Seth MacFarlane Tired Of Jeff Dunham Getting All The Negative Attention
When we think of human garbage and national nightmares these days, we mostly think of Jeff Dunham. But it appears that all of that negative attention on Dunham has finally gotten to Seth MacFarlane, who wants his title as "The Worst" back. And last night's special on FOX, Family Guy Presents: Seth And Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show was certainly a step in THE WORST direction. Did you guys see this thing? WHAT IS GOING ON WITH YOU, AMERICA? The past few weeks have been a non-stop Disaster Fest, and you're all laughing and clapping along. It is literally nuts! We are all the Mayors of Garbage Town and there isn't a jail big enough to contain us all. "I used to think 30 Rock and The Office were funny, until I realized that they weren't blatantly racist and homophobic and anti-semitic enough. Because THAT is comedy." Right, America? That's you.
"I disguise my hate with laugh tracks."
--America, 1776-2012
Anyway, the whole half hour of this thing, I was all like:
Meanwhile, America was like:
Of course, the most talked about moment on the show was when Seth and Alex did their classic Marlee Matlin calls Moviefone bit, followed by an ALL NEW Marlee Matlin sings "Poker Face" bit.
Huh? Oh, I get it, she is deaf, and deaf people sound stupid. "I felt bad for laughing, but then Marlee Matlin came out and I felt great about laughing!" Good work, everyone. The best part about this was how the joke was very specific to Marlee Matlin, bringing in her talent and recognition as an actress. It wasn't just a 14-year-old lacrosse player in the cafeteria making fun of how deaf people sound at all. It was very thought out and had a very unique perspective! I wonder how many full grown adults in 2009 it took to write this bit. Probably 100!
Ugh. What a misery. Is this what you think is funny, America?
Get it? Kermit is gay and he has AIDS. It's funny because Philadelphia was a movie? My belly hurts from all this laughing. Wait, no, that's not laughing. That is barfing!
And then there was this:
A classic comic bit where we spend 4 minutes building up to one big punchline, which is that Alex Borstein is actually lucky the holocaust happened, because the holocaust killed millions of Jewish women who might have moved to the United States--or had children--who competed for jobs as comedians in Los Angeles. I guess we all win, because with all those dead Jews, we get to enjoy this show! LOLOLOLOL.
I honestly feel like I have been taking crazy pills for the past few weeks! What is happening around here? I'm all for pushing buttons and bringing everyone's differences out into the open and being able to talk and laugh about them, but that is not what this show or The Jeff Dunham Show have been about. They have been about lazy, careless hatred hidden behind cartoons and puppets. And apparently everyone loves it more than anything.
GET ME OFF OF SHUTTER ISLAND, PLEASE!
Posted by Gabe at 2:00 PM in Awkward Live TV
Tags: Alex Borstein | Family Guy | Family Guy Presents: Seth And Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show | Marlee Matlin | Seth MacFarlane
No, Gabe, you're just jealous that Jeff and Seth are seeing each other behind your backs. They were both your boyfriend, but then they discovered each other and you feel left out.
Seriously, though, someone needs to stop them.
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well, at least he'll always have Dane Cook...
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Seth And Amy's Almost Live Comedy Show: Now with more 9/11 jokes.
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I hope Seth MacFarlane AND Jeff Dunham both have lots of fun at dinner. Lots and lots of fun.
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Paramount can't afford to promote Shutter Island let alone get anyone off it at this time. It looks like you are trapped till February. Enjoy the ride.
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I'm so confused. Who is Amy? Am I taking crazy pills?
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Whooooops.
Fixed.
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I still have no idea who she is.
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Alex Borstein.
Maybe if would help if you saw her in an old MADtv era racist caricature??
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So every time you said "Seth and Amy" I kept hoping this post would transform into one about Saturday Night Live from last year. Alas, this was not the case.
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Like a delightful Point - Counterpoint?
Amy- "Point: Seth MacFarlane is a jackass."
Seth- "Counterpoint: I totally know."
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we need a worst bracket system, with seeding and sports and endzone runs. only i would just cry then because, as it seems to be turning out, Jay Leno is now the least worst.
if Jay Leno makes jokes about deaf holocaust victims tonight he might win/lose(or draw!)
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Has Seth MacFarlane pulled a Jeff Dunham yet and blamed his cartoon creations for the racist, homophobic, misogynistic filth they spew? I don't know if that makes him better or worse. It probably just makes them both equal amounts of worse.
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I wonder how many people had to TiVo this because they were out actively hating Jews and minorities.
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one over here!
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I feel like somebody took the circle of Family Guy fans and the circle of dancing/singing competition fans and thought they found some kind of overlap there. Instead they've found some kind of eye-shaped map of people who are worse than grad students.
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I signed in and am upvoting this purely for "some kind of eye-shaped map of people"
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Yikes. That was really the punchline in that Kermit the Frog skit? Really? Professional comedians in 2009 wrote and read that punchline? That is sub-Laugh In.
"SOCK IT TO ME!" - Seth MacFarlane's face
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Poor Miss Piggy. Having to hear such slander!
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Look, McFarlane, you fuck with Kermit, you fuck with me, and that's that.
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We all know the only acceptable Kermit parody is Vomiting Kermit. No one gets hurt with Vomiting Kermit. Well, except for all those people he vomited on.
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The least offensive joke dealt with Seth MacFarlane being set on fire. Though even that was in bad taste because I fear that it would only make him stronger.
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"Where have you gone, American Comedy? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you..."
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What's that you say, Mr. Television? Joking Jokes have left and gone away...
(Hey, hey, hey.)
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I read "That is barfing" while I was watching the Kermit video and when I laughed, I actually felt a little dirty for doing so while that nonsense was playing.
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I need to go watch some kitten videos or something to get the puke taste out of my mouth now.
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One step closer to "Ow! My Balls!" and "Ass"...
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Sometimes, all of the sadness and tastelessness in the world comes bubbling up from beneath the surface of our society. It's like a lava flow, except with hateful turds.
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I think its about time for another classic "Really!! with Seth and Amy"
Seth: "Really Seth McFarlane!? You thought that your joke would absolutely kill when removed from your sub-south park animation? Really?!"
Amy: "And Really Alex Borstein?! Your incredible voice acting translates so well to the stage and film. That's why your acting highlights include being a Harp Player on Gilmore Girls! Really, really?"
Seth: "and really Gabe?! You are going to tarnish the good name of a great SNL duo by mistaking Seth and ALEX'S Almost Live Comedy Show for Seth and AMY. Really?"
This has been "Really!! with Seth and Amy"
JK totes love u 4fr gb! Lates
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That Kermit bit just... "You're firing me because I have AIDS! You're firing me because I'm a gay man that has AIDS!"
HILARIOUS, guys! So funny! What could be funnier than AIDS? NOTHING.
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Pretty much my reaction as the roommate watched this:
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I've tried to just say that he isn't funny, that Family Guy just isn't my thing, that as a feminist I get offended and just leave it at that. I understand that people are not as sensitive as me. I've really had enough thought. I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I don't get how any one could find a joke about the holocaust funny. I don't even understand how you could even find a place in your brain that would create that joke. I'm not even jewish but let me just say shame on Alex Borstein for being a part of that. The only thing I find scarier then this is the thought that some day one of Seth MacFarlane's (or maybe just him) offspring is going to make a joke about Darfur. Okay done. I swear this is my only outburst for the day.
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I'm even willing to admit that under some unimagined (by me) scenario a holocaust joke might be funny. But when the "joke" is "Lots of Jewish women died, so you, as a Jewish woman, have a better shot at COMEDY WRITING JOBS!" WHAAAT!!!??? My head nearly exploded just explaining that.
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You know, this is Seth MacFarlane's honest attempt at a classy live event: it was obviously going to be awful and tasteless, so my reactions were pretty subdued during the whole thing. But I literally gasped when this shit came up:
SO MANY PEOPLE! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!
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And we'll just ignore the fact that there were clearly several Jewish writers who wrote and/or signed off on the Holocaust bit. Mazel, guys!
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Aaron Blitzstein
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
Artie Johann
Danny Smith
John Viener
Wellesly Wild
I'm pretty sure all of these names are made up.
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Cherry Chevapravatdumrong is my favorite dessert.
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I thought he was taking one last opportunity to make some sort of half-assed jewish joke (coupled with a person-has-a-really-long-last-name joke) before the clock ran out and really the only person to be blamed for the show was Seth Macfarlane himself.
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I am all for hating the worst things and loving the best things but isn't this all becoming a bit histrionic? The number of people who watched the Set McFarlane no-so-funny hour last night is nearly equivalent to those who watched the oh-so-funny 30Rock-Office hour on Thursday. I guess it's not fair that it should be such a close race but this is Chinatown after all, right? In any case, fire and brimstone isn't attractive in clergy or bloggers.
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I honestly don't even understand the Kermit the Frog bit. I mean, is it scatological? Because Seth McFarland took a shit on Jim Henson's grave. Is that the joke?
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"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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You know the other day I was chatting with my bestie, and I was like, "30 Rock blah blah blah HILARIOUS" and she was all, "Meh, I can't get into that show." Then I was like, "Jeff Dunham=the WORST" and she, and the other friend we were with was all, "I love that guy!!"
Needless to say, I'm questioning EVERYTHING about my life right now.
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I've ended friendships over much less than that. Walk away girl, and don't look back.
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Amen, cupisacup, A-men.
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I would like for you to get all of the upvotes. In life.
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Is that the new thing for laughs now? reciting or singing lady gaga songs? its so... I dont know... how you say? oh yea FUCKING LAME!
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It's just offensive on so many levels! Not only because it's hateful, horrible and just plain obnoxious, but also because it's so BAD.
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Those videos were so evil that they made Firefox crash THREE TIMES. Every time I tried to watch them, my computer (which is made of goodness and sunshine and light) crashed my browser so as not to taint my eyes and ears.Thank you computer. I owe you my innocence.
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Well I for one am glad someone is finally skewering deaf people, AIDS sufferers and Holocaust victims.
It's about damn time.
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Is that you Glen?
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When I was a kid and we'd go and visit my grandparents in Florida, the radio would be playing the very worst songs from about 4 years back in heavy rotation. It was like people didn't get the memo. When I apply that theory to the backwards, lowest common denominator, hamfisted humor of Jeff Dunham and Seth McFarlane & co., I begin to think they willfully ignored the memo.
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"They have been about lazy, careless hatred hidden behind cartoons and puppets."
Yes, just like you hide your calloused, irrational hatred of Taylor Lautner behind what passes for "amusing" cultural criticism.
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LOLOL! I have no idea if you're joking, but even if you're not, this is the comment of the fucking century!
I'd love to think that you're some rabid Twilight fan with pics of that dude all over your room, and you get belligerent when people don't like Twilight. The best part: you included a shot of his abs as if to prove something.
"See? Look at his abs. How is he not awesome?" That's you.
God, I hope more monsters see this.
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Well, he convinced me. HEL-LO!
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let's paint, exercise, and laugh at genocide!
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I just burnt the shit out of my hand by accidentally spilling boiling hot water on it.
Watching these clips (or, rather, watching about ten seconds before turning it off) was even more painful than that.
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So, I tuned in for this whole Seth McFarlane night and mostly interwebbed through it, sometimes giggled, but recognize he is an awful, ridiculous person, but what can you do? Send him a shoebox full of poop? He wont' even get it. One of his subordinates will and do you really want to do that to some poor intern? It's bad enough he puts his fingers in her mouth. Jerk.
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Also: When did Jay-Z become my tenth grade Math Teacher?
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After seeing this, I was all like
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good one...but if you hate it so much how'd you know that this scene existed? busted. high five.
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"I won't be happy til the whole world hates me." - Seth Macfarlane
Swear on my life that is an actual quote...
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