Talking CLEARLY with a cigar?

[butternutsquashpie]

Has anyone mastered this technique yet? Stressed word is: Clearly!
Maybe to the level of the awesome general from Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSofqNSuVy8

If you do, kindly share some tips

[Deano]

Haha I slobber too much already (as I'm told in every pic I post!) so I think I'll keep my speaking to a minimum!

[Drewmidorn]

Tip 1. They used to train folk with speech impediments to speak whilst biting a pencil between each side of their jaw so the pencil presses the tongue down.... It's very difficult but that is ow Peter O'Toole ended up with perfect diction.

Tip 2. Hold the cigar in your teeth not in you lips.

Tip 3. Get a dubbing editor to help you re-record and sync up your dialogue after you have finished filming, this time without the cigar.

[rokkitsci]

Wonder if that was a Cuban?

[butternutsquashpie]

Tip 2. Hold the cigar in your teeth not in you lips.

Tip 3. Get a dubbing editor to help you re-record and sync up your dialogue after you have finished filming, this time without the cigar.

Well with cigarillos, I can talk almost perfectly if i hold them in my lips. Why would that one change for a cigar then? Hmmmm,
And this is all in person though, I guess the movies do have the benefit of doing that. But i do like to be able to communicate with a cigar in my mouth and doing activies like working on my bike........

[Drewmidorn]

My dad used to ride his motorbike whilst smoking a pipe.

[butternutsquashpie]

My dad used to ride his motorbike whilst smoking a pipe.

That is too awesome for words.

[Drewmidorn]

73 and still pootling round on a triumph bonneville once in a blue moon. No pipe now though.