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Seth MacFarlane
American
Cartoonist
Born:
Oct 26
,
1973
Family
Funny
Me
People
Time
You
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Bill Watterson
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Walt Disney
I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.
Seth MacFarlane
Honor
Believe
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Hosting
Said
Am
Oscars
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
Seth MacFarlane
Funny
Something
Without
Shocking
Being
Being Funny
Justify
Hard
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
Seth MacFarlane
Good
You
Worry
Broadway
About
Good Thing
Gets
Done
Thing
The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.
Seth MacFarlane
Family
You
Writing
Fluid
Will
Slow
Way
Bit
Characters
Kind
Guy
More
Simpsons
Along
Like
Look
Sort
Snappy
Lot
Very
Family Guy
Goes
Subsequently
Move
The Simpsons
Which
Next
Disney
Show
Jerk
Tone
Pose
Flowing
'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.
Seth MacFarlane
You
Doctor
Sometimes
Nothing
Brady
Bunch
Just
Ordered
Ask
Viewer
I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
Seth MacFarlane
Life
Myself
Great
Better
Matter
Too Much
My Life
Wish
Own
Think
Too
Elusive
Press
Insecure
About
My Own
Tend
Taking
Failing
Read
How
Surprisingly
Very
Times
Happens
Much
Hard
The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
Seth MacFarlane
Success
You
Doors
Television
Kids
Animation
Simpsons
Opened
Were
The Simpsons
Really
Working
Necessarily
If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'
Seth MacFarlane
Funny
Great
Song
Better
Example
Monty
Monty Python
Absurd
Python
Sounds
Than
Going
Just
Much
Funnier
The resistance to science is idiotic.
Seth MacFarlane
Science
Idiotic
Resistance
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.
Seth MacFarlane
Science
Become
Embarrassment
You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.
Seth MacFarlane
You
Nasty
Sake
Being
Want
We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
Seth MacFarlane
Funny
Family
Would
Tried
Horribly
Something
Guy
Never
Put
Also
Sake
Shock
Offensive
Shocking
Family Guy
Really
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
Seth MacFarlane
Funny
Day
Morning
Jokes
Those
Some
Somehow
More
Wee
Remained
Written
Hours
Were
Next
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
Seth MacFarlane
Faith
Knowledge
People
About
Vocal
Advancement
Over
Who
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
Seth MacFarlane
Art
Good
Eye
Tell
Bad
Cannot
Good Art
The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.
Seth MacFarlane
You
Nothing
Worst
Worst Thing
Out
Kinda
Would
Would-Be
Something
Want
Happen
Happened
Riff
Thing
Oscars
I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?
Seth MacFarlane
You
Reality
Seen
Prison
Think
Release
Okay
Sign
Tell
Inside
Takes
Like
Prisoners
Whether
Place
Forms
Reality Show
Show
Ever
Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.
Seth MacFarlane
Family
Jokes
Sense Of Humor
Humor
College
Sense
Sick
Everybody
Else
Our
Dream
Would
Horrible
Never
Had
Stuff
New
Most
House
Make
Making
Real
Just
Anything
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Even
Twisted
The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.
Seth MacFarlane
Funny
One Of The Things
Simpsons
The Simpsons
Should
Works
Things
There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.
Seth MacFarlane
Work
Me
You
People
Better
Comedy
Made
Too
President
High
Would
Give
Point
Price
Gladly
Term
Makes
Up
American
Staff
Upside
Bush
Who
Dad
Second
Kerry
When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
Seth MacFarlane
Music
Family
Guy
More
Like
Make
Very
Sitcom
Family Guy
Wanted
Little
Started
There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.
Seth MacFarlane
Single
About
Lifestyle
Very
Appealing
Things
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
Seth MacFarlane
You
Same Thing
Jobs
Lifetime
Over
Course
Doing
Person
Get
Antsy
Same
Eight
Different
Little
Average
Average Person
Thing
The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.
Seth MacFarlane
Today
Me
You
Science
Trend
Diversity
Too
Tell
Bad
Vampires
Angels
Puts
Stuff
Because
Than
Stories
Interesting
Much
Less
Right
Zombies
Sleep
Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.
Seth MacFarlane
Time
Big
Year
Before
Every
TV
Would
Entertaining
Horrible
Networks
Preview
New
Around
Always
Glued
Were
Friday
Lineup
Lot
Premiere
Special
Showmanship
Shows
Based
There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'
Seth MacFarlane
Time
Me
Remember
Mother
Joke
Whoa
Too
At Least One
One Time
Something
Could
Like
Make
Least
Offensive
Where
Actually
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