The Ticket’s Gordon Keith, whose “Fake Jerry” has been a staple on the Dallas sports talk station for the last 30 years, broke the news Wednesday.
DALLAS — If you’re going to parody Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, you might as well bring in the man who basically invented the craft.
The Ticket’s Gordon Keith, whose “Fake Jerry” has been a staple on the Dallas sports talk station for the last 30 years, broke the news Wednesday that he was, in fact, tapped by Cartoon Network to voice Jones in a new animated series.
The show, Keeping Up With The Joneses, was announced earlier this summer. Created by some of the writers behind Robot Chicken and Mike Tyson Mysteries, the half-hour series will follow the fictional Newberry family trying to “keep up” with their rich Dallas neighbors — the Cowboys-owning Jones family.
Keith revealed Wednesday on “The Musers: The Podcast” that he started receiving emails from a Hollywood casting agent about playing the role of Jones on the new show.
Keith eventually got back to her and did an audition for the show over Zoom.
“I was pretty intimidated by this,” Keith said, “because I’ve never done anything like this in my life. I’m going to read for a part on a national show as an actor, in that ridiculous voice?”
Keith, per usual, must have nailed the “Fake Jerry,” because he got the part.
Keith said he’s already recorded all his parts for the show, which doesn’t have a release date just yet. Keith admittedly did the Jerry voice that “doesn’t really sound like him” — but nonetheless, it’s the caricatured voice that Ticket listeners have enjoyed for three decades.
When the show’s producers had the choice between a more “real” Fake Jerry, Keith said, they opted for the more “cartoony” option.
“For better or worse,” Keith said, “that version of Fake Jerry’s voice has become canon.”