teams, names and numbers. GRRRRRR

[SPICYHOT]

37. Another vote for

Rosie Perez

[Rowdyboy]

39. OH MY GAWDDD....(Janice on Friends)

Maggie Wheeler's voice haunts me in my sleep...

[arwalden]

40. Harvey Fierstein Is Difficult To Listen To

(Sorry, Harv... you know it's true.)

[CO Liberal]

44. Oh.....My...... GAWD!!!!!

I vote for the actress who played the recurring role of Janice on "Friends".

[Snow]

47. Carrot-top

The man's (creature?) even supposedly a stand-up comic