Andrea Romano, the voice director and caster for Animaniacs, said that the casters had "no trouble" choosing the role of Dot: "Tress MacNeille was just hilarious (.) And yet that edge." MacNeille was nominated for an Annie Award for her performance on the show in 1995. MacNeille was brought in to voice Dot Warner, one of the show's three main characters, because Dot's character was very similar to Babs Bunny. I even have her doing Jessica Rabbit." The success of Tiny Toon Adventures led to the series Animaniacs. MacNeille commented: "The best part of doing Babs is that she's a mimic, like me.In the show I do Babs doing Billie Burke, Hepburn, Bette Davis, Madonna and Cher. Writer Paul Dini said that MacNeille was good for the role because she could do both Babs's voice and the voices of her impressions. MacNeille was cast as Babs Bunny in Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1992). MacNeille and Mary Kay Bergman also appeared on Yankovic's 1999 album Running with Scissors, on the tracks " Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" and "Jerry Springer". She sang and appeared (as Lucille Ball) in the music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's song " Ricky" (1983), which was based on the I Love Lucy television show and parodied the song " Mickey" by Toni Basil. MacNeille took acting workshops and worked as a casting assistant for voice acting talent agent Bob Lloyd in what she calls "The University of Voice-over." Lloyd and fellow agent Rita Vennari got MacNeille her first role on an animated show: a part in an episode of the 1979 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. In her words: "I'd been doing radio spots, some TV, demos, sound-alikes, industrial narrations-anything that came my way for about two years." She was also a member of the improvisational comedy group The Groundlings for ten years. MacNeille worked in numerous jobs and had many minor voiceover roles before becoming a regular on an animated TV show. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and attended broadcasting school, becoming a disc jockey. MacNeille loved cartoons as a child and wanted to be a voice actress from the age of eight, but instead chose a "practical" career, feeling she would never be able to realise her ambition.
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