Winnipeg Free Press

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thursday morning it was a jarring sight for anyone who knows the characters Only As lovable cartoons with bad Julie who does the Finger Railson blackboard voice of the Blu haired was wearing a beige baseball Cap and slumped slightly in a Nancy a pleasant Blond woman with her Small son on her was providing the nasal voice of the Devilish perhaps most a retiring Man who had earlier seemed lost in the crowd offered up the unmistakable Bellow of that endearing As Well As the school principal and the bus Driver and Noah and some chinese sailors which set the entire room in stitches a wild Dan can do and he practically said Matt Groen a cheerful Man with Granny glasses and a Long Ponytail who is the creator of televisions longest running animated on the air since never notice but then he opens his Mouth and he completely creates one character after he was referring to Dan a surprisingly shy actor with a Felici Tous gift not just for sketching a personality with a few Well chosen words and verbal but also for his touches of comedic Castellaneta alone among Simpsons cast members makes regular appearances at comedy clubs doing improvisational some what like Peter when this reticent Man is onstage colourful new personalities seem to leap out of i was not at All an extrovert As a kid and i really didst feel Comfort Able speaking Clad in Blue jeans and a said Dur ing an interview on the Fox lot after the but if i could be someone else i Felt in a if i could make people laugh then it was even safer i could sort of slide behind these characters and watch How people reacted to not for several months ago during an improvisational act at the comedy store Castellaneta transformed a slow moment when he launched into a lengthy Shakespeare an Soliloquy on a and recently at the Ash a Small club on the Santa Monica he picked up the unravelling thread in one scene in which the performers seemed lost in a museum by suddenly emerging As a hungarian master spy out to steal a Dinosaur the products of his skill Are Well Dan Castellaneta is the shy Guy behind Homer Simpson also Surprise the voice behind Homer creates one character after another Glas and Kathleen in which Castellaneta also had a he has also appeared on friends and the Drew Carey show and has a part in a forthcoming my with Billy like mos serious he takes a disciplined approach to the form and constantly analyses Why funny lines Are asked about the origins of homers Sig nature Castellaneta said he borrowed it from James Fin known to any Simpson fan As in homers signature expression of which sounds like and his almost girl like scream when he is caught by Surprise rather than a Low like his regular speaking that said Hes made this offensive Guy Sweet and Hes got an amazingly Quick comic the comedic abilities of Castellan Eta and the other actors Are a crucial reason that the show remains fresh after so Many the actors who provide the voices do far More than read As was evident from the inspired mayhem at the rehearsal in was Able to cause the shows own writers to double particularly by bring ing the wild boar to it was also striking that the actors read their parts without having seen the script As a you want to make Dan and that keeps us working really hard to make the material Groening Castellaneta grew up in Oak just outside he was studying to become an Art teacher at Northern Illinois University when a professor told him that to be really successful he needed to love his Castellaneta said he realized that what he really loved was come and so gave acting a you it want As hard As i thought it would he some thing always came through for Castellaneta said he was drawn to comedy in part because of its inherent childishness theres an aspect of me that very like Peter he like Hes a big before signing on with the Simp sons at the shows he had been a regular on the Tracey Ullman his stint on that which was broadcast on Fox from 1987 to brought him together with James who had served As the executive producer and now has a similar role on the Brooks also helped produce the film the the War of the with Michael Dou he readily recalls lines from Sellers Shakespeare and Favourite Mike Nichols and Elaine May after the Groening was questioning the ending of the to which Castellaneta instantly responded that he liked it because it closely followed the conclusion of lord of the which the episode comedy for me is like doing a Puz and i like doing he its an intriguing getting there Are even rules on when you break the it is a skill that at times makes it hard to locate precisely who the per son is behind All the comic charac at the Ash Castellaneta was improvising the role of the Boss in a Job interview with a Young woman when All of a sudden he reversed who am i he to befuddled looks and nervous a slight Man behind a Bossy and what am i doing Here there was a moment of As the other actors tried to keep Dave still having fun with Rupert when the r guest list at network party includes the likes of Bob Don fran Dresoh cybill Danny David Mark Bryant Gumbel and Dana its easy for a Guy who runs a new York City Delicatessen to get but if youre Rupert owner of Broadways hello Deli and contributor to Neighbour David Letterman lat night you tend to draw As big a crowd As some of the real to stars making contractually obligated visits to meet and mingle with the Media Here at the networks annual summer press they wanted somebody to represent the late and Daves got a show to so they sent Jee responds with a shrug when asked How the Heck he found himself at this Star studded and decidedly new Yor themed despite his increasingly prominent role in Letterman continuing High Jinks fun with which Basi Cally places the Deli owner in a Vari Ety of situations where he annoys unsuspecting new has the new to season Brad Oswald become a late show Jee has not followed the gone Holly Wood Lead of trinket store operators Sura jul and he Hast got an he Doest pursue movie opportunities and he continues to take this whole Small scale celebrity thing with a big Grain of these people Here Are super he glancing around at the designer suits and glittering dresses that Sprinkle the landscape at this outdoor in just a deju who 41 and figures Hes on the late show about 100 times since the Day Letterman Asti Era made its initial meet Veneigh hours visit to the Hejile the first being on television with i thought that would be the end of it and i would have been More than Happy if it he i was never made for this i was always afraid 9f being in front of an and i just wanted to get it Over i thought that was the end of but that want the Letterman kept coming Jee got More comfortable with the idea of being on to and business at the Jee and Bis partner bought As a desperately struggling Enterprise about a year and a half before rave moved in next Doar began to Boom we thought we could turn the thing Jee adding that he Laif r Learned that the hero Deli had 3 Money losing failure for its four previous we had miss Saigon across the which i thought would help a but the late show has been very Good for How does he describe his relation ship with Letterman i know him a Little not a he we get to talk Here and will come into the Deli once in a while to have a Coffee and say maybe hang around for a Hes a very Downto Earth Hes not the abrasive Guy you see on Hes still but Hes a lot More Cowkey in real who actually has his own web site on the says hell continue to play willing accomplice in Letterman stunts for As Long the talk show Host wants him to be part of the my philosophy is very simple in he says with a when something Good happens to you really have to appreciate it and return the the late show has been a and my question How i can Ever repay Dave for All the Good things Hes done for me ;