Michael McGaharn is a voice actor and comedian. He has done much voice work in video games, such as being the voice of Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic Adventure, and prior to that, Lead Phoenix in Burning Rangers. After Sonic Adventure, he was no longer able to continue voicing Knuckles for undisclosed reasons.^[1] He was replaced by Ryan Drummond in Sonic Shuffle, and later on by Scott Dreier, until the cast changed to the 4kids actors. A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Knuckles the Echidna ) is a fictional character within the Sonic the Hedgehog fictional universe of video games, television shows and comics. ... Sonic Adventure is a video game created by Sonic Team and released on December 23, 1998 in Japan by Sega for the Sega Dreamcast. ... Burning Rangers is a video game developed by Sonic Team for the Sega Saturn. ... Sonic Shuffle is a video game for the Sega Dreamcast and was Segas answer to the successful Nintendo party game, Mario Party. ... Scott Dreier is a voice actor most famous for voicing the character of Knuckles the Echidna in the Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Battle and Sonic Advance 3 video games. ...