Downloadable audio interviews with famous celebs?

October 30, 2006 11:50 PM

Could someone point me in the right direction for downloading interviews of famous celebs in something like mp3 format. I have an audio assignment and will be splicing my questions together with someone like Tom Cruise's answers, so I need to find a good resource, be they torrents or google. Does anyone know of any particular site that hosts these files?
posted by taita_cakes to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

The Sound of Young America? Note: most of these people, even if famous, are cooler than celebrities.
posted by Phred182 at 12:26 AM on October 31, 2006

Best answer: The Daily .WAV might help.
posted by tom_g at 3:24 AM on October 31, 2006 [1 favorite]

That was how Johnny Carson got famous here in Nebraska (before we gave him to the rest of the country). He spliced his own questions into canned pre-scripted celebrity interviews.

CARSON: "I read that you recently swallowed an entire bicycle."

SOME STAR: "Yes ... I found it a very enjoyable experience and hope to do it again real soon."
posted by RavinDave at 3:27 AM on October 31, 2006

Play videos of interviews on YouTube (there are lots of them) and use an audio capture program to record the sound?
posted by pollystark at 4:52 AM on October 31, 2006

Following up on pollystark's suggestion:

Find a video interview on YouTube,

Download the .flv file using KeepVid or similar site.

Drag the .flv into your sound editor.

This is the method I used to "interview" Leontyne Price for my podcast.
posted by La Cieca at 8:44 AM on October 31, 2006