You know, what I like to do when I come home is do nothing. What do you do when you’re back in this area?
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And then all of a sudden (“Fizbo”) is the name of an episode of a hit TV show and I win an Emmy for it. I do know one day that’s what my dad was calling me and that’s the name that I printed on my business cards. You know, I don’t know where the name Fizbo came from. Oh, yeah! Between my pig operation and my clown business, I was rollin’ in it, man. By the time I was 11, I was performing at 6- and 7-year-olds’ birthday parties. And I had a grandma who would make my costumes. They thought it was funny and cute and encouraged me to do it. I had parents, fortunately, who didn’t think I was weird. I didn’t know what I was saying then was that I wanted to be an actor. It was my way then as a young man to express my desire to entertain and perform.
If you look at that Fizbo episode from the first season, when they show the article that they flash back to, that’s the actual article that was written about me (in the Kansas City Kansan) and that’s really me in those pictures. I was in The Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Kansan more than a few times. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown in the circus. Of course, the character grows and is always changing and being informed by other things. (I thought) if I did kind of a slight impersonation of my mom, with my physicality and the way I look, it could work out really well. When I went in for the audition I had to figure out a way to do the character. It’s due out in February.īut “Modern Family” is his main gig, and this season, Cam will take a job at his daughter’s school, a situation that will lead, we’re pretty sure, to inspired hilarity. Stonestreet spent his summer break from “Family” shooting the big-screen crime comedy “Identity Thief” with Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. Both of which, incidentally, also describe Stonestreet. The fourth season of his show premieres next week, but before then - Sunday night - Stonestreet will find out if he has won a second best supporting actor Emmy for playing Cam, “Family’s” former clown and former farm kid. He has helped flip the switches on both the Plaza Lights and the Mayor’s Christmas Tree. He played in the All-Star celebrity softball game this summer. He went on to Kansas State University and ultimately, of course, Los Angeles.īut Stonestreet, who turned 41 this month, comes back on a regular basis. He grew up in Kansas City, Kan., and as a kid rode his bike where Village West is now.