February 2025 – In terms of voiceover, 2025 started with a bang. Almost immediately upon the start of the new year, clients started coming out of the woodwork, many of whom were past clients. By late January, I started adding in work doing voiceovers for an artificial intelligence company, and the work has continued into February.

Although it is disappointing to report I did not complete work on the audiobook for my 2012 book Long-Form Improv (which has been a side project on which I have put no time pressure to complete), this is largely because of how busy January was. For this month, I landed three other audiobooks — Decluttering: The Transition into a Teenager and Decluttering One Person’s Rubbish is Another Person’s Treasure by Daniel McMahon, plus the children’s audiobook Daddy’s Strawberry Farts by McMahon and his daughter. The list of all my audiobooks narrated to date is compiled here on my voiceover website, Voiceoverpro.co.  That business is my related to my other voiceover businesses with my wife: Voiced By Us and PoliticalVoiceovers.com!

My work as a stand-in on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has begun, and Season 12 begins February 16th. I am very excited for a new season on the show, which will be my 11th season aside from a few episodes in the first season.

Later, on February 20, the Netflix television series Zero Day will be out. I worked for around a month in January 2024 on the series which stars Robert DeNiro, and I expect I will be easily visible in the series. To that point, Vanity Fair in November ran a long piece on the upcoming series, and I was prominently featured in one of the photos, right next to DeNiro. That was cool to see!

My fitness routine has destabilized a bit amid all the work, the cold weather (before which sometimes I brave, sometimes I cower), and my interests. With that said, I’m fighting to figure out how to balance fitness and work, which is never something I will figure out firmly. Life is a bit like balancing on a teeter-totter with changing weights at both ends!

-Ben