"Next to sex and candy, voiceover is the most fun thing that you can possibly do."
Jess Q. Harnell (born December 23, 1963) is an American voice actor and professional singer born in Englewood, New Jersey.
The son of the late composer Joe Harnell, he's best known for his role as Wakko from Animaniacs, but has done many other roles. He's told a story about meeting a young Animaniacs fan at Disneyland who didn't believe he was the voice of Wakko, even after Harnell performed the voice for him. Harnell was also a producer and co-star in the live-action Comic Book The Movie, a mocumentary directed by and starring Mark Hamill.
Since 1998, he has been the announcer on America's Funniest Home Videos.
He's also in a band called Rock Sugar
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Jess Harnell's voice-acting credits include:
- Wakko Warner and Walter Wolf (starting with episode 40) on Animaniacs
- Captain Hero on Drawn Together
- Secret Squirrel on 2 Stupid Dogs
- Jerry in the first two seasons of Totally Spies!
- Tim the Bear on the third and fourth season episodes of The Cleveland Show (Tim the Bear was originally voiced by Seth MacFarlane)
- The Sewer Urchin on The Tick
- Hunter from Road Rovers
- Wooton Bassett on Adventures in Odyssey
- Joe Tabootie and other voices on ChalkZone
- Donny Rottweiller on The Replacements
- Ironhide and Barricade in the Transformers Film Series
- Odin, Hercules and others on The Super Hero Squad Show
- Tosh Gopher in The Looney Tunes Show
- Professor Buffo on Special Agent Oso (replacing Brad Garrett in season 2)
- Texas on Motorcity
- Nicelander Don in Wreck-It Ralph
- The title character in the Crash Bandicoot franchise from Crash Tag Team Racing on. Also voiced Lo-Lo - The Air Elemental in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, as well as Ripper Roo and Pinstripe Potoroo in Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.
- Spyro the Dragon, Hunter, Moneybags, Red, Astor, Magnus, Titan and Tomas in Spyro: A Hero's Tail
- Gumpers and Swanky in Pet Alien
- Do Wah-Diddy from Butt-Ugly Martians
- Gary The Monster in Little Nicky
- Estaban and Judge Tripps in Escape from Monkey Island
- Impossible Man and Super-Skrull in Fantastic Four: The Animated Series
- Evil Eye Weevil and Honka Lougie from Biker Mice from Mars. Also voiced Ronaldo Rump and Dr. Catorkian in the revival and serving as The Other Darrin for Rimfire, the Pit Boss, Lord Camembert, and Greasepit.
- Sven 'The Governator' in Cars
- Brer Rabbit, the Geese, and the Vultures in the Splash Mountain attraction formerly at Disneyland and Walt Disney World
- Roger Rabbit in Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
- Marlin from Finding Nemo in video games and theme park attractions
- Gyobu in Pom Poko
- Takashi Kashiwabara in episode 7 of Vampire Princess Miyu
- Fatso in Casper: A Spirited Beginning, Casper Meets Wendy and The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
- Gildas in the Dragon Hunters film
- Grim Gloom in The 7D
- Piecemeal in The Secret Saturdays
- Nurse AJ in Up
- Emmett in Monsters University
- Uncle Carl in The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
- Chilly and the Wicked King in Doc McStuffins
- Taxi Crab in Jungle Junction
- Shuff, Vulk, Zaptor, Burnard, Meltus, Vaka, Zabo, Hydro, Surgeo, Hotstuff, and singer of "Go, Go, Go Mighty Nindjas!" in Mixels
- Jimmy Earl in Monster Farm
- Colonel Richter, Optical and D-Zel in Alpha Teens on Machines
- Human Scooby in Big Top Scooby-Doo!
- King Happy Neppy in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
- Cedric the Sorcerer, Sir Gilliam, Woodsman, Additional voices in Sofia the First
- Pucker Uppenheimer, Sean's Dad, Billy Dad, Bass Player in The Loud House
- Burnu, Yabber & Sergu in Kulipari: An Army of Frogs
- Bag Puppets, Fud Fit Theme Song Singer in Mighty Magiswords
- King Hector, Chief Zephyr in Elena of Avalor
- "Ghoul Girls Rock" announcer in Vampirina
- Jess in Mickey and the Roadster Racers
- The Red Guy's canine lackey Cerberus in the original pilot "No Smoking" of Cow and Chicken
- Admiral Bullets and additional voices in the first season of I Am Weasel
- Various exterminators in The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
- Shady Joe, world record announcer in Phineas and Ferb
- Kung Pow in ClayFighter 63⅓ and ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut
- Replaced Matt Frewer as the voice of Dedgar Deadman in Toonsylvania
- "Kick It Up A Notch" singer in Muppet Babies (2018)
- Additional and guest voices in, among others; The Lorax (2012), Ponyo, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Darkwing Duck, Tripping the Rift, WALL•E, , Space Chimps, Finding Nemo, Ben 10, The Simpsons, Histeria!, Extreme Ghostbusters, Rugrats, The Emperor's New Groove, The Emoji Movie and Codename: Kids Next Door.
- LeChuck in Return to Monkey Island
- Maui in Disney Dreamlight Valley (replacing Dwayne Johnson)
- Blast Zone, Gusto and Flip Wreck in the Skylanders series.
