Ugliest Speaking Voices

I'll start: Katy Perry. Yuck.

The woman who hosts the morning show on MSNBC-- the show that's on after Morning Joe.

Donald Trump

The ginger on modern family and any other man with a faggot voice!

EVERYTHING about Blowsanne is ugly, R5.

Only because he has a lateral lisp: Jim Mattis. BUT I think that's why his US Marines loved him so much. So maybe that's not an ugly speaking voice, just an unfortunate birth defect.

Mary Steenburgen (I do like her, though).

Victoria Jackson

Casey Affleck

Holly Hunter Sissy Spacek

Anyone with vocal fry and/or upspeak. It sounds really unattractive and affected.

R13 I forgot about Miley. I should've mentioned her in the OP.

Even when she was in her teens she sounded like an old lady chainsmoker with a headcold.

Madge, Barbara Walters and Chris Matthews.

Former NY Times Editor Jill Abramson

Liz Taylor. Getting through 4-hour long Cleopatra in once sitting is quite a challenge, and that's mostly because of her annoying voice.

Roseanne's voice was her shtick when doing her early standup, but I don't think it ever transferred well to TV sitcom, at least for me.

What is that accent R23?

It's like teen girl vocal fry in an old lady

I may get shit for this but I can't stand hearing that NFL play by play announcer Beth Mowins. Her voice is annoying (not just because it's deep but mostly because it's deep).

R26 Jill was born in NYC. Her vocal fry is painful and then she draws out the words in a very unnatural rhythm. It's hilarious that the girl interviewing her tries to mimic Jill's vocal fry and cadence - like a kitten trying to growl.

Can you imagine having Jill as your boss and having to hear that voice all day, everyday?

Miley cyrus--how the hell did someone with a voice like that even as a teenager get a job on a tv show?And as the LEAD! It just got worse when she got that pixie cut. That and her boyish body.

I can't stand how Joe Kennedy ends every sentence with his voice dropping down. It's annoying.

Madonna's various "speaking voices" over the past several decades, depending on what "phase" she's going through in her life.

Amber Ruffin - especially when she does her "Amber Says What?!" skit on Seth Meyers. It's nerve grating. I can't wait for those skits to end.

Elizabeth Warren. I want to like her and like some of her ideas but I can't stand to listen to her.

Rita Cosby..she makes my throat hurt

Good one with Elizabeth Warren. Her voice is awful.

Trump's voice sounds like a long dry fart.

I love Trump's voice when he slurs through the teleprompters. I can watch that shit on a loop for hours on end because it's so hilarious His rally voice, however, makes me want to rip the fur off puppies.

Donald Trump. I just can't watch news anymore. And Meghan Markle. I don't know what it is about her voice - the timber, the inflections , the syrupy drippiness of it - it all drives me bonkers.

The mocha-skinned bitch in the grammarly ad.

I like the Culkin brothers and find all of them quite adorable & watchable on film; but honestly even as a fan I have to admit their similar voices are all real cock-softeners. I can’t even pinpoint why. They just sound like they have kazoos where their voiceboxes should be.

Billie Eilish. She has the WORST blaccent ever. It's so horribly offense and I'm a fucking white person. I'm like, bitch,, don't TALK like that.

Best female speaking voices: Angelina Jolie, Tinashe, Laura Linney, Kelly Rowland, Catherine Keener, Karen Kilgarif from 'My Favorite Murder' podcast

Worst female speaking voices: Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, Kourtney Kardashian, Wanda Sykes, Georgia Hardstark from 'My Favorite Murder' podcast, Ciara

Female voices that are not good or bad but I enjoy listening to: Jennifer Aniston, Britney Spears (when she is doing her flat East/West coastal accent and not the twang), Alison Brie, Sandra Bullock, Ashanti

Tobey Maguire sounds creepy to me.

Sandra Bullock has that slightly whiny Northern Virginia accent that she's never been able to shake, but I still love her voice.

Maureen Dowd. Sometimes Maher or Msnbc will have her on. Disgusting vomitous voice.

Michelle Wolf - stand up comedian who did the White House Correspondents Dinner and had a netflix show for five minutes - OMFG she hurts my ears.

Lara Logan. Annoying and borderline unintelligible. And she is a Trump tard so that makes it all more offensive. Chris Matthews also has an obnoxious speaking voice.

Sandra Bullock has that awful Arlington, VA/DC accent where she will have a slight Southern drawl but then do a full-on Mid-Atlantic accent on some words and then say things like "rrrrrrrwarsh cloth" or "Wrrrrashington."

Her German is flawless, however.

I am from Northern Virginia and I am almost 42 years old. The two posts about Northern Virginia accents are the only time in my entire life I’ve heard of someone describing a Northern Virginia accent and I love it.

The combination of vocal fry+upspeak is the worst way of speaking. Kardashian voice.

I? Don’t know what? You guys are talking about. What? Is upspeak.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy owns this thread

The New York Times editor above wins hands down. I’ve heard lots of annoying voices but THAT is a vocal 50-car pileup.

Ezra Klein. Stfu you smarmy upseaking cunt. No one finds your wonkiness adorable anymore . Megan McCain too, angry shrill and high pitched.

r59 - omg, yes, Ezra Klein is the worst. He's too old to be cute anymore and didn't do anything to preserve his looks ala Pitt/Keanu.

Michael Barbaro has a perfectly normal vocal timbre but the way he speaks makes me want to stab myself in the ears.

For me, frequent MSNBC commentator Neera Tanden is the absolute worst.

Women: Caroline Kennedy, Elizabeth Warren

Men: Nicolas Cage, Donald Trump

Gay porn performer Armond "Follow the Yellow Brick Road!" Rizzo

Sirius XM's Madison on AltNation. Frau + upspeak = change the channel.

Babs and that Nanny lady.

Julia Child, Fr a n Drescher, my local news anchor

The worst of the entire Kardashian / Jenner family: Kourtney Kardashian.

I never thought of Elizabeth Warren's voice being horrible. But I guess the way she uses her voice is maybe pedantic.

I couldn't stand Jacqueline Kennedy's and Marilyn Monroes's breathy fake baby voices. Clearly not meant to appeal to gay men.

Also, Carol Channing, Lucille Ball - old chainsmokers.

Laura Ingraham

Jeanine Pirro

Hillary Clinton's shouting voice

Sarah Palin

Casey Affleck

Carol Kane. Not a “bombshell” high voice but even more annoying. I wouldn’t even know how to type it...except insipid.

DL fave Kate Jackson. So earnest sounding and dull.

Sarah Michelle Gellar. Not terrible but she always sounds like she has a cold. She also talks way too fast.

Cardi B has such an awful speaking voice. She sounds so stupid. Nicki Minaj sounds like a genius compared to her, although sometimes her Queens accent is overbearing.

[quote]Casey Affleck

[quote]Casey Affleck

I agree with most of these voices—Cardi B, the Jeopardy lawyer, that Jill woman—but I would love to hear Casey whispering in my ear, particularly as he thrusts inside me for a little in-and-out.

Rachel Ray

Christina Meursinge Anstead (née Haack, formerly El Moussa)

Baz Luhrmann has a really unpleasant, unhealthy sounding voice. Quite high-pitched for a man, pressed, and raspy. He should see a speech therapist.

Leonardo DiCaprio had a sexy voice when he was young, especially in interviews when he was talking in a normal chest register, but it's aging as badly as his face. I feel like it became more high-pitched when he was around 30 (usually this only happens after 50), and also more nasal. And the overall timbre is just quite unattractive now.

Florence Pugh also has a voice that sounds prematurely aged; you'd think you're listening to a 60-year-old chainsmoker. I wouldn't even call her voice ugly, but it's irritating.

Kristen Stewart. And Ross the intern.

Agree about the horrid Miley Cyrus R13, R20 and R30. I think her actual voice is even worse than the SNL spoof of it. Gotta Love Jason Sudeikis as Billy Ray though. God I hate that whole knuckle-dragging family.

Celine Dion is another one.

Me. I have an ugly voice.

Jennifer Lopez's speaking voice is super annoying. Her sister Lynda, however, has a great voice. She used to have a TV show called "Glow" I would watch. Jlo sounds so trashy and try-hard while Lynda has this very professional yet sexy normal person voice.

"Psychic" Sylvia Browne. She's dead now, so thank God we don't have to listen to that fraud anymore. she was always so full of shit.

Vickie Guerrero, but to her credit she turned it into a killer gimmick that got mad Heat.

Some people have mentioned Fran Drescher but I give her an automatic pass because I adore her.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck's snippy voice

Rosie Perez

Ann Coulter

R90 she also used it for great comedic effect so it’s a little different.

I find Britney's flat Coastal accent to be very sexy and thrilling. Very clear, crisp, and perfectly enunciated with absolutely no vocal fry. Slight vocal uptalk but not offensive to me. And I love how she mispronounces Kesha's stupid name.

OP, Katie Perry’s singing voice isn’t exactly pretty either. I think fran drescher owns this thread.

R72 I have a similar reaction to Marilyn and Jackie's voices. Just skin crawling and visceral revulsion. But then again I find them both incredibly overrated in every other aspect as well.

Jennifer Lawrence’s speaking voice is awful and makes her even more annoying.

Agree with those who mentioned the fucking Kardashians. Kim is the queen of vocal fry.

Also, that Theranos scammer, what's-her-name — Elizabeth Holmes.

Mattress Mack in Houston. Makes me crazy.

Donald Trump's swishy voice

Jared Kushner's purses flying from mouth voice.

Holly Hunter, Melanie Griffith, Reese Witherspoon.

Women that try to talk and little girls voices. Jenny Slate, Sarah Silverman. Like nails on a chalkboard.

Tiler Peck. No wonder Fairchild left her.

Notice how all these people love to speak and rarely ever shut up? Like David Spade and his whiny, lazy voice, always thinking he’s so clever, funny and witty.

Yup, R24. All that legendary beauty, yet when she opened her mouth a shrill fishwife fell out.

R97 Elizabeth Holmes was actually hilarious because she would try to lower her voice 3 octaves to sound more authoritative... which sounded like a little girl trying to imitate a man's voice.

Wow, mattress mac. That goes back a long way.

Meanwhile, GW Bush. In fucking sufferable.

Whoopi. When she talks it sounds like gravel is coming out of her throat.

Elizabeth Warren. Breathy, whiny, pleading, annoying.

Elizabeth Warren. Breathy, whiny, pleading, annoying.