It's still under an hour because we all know our characters backward and forward. Patrick: I could do two episodes that are a bit more Joe heavy. Jesse: How much time were you talking about? How long would it take to record an episode that focused on your character Joe, for example? But it's a very convenient gig because you pop in and you pop out and it's a well-oiled machine. If you ever see a bunch of guys recording together, that's done for EPK, because we don't do it together, the schedules don't work out like that. We get in, we get out, we all record individually, so we're not getting in there together. Patrick: Fortunately, our producers Rich, Alec, Steve, and the guys that direct us are funny gents, they're pros. Can you walk us through a day of production on Family Guy? Do y'all have fun? Do you get silly or is it just all business? Jesse: I think the world of voice acting is fascinating. The cast of "The Tick": Nestor Carbonell, Patrick Warburton, David Burke and Liz Vassey, at the Fox TV presentation of their fall 2000 lineup in New York City on May 18, 2000. We all need to love each other, support each other, be tolerant, and yet at the same time have a sense of humor. One of the things I marvel at in this world today is all the strife and all the wars and the this and the that. Now I get to be a bad Jew and a bad Catholic. But I was thrilled doing summersaults, "Hey Jerry, you know, you didn't make a mistake in hiring me." So, I've been a bad Catholic my whole life. The first text I sent was to Jerry Seinfeld to immediately welcome me to Yid-Land. My wife found out I'm 12.4 percent Ashkenazi. Like Christmas episodes and those who gasp at what we've done. I've done a lot of stuff that has been edgy in regard to Catholics. I just had found it so utterly offensive and unfunny that I just said, "I can't be a part of this one." That's it. I actually had an issue with one episode now in over 20 years. I would even turn it off when the kids were watching it. Because of the way I was brought up, I guess I saw it that way to a degree too. He called up, and he left a message on my phone one day, and he just said, "Patrick, in a future episode of Family Guy, God is sitting in a reclining chair sitting next to a bottle of lotion, getting ready to masturbate. But they were a bit overbearing in the religious department. My dear departed father, I love my dad very much. At one point, my father left a message on my phone. They would get their newsletters, and Family Guy deeply offended them. She can't talk about anything unless it's religion. If you get the impression my father's religious-my mother even more so, she's scrupulous. My father actually met Padre Pio, last ordained a saint out of the stigmata. His spiritual adviser in the monastery was Thomas Merton, who's a famous scholar. My father was in the monastery for three months in Gethsemane. And without humor, how do we get through this world where we're all silly and we're all stupid in many ways. We all have to be able to laugh at ourselves. The apologies I had to make were to the people like my parents, trying to explain why satire is important, and that it is a comedic form that's been around since the beginning of time. And some people, I think, are a little curious as to why I ever apologized. Something was made out of me saying that I no longer apologize for being on Family Guy. It was the biggest selling DVD, so Fox had to reevaluate their decision in canceling, then they brought the show back, and it's been going strong since. It went on for a year or two, got canceled, and then that was back when they were selling TV shows on DVD. I just got a few pages and I looked at it, and knowing how deeply religious and critical my parents have always been, my first thought is, "Gee, mom and dad are going to love this."Īnd then of course the life of Family Guy has been interesting. Even going so far as to ask us if we needed to wear costumes. It was a single-camera comedy before its time-they weren't making single-camera comedies, it's a little pricey, and they were a bit numbskullish at the network. Like The Tick, our short-lived series from years ago which was just about the most fun I ever had. Sometimes you're a part of something that seems to have such great potential, such great promise, and nothing happens. Patrick: You never know what's going to hit and what doesn't. Jesse: You're heading into the 22nd season of Family Guy.
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