According to PopCandy, there's some snark going on between Venture Brothers creator Jackson Publick and Stephen Colbert. Colbert, who also has this Comedy Central show you may have heard of, is the voice of the character "Professor Impossible" on the show (the character is a sadistic version of Marvel Comics' Mr. Fantastic).Apparently, Colbert (or more likely one of Colbert's assistants) blew off Jackson Publick with a rather rude e-mail in which he "has neither the time nor the interest in participating in your project" (um, but he had time for the first two seasons, right?). Publick then shot back on his own blog, "Well, maybe I'm not interested in your ice cream, mister!"James Urbaniak, who voices Doctor Venture, even put Colbert on notice on his own blog. I found the picture most amusing.
Being a Venture Brothers fan, I'm saddened that Colbert has become such a big celebrity that he doesn't have the time to speak into a microphone for a day. I guess the role was too much of a stretch for him (get it? Ha! I kill me).
So who should be the new voice for Professor Impossible?
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1-07-2008 @ 7:15PM
Matthew said...
Lame. Doesn't he know who is constituency is?
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1-07-2008 @ 7:16PM
Matthew said...
*his - whoops!
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1-07-2008 @ 8:41PM
bd said...
Ya know, if you actually check the Jackson Publick blog yourselves you won't have to rely on someone else posting the story and linking to them. This is from Christmas.
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1-07-2008 @ 8:53PM
Akbar Fazil said...
Well, Brad actually does know about publick's blog since he linked to it earlier with the post about the large cast photo. I would say quoting a second source is decent online journalism.
1-07-2008 @ 9:17PM
Jeff Edsell said...
Who should be the new voice for Professor Impossible?
Billy West.
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1-07-2008 @ 10:03PM
Zachary said...
David Bowie!
no, wait, he turned them down also.
I second Jeff. Billy West is awesome.
1-07-2008 @ 10:17PM
Zachary said...
This actually has happened before. They killed off his 2 characters on Harvey Birdman. I assume it was related to his new responsibilities on the Colbert Report, although the series ended a few episodes later.
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1-08-2008 @ 8:12AM
SJ said...
Ah this is disappointing...does he have to get a big head about this? Just be respectful and say that you can't do it...
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1-16-2008 @ 11:06PM
Brock Samson said...
I say string him up by his big ears and beat him with socks full of his Ice Cream.
Oh yeah Billy West would be great or the guy that did Zim.
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