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I always hated the mainstream popular shit. I grew up 45 min from NYC and I would say a majority of my friends were fans of Saturday Night Live. Other than the Will Ferrell years, I really thought that show was so overrated as they often guest starred celebrities I didn’t care for and had musical guests that always sucked ass. Enter 1995, I am introduced to a program that became the spritual successor to In Living Color but for some reason I loved it 100 times more. It had violence, flirted with sex, and instead of guest starring celebrities, noone had done a better job of shitting on them than MadTV. I was hooked from the premier all the way to the sendoff. Not a lot of people from Mad TV do you really hear about anymore with notable exceptions like Alex Borstein, Will Sasso, and Artie Lange. Phil LaMarr certainly is someone who has had great success in his career following MadTV after he had left in 2000, having been a premier player in the voice business for decades. No show exhibits Phil LaMarr’s talents more than in his role as the lovable Planet Express accountant Hermes Conrad who can be seen in brand new episodes of Futurama starting this Wednesday night on Comedy Central. Recently, we had a chance to talk with Phil about voicing Hermes and what he thinks makes the show so addicting after all these years.