Bob’s Burgers: Meet the gay man behind Linda’s iconic voice
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and Home Movies, was getting ready to pitch a new project to the networks about a family of cannibals who ran a burger joint.
Intrigued by Wingate’s call, he complied.“I watched [The Christmas Tree] that night when I was in New York — I was staying in a little hotel,” the creator and fabled showrunner of Bob’s Burgers recalls. “He was doing his mother in these videos.
I think of it as postmodern drag. It’s him in this incredible wig and the big sunglasses and his mother’s actual sweaters, but also with his hairy arms.
There was just something really, really brilliant about it. It was sensitive but silly and broad at the same time. I got in touch and said, ‘He’s phenomenal.’“I knew immediately that it would work for us in animation,” the soft-spoken Bouchard continues. “To me, it felt like a voice that, if he was willing to loan it to us — because he already obviously had a home for that voice — but if he was willing to also loan it to us, I knew that character could be someone who you believed.
