Character

Fanny's Announcer

Fanny's Announcer in Futurama (1999), played by Maurice LaMarche.

A booming, unseen voice hyping up whatever spectacle is unfolding, the Announcer exists purely to sell the moment — cranking excitement for an event called Fanny with the full-throttle enthusiasm of a stadium hype man. He never appears on screen, just narrates with theatrical bombast, treating even minor happenings like the biggest show in the universe.

Maurice LaMarche built a career on exactly this kind of voice — huge, resonant, gleefully overblown — and Futurama knows precisely how to deploy it: a single line of pure announcer-speak can turn a throwaway gag into something that lands like a genuine event. It's economy of character, all voice and zero screen time, and it still works.

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