Interview with Family Guy writer Mike Henry

24 Hours Vancouver has a really good interview up with Mike Henry, one of the original Family Guy writers and also the voice of many of the characters on the show, including Cleveland Brown, Herbert the Pervert, Bruce (the effeminate voice guy), and the Greased Up Deaf Guy. Here’s a snippet:

Were there story ideas that the Fox censors just wouldn’t allow?

Henry: They really kind of let us do a lot. There are words and horrific sexual slurs that you can’t say on TV which we all understand – they’re funny when you hear them, but you can’t say them on TV. But for the most part, they really let a lot ride. We’ll go ahead and produce jokes that we know can’t air just for the DVDs. The one that I wish we could have done was actually in the DVD movie: Meg had had a sex change. She was a man and the joke was that she had had an “addadicktomy.” The censors said “No way!”

You can read the rest of the interview here.