Robert Franzese has become a celebrity after a YouTube video of him impersonating the animated TV show "Family Guy" dad, Peter Griffin at Comic-Con went viral.

Franzese is a cosplayer who lives in New York, CNN reports. He has a talent not many knew about until recently; he can transform from everyday guy into the cartoon dad from Quahog, Rhode Island. The man not only looks like Peter Griffin with his white button-down shirt, green slacks and round glasses, but he sounds exactly like the character too,

In his Peter Griffin costume, Franzese has participated in many conventions like New York Comic-Con. The Daily Dot reports that he made his first appearance in 2012 at the New York Comic-Con where the Real Life Peter Griffin character improvised with con-goers.

Franzese did not gain widespread popularity until about a year later when people started noticing him on the Internet. A YouTube video of Franzese as the Real Life Peter Griffin at the 2014 New York Comic Con was uploaded on Jan. 6, and in 48 hours it had more than 3.5 million views.

"Impressions just really came naturally to me," Franzese says in the video. "So I slapped together stuff that I had. ... and was like, great, Peter Griffin. Just one stupid joke, where I go to the ATM, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I won!' And from then on, it's just caught like wildfire."

He has become so popular that "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane retweeted the YouTube video of Franzese on Wednesday.

There is even a Twitter hashtag devoted to him: ‪#‎RealLifePeterGriffin.

When he attends Comic-Con, "people are pulling out phones like I'm freaking Brad Pitt," Franzese says on the video.

"It makes me feel like a million bucks," he continues in the video. "It's the reactions that I get out of what I do that gives me the joy of what I do."

There is a Facebook page dedicated to his impression of the cartoon dad. Franzese states on the page he also cosplay other characters, like Sgt. Slaughter.

The New York Comic-Con is an annual fan convention dedicated to comics, anime, manga, graphic novels, toys, video games, movies and television. It was first held in New York City in 2006 and happens every year in October.

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