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The Best Show on WFMU => Mike And His Ilk. => Topic started by: Sarah on March 07, 2011, 09:36:26 AM

Title: So, Mike . . . (Werner Herzog on The Simpsons)
Post by: Sarah on March 07, 2011, 09:36:26 AM
. . . what did you think of Werner Herzog's turn on The Simpsons last night?
Title: Re: So, Mike . . .
Post by: B_Buster on March 07, 2011, 02:16:25 PM
Missed it. Was it good?
Title: Re: So, Mike . . .
Post by: Sarah on March 07, 2011, 02:46:39 PM
He was pretty funny.
Title: Re: So, Mike . . . (Werner Herzog on The Simpsons)
Post by: Pidgeon on March 07, 2011, 03:53:35 PM
I didn't see it, but it seems like Simpson-izing him would make him look just like the news anchor on the show.
Title: Re: So, Mike . . . (Werner Herzog on The Simpsons)
Post by: Chris L on March 07, 2011, 06:18:39 PM
From a new Guardian profile (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/05/werner-herzog-cave-of-forgotten-dreams):

"I was very surprised when they approached me because I thought The Simpsons was a newspaper cartoon. So when they called, I said, 'Do a voice? I don't understand, it's a TV programme?' They thought I was joking," he continues, chuckling, "but I was not."

Title: Re: So, Mike . . . (Werner Herzog on The Simpsons)
Post by: boil on March 16, 2011, 02:19:14 PM
With phrases like "Google eyed fools" I wondered if he wrote some of the dialogue himself.
Title: Re: So, Mike . . . (Werner Herzog on The Simpsons)
Post by: Christina on March 16, 2011, 03:48:56 PM
From a new Guardian profile (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/05/werner-herzog-cave-of-forgotten-dreams):

"I was very surprised when they approached me because I thought The Simpsons was a newspaper cartoon. So when they called, I said, 'Do a voice? I don't understand, it's a TV programme?' They thought I was joking," he continues, chuckling, "but I was not."

I call balls on that ... he's only lived in California for a decade or two. Has he never turned on a television that whole time?
Title: Re: So, Mike . . . (Werner Herzog on The Simpsons)
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on March 16, 2011, 04:18:18 PM
He was also on an episode of 'The Boondocks' about Obama's election a couple months back. He was narrating a documentary he was making about it. I find myself liking 'The Boondocks' less and less over time, but the Herzog appearance is worth checking out.
Title: Re: So, Mike . . . (Werner Herzog on The Simpsons)
Post by: cavorting with nudists on March 17, 2011, 12:35:36 AM

I call balls on that ... he's only lived in California for a decade or two. Has he never turned on a television that whole time?

He might not have.  I barely have, and am not as alienated from modern culture as he is.