SHORT TAKES : Noel Blanc Learned Dad’s Tricks

Noel Blanc, who has taken over doing the voices of Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny since his father’s death a year ago, says he learned to do them as a toddler.

“At 2 and 3 years old, I used to sit on my father’s knee and make him read me the Sunday features and any comic books I could find,” Mel Blanc’s son said in the July 7 issue of TV Guide.

“Not only would we have to do the voices of Bugs and Tweety and Sylvester, but I’d have him make up voices for Prince Valiant, Batman, the Katzenjammer Kids--characters he didn’t even know how to do. And I would mimic him,” he said.

Blanc said he did not have professional training until after his father’s near-fatal car accident in 1961.