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Interview with Voice Actor and Robot Sidekick From The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Josh Robert Thompson!

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  Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Josh Robert Thompson spent much of his childhood making silly voices into a Fisher-Price tape recorder. Josh's gift for mimicry eventually brought him to Los Angeles and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, where he appeared in a number of sketches—most notably as Robert De Niro, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk. Behind the camera, Josh provided the voices of an invisible house band, a talking rhino head named Sandra, celebrity insects, and every caller on Ferguson’s desk phone. But it was his role as Craig’s robot skeleton sidekick—Geoff Peterson—that proved to be Josh’s big break, creating one of TV’s most unlikely and endearing late night duos.  For over a decade Josh’s wide range of voices and impressions have appeared on FOX’s Family Guy, as well as American Dad, Robot Chicken and Skylanders Academy, just to name a few. In audiobooks, Josh has provided character voices and narration on over 30 projects—most notably author ...

Interview With Journalist And Foreign Affairs Writer Mark Danner

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  Mark Danner is a writer and reporter who for three decades has written on politics and foreign affairs , focusing on war and conflict. He has covered Central America , Haiti , the Balkans , Iraq and the Middle East , among many other stories. Danner holds the Class of 1961 Endowed Chair in Journalism and English at the University of California, Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College . Among his books are The Massacre at El Mozote , Torture and Truth , The Secret Way to War , Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War and Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War . Danner was a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, Aperture, and many other newspapers and magazines . He has co-written and helped produce two hour-long documentaries for the ABC News program Peter Jennings Reporting, and his work has receive...