Eric Bauza

**Eric Bauza** (born December 7, 1979) is a Canadian-born voice actor based in the United States. His most-known roles include Stimpy on *Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"*, Foop on *The Fairly OddParents*, Thunderbolt Ross on *Iron Man: Armored Adventures*, and Fozzie Bear on *Muppet Babies*. He is the current voice of many characters, including Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Dino, Woody Woodpecker, Scrooge McDuck, and Master Splinter. As of 2023, Bauza is the voice of Jimmy Pesto in *Bob's Burgers*, replacing original voice actor Jay Johnston.

Bauza is a seven-time Emmy Award nominee, winning in both 2022 and 2023 for his work in *Looney Tunes Cartoons*, and *Bugs Bunny Builders*.

## Early life

Bauza was born in Toronto, Ontario, on December 7, 1979, and is of Filipino descent. He stated that watching *Mr. Dressup* while growing up inspired his creative side; Bauza would draw with the host of the show while he was watching it.

Bauza was born and raised in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough. He attended Cardinal Newman Catholic High School (now St. John Henry Newman) in Scarborough, from 1993 to 1996. He graduated from Centennial College in 2000.

## Career

Bauza started his career in animation as an intern at Spümcø during his third year of college and later became a production assistant on *Weekend Pussy Hunt* and *The Ripping Friends* which was his first voice acting role.

Bauza has appeared in *El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera*, *The Fairly OddParents*, *Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"*, *Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island*, *G.I. Joe: Resolute* and *Hero: 108*. He has also played multiple roles on "The King and Us", a web-series sponsored by Burger King, and was seen on the NFL during Fox's pre-game show.

Bauza is the voice of Lord Stingray on the Adult Swim series *Superjail!*, Marvin the Martian on *The Looney Tunes Show* and Dr. Psychobos on *Ben 10: Omniverse*. He also appeared in episodes of the animated web series *Dick Figures*, where he voiced the Genie of the Teapot, the Vulgar Mall Santa, and the Ninjas. He has also been the voice of Lord Takagami, the main antagonist of *Dick Figures: The Movie*. He played Buhdeuce in *Breadwinners* and the title character in Netflix's *The Adventures of Puss in Boots*, along with reprising the role for a couple of other projects like commercials, a short & a video game.

Bauza has performed stand-up comedy at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles.

Bauza has voiced characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Marvin the Martian, and Woody Woodpecker. For his role in *Looney Tunes Cartoons*, Bauza won the first ever Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program. He also voiced Rash in the 2020 version of *Battletoads*. Bauza was briefly a late night talk show host on *The Late Night Show Tonight*.

On March 23, 2021, Bauza appeared on the ABC game show *To Tell The Truth* and performed in his *Looney Tunes* voices.

In 2022, he hosted *Stay Tooned*, a six-part documentary series on the cultural impact of cartoons, for CBC Gem.

In 2023, Bauza became the new voice of Buster Bunny in the reboot show *Tiny Toons Looniversity*. He became the voice actor for Jimmy Pesto on *Bob's Burgers* for the show's fourteenth season after Jay Johnston's firing. Also in *Bob's Burgers*, Bauza voiced Robert "Big Bob" Belcher Sr. who was previously voiced by H. Jon Benjamin and Bill Hader in the character's last two appearances.