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Jonny Vaughn is the root of all evil

Goodness Gracious Meme

10:23 / 28.04.04

okay, that might be pushing it. But lately, whenever I see/hear anything really objectionable/infuriating, I involuntarily hear Jonny talking about it. *Fuck off*

It's Fucking Maddening. So who's your Voice Of Evil?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:26 / 28.04.04

Darth Vader.

No, I really hate this repositioning of Vaughn as some kind of everybloke, the man is incredibly dull. Still, he'll have to get up early to do the breakfast show on Capital, hopefully, like Chris Evans, this will keep him off the streets and out of everyone elses way.

11:06 / 28.04.04

Haha - That's classic.

I don't have a voice of evil at the moment, so I'm open to suggestions. I think I'll read everyone else's answers and nick one of them.

POST UP, PEOPLES!

11:43 / 28.04.04

The Welsh bloke who does the six o'clock news on the BBC.

Nothing personal, and nothing against Welsh accents or the BBC, but his voice is just.. so incredibly ugly and grating, and he talks so slowly and harshly.. his voice is the sound of creeping post-industrial doom, personal tragedy and societal collapse rendered dull and senseless by unnatural sounding bureaucratic platitudes..

If it was a lovely sunny day, and this guy went outside and started talking, I bet it would immediately start raining and a scary looking juvenile delinquent would run past and smash a car window, and a mad old woman would appear and start ranting about council rubbish collection policies..

Tryphena Absent

12:16 / 28.04.04

Well BiP I'd have to say that my voice of evil is Margaret Thatcher. She sounds awful, says evil things and let's not launch in to the image, for fear that my head might explode.

Ex

12:25 / 28.04.04

And the quintessence of evil: Margaret Thatcher quoting St Francis of Assissi on the steps of 10 Downing St. I think it happened when she was re-elected, the first time; Mother used to speak of it in tones of deep disgust.

trouser the trouserian

12:42 / 28.04.04

Well, infamous ex-police chief James Anderton gets my vote. I've got him on tape saying:
Prostitution's basically the fault of women. If there weren't any women, there wouldn't be any prostitutes."
One of his other (more famous) outbursts (in reference to AIDS) is: "Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making."

pointless and uncalled for

18:19 / 28.04.04

Woody Allen. Really, that man's voice is so nasal that I'm convinved that he is actually talking from behind his own skull. Plus the angst is soul destroying. Anyone who has that much angst past the age of 18 needs some serious "treatment".

18:48 / 28.04.04

The Welsh bloke who does the six o'clock news on the BBC.

Oi. That's Huw Edwards you're talking about. He is gorgeous. I crave him.

20:40 / 28.04.04

"Janice" from Friends.

I know, I know; it is a character who's voice is supposed to be annoying, so choosing her is like choosing "Garfield" for laziest cat, but this does not change the fact that, were I one who believed in Heaven and Hell, I'm pretty sure Hell would be reverberating with that laugh...

21:16 / 28.04.04

Oi. That's Huw Edwards you're talking about. He is gorgeous. I crave him.

Do you watch Tv with the sound turned off?

Cos even if you do, you've still got to deal with his unnaturally troubled brow and beady little eyes...

he looks like a man who spends his life in a dank basement filling in difficult tax returns and making ugly decisions about which children starve to death..

(shudder)

21:31 / 28.04.04

Oi. That's Huw Edwards you're talking about. He is gorgeous. I crave him.

Indeed. He's a little pocket-sized teddybear. Bet he's appeallingly furry...

My Voice of Evil is probably Anne Widdecombe. There's just something about that huffing, creaking (like a 14-year-old schoolboy whose balls have yet to drop) diction which exudes Essence of Vile. May she die in pain for going through life wasting her genitalia.

21:40 / 28.04.04

Bet he's appeallingly furry

I just made a little love-wee....

Haus of Mystery

21:49 / 28.04.04

Whoever did those 'AT ICELAND THEY DO!!!!!!' adverts a while ago. I nearly went postal each time I heard that fucker.

22:14 / 28.04.04

Paul Ross. Paul Ross has an evil voice, which he wields on those ‘I love...any old bollocks’ shows to bend history out of shape. Ruins everything good, makes bad things sound okay, and he’s bloody ugly to look at, too. The evil bastard.

23:00 / 28.04.04

id like to point out that whilst johnny vaughan's pre-capital schtick relied on him all the crazy things he does, and the possibilty that his reasoning for doing such crazy things being that HE IS A LONDONER, he actually spent a large proportion of his youth in and around oakham (thats rutland, the smallest county in the country, found in THE MIDLANDS) and went to school at uppingham. he didnt even go to prison in london. the fuckers not just a liar but an annoying mockney ex-public school liar. lets shoot him. in ten years timeafter weve been released, we might get a fucking radio show.

not that theres anything wrong with going to prison per se if it can be proved that you got down with that funky rehabiliatation bag. but theres a lot wrong with similtaneously using your teenage criminal history as a fakeout to give the impression that you are hard and urban and down with the element when really you went to one of the top 10 private schools in the country.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:42 / 30.04.04

I actually have personal reason to hate Paul Ross- I was once interviewed for a TV programme about science fiction, which when broadcast had not a trace of me in it, but that fucker, SAYING ALL THE SAME SHIT I'D SAID AND CLAIMING THEY WERE HIS OPINIONS.

And Danny Baker owes me 25 quid for some writing I did for his (now-defunct) music website about four bastarding years ago.

They can both fuck off.

A

05:30 / 02.05.04

The True Voice, Face and Soul of Evil belong to one man and one man only:

Eric Roberts

solid white in water

05:48 / 02.05.04

My aunt mary is the voice of evil for many. Picture Bea Arthur playing Richard III.

13:57 / 02.05.04

Megatron.

16:34 / 02.05.04

There isn't any one person whose voice sums up evil. But the people who do the voiceovers for 'relaxation' CD's (walk in to any big branch of Waterstones - try the downstairs bit of the Leicester Market Street branch, for example - and you'll find a thing with relaxation CD's playing - reiki, sounds of nature, deep sleep, calming massage CD's, all that bullshit). I just can't stand softly-spoken 30-something's whispering to lie down and imagine myself whizzing through the Alps on a flying carpet or whatnot. It's a combination of the content and the tone of voice. It just sends me up the bleeding wall.