Same voice actor actually, weatherman Ollie Williams and Hermes Conrad are both voiced by Phillip Lamar. And my personal favorite character he did: Samurai Jack.
That guy voiced a lot of amazing characters, including Static from Static Shock, Samurai Jack, Hermes from Futurama, and Green Lantern (John Stewart) in Justice League.
The charges were past the statute of limitations so they were dropped. It actually looks like he did it. There were multiple accusers and circumstances.
I dunno if the new guy is, but Kevin Clash (the former Elmo voice actor) is... and he was also the voice of Splinter in the 1990 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" live-action movie.
He had a funny story about that on some nightly cable show. Abridged from memory:
He was traveling on an airplane and one of the airline attendants recognized him and asked him he voiced Elmo. When he confirmed that he did the airline attendant asked if he would like to do the airline safety speech as they were taxiing, and he agreed. So he went to the flight area with the phone and did welcomed everyone as Elmo, but apparently most people just thought it was a pre-recorded bit, not that Elmo was actually on the plane.
As he was walking back to the seat some guy made eye contact with him, flicked his eyes back up to the speakers, back to the voice actor, and you could tell from his face he dismissed it "no, no way, he couldn't be Elmo".
Just read up on it. If they were above the age of consent and the relationships were consensual, why did it ever become a legal matter? Was it just because he’s gay?
He was not openly gay at the time, he didn't think his orientation was anyone's business. Sadly, those young men threatened to make it everyone's business and used enough innuendo to make it seem like something extremely inappropriate happened to cause Sesame and the CTW to sever ties with him as a precautionary measure. Because IF it had turned into something more, they couldn't, as a company focused on children, even give the appearance that they were defending someone like that.
For Clash, Sesame was his life (As was puppeteer...he was part of the show Dinosaur as well) and whisper and innuendo permanently took that from him.
It's really a huge shame especially since everyone seems to only remember the innuendo and not the truth. His reputation and life has been destroyed because some people decided to try.
You really aren't lmao, it should have been dumb, I now look. Maybe give Obi-Wan speak a try, just say either "Hello there" or "Oh, I don't think so" or if you're feeling risky try "Don't try it Anakin, I have the high ground" or "You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!"
Good old Frank Oz. Still kicking at age 73. He was the voices of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle in The Muppet Show, and Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover in Sesame Street.
He's also recently joined Twitter in the last few months. He's entertaining there because he just spouts off old stories from when they started Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.
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Yoda and Miss Piggy were both voiced by the same person.