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Family Guy Would Like an Emmy for Best Gratuitous Non Sequiturs
An annoying TV show would like some recognition, please. Terrible originals and remakes are getting made all over town. Danny McBride continues his ascendancy. And people get TV deals and I don't. More »
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Comment by Pope John Peeps II: Richard it's utterly utterly impossible for you to criticize a fairly funny and fairly popular, very long running show when... 26 Responses | Other threads
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Mila Kunis Steals Handicapped Spot Because Of Coffee-Related Disability
Mila Kunis, the annoying girlfriend from That 70's Show and voice of Family Guy's Meg Griffin, was spotted appropriating a handicapped space for her Lexus SC430. Is an iced mocha addiction really that debilitating? [Jalopnik]
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By Ben WojdylaComment by Flathead Smith: You can tell how big jerk someone is by how complicated their coffee order is. 26 Responses | Other threads
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Pop Culture Doomsday
Doomsday Clock Chimes With Crowning Of Seth MacFarlane As Smartest Man In TV
End of Days Day continues here at Defamer with a proud e-alert belched from the bowels of the Fox network's Century City headquarters, informing what's left of the world that cartoon kingpin and deeply closeted spray-on hand-tanner Seth MacFarlane has been named EW'sSmugestSmartest Person in TV. Fox couldn't be prouder of the money he makes for them, according to their press release:
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By SethComment by Miss d: I'm torn between worlds here - I loved Family Guy first season - and things have not been that great... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Not Your Average Bear. Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show has received a full-season order from Fox, but has been pushed all the way to Fall. In another announcement we totally saw coming, THR reports that "Arianna Huffington will join the cast in a recurring role as the [talking] matriarch of a bear family," who says things like, "Da eeconomeec game is not supposed to be rrrigged like some shaydee ring toss on a carneeval midway. Now who vould like another helping of flopping sah-mon?" [THR] -
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Seth MacFarlane's Reign Of Offensiveness Now Includes AIDS Jokes About Karl Rove
Kudos today to James Hibberd, the Hollywood Reporter TV blogger who is perhaps the only reason we have any clue (or rather, care to have any clue) about the horrors unfolding presently at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Apparently the Florence Henderson/Ed Asner days are over, with the one-two punch of confirmed buddies Karl Rove and Seth MacFarlane taking over Monday as the off-color star tandem to beat. More » -
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Loophole Renders 'Family Guy' Eligible For Best Hair, Makeup, And Miniseries Emmys
·Family Guy figured out a way around the Emmy policy that has always forced them to identify their show as either an animated or comedy series: They've classified their hour-long Star Wars parody episode as a "special," allowing them to now lose in both categories. [Variety] More »
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By SethComment by Great_White_Snark: Did anyone else read the words "four more seasons" of the Simpsons and sigh bitterly? more » | Other threads
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Seth MacFarlane Made The Same Amount As 'Iron Man' Over The Weekend
It was less than six months ago that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane was picketing along with his fellow WGA members, saying of Fox's plans to air Guy episodes that had not yet been completed: "It would just be a colossal dick move if they did that." At the time, MacFarlane had the luxury of knowing his deal with the studio—two years in the making, and reportedly astronomical—had yet to be finalized, putting him "in breach of nothing" during the work stoppage. Well, the dotted-lines have at last been signed, the fences, apparently mended: 20th Century Fox TV will make MacFarlane the highest-paid writer/producer/gay-baby-voicer in television. More » -
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Seth MacFarlane: 'Stewie Griffin Gay, And The Parents TV Council Can Blow Me If They Don't Like It'
The Advocate cornered Seth MacFarlane, the multi-talented creator of venerable envelope-nudging Fox animated hit The Family Guy, for an off-the-velvet-cuff conversation about how homosexuality figures into his own brand of flashback-reliant comedy. Despite an affection for musical numbers that would suggest otherwise, MacFarlane is straight. Still, he's had the opportunity to explore his same-sex-loving side through his voicing of Family favorite Stewie, who's evolved in recent seasons from a nefarious infant hellbent on world domination, into perhaps the only TV diaper-pooper grappling with his own sexual identity. Some highlights from the highly entertaining exchange follow, including a graphic proposition for frequently outraged Family-monitors, The Parents Television Council: More »
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By SethComment by dutchtwista: @Cacafuego: how do you leave the Boondocks out of the list of funny Adult Swim shows? A little too um,... more » | Other threads
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Defamer Joins The 'Family Guy' 100th Episode Celebration
It's been a busy week for Defamer PartyWatcher Ann: Having barely recovered from Saturday night's Guitar Hero III launch festivities in which she got a little carried away and set her controller ablaze in a Hendrix-channeling moment, she managed to pull it together in time to check out Monday night's celebrations in honor of the 100th episode of Family Guy. Accompanied by photographer Maggie Serrano, the two were warmly welcomed by the various Seths in attendance. Her report, and another one of those fun photo galleries, follow after the jump. More »
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By SethComment by Polyh3dron: No pics of the manatees?? What gives? At least they're safe from the WGA strike. more » | Other threads
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lawsuits
'Wish Upon A Star' Owner Sues 'Family Guy' For Making His Song About Jews, Not Wooden Goys
If you worship at the Church of Family Guy, you're undoubtedly familiar with the ditty "I Need a Jew," sung at the precise moment of episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" when Griffin patriarch Peter realizes he's helpless to manage his finances without the aid of an arithmetically-astute Member of the Tribe. A full four years after the episode first aired, the copyright owner of Pinocchio classic "When You Wish Upon a Star" is now suing "Fox Broadcasting Co., the Cartoon Network and others" for infringement. A Fox spokesperson had "no comment," and its suspected their lawyers are currently mapping their strategy: They've already eliminated playing the "fair Jew-use" card, as the song-parody managed to be penned by the single goyische comedy-writer named Seth currently working in Hollywood. More »
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By SethComment by scroll_lock: They should stick to safer material like how whiteys need blacks as fieldhands. more » | Other threads
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trade roundup
Denzel Washington Is The New Walter Matthau
· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Unoriginality Is Easy As 1-2-3 Edition: Denzel Washington will star in director Tony Scott's sure-to-be incomprehensible remake of The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, assuming a role originally played by Walter Matthau and not-so-memorably reprised by Edward James Olmos in a 1998 made-for-TV version. [Variety] More » -
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Venice Film Festival Audiences Hold Off For Now On Planned Booing
· The Venice Film Festival opening film—a WWII drama starring Keira Knightley called Atonement—was screened to mostly positive word of mouth, a triumph capped by fest organizers allowing star James McAvoy to have full access to the controls of the Ceremonial Wrecking Ball. [Variety] More » -
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TV Writers Still Stumped As To Why Audiences Not Flocking To Their Unfunny Sitcoms
A Hollywood conversation that has dominated much of this decade—regarding the sorry state of affairs for sitcom writers being edged out by more popular and cheaper-to-produce reality programming—continues with an LAT piece that revisits the familiar topic in light of NBC's recent towel-tossing concession of their 8 p.m. timeslot to an almost entirely briefcases-and-yelling-based programming schedule. The debate still falls mainly into two categories: the steadfastly optimistic camp that insists we are just in the midst of an extended audience taste cycle, and the somewhat more pragmatic, "OK, we're pretty much fucked" school of thought: More »
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