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	DONNY & MARIE
	1999
Donny:	You are about to meet the man behind some of the greatest animated characters on TV today. He's the voice of Yakko on "Animaniacs"...
Marie:	Yes.
Donny:	...Mr. Smartypants on "Histeria!" and Pinky of "Pinky & The Brain."
Marie:	Ya' gotta love Pinky!
Donny:	That's right.
	(Audience applauds)
Donny:	All of which, by the way, can be seen on Kid's WB. Take a look at this...
	(Clip of Pinky & The Brain:)
Pinky:	...in a little house with a den, and pillow shands and wacky neighbours, just like all the happy families on TV!
	(Cut back to Donny & Marie. Audience applauds wildly)
Donny:	Okay. Please welcome... Rob Paulsen!
	(Rob enters, and waves, etc. Goes to Donny & Marie)
Rob:	How ya' doin'? Nice to see ya'...
	(A lot of this is drowned, as the audience is going a little crazy. <g>)
Donny:	I won't make ya' eat any crickets, don't worry about it!
Rob:	No, I, er... oh, by the way, before we begin... (To Marie:) congratulations on your news. That is just wonderful.
Marie:	Oh, thank you!
	(Audience applauds again)
Rob:	And thank you so much for contributing, yet *another* opportunity for me to sell action figures to uh...
	(Donny, Marie and audience laugh)
Rob:	...to a child. Help pay the, uh, mortgage on Acme Labs!
Donny:	That's right!
	(Yet more cheering... call me crazy, but I think Rob's popular. <eg>)
Donny:	How... how many voices do you do all together?
Rob:	You know... that's a good question. I... I don't exactly have a mental rolodex. I mean, it's really no big secret... once you, you know... (As Pinky:) You do Pinky like this... you've got this very strange voice...
	(Audience cheers)
Rob:	(Still as Pinky:)And, um... of course he has a bit of an accent... (Pinky's voice adopts an American tinge to it:) but if you lose the accent, you can still talk like this, and all of a sudden you've got another voice. So, you just, you know... you've got two more voices happening.
Donny:	Right.
Rob:	(Again, kind of drowned, as everyone's cheering again. But, Rob adopts yet another varied voice:) Or you can make something up.
Marie:	Did you.. did you try (Marie starts laughing, and the audience cheers even louder. Rob gives a gracious recognition to those going crazy. :)) Did you try, when you went in for the audition... say for Pinky...
Rob:	Yeah.
Marie:	...did you try lots of different voices, before they settled on that one?
Rob:	Well, there... actually, there were a couple. It was pretty much a done deal that Maurice LaMarche... (To audience:) The fella that does the Brain... is amazingly talented... (To Donny & Marie:) And they pretty much knew he was gonna do that, because he does this incredible Orson Wells, kind of, knock-off thing. (Marie laughs) ...And it was really, um... I looked at it, and I thought, "well, let's see... he looks pretty stupid, I can handle that." (Everyone laughs) He's got an (illustrates the overbite (!)) overbite... and I'm a big fan of Peter Sellers and the Pythons...
Marie:	Oh, yeah.
Donny:	I love Peter Sellers.
Rob:	(gradually becoming Pinky again:) I stole a lot of stuff from them, and Mr. Spielberg and his *infinite* wisdom decided to give me a job.
	(Audience goes crazy again, and Rob seems very gracious about the whole thing)
Marie:	What was the very... what was the very first voice that you ever did?
Rob:	The first voice I ever did would probably be mine, and I... (smiles)
Marie:	Ah! There ya' go!
Donny:	Ba-da boom, tsh!
Rob:	I know, I'm sorry... and my wife's out there, rolling her eyes at this very moment. Ah... you know, the first big job that I did... I was Raphael for nine years as... I'm a Ninja Turtle.
Marie:	You're kidding!
	(The audience screams)
Donny:	I didn't know that!
Rob:	Yes.
Donny:	I had no idea.
Rob:	Yes... I would say things like, (as Raphael:) "Shredder, you tin-faced geek, get back here and taste cold turtle steel!"
	(The audience, and Donny & Marie crack up... and Rob gets this fantastic look on his face when he does the voice! <g>)
Donny:	That's fantastic! I had no idea!
Rob:	Yeah, I was a Ninja Turtle.. I er, I also get to be... I get to do an animated version of The Mask, in which I get to be Jim Carrey for a whole lot less cake.
	(Everyone starts laughing again)
Donny:	Can ya' do a little bit of that for us?
Rob:	I do... I pretty much say, uh, you know, I can do the quintessential, (as The Mask:) "Somebody stop me!" and (as The Mask again:) "Smokin'!"
	(Audience goes nuts again)
Marie:	Where do you come up with - (She has to stop, as the audience are still cheering wildly) ...Where do you come up with all these voices?
Rob:	You know, it's, um... it's like any other acting job, I mean, it really is. You have an agent that sends you - instead of doing on-camera stuff... which I've done a fair amount two years ago, but you know, there are a million average-looking white guys with SAG cards in L.A...
Donny:	Uh-huh.
Marie:	Oh... (laughs)
Rob:	...and, um... and so to get an opportunity to do things that aren't just based on this... (gestures to his face)... Unless you're a regular on a series, or a celebrity... the opportunity to do things every day doesn't always present itself. So, the great thing about cartoon stuff is you depend a little more on... you know, bringing something to the party, and uh, being a little more creative...
Marie:	Yeah.
Rob:	...and, uh... you're not typed so much. But, uh... it just... man! It beats the heck outta workin'! It's a great deal... yeah.
	(Everyone laughs again, and there're a couple of screams from the audience)
Donny:	Do us a favour...
Rob:	Yeah!
Donny:	Uh.. as... as Pinky...
Rob:	(as Pinky:) As Pinky!
Donny:	(Tries to imitate Rob's voice:) As Pinky!
Rob:	(As Yakko:) Not Yakko?
Donny:	(Still trying to do his odd Pinky voice:) No, not Yakko...
Rob:	(As Yakko:) Okay... not Yakko...
	(Marie cracks up at the voice)
Donny:	...take us to commercial.
Rob:	Oh, sure! Are we... are we this one? (gestures to the camera)
Donny:	Camera four. Take us to commercial, right there.
Rob:	(As Pinky:) Oh, you know what! Donny and Marie, and um... whomever else is here will be right back after this! Narf!
	(The audience goes crazy, Rob waves to someone in the audience: Parrish (possibly?), and Donny calls Rob's attention to chat to him, as the music and the cheering drowns everything else out.)
	The End
	"Congratulations..." "Make something up..." "Raphael..." "Beats the heck outta workin'..."
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