Now if only I could find this inside joke hidden in an episode of Family Guy that annoyed Jon Stewart.

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I haven't liked family guy post comeback but I appreciate McFarlane's candor here.
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I'm on Jon's side...cause he's just better.

Piers Morgan is a shit stirring mercenary tabloid c**t.
With any luck he'll be summoned back to the UK to answer for going through peoples bins and voicemails for the last 20 years along with the Murdoch monsters.
And then hung.

In case that's not clear, I don't really like him.

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Does anyone know what Family Guy clip he's referencing?

SHUT UP PIERS

If you watched Jon Stewart during the strike, Stewart would take a good couple of minutes, had running gags, etc. talking about how the writers were being shafted every night. ("A Daily Show", not "The Daily Show", etc.) He explained if he shut the show down, it would cost a lot of his other staff their jobs and livelihood. But he made a point every show to declare he was on the side of the writers. McFarlane surely could have picked a more appropriate target.

With that said, whatever. Not a big deal in the big scheme of things...

I think Seth handles himself well in all the live events I've seen him. Here as well. Whatshisface is just annoying and a shitstirrer.

Heh heh ... How did he know! He's never told the story!

Maybe he left a voicemail

Is this really a feud?? But nah...the media wouldn't take a minor tiff and inflate it into something more would they?!

>> ^cosmovitelli:

Piers Morgan is a shit stirring mercenary tabloid c t.
With any luck he'll be summoned back to the UK to answer for going through peoples bins and voicemails for the last 20 years along with the Murdoch monsters.
And then hung.
In case that's not clear, I don't really like him.


He's got a hell of an investigative crew though. Seth was genuinely amazed he found this crap out.

If only Pierce put this investigative effort into real stories, we might have a better world.

Somebody's phone got hacked!

>> ^aimpoint:

If only Pierce put this investigative effort into real stories, we might have a better world.


No he'd be cancelled twice as fast.

>> ^kymbos:

Somebody's phone got hacked!


My first thought, also.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

We need that clip now for reference. Is it out there?

Shitty host... "comeon Seth! throw him under the bus! throoow him under the buuus! No, don't speak unless it is to trash someone else and stir up very old controversy!"

>> ^Phreezdryd:

Now if only I could find this inside joke hidden in an episode of Family Guy that annoyed Jon Stewart.


Well, where is it? I like to see it too.

Is this blocked or just non-functioning?

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In light of the recent News Ltd skullduggery, the conversation should have gone like this:

How did you find out about this???

Nevermin.....


HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THIS!!!??!

McFarlane "How do you find out these things?"

Morgan visibly thinking, "Don't say because you remember all your phone-tapping skills from when you were an editor for Rupert Murdoch!"

I'm surprised nobody on the sift has found a clip of the gag on Family Guy...as everybody else said in this thread, I'm very interested to see it!

I still can't figure out what episode this joke occurred in. Here's what McFarlane said about the joke, if that gives anyone some hints:

"There was a very inside joke on "Family Guy" referring to the fact that he was working before the writers' strike was over. It was admittedly a very direct middle finger of a joke, which I don't discount."

>> ^rychan:

I still can't figure out what episode this joke occurred in. Here's what McFarlane said about the joke, if that gives anyone some hints:
"There was a very inside joke on "Family Guy" referring to the fact that he was working before the writers' strike was over. It was admittedly a very direct middle finger of a joke, which I don't discount."


It must be very, very inside, because I did some googling and it seems like no one knows what the joke is.

A bit of googling and I find this interview from 2008:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1844711,00.html

Reads like what he said in the video, so maybe Seth was mocking Piers for bringing up such a dated issue? Didn't remember talking about it to a Time magazine reporter? The whole TV interview is staged?

You're right, and we are the media.>> ^VoodooV:

Is this really a feud?? But nah...the media wouldn't take a minor tiff and inflate it into something more would they?!

Weak sauce from MacFarlane. I'm with Morgan on this one 100%. Since when does Family Guy have to apologize for crossing the line? Is there any other reason to watch that show besides seeing how much too far they take a joke? They make an art out of it. I'm disappointed MacFarlane is that afraid of Stewart, and of his publicist too, apparently.

Consider the context.
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Weak sauce from MacFarlane. I'm with Morgan on this one 100%. Since when does Family Guy have to apologize for crossing the line? Is there any other reason to watch that show besides seeing how much too far they take a joke? They make an art out of it. I'm disappointed MacFarlane is that afraid of Stewart, and of his publicist too, apparently.

I guess I don't know enough about the context, or I'm not connecting the dots. Care to help?>> ^gwiz665:

Consider the context.
>> ^messenger:
Weak sauce from MacFarlane. I'm with Morgan on this one 100%. Since when does Family Guy have to apologize for crossing the line? Is there any other reason to watch that show besides seeing how much too far they take a joke? They make an art out of it. I'm disappointed MacFarlane is that afraid of Stewart, and of his publicist too, apparently.

Seth is not Family Guy. Saying whatever he wants on the show is one thing. They don't seem to pull any punches there, but for him to go out and smear someone in person, takes it to another level, and really he's too smart for that.

Moreover, the context of where he was here. In an interview with basically tabloid news, the host trying his best to egg him on to say something he might later regret.
>> ^messenger:

I guess I don't know enough about the context, or I'm not connecting the dots. Care to help?>> ^gwiz665:
Consider the context.
>> ^messenger:
Weak sauce from MacFarlane. I'm with Morgan on this one 100%. Since when does Family Guy have to apologize for crossing the line? Is there any other reason to watch that show besides seeing how much too far they take a joke? They make an art out of it. I'm disappointed MacFarlane is that afraid of Stewart, and of his publicist too, apparently.

I'm disappointed in him for saying that the show should have pulled punches. He could easily have said, "I'm a huge fan of Jon's show and deeply appreciate what he does for the cause of rationality in politics. But Jon is a public figure and the show takes swings at everyone. I'm not Family Guy. If I personally were taking Jon to task about what he did during the strike, I would have been much more measured. But 'measured' isn't one of the buzzwords around our offices."

Instead, at 3:22, he says, "The gag that we did on Family Guy was coming from the right place, but was probably so over the line in its ruthlessness that it probably could have been more measured in its execution. How about that?" Lame.>> ^gwiz665:

Seth is not Family Guy. Saying whatever he wants on the show is one thing. They don't seem to pull any punches there, but for him to go out and smear someone in person, takes it to another level, and really he's too smart for that.
Moreover, the context of where he was here. In an interview with basically tabloid news, the host trying his best to egg him on to say something he might later regret.