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Herbert and Radiohead – separated at birth?

Wendy Boswell — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:19:04 +0000

Herbert, the creepy old man in Family Guy, sounds EXACTLY like the lead singer of Radiohead. Listen first to this Radiohead song, sung by Thom Yorke:

Now Herbert:

I don’t think I can listen to my “Best of Radiohead” CD quite the same way again.

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Interview with Family Guy writer Mike Henry

Wendy Boswell — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:19:25 +0000

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.

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Herbert the Pervert at Family Guy Live

Wendy Boswell — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:19:42 +0000

One of my most guilty pleasures is Herbert the Creepy Old Man.

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