With a last name like Belcher, you'd think the family at the center of Fox's animated series "Bob's Burgers" would be as subversive as its Sunday-night brethren "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy."
Instead, Bob's homestead serves up a perfectly sweet, relatable counter-balance that's far from crass.
"They're a really odd family, but maybe they're more normal than anything else," says voice actor H. Jon Benjamin, who plays greasy spoon owner and "Burgers" patriarch Bob on the Emmy-winning show, which has been renewed for a sixth season.
Benjamin is one of three New York-based comedians — in addition to three others in LA — who lend their pipes to the regular cast of characters that includes Bob's flamboyant wife Linda (John Roberts), their socially awkward daughter Tina (Dan Mintz), excitable son Gene (Eugene Mirman), bunny-ears-wearing daughter Louise (Kristen Schaal) and gluttonous restaurant regular Teddy (Larry Murphy).
The Post recently caught up with the NYC voice actors to find out what makes the cast and characters cook.
H. Jon Benjamin (Bob)
H. Jon Benjamin, left, and his character, Bob Belcher.Photo: Tonya Wise/Invision for FX/AP Images; Fox
Age: 48
Lives in: The West Village
You may also know him as: The voice of horn-dog secret agent Sterling Archer on FX's animated "Archer."
He didn't always seek out comedy: "I didn't really have any aims of being a comedian. There were a few moments I was gonna become a rabbi, but that was very short-lived. There's a lot of performance in being a rabbi, so maybe that's where it started."
Comparing himself to Bob: "There's a little bit of world-weariness to Bob, but Bob is a more positive, optimistic guy than I am. I'm a bit more cynical. Bob sees a silver lining all the time."
He's no burger fan: "I used to eat a lot of burgers; I try not to eat as many now that I'm middle-aged. I'm having an intense fear of death."
Eugene Mirman (Gene)
Eugene Mirman, left, and his animated alter ego, Gene.Photo: Brian Dowling/FOX
Age: 40
Hometown: Moscow. "I came here when I was 4. I haven't been back, but I think about it."
Lives in: Park Slope.
He was a comedy major in college: "My thesis was a one-hour standup act that I wrote, produced, performed and promoted."
Mirman describes Gene as: "A silly, very earnest goofball. But that's one of the things that is really fun about him: He's a weirdo but is very comfortable with it."
How he and Gene overlap: "Gene might be a slightly more well-adjusted version of me as a kid. I think we [the cast] are all very much imbued in our characters."
Although he's not a science buff, Mirman's a frequent guest on Neil deGrasse Tyson's weekly science podcast "Star Talk": "He really wants to reach people who might not necessarily have been interested in science before. With me and other comics he has on, the goal is that if we get it, he knows that other people have. We're sort of the everyman."
Larry Murphy (Teddy)
Larry Murphy, left, and burger-loving Teddy.Photo: Alan Hess/Invision for FOX/AP
Age: 42
Lives in: Fort Greene
Life before comedy: Murphy worked menial jobs at a law firm, spent two years in the Navy and did sales for a Bose store in Massachusetts.
How Teddy's persona originated: "Teddy started as a character I was doing onstage, kind of based on that he would be from Canarsie, Brooklyn. Teddy reminds me of a childhood friend who had a quality of, like, there was no getting that guy down. In the space of any sort of adversity, he was perfectly fine with it."
Teddy's favorite burger: "Given a choice, it's a bacon cheeseburger. Meat on top of meat on top of cheese? That seems like a lock."
Unlike other cast members, he's never recognized for voicing Teddy: "Oh, no; I have none of that. But Dan Mintz — there's a fan of 'Bob's Burgers' everywhere he goes that would be like, 'You're Tina!' Same with Benjamin. I watched a cab driver turn around and he's like, 'Are you Archer?' That guy wasn't looking at him; he just heard his voice. It's crazy!"
The show's cast will get together for table reads, stand-up comedy and more during their "Bob's Burgers Live 2015″ tour, which includes a stop at New York's Beacon Theater on March 27. Info: bobsburgerslivevip.com/
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