1. Joey Camen was born on January 16,1957 and is an American voice actor, comedian and writer who has performed voice over work in various movies, TV shows and video games.
11 Facts About Joey Camen
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In 1974, after graduating from Henry Ford High School in Detroit, Camen went to Hollywood, California.
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Joey Camen auditioned at the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip, and within a few weeks, he was a regular performer and master of ceremonies, making him one of the youngest professional standup comedians at the time.
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Joey Camen's standup act featured various dialects along with characters he created based on the people he grew up with in multi-ethnic Detroit.
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Joey Camen was then discovered and mentored by voiceover artist Daws Butler, who voiced the characters of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw and others.
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Joey 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.
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Joey Camen was the opening act for such performers as Oingo Boingo, The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, and others.
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Joey Camen has voiced multiple characters on animated family films such as The Queen's Corgi, The Son of Bigfoot, Thunder and the House of Magic, and Space Jam as Bang the Monstar.
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Joey Camen has voiced spots for various TV and radio commercials and was the voice of Natural Smurf in the Hanna-Barbera TV series, The Smurfs.
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In 1994 Joey Camen wrote and performed a serio-comic one-person, two-act play, In the Hood with Mrs Aronovitz.
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Joey Camen was criticized by video game fans who had discovered his YouTube channel Camen TV in where he played various offensive stereotypes.