Voice Acting, Rise of AI, and Career Longevity | Phil LaMarr on Rock Bottom

Rock Bottom With Ned Fulmer

Fulmer Media

Comedy Interviews, Kids & Family, Parenting, Interviews, Curiousity, Ned, Fulmer, Bottom, Comedy, Empathy, Rock, Inspirational

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Iconic voice actor and comedy star Phil LaMarr joins us for a conversation about AI, diversity in Hollywood, improv, and details the challenging road that is pursuing an acting career from a young age. He's insightful, hilarious, and carries a message of perseverance throughout the daily rejections of being an actor in Los Angeles.

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0:00.0	Your Kockney guy would say this.
0:02.3	But make your South African guy say something different.
0:07.9	Ah, don't go outside.
0:09.7	Well, I don't know.
0:12.1	Voice actor friends that they have a lot of fear around AI's effect on the industry.
0:17.7	I was like, oh my gosh, that's digital slavery. So I'm here with Phil Lamar,
0:26.3	acclaimed voice actor, an actor. He is someone that was in my college improv group. So we actually
0:34.1	saw each other last weekend for a 40th anniversary of the purple crayon.
0:39.0	That was the name of it. Phil, welcome to Rock Bottom. How's it going?
0:43.7	Good, good. It's always a pleasure to have memories back to the improv. It's, you know,
0:52.0	was the biggest nice bump up in my life.
0:55.7	It was.
0:56.5	Improv was a really formative experience.
0:59.7	How so?
1:00.9	Yes, and.
1:02.8	I mean, because I'd been doing plays in high school,
1:06.2	but then introduced to this positive life philosophy for performance, that's probably the only reason I,
1:15.3	after graduation, decided to pursue acting as a career. Wow, that's amazing. That's, you know,
1:21.5	that I followed a very similar trajectory, really. Improv was very influential in making me choose an entertainment career.
1:30.0	Oh.
1:30.5	Did you do any improv before college?
1:32.6	No, I didn't.
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