This seemed like a better idea when I started photoshopping it.
At Emerald City ComiCon on March 31st of this year, seven of the best voice actors in the business — Kevin Conroy, John DiMaggio, Billy West, Jess Harnell, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, and Rob Paulsen — did a table read of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. What makes it glorious is that they read the parts as a variety of their famous characters and celebrity impersonations, all while Kevin Conroy narrated the stage directions as Batman.
Here’s just a small selection of some of the characters voiced that day:
Darth Vader:
- Bubbles (Tara Strong)
- Yosemite Sam (Maurice LaMarche)
Stormtroopers:
- Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
- Bender (John DiMaggio)
C-3PO:
- William Shatner (Maurice LaMarche)
- George Takei (Rob Paulsen)
- Johnny Carson (John DiMaggio)
- Fry from Futurama (Billy West)
- Dudley Moore (Maurice LaMarche)
- Zapp Brannigan (Billy West)
R2-D2:
- Jess Harnell doing impersonations of Christopher Walken, Ozzy Osbourne, and Bill Cosby
- Harley Quinn (Tara Strong)
Uncle Owen Lars:
- Stimpy (Billy West)
- Aquaman (John DiMaggio)
Aunt Beru Whitesun Lars:
- Ironhide from Transformers (Jess Harnell)
- Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony (Tara Strong)
Luke Skywalker:
- Toot from Drawn Together (Tara Strong)
- Bender (John DiMaggio)
- Christopher Walken (Rob Paulsen)
- Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
- Zoidberg (Billy West)
- Professor Farnsworth (Billy West)
- Rodney Dangerfield (Jess Harnell)
- William Shatner (Maurice LaMarche)
Obi-Wan Kenobi:
- Tracy Morgan (John DiMaggio) [SO GOOD I’M GONNA BE PREGNANT.]
- Cartman (Jess Harnell)
- Porky Pig (Billy West)
- Inspector Gadget (Maurice LaMarche)
Princess Leia:
- Jay Leno (Billy West)
- Vincent Price (Maurice LaMarche)
- The Brain (Maurice LaMarche)
- Rosie Perez (Tara Strong)
- Bender (John DiMaggio)
Han Solo:
- Kif from Futurama (Maurice LaMarche)
- Christopher Walken (Rob Paulsen)
And John DiMaggio voicing Dr. Evazen Wuher in the Cantina scene as, of course, Paul Lynde. YES PLEASE.
If you can’t watch all 80 minutes — FIND THE TIME, YOU DEGENERATE — we’ll recommend the part at the 21 minute mark where Bender (John DiMaggio) swears up a storm and insults Star Wars. Also noteworthy was Zoidberg (Billy West) and Aquaman (John DiMaggio) bantering 31 minutes in. At 52 minutes in, Billy West voices Porky Pig as Obi-Wan and John DiMaggio voices a Bender Stormtrooper in the “droids you’re looking for” scene. The Mos Eisley scene at The Chalmun’s Cantina starts at 58:40.
I want to build some sort of Tauntaun carcass out of this video and live inside it forever.
(The read starts at 5:30, after the cast introduction)
[H/T: ToplessRobot]