Mark Hamill Talks Origins of Joker Voice & Laugh, Star Wars Weekends w/ James Arnold Taylor 

We all do!

+LegendOfLegends19100 yep

And Batman's in Kevin Conroy's voice, because they are perfect!

Same here

Dimitar Venov whenever i read anyhting the joker gas ever said comic, book, quote i always read it in marks voice

I think it's the best Batman movie of them all. The only movie that actually did Batman! Not Burton Batman, or Shumacher Batman, or Nolan Batman or Snyder Batman, but actually the Batman! And obviously the best Joker as well...

Same here

Batman Mask of the Phantasm was nothing short of brilliant.

I watched that movie SO MANY TIMES as a kid, my Mom to this day can quote every single line from the movie :P

I liked joker from forrestfire101

Ya if luke a goody toshoe jedi voise the mad clown prince of crime

I loved this line when Mark said in the Flas series as the Trickster. :D Like a cheap version of Joker... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-snF-FqfJna4.html

Lol, imagine this then ok so they make two masks one of himself and one as the joker. So when he says that line well I'm the joker pulls off mask one to reveal the joker mask and then let's out a laugh, and some improv. The voice of Vader comes in and says no you can't be. Joker says we'll Wich version of reality are you living in and a cackle end scene.

Darth Vader : Luke I am your father! Luke Skywalker : And I... am... IRON MAN !!

Get used to it, kiddo. BEEEEHEAHEAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA

Depressing

after 7 and 8 who wouldn't want the rebels to burn and see this over milked cow meat its end

Mason Stone Headcanon accepted.

+Mason Stone The Joker and Luke Skywalker are two separate characters.

Ultra Spawn r/woosh

me too dude he is the best

The more you know!

He looks better than Alec Guinness did.

BeefyLevinson And now we have a new Star Wars movie coming out....The Force Awakens. And Mark Hamill grew a beard for the movie. Coincidence? Hmmm...

+Schone23666 And since Lucasfilm is owned by Disney, I can now make this reference. Coincidence? I THINK NAWT!!!

They say "sixty is the new fourty".

There's a certain RHYTHM to these things: Mark Hamill says it's his last time playing the Joker, they get a new voice that isn't quite as good, so they just get Mark Hamill again and the game starts all over!

I know! I can't believe Tidus graced that stage!

As he did in Kingsman.

+Pale Horse He is. Mark is god at explaining things at a level everyone can understand. He is a Jedi Master.

+Super Soldier agreed

Me too because he good acting as the joker :_____(

Troy Baker is gonna do fine job as the Joker, I almost cant tell the difference between him and Mark!

Well Hamill did say something that if there going to do a Killing Joke DVD Movie he would do the Joker Voice

Evin Ceniceros That needs to happen so much. Get on the ball, Warner Brothers!

Yet he still came back for Arkham Knight

You can never have too much respect for the Ham-man himself.

+Brady Wall I guess you are right.

Andreas Nordvall WB and other companies are too afraid they're going to lose money. Selling your work to a company has a positive and a negative. The positive is that they make your work known. The negative is that if you ever cease your job with them, your work is still owned by them.

Fortunately, they may have a copyright on the Joker's lines, but not his voice :P

+Andreas Nordvall New actors taking over the Joker role will definitely be compared to legendary Mark Hamill by many fans old and new. That's the business, so people in these companies should get over it.

Kevin Conroy is not allowed to do the same thing with Batman.

Lol WB had a bad PR Team

WB, just like Disney, is a heap of crappy hypocrisy.

Yeah, the lawyers are really giddy to threaten lawsuits at the drop of a hat. I remember when Adam West went on the Howard Stern Show, back in 1994, with the Batman mask from the 60s TV show. He allowed Howard Stern to try it on, but Adam West, whose whole career is that Batman show, could not wear it because the WB lawyers told him they would sue him for copyright infringement if he did. I can understand filing a lawsuit IF the performer was trying to make a living off a character he is no longer entitled to play, but threatening Hamill for uttering a few phrases and an occasional laugh? Just stupid.

GrandJediMaster7860 Corporations are what corporations do ;)

+Splatador These fucktards are obviously jealous of Mark Hamill just because he has a talent to mimic people's voices and to sound like the Joker.

I don't like it either, but I can understand the lawyerly mindset. According to the law, if a company doesn't defend against every single infringement it knows about (and unauthorized public performance counts as an infringement), then that non-defense can be used as evidence of copyright/trademark abandonment in a later case. It probably wasn't Warners going "how dare he?!?" so much as "oh crap... we gotta send the letter or else some cocky lawyer down the line will find a way for this to snowball into us losing the rights to The Joker..."

ok thanks

Eddy Pallace C'mon, Nicholson had an amazing performance

So do I heh heh heh😁😁

Which owns DC...

BEYOND THE SPIDER FILMS How dare WB talk to Luke Skywalker that way! Fuuck them.

BeingHonest Well, I've never heard of anything about Disney doing that to Mark Hamill.

BeingHonest Umm... yeah in a way, he does. There's something called Star Wars which is owned by Disney. And last I checked he's in the next Star Wars film.

+BEYOND THE SPIDER FILMS That still makes it WB's decision not DC's

Also Arkham Knight

Ikr he's in arkham knight now

***** No, it's definitely Hamill in Arkham Knight.

***** No it's Hamill.

***** Troy Baker was in Arkham Origins. And interestingly, imitating Hamill quite well, exept his signature laughter. I think that Troy Baker was voicing a 20y younger version of Hamills Joker from Arkham universe and if he was voicing his own Joker without any baggage, he would take a different approach instead of just imitating Hamill.

dntm123 He acctualy retired, its (literally) a cameo by Joker in Arkham Knight. I read that this approach was interesting for him, he liked the script and felt that finishing Arkham trilogy like that would be much nicer . Also Kevin Conroy talked him to it. But Hamill stopped doing voice for Joker as a whole (no movies or tv shows). But you are right, because he did Arkham City after that, but I guess that he was not informed about its existence during that time he did this panel. Also Joker sells Batman games so they had to force him in somehow :D

Are you Jesus ?! 😭

wtf

Nick Ngo Well.. are you Jesus!? He asked you a question! :p

Yea man lol he ask you a question. All you have to do is answer the damn questions cj!

what does this had to do with anything

Said every drunk on a monday morning while the police takes em away.

Well he was supposed to be done after city but they coaxed him back and he has done the joker multiple times since city.

Ashutosh Mohapatra - The Trickster in The Flash! That's a good catch! 🌟for you 👍

Also Hobgoblin in Spider-man the Animated Series

I agree with you. I prefer his Joker voice in the early seasons of BTAS and Phantasm. He had some of the best variation in his laugh during those seasons too. Ref. The Laughing Fish, Christmas With the Joker. I think there were a few in The New Adventures of Batman an Robin too.

The order of how good each persons portrayal of the joker is the exact same for me

I'd rate Jared Leto's performance as fairly solid and a bit more multidimensional than Heath Ledger's Joker. When I first saw The Dark Knight, I was impressed by how good a job he did, but on subsequent viewings, I realized that the Heath Ledger Joker is just pure psychopath with no punchline at all. None of the sudden shifts from being your best friend to hurling you into a vat of acid. In the comics and animated series, The Joker was psychotic, but he could also charm someone instead of intimidating them and THAT is what made him so terrifying: you never really knew what he would do. Heath's take, while interesting at first, is nothing more than Tony Montana with bad clown makeup but with even less charm than Montana had. People hate me for this, but over time I am less and less impressed with Heath's one dimensional Joker compared to Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, or Cesar Romero. Hell, Leto actually showed more dimensions than Ledger did in the nightclub scene. He started off as business-like and approachable before going full psycho while Ledger was stuck in psycho mode the whole time.

@RaderizDorret - I agree. Leto's Joker felt more in line with what Mark Hamill says about the character. He felt unpredictable. You got a pretty good idea that someone was going to get hurt, or die, with Ledger's Joker. With Leto, it seemed more ambiguous.

***** I also kind of like the big-bling-street-thug image of The Joker. He's always been the guy who started off as a nobody but later on developed into THE powerhouse of the criminal world short of those like Lex Luthor (who is a pretty one-dimensional bad guy who still remains interesting because you never really know what his angle is though you know there always is an angle he's working). Leto took heat for the writers wanting to make him more like a street hood who rose to prominence than a classical 30s era Made Man and I think that was actually a smart move. The Mafia is still one of the powerhouses in the criminal world, but they no longer are the biggest game in town to most people (just saying what I've observed, having grown up around Detroit which historically had a very strong Mafia presence but it's faded to the street gangs in prominence in most peoples' minds). It's actually another layer to the unpredictability woven into his character. With the Mafia, they're largely focused on business and psychos are rooted out by the established Families sooner or later (usually by ambushing the bastard before he catches on), but with Street Gangs, you.really don't know what you'll get. On one hand, they are much more likely to be overtly violent but on the other they can also be more focused on business than the image of "keeping it real" (at least among the leadership. Both sides are VERY dangerous and are not to be approached lightly and without understanding (truly understanding) the consequences thereof, but the image of. Leto's Joker is an interesting and more modernized take on the Joker and how he got where he was. Instead of being an associate of Made Men who managed to beat them all, he's a two-bit flamboyant street thug who made it and no one fucks with him lightly. It's a very similar story, but exchange Mafia for street gang. It has this Saint's Row vibe to it that is fun to go with.

RaderizDorret Again, I have a similar view of the character. I will say that street gangs have become far more organized than they were in the past, but I think the Joker's role in the Gotham underworld would be a little different than he would in a real life setting. Gotham's underworld is terrorized by Batman, and the Joker is the guy who not only openly challenges him, but always has great fun doing so. That alone gives him street cred like you couldn't get anywhere else. More than a street thug, I'd think of him more like a criminal celebrity, sort of a Marilyn Manson of crime. lol

karl eichholtz - As a child, I watched the 1960's series, and I can clearly imagine Hamill saying that line, as well as Caesar Romero.

he was considered to be Mozart in the film

Oh, wow!

Along with many other roles he's done a lot

]-)ΣΔ†]-[ By now, he is acctually more known for doing Joker, for past 20 years, than anything else. He was almost every Joker in almost every animated Batman movie/tv show.

Technically, the King of Rock was Little Richard whereas Elvis was simply the King, but the point still stands.

@@michaeloconnor5904 “Elvis took my Tutti Frutti and I was disgusted.... BUT, by him singing it, he made it bigger and made ME bigger!“ Little Richard There you have it. Elvis IS the King of Rock and Roll.

timaahhh - BTW you know, the _real_ Joker would snicker at your comment because you said " I pee". 😏

60% of his other TV roles are just other characters with a Joker voice

Uh-uh. I remember very well how the "fans" turned into rage machines over Michael Keaton being cast as the Batman. Can you imagine their reaction fo Luke Skywalker being cast? No way.

Ovegrow120 I think that Troy Baker is just forced to do a Hamill imitation, he would do it his own way if WB did not need a Hamill replacement. New actor should have a new Joker, but that did not happen.

+Jakub Matei Because once u had the best you expect the best. XD The Dc fans would have had a fit if the Joker stopped sounding like the Joker XD

Jakub Matei well thats probably true- still i just dont like it. sure we can speculate, but the fact remains they more or less fired hamil and nobody is forcing an artist to do anything- especially if they are getting payed to do it. i just dont like it, replacing someone like that- its wrong. were not talking about a product here but about artists and their work. and sure work is great but on the other hand its kind of despisable to be the one replacing someone with their own routine- while the company even goes as far as screwing the fans by sending hamil a cease an desist notice, just because he and went and did a bit for them, shame on him he actually enjoys doing it, thats not art- thats capitalism and i dont think thats something a real artist should agree to do. then again a real artist is someone working as such so never mind me.

Troy Baker was awesome as Joker.Of course he copied Mark in Origins,The joker from origins is still the same joker from the other games.It wouldn't make sense if he sounded differently.

What

I think it is.

It's a hearing aid.

+Ave Satanas Luciferian he's getting a bit older.

It’s part of the microphone. His hearing is perfectly fine.

+OddJobKid99 why? Alot of the actors voice or othewise work for multiple companies. Marvell and Dc heroes have had the same voice actor. Besides which Mark Hamill can arguably be known more for the joker now then Luke Skywalker. Wouldnt it be better to see Luke Skywalker in the disney movie and think of the Joker Laugh and want to suddenly watch batman XD

It's a microphone on a headpiece which helps to amplify his voice through speakers around the room. It's mainly for convenience so that he doesn't have to hold one for a long duration of time. Another alteration is where a microphone piece similar in size to the head piece microphone rests on the collar of a t-shirt which provides the same support. If you are referring to his left ear, however, it appears to be a hearing aid. Mark Hamill is growing older now but his impressions and characters are still young and fresh!