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Patrick Warburton's Mom Wanted Family Guy 'Canceled' Despite the Money He Gave Her from the Show

Patrick Warburton, who famously voices Joe Swanson on 'Family Guy', opened up to PEOPLE about his family's reluctancy to support his work over the years on the hit animated sitcom.

"They hate the show even more today than they did twenty-five years ago," the actor, who has voiced Joe Swanson on the hit sitcom for over two decades, explained during the PaleyFest LA: Family Guy 25th Anniversary Celebration on Friday, April 19. He almost became a monk," Warburton continued, noting that his father's "spiritual advisor" was Thomas Merton, who he identified as "a very famous Catholic scholar" before joking that fans would know who he was "if you weren't heathens and watched Family Guy." "My mother belonged to the American Television Council and they were trying to get the show canceled," Warburton shared, before simultaneously revealing, "I was helping support my parents with Family Guy money."

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