Although I waited tables and did odd jobs and things for a good twenty-something years, so I know what it’s like to suffer.

I have to pinch myself a lot that this is my life because it is too easy. You hear a lot of film actors talking about how they love doing animated because it’s so, quote, “easy”. Or we’ll play off of a scene and create another scene that would maybe go back to the writers room and they’d maybe bring us in for pick-ups to re-record a bit of that to shape it into a full bit. Loren has a lot of patience and he’ll really listen and just let us go, and pick some gems out of there. We do about three takes for each scene, and usually on the second and third scene we’ll start to improvise a little. My face usually hurts at the end of every record. So it’s a lot of fun, everyone’s laughing, and it’s an ensemble so everyone’s kind of getting a shot to be hysterical. We record together and it makes for that backstage green room comics vibe. With improvising, do all the voice actors record together to do that or do you do it one by one? I think it was kind of just a good match with me and Loren in terms of just us both loving music and having fun with Linda kind of improvising stuff and then them starting to write a lot more music into the show, which was a really great surprise. I do love to sing, and my mom’s not a singer but we were always singing around the house growing up, so Linda would just break out into improv song.

Well it’s funny, I had no idea that me and Loren were both music nerds and both really into music, like we have all the Guitar Centre gear catalogues and we’re always into the latest gear. Was singing always going to be a big part of Linda’s character or did you bring a bit of that once you started recording? They caught wind of it and came to see my show and yes, Loren cast me as Linda based on that character. Yeah basically it’s a small world in the New York comedy scene and one of the writers, Holly Schlesinger, was close with my manager at the time and I was performing the YouTube stuff live as well, which is how I started doing it, onstage. When I spoke to Roberts over the phone, I wanted so badly for him to ‘do the voice’ but I was too scared to ask so instead we spoke like two regular people.ĭid you even have to audition for this part or did they see your YouTube videos of your mum and just ask you to do it? The songs are lyrically ridiculous and masterfully produced, an appropriate description of the show itself. Roberts is also an accomplished singer and so it’s no surprise that Linda is too, being the star performer on The Bob’s Burgers Music Album, a collection of every original song written for the show (over 100).

Since those videos over ten years ago, Roberts has played his mum on stage, in a web series, and now vicariously through Linda Belcher.

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