Tom Kenny

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My Third V/A Focus is on Tom Kenny. You Probably Know him as the guy who Does Spongebob. Well Any Way he was raised in East Syracuse, New York, where he later attended Catholic School. Tom Kenny was always fascinated with comic books and animated programs, which he read and watched on a constant basis, which permitted him to know more about the two subjects than anyone in his neighborhood. Tom Kenny idolized Bob Clampett and he did everything he could to learn as much as possible about animation; though Tom never imitated the voices of animated characters, as he preferred to create his own voices.

Tom Kenny began his entertainment career as a stand-up comedian in Boston, though he later went to San Francisco where he continued to perform stand-up comedy. However, he still credited his comedy career to the legends in animation, such as Tex Avery, rather than other comedians in the field. Tom didn’t initially plan to provide voices for a living, though one night when he was performing his comedy routine, there were some executives from Nickelodeon and Hanna-Barbera in the audience, who approached him with an offer to work with them, which changed his life forever.

Shows and Characters:

Brandy & Mr. Whiskers-Ed
Camp Lazlo- Scout Master Lumpus/Slinkman/Various Campers
CatDog-Dog/Cliff
Dexter's Laboratory-Voice of ValHallen
Dilbert-Ashok/Ratbert
Dragonball Z-Additional Voices (1996)
Dumb and Dumber-voice of Weenie
Ego from Mars-various
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends-Eduardo
Friday Night Videos-Himself
Godzilla: The Series-voice of N.I.G.E.L.
Immortal Grand Prix-Benjamin Bright
Johnnie Talk-Patchy the Pirate/Himself
Johnny Bravo-Carlos "Carl" Chryniszzswics (1999-2001)
Ken Berry's 'Wow' Show-Regular
Late Friday-Host
Mad Jack the Pirate-Unknown Character
Mission Hill-voices of Wally / Fechstein / Sasha / Griffo / Mr. Cresto / Nice Freak / additional voices
Mr. Show with Bob and David-Regular (Seasons 1-3), Featured (Season 4)
My Gym Partner's a Monkey-Jake Spider Monkey
Oh Yeah! Cartoons-Cat / King Edward / Additional Voices
Pecola-Gazelle
Pocket Dragon Adventures-Angelica
Rave Master-Griff
Rocko's Modern Life-Heffer Wolfe, Mr. Smitty, Peaches
SpongeBob SquarePants-SpongeBob SquarePants/Gary/Mr. SquarePants/Narrator/Various Others
Squirrel Boy-Leon
Stripperella-Various
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!-Gibson/Additional Voices
The Buzz on Maggie-Various Voices
The Cramp Twins-Wayne Cramp
The Edge-Various
The Mummy The Animated Series-Jonathan Carnahan
The Powerpuff Girls-The Narrator/The Mayor
Timon & Pumbaa-Crazy Baboon
U Pick Live-Patchy the Pirate
Xiaolin Showdown-Raimundo Pedrosa
 

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Nice... But... A small tip. You might want to give each character/show/entry it's own line, instead of one long sentence.
Example: Brandy and Mr. Whiskers: Ed.
Camp Lazlo: Algonquin C. Lumpus.

Hope this helps.
 

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I Didn't Want it to Come out that Way Sorry. But Luckily I Have Managed to change it right away so now it's all Oganized.
 

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I met him at a comic con several years back, but I had no idea how long his resume was. Very cool.
 

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Very nice. :smile:

Tom Kenny sure is one of the biggest names in animation voicing today. :smile: I remember watching an interview with him saying that his very first character was Heffer. Tom does lots of stuff for Nick and Cartoon Network.

Also Tom does voices for...

THE BATMAN: The Penguin
TEEN TITANS: The Amazing Mumbo Jumbo
XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN: Dashi, Hannibal Bean
 

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Yes... And don't forget Johnny Sunspot of the Sunriders from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
 

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Here's some more to add

Cow and Chicken/ I AM Weasle: various
Futurama: Robot Elder, Fry's Brother (can't remember his name)
Johnny Test: Dukey (show promo only)
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggly Winks: himself (live action segment)
Just Shoot Me: Perskey
 
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