NEW YORK — Turns out, Seth Green has the job you always wanted.

He has free rein to play with toys for a living. He makes silly voices. He mocks celebrities, world leaders, even Biblical figures. And he earns good money.

His to-do list includes TV and movie appearances, film projects he’s developing, a couple of hours per month voicing Chris Griffin on Fox’s animated hit “Family Guy” — and, of course, “Robot Chicken.”

The kooky stop-motion-animated sketch-comedy cast with dolls and action figures has blossomed from a sort of side venture into a big part of Green’s life. “It all began as just this crazy experiment,” he says, “and it’s become something I love so much.”

“Robot Chicken” premiered in 2005 on Cartoon Network’s late-night Adult Swim, with Green, 34, juggling several balls as a creator, producer, director, writer and performer (and the boss duties, which he shares with Matthew Senreich, his Stoopid Monkey Productions partner). Filming has just begun on the 20-episode fourth season.

“We’ve been writing, recording and doing the animatics,” says Green during a recent breakfast interview. He has sneaked a day from the L.A.-based series for a New York trip to promote what, thus far, is probably the crowning achievement for “Robot Chicken.”

A year ago, its half-hour “Star Wars” spoof aired. Now, this twisted yet startlingly faithful homage is out on DVD, just days after being nominated for an Emmy.

Lampooning pop culture, as “Robot Chicken” always does, the special “takes something that you know about, and explains why it’s silly,” says Green, “or points out what COULD have happened, just off-screen.

“We love to emphasize the mundane in the extraordinary,” he says, “and ‘Star Wars’ was perfect for that. You have something that’s intergalactic, and yet there’s got to be some textural machinations of day-to-day business: How can you run an industry that large without paperwork? And where are the bathrooms?”

The characters on “Robot Chicken” are mostly off-the-shelf dolls and action figures modified, often painstakingly, for the script and the camera. They’re familiar to viewers, but also laughably transformed.

Or, as Green puts it, “Because they are toys, there’s just a bit of disassociation.”

His mastery of “Star Wars” lore is based more on the films’ product line than the films, Green says. “I’ve only seen ‘Empire’ maybe 10 times, the original ‘Star Wars’ maybe four or five times. But I was cuh-razy about those toys,” he said.

“I had Boba Fett and Barbie go out on a date once — my 12-inch Boba Fett and my sister’s Barbie,” he recalls. But who could fault Boba Fett for being smitten? “It’s hard to resist her,” says Green, grinning impishly.