That Lovely, Shrill Screech

Another reason it seemed weird that Mike Tyson was in that short-lived Fox Sports Net ad: He just doesn’t have a commer cial-friendly voice.

Or does he? A glance at the chart shown here, which excerpts the results of a 2001 survey by Wake Forest’s Center for Voice Disorders, con firms that Tyson’s girlie-speak deserves ridicule and derision, at least from the poll’s 3,000 respondents. And yet a closer look reveals a counter intuitive fact: The majority of folks in the “worst” column have done ads (for Pizza Hut, Subway, Glad, etc.);