New interview with Mike Henry, voice of Cleveland Brown

There’s a new interview with Mike Henry, the voice of Cleveland Brown and the head go-to guy (right under Seth MacFarlane) over at The Cleveland Show. Here’s a snipped from the interview:

How do decide on how your characters’ (Cleveland, Greased-Up Deaf Guy and Herbert) voices should sound?
I based Cleveland off of a guy I met playing basketball who pronounced Maryland like “Merlin.” He had a funny voice, and I started mimicing him. The voices are generally based on people I’ve met. Herbert is based on an old man I used to see at a grocery store. I turned him into a pedophile and tried to get Chris into his basement. Greased-Up Deaf Guy was always a nerdy character. We had to come up with a funny picnic gag and “how about catch the Greased-Up Deaf Guy” came from that. You have your bank of life experiences and when you’re assigned a character, you just start pitching ideas.

You can read the rest of the interview here.