Benjamin is a unique interview, happy to riff and keep it a little awkward for the sake of a laugh… or quite possibly his own amusement.
Yeah, it’s hard. Yeah, that was a good thing, but that was my repressed memory, just knowing about birds.
In certain cases, Archer has been faced with some amount of introspection or tragedies that he has to overcome. The ability to do the shows has been a positive.
I think it was a little different. Then, his timing: stilted and deadpan, usually - it catches you off guard and it makes him one of the funniest voice actors alive today. In other seasons there was the cancer thing and obviously having the child with Lana, so there’s a little bit more going on here than probably the coma seasons, which were just sort of flights of fancy, I guess, for Archer. Hey listen, that’s how I get my news now too, you’ve just got to make sure the 5G doesn’t get you.
Bob’s Burgers has continued its production and will soon launch its new season and Archer was able to wrap up season 11, which premieres tonight on FXX. Ep 3 : Different Modes of Preparing Fruit, Ep 5 : Strange Doings in the Taboo Groves, Ep 7 : Comparative Wickedness of Civilized and Unenlightened Peoples, https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/H._Jon_Benjamin?oldid=44308, In addition to voicing Archer, H. Jon Benjamin has been concurrently voicing the lead character of. Oh, that’s way less interesting. I think Adam, Matt [Thompson], and Casey [Willis] probably had discussions back and forth about ending the show after the last coma/dream season, which would have been Space 1999. Yeah, that’s where I masturbate, and I apologize for masturbating during this interview. Last season was perhaps the first season where he was not writing every script. I think they were probably just working to find a way to do that, so it was probably two things at once and they went with continuing the show, which was… That’s a good thing. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.
The only thing I’ve seen of his recently was the clip of him mowing his lawn, but maybe he was mowing weed. He’s becoming a titan of the legal weed industry. I think his voice is so strong, just the shift into getting new people to try and either reproduce that or find their own particular version of the voice of the show was a little rocky at first, but not a lot. Sterling's a spy, but he's also a narcissist with a pretty terrible drinking problem.
His Coach McGuirk on Home Movies was a beloved Adult Swim character right up there with the likes of Space Ghost, Master Shake, and Dr. Rockso. I think I hate Archer as much as he hated According To Jim. Oh, we’re going to… Might get into the danger zone. I also probably had a lot of bourbon and ecstasy and LSD, so it might have been that.
Are you, like everybody else, recording in your closet?
Henry Jon Benjamin (born May 23, 1966), known professionally as H. Jon Benjamin, is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian.
I don’t think I’d ever been a part of rewriting a scene on the fly and we did that a couple of times just based on tone.
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. But despite that, things haven’t exactly been normal.
In it, he recounts his shortcomings in excruciating detail and how, wouldn't you know it, a lot of those failures opened the door to success: failures in family, in work, in serving fajitas. It is to Jon's credit as a voice actor that the audience can see past this deeply flawed man's exterior and laugh along with him and at him. And I did that maybe a couple of times. With any kind of voice work and everything like that, have things been mostly been uninterrupted as far as that goes?
And then they probably just shifted because, in good part, I think there was probably a lot of discussions (and I’m just guessing this) from the world of Archer, including the fans of bringing the show back to where it was. Assuming you’re a fan of the show. There was something on like Tik Tok or Instagram of him on one of those zero-turn mowers.
In 2018, Jon wrote a book called Failure is an Option: An Attempted Memoir. I actually did finish up probably in May, but they did the last two recordings at home. No, I’m just glad that was the thing that I was shocked to remember, as opposed to some horrible incident. Oh, you mean weed farmer. ‘Archer’ returns Wednesday, September 16 at 10PM on FXX. The amount of time that’s passed is obviously a significant aspect of this season and how Archer is dealing with the world now and how the world is dealing with Archer.
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[Laughs] So I assumed the massive anxiety of feeling a deep, existential panic from the initial response to the quarantine inspired a memory from childhood that I knew somewhat about birds. Right. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
I thought you said wheat.
[Laughs] Are you surprised that you’re back in the Archer prime story?
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He is currently the voice of Sterling Archer in FX's 2010 animated series Archer. Jon Benjamin Dives Right Into The Danger Zone With Archer,” and then I’ll have to resort to day-drinking after doing that, but that’s fine. For Archer, it’s probably been a little bit more normal because everybody recorded independently anyway so it’s basically the same setup with Bob’s Burgers. To make a long story longer… Should I keep going? It includes several nods to H. Jon Benjamin's other show, Bob's Burgers(from an episode theme, to several voice actors cameo appearances). There are some amazing pictures of him in the fields. What Does It Take To Reopen A Hotel During The Pandemic? Adam had been writing a series for 10 years completely on his own, pretty remarkable. When talking to Worcester native H. Jon Benjamin, it becomes quickly obvious that you can take the boy out of Worcester, but you can’t take the Worcester out of the boy. And since it's written by H. Jon Benjamin, it's also really, really funny.
In an electromagnetic booth. I was asking if you were surprised to be back in the Archer Prime story. Obviously it’s been difficult, but regarding the shows, it’s been relatively normal in a way, so that’s a good thing. Well, I did not mean to set that up, but it happened organically. We’re going to really break some rules here. Well, as a fan of the show, were you excited to see the development of this season? A guy who has gone from being extremely self-serving to slightly less selfish over ten seasons. I don’t do a deep dive into figuring that stuff out, it’s pretty much on the page. Did you see that he’s a professional weed farmer? But, Jon can also play macho windbags who are imbued with the kind of flawed humanity that also makes you root for them. I’m not loving it, guys. For some reason, I had a weird sense memory of studying birds when I was really young and I think I memorized all the birds when I was a kid from the Audubon book and I hadn’t thought about that for years.
I know that Adam in particular had a notion to end the show as a creative choice for him, but I think he shifted as well once they started talking about bringing it back to the world of the original Archer.
In the beginning of quarantine, I left New York City, not that there aren’t birds there, but we rented this small house in Connecticut in the country and I started… There were a ton of birds in the backyard.