Carlos Alazraqui

If you were looking for the article about the Canadian television personality, then see Carlos Bustamante.

Template:Person Carlos Jaime Alazraqui (born July 20, 1962; age Template:Age) is a voice actor.

During the first three seasons of the show, Carlos voiced mainly minor characters, most notably Scooter and Atomic Flounder, before quitting following the first movie. He later returned over a decade later as a guest star, voicing Bunny Wunny in "Bunny Hunt." He voices Nobby Narwhal and Harvey in Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.

Biography

Alazraqui originally began his career in stand-up comedy, he was the winner of the San Francisco Comedy Competition in 1993. He beat out fellow comedians Marc Maron and Patton Oswalt.

Alazraqui has performed several voices for Nickelodeon cartoons, including Rocko on Rocko's Modern Life, as well as Denzel Q. Crocker and Juandissimo Magnifico on The Fairly OddParents, and Lube and Winslow T. Oddfellow on CatDog. He also voiced several additional voices for the Cartoon Network shows, Cow and Chicken, Kidscity: The Village Dome of Kids, and I Am Weasel during their runs in the mid-late 1990s. He also voiced Spyro in Spyro the Dragon. He was later replaced by Tom Kenny as Spyro in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, Spyro: Year of the Dragon and Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. In 1997, he voiced Crash Bandicoot in a promotional ad for the game Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. He also voiced the Taco Bell chihuahua in the Taco Bell commercials, Rikochet in the first two seasons of ¡Mucha Lucha! and Mr. Weed (the head of the "Happy Go Lucky" toy factory) on Family Guy. It is mentioned in the DVD commentary track that Alazraqui was reluctant to leave Family Guy. In particular, Seth MacFarlane suggests that the death of Alazraqui's character took the actor by surprise. He also voiced Dr. Julius No in GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.

In 2005, he added the voices for two Cartoon Network series – The Life and Times of Juniper Lee where he played Monroe, a guardian dog with a Scottish accent and three characters in Camp Lazlo: Lazlo, Clam and Chef McMuesli. In 2006, he added Salty Mike from Squirrel Boy and Walden in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! on Nick, Jr. to his credits. He played Wisk in Glen Hill's 2000 film version of L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. He also provided the voice of Nestor in the Happy Feet films. And he currently voices Baba Looey, Mudsy the Funky Phantom and Loopy De Loop.

Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, a storyboard writer for Rocko's Modern Life (and co-creator of Phineas and Ferb), described Alazraqui's normal voice as bearing "no accent at all." Marsh describes Alazraqui's "Scottish accent" as "one of the best" and that he performs his other accents as "all very well." According to Marsh, Alazraqui uses various accents in his comedy routines. He had worked for the Disney Channel on Handy Manny, where he provided the voice for Felipe, the bilingual Phillips-head screwdriver and for Abuelito, Manny's grandfather. He was the original "voice guy" on the Stephanie Miller Show. His replacement was Jim Ward having previously substituted for him. In January 2008, Alazraqui returned to fill in briefly while Ward recovered from surgery. In 2014, he voiced Mesmo and Torts in Mixels. He voices Tio Tortuga in Sheriff Callie's Wild West.

In addition, Alazraqui joined Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour in 2014, playing some of the dates with Ward and he has a semi-regular segment on Miller's radio show Coffee with Carlos.

Alazraqui is known for his live-action work in Reno 911!, in which he portrayed Deputy James Garcia for five seasons (2003–08). He played the same role in the series' 2007 spin-off film Reno 911! Miami. As a nod to this role, he also played a "bumbling" Reno cop in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Let it Bleed." He has been a celebrity on the Tom Bergeron version of Hollywood Squares.

Alazraqui also wrote and starred in The Last White Dishwasher, a short film.

In 2009, he collaborated with Ted Nicolaou on the web series The Club, which was released in November 2010. The series features Jill-Michele Meleán, Debra Wilson, Johnny A. Sanchez, Lori Alan, and Daran Norris.

Non-SpongeBob discography

• Reno 911! - Deputy James Garcia
• Rocko's Modern Life - Rocko, Spunky
• ¡Mucha Lucha! - Ricochet
• Spyro the Dragon - Spyro
• The Fairly OddParents - Denzel Crocker, Juandissimo Magnifico
• CatDog - Lube, Winslow
• Family Guy - Jonathan Weed
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee - Monroe, Michael Lee
• Phineas and Ferb - Bobbi Fabulous
• Handy Manny - Felipe
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! - Walden
• Camp Lazlo - Lazlo, Clam
• El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera - Puma Loco
• The Loud House - Carlos Casagrande, Sergio
• The Casagrandes - Carlos Casagrande, Sergio
• The Ghost and Molly McGee - Matias Torres
• Rock, Paper, Scissors - Scissors

External links

• Website