It's been about a week now since Aflac announced their new duck-voice: Daniel McKeague. It's a pretty masterful PR move to make people care about a soccer coach from Minnesota getting a VO gig.
Did they go for a new sound? Did they go for an impression? The first video doesn't make it clear. it's almost a split between Gottfried and Donald Duck. But McKeague explains that he did have an impression in his pocket. "Whenever that ad would come on I would imitate the duck and the kids loved it."
The second video, strangely, sounds like a completely different voice. Not at all Donald-ish or Gilbert-y. I wonder if they checked every contestant's tweets before deciding.
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