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Many people can probably do an impression of a gravelly-voiced movie trailer narrator. But Jon Bailey鈥檚 is more convincing than most.聽

As a professional voice-over artist and the voice behind the Screen Junkies series 鈥淗onest Trailers,鈥� Mr. Bailey has been honing his take on famed trailer voice-over actor Don LaFontaine in hundreds of comedic YouTube segments. The most-viewed 鈥淗onest Trailer,鈥� a parody trailer of HBO鈥檚 鈥淕ame of Thrones,鈥� has received more than 33 million views.

Bailey had been voicing animated and video game characters and providing voice work for trailers for several years before Screen Junkies producers discovered him on YouTube in 2011. 鈥淥nce they realized I didn鈥檛 have a singular sound and could do more than just one thing, they realized we could do horror, we could do family, we could do romantic comedy!鈥� Bailey says, his voice adopting each style as fast as one might change radio stations. 鈥淪o literally anything that they could think of, I could come up with a voice for it.鈥�

Because of the immediacy of YouTube and Bailey鈥檚 delivery, fans find him authentic, Bailey says. 鈥淭he way the audience sees each 鈥楬onest Trailer鈥� is that 鈥楾his must be the Epic Voice Guy鈥檚 personal opinion of this film and he鈥檚 letting us know about the silly parts,鈥� 鈥� Bailey explains. According to Bailey, viewers think he 鈥渟tart[s] out doing it as a regular trailer but suddenly ... step[s] out of the voice-over and say[s]: 鈥榃ait a minute! What鈥檚 going on here? Is this really the movie they made?鈥� 鈥�

So far, he鈥檚 traveled between assignments in Los Angeles and his home studio in Memphis, Tenn. Now Bailey is about to move his family west to attempt to break into big-screen animation. But his YouTube fans will likely always see him as their 鈥淓pic Voice Guy,鈥� each with their own vision of what he must look like. 鈥淢ost people are surprised that I鈥檓 not six feet tall,鈥� says Bailey with a chuckle. 鈥淲hen they meet me, they often say they thought I was going to be really tall and really, really muscle-bound.鈥�