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Seth MacFarlane Makes Fun Of Deaf Actress To Her Face

3:59PM Adrian Chen | That the funniest bit in Family Guy Creator Seth MacFarlane’s live comedy special on Fox was also the most politically incorrect is the least surprising thing ever. Check out this bit with deaf actress Marlee Matlin (West Wing) More »
Big Screen

Star Trek To Roll Out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory

5:49AM Brian Moylan | Remember when sci-fi movies were about blowing up aliens and attacking Godzilla? Those days are gone, my friend. Thanks to Battlestar Galactica and District 9, the genre now exists to please the intelligentsia. The latest victim, the Star Trek sequel. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

10 Things From Comic-Con That You Need To Know About

6:00AM Brian Moylan | Why bother going to San Diego for Comic-Con when you can just sit in your living room and read all the good coverage of it! Now, when you talk to your nerdy sci-fi friends, you won’t look like an idiot. More »
Small Screen

Really? Fucking Family Guy?!

12:17AM Richard Lawson | So the Emmy nominations were announced this morning and mostly they were surprise-less. Nothing for the well-deserving Big Love actors, another nod for Tony goddamned Shaloub, and Family Guy in Best Comedy. Wait, what?? Family Guy? How did this happen? More »
Big Screen

The Only Childhood Memories Not On A Hollywood Development Slate

5:09AM Richard Lawson | We’ve long noted how Hollywood is out of ideas. Now, we fear a new crisis is upon studio executives: they are running out of cartoons, TV shows and toys to transform into movies. Here are the only remaining viable properties. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Family Guy Would Like An Emmy For Best Gratuitous Non Sequiturs

2:16AM Richard Lawson | An annoying TV show would like some recognition, please. Terrible originals and remakes are getting made all over LA. Danny McBride continues his ascendancy. And people get TV deals and I don’t. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

9:01AM Jess McGuire | I am currently up in Sydney hanging out at my mum’s place in the suburbs with my sister and my 10 year old nephew. They live in London and I haven’t seen them for four years, so it’s all very lovely. More »

Doomsday Clock Chimes With Crowning Of Seth MacFarlane As Smartest Man In TV

3:01AM Seth | 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’s Smugest Smartest Person in TV. Fox couldn’t be prouder of the money he makes for them, according to their press release: More »

4:15AM Seth | 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] More »

Seth MacFarlane’s Reign Of Offensiveness Now Includes AIDS Jokes About Karl Rove

9:10AM Defamer Hollywood | 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-colour star tandem to beat. More »