Special Guest! Exclusive Rare interview on The Jim Masters Show as host Jim Masters welcome iconic, veteran American voice actor, stand-up comedian and writer, the one and only Joey Camen! He’s the voice of McGruff The Crime Dog, Natural Smurf on The Smurfs TV series, Joey has performed voice over work in countless movies, TV shows and video games. He is a 25 year veteran of the World Famous Comedy Store clubs having performed at their venues in Hollywood, La Jolla, CA and Las Vegas in the Dunes Hotel main showroom. As well as headlining in comedy clubs throughout the United States. Starting at just 17 years old over the years Joey has worked with Richard Pryor as his opening act and as a sketch player in his now iconic NBC TV series, The Richard Pryor Show, Paul Mooney (did hundreds of shows together), John Witherspoon, David Letterman (in David’s early days at the store), Jay Leno (he even coached me for his appearances on the Dinah Show).Rosanne Barr, Jim Carrey, Franklyn Ajaye, Jimmie JJ Walker, Sam Kinison, George Miller, Willie Tyler and Lester, Bob Saget, Marc Maron (he was a guest on his show).
As a voice artist and actor with 122 credits on IMDB, Joey started at just 18 when he became protégé to Daws Butler, better known as the voices of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Cap’n Crunch and countless others. Joey has voiced numerous projects including being the original voice of Natural Smurf in The Smurfs TV Series for Hanna-Barbera, a designed voice of McGruff the Crime Dog, as Bang the Monstar in the Michael Jordan vehicle Space Jam. Popular video games, Mafia II (did 40 characters only credited for 2), The Skylanders Series as the voices of Terrafin, Boomer and Free Ranger, Brutal, Legend, Transformers 3, The Sam and Max online series,
Fantastic Four as The Thing, The Sopranos Video Game and many others.
Joey also worked with his boyhood idol Jonathan Winters in a cartoon series. Joey co-starred for 2 seasons on the PBS series The Righteous Apples with Mykelti Williamson who would later go on to costar as Bubba in Forest Gump.
Camen got his first break at 20 performing his standup comedy routines on national TV shows Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert and later on Dinah, the daytime talk show starring Dinah Shore. He was also the opening act for such performers as Oingo Boingo, The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, and others. In addition to being a regular performer at the Comedy Store for more than 25 years, Camen has headlined at comedy venues in Las Vegas and comedy clubs and colleges across the United States.
As a voice-over actor, Camen has worked on multiple projects over the years, including video games Devil May Cry 5, Skylanders: Giants, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Mafia II; the online series Sam & Max, where he voiced two seasons as Bosco and the entire Jimmy 2 Teeth family.
As an actor, Camen’s first job was as a sketch player on the short-lived NBC variety series, The Richard Pryor Show, where he performed sketches alongside Richard Pryor and other cast members. Then as a pledge in Floyd Mutrux’s The Hollywood Knights, and next co-starring in the PBS television series, The Righteous Apples, for 2 seasons as Samuel ‘DC’ Rosencrantz. This led to working with Ralph Bakshi on his films, American Pop and Cool World, as well as guest roles in sitcoms and other feature films.
In 1994 Joey wrote and performed a serio-comic one-person, two-act play, In the Hood with Mrs. Aronovitz. The premise was simple: An ungrateful son tricks his elderly mother out of the deed to her apartment building in order to tear it down and put up a parking lot. Mrs. Aronovitz and her tenants rally together to get the building back. Camen portrayed 9 diverse characters. The play had a successful run in theatres in Los Angeles and New York City.
Camen’s filmmaking credits include the Houston International Film Festival Bronze Award-Winning comedy short Bernie – A Love Story about a man and his mattress, in which he worn multiple hats as writer-director-producer and actor. Joey has also directed various YouTube videos for his comedy channel CamenTV.
Joey has written two non-fiction books. The 2013 pet memoir, My Life with Snoopy: How One Shelter Dog’s Love Changed a Man’s Life and Other Tails of Adventure, which tells the story of his 13-year relationship with his Burbank Animal Shelter dog, Snoopy. And his 2017 autobiography, Laughing Through the Pain: Stories from the Trenches of Hollywood Standup Comedy and Beyond.
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