Jeff Bergman

**Jeffrey Allen Bergman** (born July 10, 1960)[1] is an American voice actor, comedian and impressionist. He has provided the modern-day voices of various classic cartoon characters, most notably with *Looney Tunes* and Hanna-Barberacharacters. Bergman was the first to replace Mel Blanc as the voice of Bugs Bunny and several other Warner Bros.cartoon characters following Blanc's death in 1989. Bergman alternated with Joe Alaskey and Greg Burson in voicing several of Blanc's characters for various Warner Bros. productions. Jeff Bergman voiced the Pillsbury Doughboy following Paul Frees' death from 1986 to 2013. Bergman's work with Warner Bros. began in 1986, recording voices for *The Bugs Bunny Show*. After being rebuffed several times by Warner Bros. directors, he recorded a tape of himself as several of Blanc's characters, including Bugs Bunny. He took the tape to the production company and used a switch to toggle back and forth between his work and the original Mel Blanc recording. The producers were unable to tell the difference between the voices,[*citation needed*] and Bergman, at the age of 29, became the first performer to provide the voice of Bugs Bunny after Mel Blanc died on July 10, 1989 – Bergman's 29th birthday.

His first performance as Bugs Bunny, as well as those of Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, was in the 1990 animated short *Box-Office Bunny*, Bugs's first in over 25 years. Bergman later voiced Bugs and Daffy again in the 1990 TV specials *Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue* and *The Earth Day Special* (also voicing Tweety Bird and Porky Pig in the latter). He voiced Bugs, Daffy, Elmer and Yosemite Sam in the 1991 short *(Blooper) Bunny*, as well as several characters (including Sylvester the Cat and Foghorn Leghorn) in animated TV specials and newer animated series' such as *Tiny Toon Adventures* and *The Plucky Duck Show*. He also lent his voice to Bugs, Daffy and Porky in the animated sequences of *Gremlins 2: The New Batch*.

Away from the Looney Tunes, Bergman also voiced George Jetson in the theme park attraction *The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera*. Bergman later conceded that he had begun promoting himself as the new official voice of the Looney Tunes characters. Warner Bros. took exception to this and, to avoid repeating the stranglehold of Mel Blanc's exclusivity,[3] began using other voice actors such as Joe Alaskey (who was the first person to replace Blanc as the voice of Yosemite Sam in *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* in 1988), Greg Burson and Billy West.

Throughout the 2000s, Bergman kept himself busy by voicing various Hanna-Barbera characters, namely Fred Flintstone, in newer specials such as *The Flintstones: On the Rocks*, only rarely returning to the voices of the Looney Tunes in times when Alaskey and West were not available. In 2003, he voiced Bugs in a sketch on the NBC comedy show *Saturday Night Live*. Eventually, after almost 20 years, and after sporadically appearing as the Looney Tunes characters for nearly two decades, he returned as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester the Cat, Pepé Le Pew and Tweety in 2011's *The Looney Tunes Show*. He also returned for the 2015 series *New Looney Tunes*, voicing Bugs, Foghorn, Sylvester and Elmer Fudd, as well as other minor characters such as Michigan J. Frog.

Bergman also voiced George Jetson and Mr. Spacely in *Jetsons: The Movie* when their previous voice actors George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc both died during production – he had been working at his local radio in Pennsylvania when he received the call to travel to California and complete the dialogue. Bergman is a recurring cast member on *Family Guy*, usually voicing Fred Flintstone and Sylvester the Cat, as well as *The Cleveland Show* and *American Dad!*. He also gave a voice sample for a character in the 2011 *Spyro* game, *Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure*.

Bergman had a recurring role as a radio intern Gus Kahana on the AMC comedy-drama *Remember WENN,* which aired in the late 1990s.[2] He also voiced Zap in *Skylanders: Giants*, *Skylanders: Swap Force*, *Skylanders: Trap Team*, *Skylanders: SuperChargers,* and *Skylanders: Imaginators*.