SWB: This is the Smooth Wooden Ball for SC Naked News here with Earthworm Jim. Welcome to the show, Jim.
EJ: Thank you, Smooth Wooden Ball.
SWB: Uh, Earthworm Jim, I have always wanted to meet Dan Castellanetta. With your superpowers, do you think you can get a hold of him?
EJ: Yes! I can summon him. Calling Dan Castellanetta... I'm doing it telekinetically... or telepathically. Both actually. Ah! Here he is now.
SWB: Heyyy... this is Smooth Wooden Ball here.
EJ: And don't be fooled by the fact that we both sound exactly the same.
SWB: Welcome to the show, Dan.
DC: Hello. It's me talking now. Earthworm Jim has gone off to another assignment.
SWB: What were you doing before the Tracy Ullman Show?
DC: I was at the Second City in Chicago. For about four years.
SWB: Did they give you that role or did you have to audition for it?
DC: For...?
SWB: Tracy Ullman.
DC: For the Tracy Ullman? Tracy Ullman came and saw me at the Second City with Heidi Pearlman who was one of the producers of the show. Although I still had to come in and read for different sketches to be a member of the cast.
SWB: Do you ever wanna tell Matt Groening... so your last name is Groening? Why not just pronounce it Groh-ning? No one's gonna give you the business.
DC: I do not dare. He even put it in his strip that it is "Gray-ning." It rhymes with "complaining." Although "Groh-ning" is just as negative. It rhymes with "groaning."
SWB: What are some of the other voices you were thinking about using for Homer?
DC: Well originally Homer's voice sorta sounded like this. (as voice) Sort of "hello son!" Sort of a Walter Matthau kinda voice. But there was something sort of nasal. And it was very hard to do some of Homer's emotions, because he was constantly frustrated by the kids. But the voice would start going like this. (as Homer) And then it stayed in that register. And that's the most comfortable register in which to speak for a half hour... although it's like FIVE HOURS of recording!
SWB: Of all the cartoon characters in history, which one would you have been the most proud to have been the voice of?
DC: Wow... that's a good question. I would certainly have loved to have been one of the voice on Bullwinkle. Almost any of those Jay Ward cartoons. I'm a big fan of all of those. There was Mr. Peabody. (imitating Mr. Peabody) "Sherman! Today we're going back in time!" And then William Conrad, (imitating) "We last joined our heroes when they were looking for the Rubiat of Omer Kayan!
SWB: Okay. This is the first time for a litlle playlet written by one of our staff and played by the same people. Smooth Wooden Ball will be playing the part of Chad-- a person with arms. And Dan Castellanetta will be playing the part of Homer Simpson.
DC: (as Homer) Psss. Am I on? Where do I come in from?
SWB: Not yet. (acting) Hmmm. Not all of the lunch orders are in. Homer, I'm not sure what they ordered for you. Maybe this is it. Fourteen porkchops with gravy.
DC: Whoo-hoooo!
SWB: Na... na... here it is. Diet rice plate.
DC: Hit forehead with hand. D'oh!
SWB: This has been the Smooth Wooden Ball with Dan Castellanetta. Thanks for coming on the show, Dan.
DC: Thank you.
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