Remembering 'Space Ghost' Voice Actor George Lowe (yahoo.com) 14
Long-time Slashdot reader invisik saw this story on Yahoo News:
Comedian and voice actor George Lowe, who is well-known as the voice of Space Ghost on "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," died on March 2. He was 67...
He did some voice-over work for TBWS and Cartoon Network in the 1980s to mid-1990s before getting his lead role of Space Ghost in 1994 with the premiere of "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" on Cartoon Network. Space Ghost was a parody of talk shows with live-action celebrity guests, hosted by the Hanna Barbera character Space Ghost, which aired from 1994 to 1999 on Cartoon Network. The show later returned in 2001, airing on Adult Swim's late-night programming block until 2004, Deadline reported.
When animation pioneer William Hanna died in 2001, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco posted "the thing that I respect most about Hanna is the fact that a show like Space Ghost Coast to Coast was allowed to take their characters and do something truly unique with them. He even lent his voice to the show in one episode. Not a lot of people would be willing to allow one of their creations to be twisted like that, but the original Space Ghost was one of my childhood staples, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast stands in a class all its own proving that creativity isn't dead on TV."
"Adult Swim would not be the network it is today without Space Ghost Coast to Coast," argues ComicBook.com. (And as a tribute to Lowe, Adult Swim posted five minutes of surreal outtakes from Space Ghost Coast to Coast's 10th Anniversary celebration.)
A headline at Vulture.com makes the case that "Space Ghost Coast to Coast Only Worked Because of George Lowe." They've rounded up a collection of videos with surreal titles like "Marrying Bjork" and "Guesting on a MF DOOM track" (plus that time Lowe did a live interview — in his Space Ghost costume — with C-SPAN).
He did some voice-over work for TBWS and Cartoon Network in the 1980s to mid-1990s before getting his lead role of Space Ghost in 1994 with the premiere of "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" on Cartoon Network. Space Ghost was a parody of talk shows with live-action celebrity guests, hosted by the Hanna Barbera character Space Ghost, which aired from 1994 to 1999 on Cartoon Network. The show later returned in 2001, airing on Adult Swim's late-night programming block until 2004, Deadline reported.
When animation pioneer William Hanna died in 2001, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco posted "the thing that I respect most about Hanna is the fact that a show like Space Ghost Coast to Coast was allowed to take their characters and do something truly unique with them. He even lent his voice to the show in one episode. Not a lot of people would be willing to allow one of their creations to be twisted like that, but the original Space Ghost was one of my childhood staples, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast stands in a class all its own proving that creativity isn't dead on TV."
"Adult Swim would not be the network it is today without Space Ghost Coast to Coast," argues ComicBook.com. (And as a tribute to Lowe, Adult Swim posted five minutes of surreal outtakes from Space Ghost Coast to Coast's 10th Anniversary celebration.)
A headline at Vulture.com makes the case that "Space Ghost Coast to Coast Only Worked Because of George Lowe." They've rounded up a collection of videos with surreal titles like "Marrying Bjork" and "Guesting on a MF DOOM track" (plus that time Lowe did a live interview — in his Space Ghost costume — with C-SPAN).
copyright (Score:2)
When animation pioneer William Hanna died in 2001, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco posted "the thing that I respect most about Hanna is the fact that a show like Space Ghost Coast to Coast was allowed to take their characters and do something truly unique with them. He even lent his voice to the show in one episode. Not a lot of people would be willing to allow one of their creations to be twisted like that, but the original Space Ghost was one of my childhood staples, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast stands in a class all its own proving that creativity isn't dead on TV."
Parenthetically, we'd get a lot more of that creativity with shorter copyrights.
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His seminal work in such films as "The Outsiders" and "St. Elmo's Fire" coupled with notoriety from being a member of the so called "Brat Pack" will never be forgotten.
I hope you're joking. Your comment is for Rob Lowe, not George Lowe.
Either that or you're an AI who's hallucinating.
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Either that or you're an AI who's hallucinating.
Na, a hallucinating LLM wouldn't mix up the people. It'd rather invent names of things for George Lowe that was plausible sounding, like the name of some comic cartoon show, identifiable by name, that never actually existed.
This is was a 100% human hallucination.
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I think you mean Pathetically.
Space Ghost (Score:3)
Really nice and genuinely funny (Score:4, Funny)
Going to a Con years ago my wife got a signed Space Ghost picture by George and he chatted with us for a good couple minutes and you could tell it wasn't just one of many characters but he really embraced being that character and appreciated all the fan love we had for it.
He also didn't just sign and move on (he did sign himself as my wife's future ex-husband) but he wrote stuff all over it such as "Space Ghost Star of 'Attack of the Atomic Toilet Beatles' and 'Rest Area Hijinks'" and you could see he was doing that everyone.
RIP George, here's a fan favorite top 5 episode; Knifin' Around [adultswim.com]
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he did sign himself as my wife's future ex-husband
Fucking love it. What an awesome dude.
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Minor correction as I looked closer at the picture, it's "Your 6th ex-husband"
Oxygen (Score:3)
Sadly, he's no longer getting enough oxygen.
I once had a goal of getting famous enough to be on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
the BRAK show - oddly tiny dad (Score:2)
Thanks, Unky Ghost (Score:3)
I was a tween/teen when SGC2C/Cartoon Planet was on the air. A friend and I were huge fans of the show and specifically Lowe. We learned about his radio career and decided we had faces for radio. When I was in college, I landed a part-time job in radio which amounted to beer money (I learned this was not a lucrative career before I got the job and moved on). I adapted some of Lowe's mannerisms into my air shift, increased ratings, and made many friends in the listening area. I'd fall victim to one of Clear Channel's job massacres - good thing it was just for beer money!
Many thanks to Mr. Lowe for his positive impact on me. RIP.
Old fogey (Score:3)
I'm an old fart, and when I see "Space Ghost", I think of the old 60's cartoon I used to watch as a kid...
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