A man of many voices, so many he was among Mel Blanc's successors at Warners, along with Grandpa Pickles on *Rugrats* and its TV and movie spinoffs; I'd first seen him as Beano in the syndicated '80s sitcom *Out of This World...* his Jackie Gleason impersonation was featured in at least one episode of that, and he told Splitsider <http://splitsider.com/2012/12/sufferin-succotash-looney-tunes-voice-actor-joe-alaskey-on-bugs-bunny-geraldo-why-he-wasnt-in-space-jam/> (link) Gleason hired him to patch missing Ralph lines in the lost *Honeymooners* episodes, but that he lost out on playing him onscreen in a TV-biopic... Wednesday (2/3) in SoCal; 63.
Mark Evanier <http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/02/03/joe-alaskey-r-p/> (link) has a tribute. B -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
