Charles Fleischer: The Man Behind the Voices
Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz
Barry Katz
4.7 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this wide-ranging podcast interview, comedian, actor, and entertainer Charles Fleischer — best known as the voice of Roger Rabbit — opens up about his career in stand-up comedy, character work, vocal dynamics, and multi-character performance. Fleischer discusses his comedic inspirations, including Jonathan Winters and Groucho Marx, his comedic triangle philosophy, early stand-up experiences at folk clubs and comedy clubs, performing alongside Robin Williams and Richard Pryor, his approach to improv and character voices, representation in Hollywood, his book Out of My Mind, presenting at the Academy Awards, and his enduring passion for entertaining, inspiring, and connecting with audiences through comedy, storytelling, and creative performance.Blueprint for Successhttps://barrykatz.com/blueprintAre you a comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, manager, host, podcaster or agent? Would you like personalized help to reach all of your goals in the entertainment business? Click the link to learn more & join our FREE industry networking group full of decades of experience!Barry Katz Entertainmenthttps://barrykatz.comConnect with Barryhttps://www.instagram.com/barrykatz/https://www.facebook.com/BarryKatzOfficialPage/https://www.tiktok.com/@barry_katzhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/barrykatzbkehttps://x.com/BarryKatz
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my guest today. |
| 0:08.0 | What an honor, Charles Fleischer. |
| 0:11.5 | Thank you very much, Mr. Cass, for not only acknowledging my presence in your studio, |
| 0:15.7 | but pronouncing my name correctly. |
| 0:18.5 | For people say Fletcher, Lucha, L Fyachcasha, Lala, Pachian, La Lalla, la la la la la la la la la la la la. But Fleischer is correct. Flai i is an I sound. I.e. is a different sound like array. It's a rea, like Raymond, Raymond's hypothesis. |
| 0:38.5 | I love it. |
| 0:43.4 | I have so many things to ask you because I, I've known you a long time. And one of the things that I find that's fascinating about you is maybe 10% of the time I get you. |
| 0:58.8 | And let me reframe it. |
| 1:01.2 | I get you as just somebody who is talking in one state, |
| 1:15.2 | talking in one emotion, talking in one tone. |
| 1:22.0 | And the other 90% of the time, |
| 1:25.1 | I get a multifaceted, multi-character, multi-voiced, multi-thought-provoking man. |
| 1:35.2 | And one of the things that I was so excited to meet with you is to meet the man that I rarely |
| 1:44.0 | meet. The man that I rarely meet. |
| 1:45.5 | The man that is somewhere down here that the man behind the curtain that controls everything. |
| 1:58.8 | Because I've never really met and talked with that man. |
| 2:03.0 | I've only talked with the man who literally can change tones and states and |
| 2:10.0 | conversations and characters with the snap of a finger. |
| 2:14.4 | Okay. |
| 2:14.7 | Well, |
| 2:14.8 | I want to meet the guy. |
| 2:16.1 | I was looking forward to meeting. And you might not want to, you might not want me to meet the guy. I was looking forward to meeting. |
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