Billy West comments on a possible return to the stern show
Doc
I asked Billy in his official forum what his ideas were about joining
Howard again.
I can really sympathize for him, the business world can be cruel.
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I don't want to be in someone else's circus anymore.Believe me,they
don't have enough money to pay me----no matter how much they
can come up with.
I wasn't very valuable to them money-wise when I was on the
scene.Why on earth would it be any different now?
I've said before that it would be nothing more than economic sucide
If I left what I'm doing here to go back to NY again.
I would to have my own radio show! (but there's no money in that
either)
Billy
DR
> don't have enough money to pay me----no matter how much they
> can come up with.
>
As much as I loved it when Billy was on, he doesn't need to come back, he's
too busy. He'd be stupid if he did. Stern would just fuck him over again.
Besides, Jackie wrote a lot of the shit Billy said anyways. Billy's better
off where he is.
DR
> don't have enough money to pay me----no matter how much they
> can come up with.
>
As much as I loved it when Billy was on, he doesn't need to come back, he's
Mikey
Yeah, working on cartoons. Who would want to be in the center of a half-billion
dollar deal? Not me! Give me a day of standing in a recording booth, reading
bad scripts in a wacky voice anytime. Forget being asked to do the
Tonight Show,
it sucks anyway.
What's still funny is that he has to look in the mirror every morning and say
"Why the fuck did I make my wife my manager?"
Krunchy
"Mikey" <exceptionsTa...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Yeah, working on cartoons. Who would want to be in the center of a
> half-billion
> dollar deal?
With Stern in charge of the purse strings you must be joking.Remember Daffy
Duck sitting in the cave full of loot screaming"MINE MINE MINE"?
Darek
> Besides, Jackie wrote a lot of the shit Billy said
> anyways. Billy's better off where he is.
Cmon, I can't believe that. When Billy got into character, there was no
stopping him, try as Howard might. He was just too fast to be fed lines.
Darek
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> from another board:
Does anyone know the details of why he left? If I remember correctly, he
just stopped coming on. Did H comment on it at the time?
coasterqueen
You have got to be joking. Billy was horrible at ad-libbing. He did
great voices but he was funny only when the material was written for
him. Go off script for one minute and he'd get that "deer in the
headlights" look.
Music is the Prozac of my life - Ottmar Liebert
Doc
Doc
Benrand
Mr. Blackswell? Red?
He was good for those rapid fire bursts of madness, those were all
his.
Mikey
Doofus, he's a performer. He was performing in huge venues, and now
he's a credit at the
end of a cartoon. Work it out.
Krunchy
Dipshit, he was getting paid peanuts and those credits at the end of
cartoons as well as the uncredited voice overs earn him more $ than Stern
would have ever paid him. And at least he does get a credit at the end of a
cartoon now, Stern took credit for everything. We all know now who supplied
the show with laughs, and it wasn't Stern.
Velvet
> Doofus, he's a performer. He was performing in huge venues, and now
> he's a credit at the
> end of a cartoon. Work it out.
Moron, what huge venues was Billy West performing in?
A credit at the end of a cartoon, moron?
He gets top billing and makes seven figures a year, moron.
Billy West is arguably the TOP voice guy in Hollywood now, moron.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0921942/
The remaining asslickers just get dumber and dumber!
Work it out, moron.
m...@sirius.com
recording booth doing wacky voices sounds maybe not so wacky
WINDOWWEIGHT
If memory serves,Billy was the 1st one of the crew EVER to leave the
show and become a bigger success in the business and pay scale wise to
be sure!
I remember he never came on the show when he was promoting anything
over the years.I guess he wanted to show he was fine without going on
the show.He probably wanted to do it by himself.
I once heard him on one of the radio interviews he does and believe me
he can ad lib like a hurricane!He killed an entire studio full of radio
people in 3 minutes-while they were laughing themselves to death.Not
even the comedians could keep up.It was as great as anything I've heard
him do previously on the air.
I can enjoy him in any capacity because I'm a fan.Admit it,if he ever
went back to the show-certain people would find something wrong with
him to complain about.Just like now.You can't please everyone.I wish
him the best in the world.
Harris