Voice over man

[V8covin]

John Thomson always cracks me up,got to be the best voice over man/woman around.

Currently doing Bargain loving Brits in Blackpool ch5

Edited by V8covin on Friday 24th November 08:23

[Laurel Green]

Don't know that I've heard the chap - must say I do like Dave Lamb of Come Dine With Me though.

[droopsnoot]

On the other hand, I was watching a programme about an ancient city being surveyed by archaeologists off the coast of Greece the other day, really interesting but I just didn't think Philip Glenister was really the right person to voice it. He'd dialled down the Gene Hunt quite well, but not completely.

[Halb]

Laurel Green said:

Don't know that I've heard the chap - must say I do like Dave Lamb of Come Dine With Me though.

Yarp, he is King of tatty ones for me, he should do Coach Trip as well.

Docs are tricky, David Attenborough is king of the sedate engaging voice, and the Beeb have very few (I now cannot think of any) voices to replace him. Fry is awful.

[cuprabob]

I think David Tennant is pretty good at voice-overs.

[Halb]

I like the Scottish bloke from Coast

[cuprabob]

Halb said:

I like the Scottish bloke from Coast

Neil Oliver?

[Jonesy23]

At least voice over people tend to be professionals who know what they're doing.

Compared and contrast with Channel 4 using continuity announcers who are utterly unintelligible because they've got their favourite disabled bloke, northerner or whatever having a go to crank up their diversity quota. Hint: it might give you a warm feeling to have someone who can't speak properly because of a huge facial deformity doing the job (though like pissing in your wetsuit no one else experiences the warmth because *they can't see the guy*), but their mumbling ruins it for all those other disabled people who rely on trying to understand what was said.

Rant over.

[Johnspex]

Neil Oliver? Brilliant. I could listen to him read the phone book and I'm a firm believer in the saying 'what do you find if you lift up a pony tail? A horse's arse.'

[DJFish]

Pal of mine is married to a voice over artist (Capital fm/Baftas etc), by all accounts she makes a very good living from it and works mainly from home in a converted broom closet.

Personally I like the bloke from Come Dine With Me, very droll!

[Halb]

cuprabob said:

Neil Oliver?

That's him! Great voice and locks!

[Armitage.Shanks]

Who was the guy that used to do The price is Right? Is he the same one who announces X-factor?

[227bhp]

The chap that does Robot Wars is good, oddly enough he sounds like Craig Charles who IIRC he took over from and was also great at it.

[oceanview]

Halb said:

cuprabob said:

Neil Oliver?

That's him! Great voice and locks!

Hope he starts losing his hair- you just know he would be doubly devastated!!

[texaxile]

anyone remember the "Steve Wright in the Afternoon" character "Voiceover man"?. bloody funny.

[cuprabob]

texaxile said:

anyone remember the "Steve Wright in the Afternoon" character "Voiceover man"?. bloody funny.

That's the first time I've seen "Steve Wright" and "funny" in the same sentence

[Halb]

cuprabob said:

That's the first time I've seen "Steve Wright" and "funny" in the same sentence

Oh I always thought he was rather amusing.
https://youtu.be/Z9ciHpT4WuM

[cuprabob]

Halb said:

Oh I always thought he was rather amusing.
https://youtu.be/Z9ciHpT4WuM

He's not funny either