My friend Josh Robert Thompson stops by to chat about his experiences as Geoff The Robot on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. We discuss his work as a comedian and voice over actor as well as the projects he has worked on since leaving CBS. He does a myriad of voices including Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Robert DeNiro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Lucas, Jeff Goldblum and many others. He talks about Carol Burnett wanting to meet him and gently roasting the late Don Rickles. We also talk about horror movies, Star Wars, and his time working on Family Guy. This is an absolutely hilarious conversation with a brilliant and talented human being.
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Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Josh Robert Thompson spent much of his childhood making silly voices into a Fisher-Price tape recorder.
Josh’s gift for mimicry eventually brought him to Los Angeles and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, where he appeared on camera in a number of sketches and also provided the voices of an invisible house band, a talking rhino head, celebrity insects, and every caller on Ferguson’s desk phone. But it was his role as Craig’s robot skeleton sidekick—Geoff Peterson—that proved to be Josh’s big break, creating one of TV’s most unlikely and endearing late night duos.
For over a decade Josh’s wide range of voices and impressions have appeared on FOX’s Family Guy, as well as American Dad, Robot Chicken and Skylanders Academy, just to name a few.
In audiobooks, Josh has provided character voices and narration on over 30 projects—most notably author Michael Kaminski’s The Secret History of Star Wars and a series of scripted podcasts for Audible, including the Webby Award-winning, Killing Hollywood: The Cotton Club Murder.
On radio, Josh became a Howard Stern Show favorite as the voice of “Fake” Arnold Schwarzenegger—famously fooling everyone from George Takei to Fox News.
As a stand-up, Josh has toured all over the U.S. and Canada, playing such legendary venues as The Chicago Theater, Town Hall and Radio City.
On screen, he starred in the romantic comedy Nowhere Girl, the indie supernatural thriller Revelator, and the award-winning comedic series F#ing 40.
Currently, Josh can be heard in the hit Netflix animated series Inside Job, the Kristen Wiig comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, and regularly as “The Voice of God” on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
He is also the recipient of a Webby Award for his turn as George Lucas in Collider’s “deep fake” video series.
Key Moments
0:00 Intro
1:00 Reddit is a Rough Crowd
3:00 The Legend of Geoff Peterson
4:00 Behind the Scenes of Late Late Show
5:40 The Chemistry of Geoff and Craig
6:30 When Geoff was Pre-Recorded
8:50 The Evolution of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
14:00 Where is Craig!?
15:15 Preacher Voice
17:30 Preach Around
20:00 The John Waters Story
23:00 Let Me Tell You Should Do…
25:00 The Late Great Grant Imahara
27:00 Bootlegs
28:00 No, He Isn’t Dead
31:00 The YouTube Algorithm
32:00 Josh Robert Thompson Pilot Episode
35:00 The Great Robin Williams
36:00 Filming The Pilot
38:00 Cut for Time
41:00 Horror Movies
43:00 George Lucas and Star Wars
45:00 Deep Fakes at Collider
52:00 Animation Collaborations with Shmoedown
54:00 Impressions
55:00 Trump and Morgan Freeman
58:00 Backstage With Geoff ad Sandy
1:00:00 Sandra the Rhino
1:01:00 Alfredo Sauce and The Shy Guys
1:02:00 Secretariat
1:06:00 Corporate Rules
1:07:00 Carson Impression
1:08:00 “I Have a Place There!”
1:18:00 Time at Family Guy
1:20:00 Yelling at People on the Internet
1:21:00 Halloween Time!
1:22:00 Trump Impression “He Gets The Numbers”
1:23:00 Don’t Bother With Arguing on the Internet
1:24:00 Preach Around!
1:25:00 Don Verdean
1:26:00 Outro
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