"Robert "Bob" West" is an United States/American television actor best known as the voice of Barney (character)/Barney in the hit PBS children's show Barney & Friends. West, a native of Texas, has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours.

As Barney, his voice was used on the television series, in a 70 market radio show, on Multi-Platinum and Multi-Gold albums, for a feature film, for CBS and NBC primetime specials, for touring performances, as a Daytime Emmy presenter, for toys, for educational games, and for "personal appearances". He also voiced interviews on Today (NBC program)/The Today Show, LIVE! with Regis & Kathie Lee, The Oprah Winfrey Show/Oprah, The Donahue Show, John & Leeza From Hollywood, Marilu, and appearances around the world.

In 2000, he retired from voicing Barney and was temporarily replaced by voice actor Duncan Brannan, who met him through their affiliation as the voices of Chuck E. Cheese and Tim Dever. In 2002, Dean Wendt replaced Brannan and Dever as the purple dinosaur's voice, and Carey Stinson replaced David Joyner as the character's body performer. However, West's pre-recorded voice can still be heard in A Day in the Park with Barney/A Day In The Park With Barney at Universal Studios Florida, as it was recorded in 1995.

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It is hugely worrying. I have never heard of this being done before.

We're in a wait-and-see pattern, but I will be willing to bet we'll have surf this weekend. I've already put the word out to the lifeguards that the lull is over.

I think, truthfully, people are whipped.

We've had a mild winter and the water's warmer, and we'll be short-staffed until our staff gets out of school. They've been doing a fantastic job so far.

If you stay out of the water, the man o' war's not an issue.

Whether he drowned or not, it still hurts to lose someone. We have been working very hard to keep people safe on our beaches. We will look into this and see what we can do.

Mostly about the trouble I got into around here when I was a kid.

[The franchisees had borrowed heavily to buy the company.] We were staring a 20% interest rate in the face, ... And so any excess cash didn't go to building doughnut shops. It went to pay off debt. But we beat all of our projections, got ahead on our debt, and by 1992 the company was in great financial shape.

It's been bad all week. We've been telling people to stay out of the surf. You can't even wade in it.