Seth MacFarlane Thinks That Family Guy Is Politically Relevant Now?

Gabe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:08:30 +0000

Look, regardless of where you fall on the Family Guy divide, whether you think that its endless, redundant, 3rd-grade pastiche of self-referential fart jokes and unclever non-sequiturs is terrible, or whether you think ahahah me like put this show in my face, there is one thing that I think we can all agree on: no one fucking cares about the politics of Family Guy. If there is one arena of the public discourse in which Family Guy need not even pretend to be competing, it is ~~laughter~~ politics. So will someone please tell that to Seth MacFarlane? From the Guardian UK:

American right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and former president George Bush’s strategist Karl Rove are to play themselves in a forthcoming episode of Fox’s animation Family Guy.

In the episode being produced for next season, Brian, the liberal dog of the cartoon’s central family, the Griffins, gets bored and frustrated because he feels he no longer has anything to complain about with Barack Obama in the White House, so he becomes a Republican and starts listening to Limbaugh.

Hold on. That part is fine. Family Guy can have whatever type of slime-faced thumb head it wants on there. Have them all! I don’t care. But, come on, Seth MacFarlane, with this explanation:

Craig Ferguson Speaks Tepid Jokes To Power

Gabe — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:01:24 +0000

Craig Ferguson’s keynote address at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night lacked the teeth of Stephen Colbert’s performance two years ago, and wasn’t nearly as embarrassing as the famed Karl Rove Does To Hip Hop On Stage What Akon Does To 15-Year-Old-Girls On Stage Fiasco of 2007. All in all it’s a safe, gently humorous little speech.

Fair enough. He’s got a TV show that no one watches, why not give him a keynote address no one cares about. I do love that brogue, though. It makes me want to take back my freedom and stuff or whatever.

The second half of Ferguson’s speech, if you really want more, after the jump.

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Seth MacFarlane Thinks That Family Guy Is Politically Relevant Now?

Craig Ferguson Speaks Tepid Jokes To Power