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Seth MacFarlane

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A little about Seth

Precocious cartoonist

During his childhood, he developed an interest in illustration and began drawing cartoon characters such as Fred Flintstone and Woody Woodpecker, as early as at two years old.

Close call

He was supposed to be on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, but missed his flight due to being hungover and having the incorrect flight time.

First job

When he was nine, he began publishing a weekly comic strip Walter Crouton for The Kent Good Times Dispatch, the local newspaper in Kent; it paid him five dollars per week.

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If he ever uses his characters' voices during sex

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If he ever uses his characters' voices during sex

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Only Tom Tucker. Only Tom.

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What's the deal with Conway Twitty

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What's the deal with Conway Twitty

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It's a reference to the utterly haphazard nature of old variety shows. You'd do a sketch and then cut to a musical number with zero segue. So... basically Family Guy.

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How he feels about the South Park episode lampooning Family Guy

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How he feels about the South Park episode lampooning Family Guy

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I thought it was really funny. They flagged our cutaway setups, which had been getting a little fast and loose at the time. Props for that. RE: the cutaways themselves, though, they were off the mark a bit. The cutaways are actually the hardest things to write on the show. Story-centric jokes come a little easier, but when you have to conceive and invent a whole independent little sequence several times in a episode, it's challenging as hell. Like doing a Far Side cartoon 10-12 times an episode.

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How he avoids burnout

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How he avoids burnout

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I jump between TV and film for that reason. I felt fried after 12 years of Family Guy so I left to do Ted. At some point maybe I'll wind up writing for Family Guy full time again.

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Craziest thing he's ever purchased

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Craziest thing he's ever purchased

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An accordion. It sits in my living room untouched. One day I will play it.

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Favorite comedian of all time

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Favorite comedian of all time

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Jackie Gleason.

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Coolest thing he's ever seen

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Coolest thing he's ever seen

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I once saw Neil deGrasse Tyson eat an entire bottle of Flintstones vitamins on a dare

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Favorite and least favorite characters to voice on Family Guy

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Favorite and least favorite characters to voice on Family Guy

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These days, Brian is my favorite because it's an easy vocal transition - Quagmire is the hardest because my voice is pretty much thrashed by the end of the session

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Why he chose Rhode Island as the setting for Family Guy

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Why he chose Rhode Island as the setting for Family Guy

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I spent a lot of time there in college, and I hadn't ever seen anyone depict it in a comedy series. Felt fresh. Like a mini-Boston. And the accent is hilarious.

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Least favorite project he worked on

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Least favorite project he worked on

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Ok you want the truth? The Cavalcade of Comedy. I didn't feel like I had the time to put into it that it required. I thought it suffered as a result.

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Advice for someone who wants to be a cartoonist but doesn't have the money for an animation program

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Advice for someone who wants to be a cartoonist but doesn't have the money for an animation program

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Find somebody who knows how the hell a computer works and have em direct you to a good animation program you can use at home. As you've seen, my computer skills aren't so hot.

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Worst reaction by a celebrity referenced on Family Guy

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Worst reaction by a celebrity referenced on Family Guy

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Adrian Brody. Met him at a party afterward as he was not amused.

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Where he got the name Orville for his show "The Orville"

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Where he got the name Orville for his show "The Orville"

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Orville Wright, yes. I was reading the David McCullough biography of the Wright brothers while I was writing the pilot, and early on there seemed to be some depiction of Orville as the "beta" brother. Seemed like a good fit for our midlevel craft.

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Favorite shows growing up

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Favorite shows growing up

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The Twilight Zone, All In The Family, Star Trek of course, The Larry Sanders Show was always a favorite

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His reaction to fans' reaction to Brian's death on Family Guy

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His reaction to fans' reaction to Brian's death on Family Guy

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I was very surprised by the size of the reaction. To me, the positive spin was "Hey, people still really give a shit about this guy. That's cool."

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If he ever gets any flak for political messages in his shows, particularly early American Dad episodes

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If he ever gets any flak for political messages in his shows, particularly early American Dad episodes

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Fox behaves like two different companies. There's the entertainment wing, and there's... you know, the other one. They don't really communicate. So they may as well be two different entities.

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Why he went with Fox for The Orville as opposed to a streaming service like Netflix

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Why he went with Fox for The Orville as opposed to a streaming service like Netflix

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I wanted to do an episodic, non-serialized show. There's no real interest in that kind of storytelling on the Netflixes out there - they like continuing stories you can binge-watch. So the network made sense.

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