Finding Bigfoot U.K. Has a "Sarcastic" Voice Over Guy?
We can't confirm this since we don't live on that side of the pond. Apparently, the U.K. version of Finding Bigfoot has a "very sarcastic" voice over guy as the narrator. Owen Staton from the U.K. mentioned to Matt Moneymaker on Twitter that the voice over guy makes the show "seem silly".
Since there are rarely any reports of Bigfoots in Europe, the Brits are probably less inclined to believe than Americans. The U.K. version probably caters to a different (and more skeptical) audience base. We have a feeling some Brits are getting their funny bones tickled every time the show comes on.
The Discovery Channel have a tradition of redubbing American narration with more localized voices, but can anyone from the U.K. tell us how "sarcastic" this voice over guy is over there?
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I am from Ireland and never miss the show. I find it very interesting and I hope they do exist. As far as the sarcastic voice over, well yes, just before the show gets going the guys is a little sarcastic while introducing it. Classic close-minded British crap and it seems to work , as in putting the show into context for the sceptic. I have watched it a few times with people who think BF is BS and off the bat they straight away think the show is a joke purely because of the sarcastic statements.
DeleteIf I was Moneymaker or somebody connected to the show I would have something down about it asap.
yeah its the voice over guy that makes it seem silly.
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DeleteFuck the queen??? In that case I piss on your constitution,Iwe may live in England but at least we are still a free country, unlike you lot that are being led and dictated to like cattle!! United states,that's a joke,your about as united as a room filled with cats,dogs and mice!! Which incidentally you are!! Mice being led by corporate cats,which in turn are being what in by dictating new world order dogs!! Fuck the queen indeed!! At least we have one and not some megalomaniac puppet whose having his strings pulled by forces year are going to pull your country apart and lead you into an impressive police state,which incidentally is already happening. Rule Britania !!!
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A Queen? That's some Dungeons and dragons shit right there. Do you guys have wizards and elves too?
Deletescotyy boy you r asting your time here,its Americans we are talking about,although some are normal ratinal individuals, the majority are brain wahed dumg fat sses who havent a clue where the UK is,never mind its politics etc... They wouldnt even know the Uk was the the very centre of the industru=ial revelution, the 1 country that can be counted on to fight back against tirany in any form[not just for oil] ie ww1 ww2,kosovo etc..ameicans oly got nvolbed in ww2 after pearl harbour,they were quite happ=y to wtch their reletives die in their millions whilst they were too scared to fight the nazis. they have had the 4 most usless dumb presidents in worls history[mah=kes them a laughing stock[,obama is a lightweight with no backbone or conviction in his head. the qy=ueen may be over paid etc,,,t least she has seen us thrugh our dark times with sigity and common sense and shon true leadership
Deletealso'finding BF' isnt even on in UK,so the story is just another fu=iller by the host! ridiculas blog nd dumd uneducated comments.
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DeleteAnon@9:01- Come to America and say that shit queen reamer.If it wasn't for the armed forces of America you bloody bastards would be talking German right now.So why don't you thank the GREAT MEN OF AMERICA that fought for your "Royal pain in the ass Family" so that the common people can pay for their high cost of living.
DeleteWhat a f-ing sham.Think about it, seriously.
How's that Prince Harry doing lately?Living off of the common peoples money so he can party with whores while he makes a mockery of your so called "Royal Family".If I remember right he even wore a Nazi uniform.In America we would call that treason.So get your facts straight before you open your pie hole,,,,,bitch.
Finding Bigfoot is on in the uk it's on discovery channel and the voice over guy is pretty sarcastic it's quite funny
DeleteFree country? You pussies let a bitch take your guns. The epitome of pussigied tea and crumpets faggots. Free country? LMFAO, yeah where the policeman can't even carry guns. Free country? You queer butter toothed homo.
DeleteYeah cheers for nipping in and taking the credit in world war 1 and 2, really helped us in wars we were already winning. We all know Russia won us ww2, the Americans hardly fought in Europe, all you did was save your own arses in the Far East. Go mull it over over a McDonalds...
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DeleteThis is a speech from Winston Churchill begging for help from the greatest nation in the world,The United States of America.
America hardly fought in Europe?Does D-Day ring a bell?
Not going to put down all of Europe cause there is no need in it.
You sir have no knowledge of history therefore you're an ignorant troll.
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Deletewhat are you talking about? We do to have a queen her name prez Obama
DeleteDid the Americans win WW1 and WW2 before or after they got their fat asses kicked in Vietnam by a bunch of peasants? I can't quite remember. USA!USA!USA!
DeleteYou must remember that the same kind of tactics that led to some victories by the VC's are the same tactics that led to the defeat of the British during the Revolutionary War. The British could not understand how an untrained force was slaughtering them. The British tried twice to take over what was to become the United States. Many Brits forget about the War of 1812. What has any of this to do with what the question brought up? I too live in the UK and millions are leaving here annually to be replaced by citizens of other EU countries. The government here must answer to Brussels, not London. Neither the Queen, a figure head, nor the PM, have as much authority as the EU. Every day I hear or read someone calling this country a shit hole. Citizens of both countries will support their country. Also, those in the UK need to stop trying to convince themselves that obesity is an American problem. Obesity, and the problems associated with it, is single handedly taking down the NHS. Many Brits say they hate the USA yet, still watch American movies, listen to American music artists and yes, even every McDonald's, in every city and town, is crowded. Even KFC, Dominos, Pizza Hut, PaPa John's, etc etc, does a bang up business as does ASDA, owned by the WalMart family and even the few WalMarts here. Both sides just needs to calm down!!
DeleteYou must remember that the same kind of tactics that led to some victories by the VC's are the same tactics that led to the defeat of the British during the Revolutionary War. The British could not understand how an untrained force was slaughtering them. The British tried twice to take over what was to become the United States. Many Brits forget about the War of 1812. What has any of this to do with what the question brought up? I too live in the UK and millions are leaving here annually to be replaced by citizens of other EU countries. The government here must answer to Brussels, not London. Neither the Queen, a figure head, nor the PM, have as much authority as the EU. Every day I hear or read someone calling this country a shit hole. Citizens of both countries will support their country. Also, those in the UK need to stop trying to convince themselves that obesity is an American problem. Obesity, and the problems associated with it, is single handedly taking down the NHS. Many Brits say they hate the USA yet, still watch American movies, listen to American music artists and yes, even every McDonald's, in every city and town, is crowded. Even KFC, Dominos, Pizza Hut, PaPa John's, etc etc, does a bang up business as does ASDA, owned by the WalMart family and even the few WalMarts here. Both sides just needs to calm down!!
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DeleteScottyboys right.. Just a bunch of obese rednecks most of ya.. Your countrys fucked...i think bigfoot is really obama fooling around in a costume.. Prob having a good old laugh behind your backs,, you"ll believe anything.. Money maker is exactly wat is says on the tin dont u get it? If u was a serious bigfooter why call yourself that ? He s pulling all your plonkers and u fall for it haha
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Deletei watch it over here and he doesnt sound sarcastic to me, perhaps less enthusiatic. i did watch the 1st series on line with the american voice over and found them a little more intense, perhaps it is a cultural thing, i watch a lot of american programmes over here my fav being dealiest catch and i prefer our narration to yours, that is no offense to you ive heard the american narration for it, i just prefer the calmer tones, the only time i prefered an american narrator was animal cops somehow it made it sound more serious with the deep american voice than when it was changed in later series to an english one.
ReplyDeleteive been trying to pin down the narrator for the english version (sounds odd typing that when you guys are most certainly watching it in english but you know what i mean) it sounds like to me andy serkis but its probably not him, he does do voice overs but im not sure if he is doing this one. it is on, on sunday i shall check the titles when it is finished and report back.
I'm with peggysmum. Haven't even noticed him so it must be pretty understated and down to earth.
DeleteMythbusters is one show I prefer the US version due to a terrible voiceover (posting anonymously because I have worked with several VO artists including the Mythbusters guy :) )
When I try and remember it I hear Ralph Ineson's voice I deleted the last show from Sky+ a couple of days ago I'll try and spot who it is next time.
Just to let you know... most American stuff is revoiced for UK. The reasons are varied but mostly because:
Delete(1) the american voices are too over the top. Too pro American (cos they think they invented, won, and did everything in history) and just plain awful/corny a lot of the time. An example of this is Deadliest Catch: The Bait. They often have military guests on the show and refer to them as some kind of second coming of Jesus.. with phrases like 'Welcome to the studio Capt Luke Mason, a true American hero and patriot' etc gushing crap like that. Whilst Americans may think so, he's just a guy who flies a plane to us.
(2) Most of the time scripts have to be re-write to take out a ton of Americanisms that are just 'So Gawwd damn awful' and replace them with proper English.
(3) Because Americans quite often get their facts wrong in scripts (especially regarding war programmes as everything made in America has a massive biast and slant towards American involvement and quite frankly is just not true. It's no wonder you guys think you won everything with your biast media). And I've yet to meet an American who doesnt think Europe is a country lol
And BTW, yes the FB UK VO is slightly more sacrcastic but doesnt detract from the overall show and its only 30 seconds at the begining of the show. That's the only VO in it. Viewers are left to make up their own minds for the 44 mins it runs for. And the guy who does it is the same giuy who is in the English version of The Office as Finchy. Great guy.
I thank you.
It's a Yorkshire actor called Ralph Ineson, as mentioned above. He does quite a lot of voice-overs and radio stuff too. He only ever says a few things on Finding Bigfoot, and it is tongue in cheek and a bit sarcastic. I often thought that what he says was not what was said by the voice-over person on the US version.
ReplyDeletewe ahve a finding bigfoot in the uk? wtf
ReplyDeleteor is it just the normal show airing in the uk?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is a shame if the voice over is sarcastic. But I guess it just reflects the fact that the subject of bigfoot is not taken seriously by the mainstream. Who is to blame....well partly our bigfoot community...not much science or objectivity...so why should the mainstream take us seriously.
ReplyDeleteI live In England and im a huge Bigfoot enthusiast and love to learn and research. Before Finding Bigfoot was released over here I watched it on Youtube. Then one day I was looking through the channels and seen Finding Bigfoot on "Discovery" not "Animal Planet". All this time I had been checking Animal Planet and its true when I watched it, the voice over was the first thing I noticed. It is different and really sarcastic. Kind of ruins it really! I think its true that people over here laugh at "Bigfoot" and the research going on over in America. I always get laughed at and told they are "not real" when I watch the show, or when I watch clips or read stories. Im love learning about Bigfoot and hope to keep learning and maybe one day I can go back to America and learn alot more !
ReplyDeletewell I hope you have patients if you are trying to learn anything here.Shawn post some good stuff but the comments section has been taken over by childish fools.
DeleteIt's patience not patients you childish fool.
DeleteMaybe the presenter of Finding Bigfoot wouldnt be so Sarcastic. If they actually FOUND bigfoot. Which, everyone knows, they wont. Ever.
ReplyDeleteAnon 5:56 you cheeky fucker. My relatives fought for Queen AND country, the police do carry weapons, just not all of them and Prince Harry is welcome to shag any American red neck scrubber including your mother!! What has America brought the world - Aids, double fisting, obesity, in-breeding, illiteracy and stupid fucking accents we can't understand. What has England or Britain brought the world - The Raleigh Chopper, the mini, Yorkshire tea, the most spectacular Olympics you'll ever see and the Cornish pasty. So come over 'ere and say that and we'll set our fucking corgi's on you.........twat.
ReplyDeleteI think its more that we're civillized enough not to need all our police to carry weapons. The Americans need their police to have guns because an unforutnatley high proportion are uneducated, uncivillized cretins.
DeleteTrue. True. And when we need them they get the job sorted. Plus we've got the SAS. Best Special Forces in the world.
DeleteFor such a tiny country we do ok. Just wish we had our own BF to chase at weekends.
DeleteLol The Uk. You mean britainistan? Enjoy you burkhas. Losers. You are a shell of what you were only 40 tears ago. You are now a midfke eastern colony and nothing more.
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Deleteok, your the expert, dirty bastard
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ReplyDeleteI'm watching it here in the UK and I don't think the guy comes across as sarcastic. Enjoying the show enormously actually and eager to go bigfooting sometime soon.
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy to audition for the UK version of Finding Bigfoot. I do voice-overs full-time and my website is www.billlee.net. Listen for yourself. While I may have come in tenth out of seventy-seven auditions for the American audition, I feel I have what it takes to run with the big boys. Plus, unlike most announcers, I actually know a thing or two about bigfoot. Are any producers out there willing to give me a chance? I'll throw in a free jar of my award-winning salsa as an appetizer. :)
ReplyDeleteit's okay, Bill... I came in first... ;-) I AM the non-sarcastic voice of the American version. I think you and I have talked before... not sure. it's a great gig, and I am agnostic on Sasquatch. The Patterson Gimlin film is actually quite compelling if you examine it closely and know some of the facts surrounding it. Otherwise, I'm not sure. I know he is not here near where I live (Indianapolis)... but the Upper Northwest??...hmmm. maybe.
DeleteThe UK has the Queen. US has Lil'Wayne. Says it all.
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to clarify, it was predominantly the British Royal fam. that brought in-breeding to the world. Look at Prince Charles, when he's on the polo field it is very hard to tell which one is the horse. Then there is the cross breeding, poor Charles and Camila gorilla, silly brits. Horses and pitbulls don't go together. The US really should have drop shipped A cargo plane full of Crest, AIM and listorine, on the brits, that would have been more of a help, might've even saved an entire generation of kids.... Now all that is left are heroine addicted fake burberry wearing toothless slags roaming the countryside chaving all the come across.
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