Jesse Tyler Ferguson Explains His Love for Photobombing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Actor also gushed about pranking his co-stars

By Lily Harrison Feb 03, 2014 9:54 PMTags
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It's no secret that Jesse Tyler Ferguson loves a good photobomb.

The Modern Family actor hardly ever turns down an opportunity to crash someone's pictures, whether on the red carpet or in his day-to-day life.

Ferguson stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show and opened up about some of his "signature moves."

"It's always so crazy on those red carpets," he said when asked about most recently photobombing Zooey Deschanel at the Golden Globes.

Ferguson was shown doing the "fish jump"—a pose that involves looking like a fish diving into water.

But the star also confessed that he's often on the receiving end of Eric Stonestreet's pranks when the camera isn't rolling.

"He's always pranking me but I think the reason he likes to prank me is because he knows that I have no interest in pranking him back, there's no fear of like, 'what is he going to do to me?' I'm just too lazy," he told Ellen DeGeneres. "I really do love pranks, though. I pull a few here and there."

So does he have something up his sleeve for Stonestreet in the near future?

"When it happens, it's going to be epic," he said with a mischievous look.

"I did get Sofia [Vergara] pretty good in Vegas, though…she was taking a nap and we were all kind of over-stimulated and getting over colds," he explains.

"So she decides to take a nap with a Kleenex over her face, literally a ply of Kleenex, so I took a photo of her."

The rest, as they say, is history. Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell and a few other Modern Family actors posed alongside the sleeping actress with various funny poses.

Hmmm…we wonder if she ever got revenge!