Eric Bauza

Bauza was born in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough on December 7, 1979,^[1][2] and is of Filipino descent.^[3][4] His father and grandfather were fans of classic cartoons such as Looney Tunes.^[5] He stated that watching Mr. Dressup while growing up inspired his creative side; Bauza would draw with the host of the show while he was watching it.^[6]

He attended Cardinal Newman Catholic High School (now St. John Henry Newman) in Scarborough, from 1993 to 1996. He graduated from Centennial College in 2000.^[7][8]

Bauza started his career in animation as an intern at Spümcø during his third year of college and later became a production assistant on Weekend Pussy Hunt and The Ripping Friends which was his first voice acting role.^[8] His breakthrough role was on Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", where he took over the role of Stimpy from Billy West.^[9]

Bauza has appeared in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, The Fairly OddParents, Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island!, G.I. Joe: Resolute and Hero: 108. He has also played multiple roles on "The King and Us", a web-series sponsored by Burger King, and was seen on the NFL during Fox's pre-game show.

Bauza is the voice of Lord Stingray on the Adult Swim series Superjail!, Marvin the Martian on The Looney Tunes Show and Dr. Psychobos on Ben 10: Omniverse. He also appeared in episodes of the animated web series Dick Figures, where he voiced the Genie of the Teapot, the Vulgar Mall Santa, and the Ninjas. He has also been the voice of Lord Takagami, the main antagonist of Dick Figures: The Movie. He played Buhdeuce in Breadwinners and the title character in Netflix's The Adventures of Puss in Boots and related media.

Bauza has performed stand-up comedy at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles.^[10]

Bauza has voiced characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety, Marvin the Martian, and Woody Woodpecker. For his role in Looney Tunes Cartoons, Bauza won the first ever Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program. He also voiced Rash in the 2020 version of Battletoads.^[11][12] Bauza was briefly a late-night talk show host on The Late Night Show Tonight.^[13]

On March 23, 2021, Bauza appeared on the ABC game show To Tell the Truth and performed in his Looney Tunes voices.^[14][15]

In 2022, he hosted Stay Tooned, a six-part documentary series on the cultural impact of cartoons, for CBC Gem.^[16][4]

In 2023, Bauza became the new voice of Buster Bunny in the reboot show Tiny Toons Looniversity.

Bauza voices two characters in Bob's Burgers that had originally been voiced by other actors. In the show's twelfth season he took over the role of Bob Belcher's father, Robert "Big Bob” Belcher Sr., who had originally been voiced by H. Jon Benjamin in a voice only flashback and later by Bill Hader in the fifth season episode Father of the Bob. Following Jay Johnston's firing^[17] as Jimmy Pesto, Sr. he also took over that role in the show's fourteenth season.