Hey everyone;

I just so happened to catch a few minutes of Cartoon Network's "Ben 10: Ultimate Alien" the other day, and imagine my surprise when the main villain that week was a clown that sounded and awful lot like Mark Hamill's Joker! I knew I recognized the voice, but I couldn't tell; all I knew was that he was emulating TAS's Joker voice. I looked it up, and turned out it's fan-favorite voice actor John DiMaggio!

DiMaggio (whom we at GKO recently posted an exclusive interview with that you can find here), previously known by many as "Bender Bending Rodriguez" on hit animated comedy Futurama, is actually voicing the Joker for the next DC Direct-to-Video Animated Feature. "Batman: Under the Red Hood" is due to be released in just about 2 months on July 27th, 2010, but we have yet to get a good trailer and hear much of the voices of many of the characters. A lot of fans have really been wondering what DiMaggio would sound like, as many people only know him from his comedy work, rather than voicing serious (and twisted) characters like the infamous Joker.

Therefore, I figured I should post some clips the episode of Ben 10, which is more than likely VERY similar to what he's doing for the Joker. Unfortunately, Time Warner is rather strict about their videos, so I can only post links to the videos (and not embed them here).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_98I6lmnaM&feature=channel

In this video, you can catch DiMaggio's character around the 1:20 second mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGtPcTLHtCk&feature=channel

In this clip, DiMaggio comes in at around 49 seconds (and you get a bit of his Joker laugh too!).

Enjoy!

(Source: Cartoon Network's Official Youtube Channel)