For those tuning in to the Adult Swim O.G. cartoon show, "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law," you may hear a familiar voice. No, you’re not hearing things that is late night show host, Stephen Colbert, voicing villains with ray guns or judges with gavel
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Dec 18, 2020 By Jake Uitti Adult Swim
I was a sophomore in college when I stumbled upon Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network Sunday nights. It may have been an old friend who turned me onto the programming someone, like me, who enjoyed basements and glowing televisions and the occasional giant bong rip. But there was much more than just goofy humor to the original Adult Swim shows that quartet of cartoons I’ll call the “First Four.” Namely,
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
The shows, which first aired in December 2000 in the middle of the night, were aired in earnest on September 2nd, 2001 nine days before one of the greatest tragedies on U.S. soil, 9/11. The world turned topsy-turvy and it took some time for Adult Swim to catch hold of its audience, as a result. If the “First Four” were made in the image of the original adult cartoon,
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For those tuning in to the Adult Swim O.G. cartoon show,
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, you may hear a familiar voice. No, you’re not hearing things that is late night show host, Stephen Colbert, voicing villains with ray guns or judges with gavels. Colbert, who took part in myriad comedic gigs before landing his major hosting job on CBS, was one of many standout voice actors on
Birdman in the show’s history.
Birdman, which was perhaps Adult Swim’s most highly produced and slickest of the original block of four, featured the winged former superhero defending his cartoon peers in a court of law. The show led to classic episodes like “The Dabba Don,” in which Fred Flintstone stands trial as a mob boss might. Other episodes feature Scooby-Doo and crew and more 1960s Hanna-Barbera superheroes. We caught up with