Gary Owens

Gary Owens (born May 10, 1936) is a disc jockey and voice actor born in Mitchell, South Dakota.

He broke through on the Los Angeles radio station KMPC in 1962. In the next few years he became more widely known as the voice of the TV cartoon characters Roger Ramjet and Space Ghost, and perhaps most importantly, as the announcer on Laugh-In, all the while continuing his show on KMPC.

In the '70s, Gary hosted the first season of the nighttime version of The Gong Show; he was replaced by the show's creator, Chuck Barris.

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When appearing "in character" on camera as Gary Owens, the announcer, Owens holds one side of a set of headphones to his right ear while speaking into a gimbaled boom microphone.