Reddit AMA: Johnny Brennan Talks “Family Guy” and Updates About “Jerky Boys” Animated Series

It ain’t close yet.

We’re gonna have a lot of AMA recaps the next day or two, so keep it locked here. First up, Johnny Brennan dropped by to talk about his voices on Family Guy and whether or not the long rumored Jerky Boys animated series is gonna happen:

On how Mort Goldman happened

So The Jerky Boys reach out to millions of people in many ways; Family Guy is just one of them. And Mort Goldman and the other characters I do on the show are slight variations of Jerky Boys characters with different names, such as Scott in the Family Guy episode, Horace the Bartender and owner of The Drunken Clam, or even Mort Goldman who is Sol Rosenberg’s long lost cousin. So Family Guy and Jerky Boys will be forever intertwined in some way.

Sounds like the Jerky Boys animated series isn’t happening anytime soon, BUT he wants it to. Johnny also talks of Horace the Bartender’s background:

Frank Rizzo was altered a bit and became Horace the Bartender at the Drunken Clam, but he’s dead now!
Jerky Boys the Animated Series would be great!

On how the “kick to the gift bag” phrase came about:

It’s funny, I came up with “a kick to the gift bag” when my daughter was 5 and watching the Karate Kid scene where Johnny beats Daniel up and kicks him right in the dick. And my daughter asked me what happened and I had to word it for a kid so I said “he gave him the old shoe to the gift bag”. Then years later when I was recording Family Guy with Seth MacFarlane and he asked me to improv a scene and it just came back to my head randomly. Everybody in the studio was laughing and Seth said “Johnny, I am not even going to ask”. And gift bag is now part of the Jerky Boys lingo ever since.

Read more of the Reddit AMA here.