“Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show”: not live, not comedy. Just a whole lot of suck.
Seth MacFarlane, the creator and star of Family Guy, and Alex Borstein, who voices Lois on the show, have teamed up to launch a salvo of shit into your living room this Sunday night.
I just made the horrible mistake of watching a montage of clips from the show (embedded below), which gives us MacFarlane singing the Bill Shatner version of “Rocket Man,” but in Stewie’s voice (see, because it’s in Stewies voice it’s original and interesting, not the lazy, hacky attempt to get laughs from 30-year-old pop culture reference that it looks like), followed by a duet with Borstein on “Surfin’ Bird,” which made me want to shove a pencil through my left eye, and then…fuck it – watch it yourself if you can.
Just goes to show how horribly unfunny you can be and still beat Rupert Murdock out of $100 million.
Fair warning: you can’t un-see this.
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Me (doing Shatner, in Stewie’s voice): Watched….video. Eyes….burn! Can’t….take it…..back!
How’d I do?
Brad, why do you feel the need to take us down with you when you suffer? Oh, besides the misery loves company idea…but isn’t that what a good wife (ahem, Jo) should be doing?
I hate that I saw that
Can’t say I didn’t warn you. All of you.
Well, at least he’s recycling old unfunny material, because every time Seth tries to do something new that’s “funny” now it is getting progressively worse. Somehow.
It’s amazing isn’t it? Just when you think it couldn’t suck more, it does.
Curiously, I am in Tokyo and I get the message THE VIDEO YOU ARE TRYING TO WATCH CANNOT BE VIEWED FROM YOUR CURRENT COUNTRY. Is there some anti-Japanese content involved? Is there something the emporer might construe as insulting?
Nah – The video is equally insulting to anyone that watches it expecting something funny.
Are you in Tokyo on business? I’m fucking jealous – been wanting to go to Japan forever. Have the amex miles for like 6 business class tickets, but no dosh for food or lodging – or time to go.
I boycotted the show more than a year ago. The dog Brian repersents exactly whats on Seth’s mind. It’s sad because I really enjoyed the show. But over time, it strayed away from popular culture to become an all-purpose punching bag for anything sacred. The Meg episode where he depicted Christians as a bunch of book- burning technophobes, with the shot of Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” being thrown into the bonfire, was the stupidest thing I’ve seen on a television show. What I’d really like to see on t.v. is expression Seth Macfarlane’s face when he’s confronted by one of the thousands of people he has offended, just to make a buck. Seth Macfarlane is now a figurehead of hollywood elitism, and a cornerstone of the lambstream media. Either he needs to change the way he does business, or he’s going to be the victim of his own hubris. When it does happen,…that will be entertainment!
I wouldn’t count on it – that $100 contract with Fox pretty much green lights phoning it in from now on.