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"Silly is healthy": "Animaniacs" star on laughing through throat cancer & finding a whole new fandom


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Recently, I got to interview two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, an Animaniac, a happy-go-lucky talking mouse who says Narf! and the dog from Rick and Morty.
All of them inhabit the mind, soul and vocal cords of veteran voice actor Rob Paulsen. He is, in his own words, in the happy business, but right now he was remembering something unimaginably frightening and devastating. Specifically he recalled how Warner Bros. had told him that they wanted to reboot the animated 90s series Animaniacs . . . roughly a month after he had been diagnosed with throat cancer.
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Barely containing his emotion, Paulsen described how he was afraid that he wouldn t be able to sing anymore (a key part of his job) or that something unthinkably worse might happen. But despite working in an industry so often associated with cynicism and selfishness, the colleagues with whom Paulsen shared these concerns who also happen to be his dear friends made it c ....

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