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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Seth MacFarlane
MacFarlane was born in 1973 in Kent, Connecticut to Ann Perry Sager and Ronald Milton MacFarlane, both of whom were from Newburyport, Massachusetts and descended from immigrants from Canada, England, Scotland and Mayflower passenger William Brewster.
MacFarlane also appears to be a fan of 1980s culture, as his shows have used spoofs of TV shows, movies, commercials, toys, music videos, and other forms of pop culture and historical events from that decade.
Seth MacFarlane speaking at a WGA rally in Culver City on November 9, 2007.
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 Seth MacFarlane Photos - Seth MacFarlane News - Seth MacFarlane Information
More Pictures Seth MacFarlane was born in the small New England town of Kent Connecticut where he lived with his father (Ron), Mother (Perry) and sister (Rachael).
Seth is a proponent for the legalisation of marijuana.
Seth: (asked what is the one project that he’s always wanted to do, but has yet to be able to) I would love to write a Broadway musical.
www.tv.com /seth-macfarlane/person/57171/summary.html   (723 words)

  
 YouTube - Seth MacFarlane's Harvard Class Day Speech (1 of 4)
Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy and Amer...
Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy and American Dad!) gives his advice to Harvard graduates as himself, Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, and Glenn Quagmire.
Seth MacFarlane's Harvard Class Day Speech AS PETER (2 of 4)
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  Seth MacFarlane - Family Guy Wiki - a Wikia wiki
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane was born October 26, 1973 in Kent, Connecticut.
Seth is a huge Star Trek fan and appeared twice in minor roles on Star Trek: Enterprise.
Seth is also a huge Star Wars fan, which contributes to many Star Wars refrences on the show.
familyguy.wikia.com /wiki/Seth_MacFarlane   (384 words)

  
 Seth MacFarlane to speak at Harvard Class Day
Seth MacFarlane, who is creator and executive producer of television's "Family Guy," as well as the voice of the show's major characters, will be the 2006 Class Day speaker, the Harvard College Class of 2006 Senior Class Committee and the Harvard Alumni Association announced.
MacFarlane's big break came when the producers of "MADtv" discovered "The Life of Larry" and approached him to air it on their show.
MacFarlane went on to receive an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his role as Stewie Griffin, and "Family Guy" has garnered two nominations for outstanding animated series.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/daily/2006/05/10-classday.html   (545 words)

  
 Seth MacFarlane: A Truth Media Celebrity Report
But Seth wasn't always funny enough to come up with those classic Family Guy catchphrases that are repeated on college campuses and Family Guy Fun Fests that have been popping up at restored movie houses nationwide.
Seth spent these years of his life propped up in the corner of a small one-bedroom Rhode Island apartment, with the only apparent sign of life being his seemingly non-stop defecation.
MacFarlane, after spending the majority of his childhood and teens absorbing the magic and wonder of the 1980s, found himself traveling nearly eight miles from his childhood home to attend the auspicious Rhode Island School of Design in 1991.
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 MilkandCookies - Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane visits MADtv to show how Family Guy progressed from a live-action show, to animation with star voice overs (Kathy Griffin, Dane Cook, Queen Latifah and Snoop Dogg), to pretty much Seth doing it all.
Seth MacFarlane created a short film entitled "The Life of Larry" while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and voice of Griffins, spoke at Harvard's Class Day for the 2006 graduating class.
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 Seth MacFarlane | The A.V. Club
Fox let Seth MacFarlane launch his series as a half-hour show that evolved into a pop-culture-savvy comedy about a loutish father, his practical wife, their three children, and their boozy, urbane talking dog.
MacFarlane possesses the wit of a sledgehammer satirist, but he also has the fanciful soul of a song-and-dance man, a quality that finds vibrant expression in Family Guy's many elaborate musical numbers.
MacFarlane is now in charge of two shows simultaneously: the resurrected Family Guy and American Dad, an animated satire about a CIA agent, his family, an alien that talks like Paul Lynde, and a mutant goldfish.
www.avclub.com /content/node/23365   (3600 words)

  
  Scotch and Wine: A Seth MacFarlane Fanlisting     
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane was born on October 26th, 1973 in Kent, Connecticut, and is an Emmy-winning American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor.
Seth has a strong interest in musical theatre and performed in local productions with his sister - he's also a skilled pianist and singer who, as a young man, worked with the same vocal coaches as Frank Sinatra.
Seth has won Emmys for voice work in the FG episode "Brian The Bachelor" and for writing the song "You've Got a Lot To See" for the FG Episode "Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows".
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 Seth MacFarlane - ADD TV: The Robot Chicken Wiki
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973 in Kent, Connecticut) is an animator, screenwriter, producer, director and voice actor.
MacFarlane received his diploma at the Kent School in Connecticut, whose headmaster publicly rebuked MacFarlane for his "low" brand of humor.
MacFarlane has made numerous appearances as a voice actor on the shows of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in the past few years, including the voice of Wayne "The Main Brain" McClain in an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and an ever-growing list of characters on Robot Chicken.
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 www.seth-macfarlane.com
Seth said, "It would just be a colossal dick move if they did that," and that the next three episodes of the show "are relatively close to completion, but they have not had a final pass."
According to this Variety article, Seth said that Fox and 20th Century Fox TV, which produces the show, are "legally within their rights" to complete episodes without his sign-off.
Seth is scheduled to be on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on this week's Friday night show (Nov. 2) at 12:35 a.m.
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 ~ Toasted Bananas ~
Seth MacFarlane was born in the small New England town of Kent Connecticut where he lived with his father (Ron), Mother (Perry) and sister (Rachael).
Seth does the voices of Peter, Brian, Stewie, Quagmire, and numerous other bit characters.
On September 11, 2001 Seth MacFarlane was scheduled to return to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11 after being a keynote speaker at his alma-mater in Rhode Island.
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 Seth MacFarlane - Photos, Bio and News for Seth MacFarlane | TVGuide.com
A Star Trek-watching, show-tune-singing, entertainment-obsessed fan boy, MacFarlane began drawing cartoons at age 2 and was publishing his own comic strip in his hometown newspaper by age 8.
If Fox goes ahead and airs a new Family Guy this Sunday without creator Seth MacFarlane's seal of approval, although the net is within its rights to do so, Seth says it will be "a colossal...
Series creator Seth MacFarlane and the Family Guy voice cast — including Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and Mike Henry — are taking their animated act on the road.
www.tvguide.com /celebrities/seth-macfarlane/194335   (313 words)

  
 Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live - Seth MacFarlane is asked about South Park's rece...
Seth MacFarlane's Harvard Class Day Speech AS PETER (2 of 4) - Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy and Ameri...
Seth MacFarlane is Spying on Me - I swear Seth MacFarlane (of Family Guy and Ameri...
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 USATODAY.com - 'Dad' joins 'Guy' for yuks   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LOS ANGELES — With split-second timing, Seth MacFarlane shifts his voice from loutish dad Peter to diabolical toddler Stewie to articulate dog Brian, who breaks into show tunes at a nightclub in a Family Guy episode being rehearsed last month.
The rehearsal episode in which Brian becomes a lounge singer and daughter Meg pretends to be a lesbian to fit in at school has riffs on Lindsay Lohan, Frank Sinatra Jr., Gene Shalit and Juan Valdez.
MacFarlane is unapologetic that Family Guy, which follows a cracked Rhode Island family, eschews sweetness in favor of cracking wise.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2005-02-02-macfarlane_x.htm   (897 words)

  
 CRAVEONLINE: Seth MacFarlane On Family Guy #100 / seth macfarlane film & tv / seth macfarlane animation / seth ...
We caught up with Seth Macfarlane after the reading to get the scoop on episode 100 and the season premiere, an entire Star Wars episode.
Seth MacFarlane: That is an invention of Mr.
Seth MacFarlane: The gag has to have an angle to it.
www.craveonline.com /filmtv/articles/04648396/seth_macfarlane_on_family_guy_100.html   (528 words)

  
 Planet Family Guy
The Colin Murray show featuring the chat with Seth MacFarlane will be available to listen to on-demand from the BBC Radio 1 website until next Thursday (November 23rd).
Seth MacFarlane will be joining Colin Murray on BBC Radio 1 tomorrow (November 16th) between 10pm and midnight GMT.
Seth MacFarlane’s contract with Fox expires in the next few months and an agreement for a new contract is yet to be reached.
www.planet-familyguy.com /pfg/homepage/tags/Seth_MacFarlane   (743 words)

  
 Seth MacFarlane at Hollywood.com
MacFarlane soon caught the attention of the executives at Fox who, impressed with the quality of the piece and the dedication evident in his work, originally offered him a deal to create featurettes to run on the network's late-night Saturday comedy series "Mad TV".
MacFarlane turned in a polished and complete episode, something that was "almost unheard of at that price,” according to Fox vice president Mike Darnell.
Though the setback caused some dismay, nothing compared to MacFarlane’s brush with fate: he was booked on one of the planes that was crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, but a mix-up caused him to miss his flight.
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Seth_MacFarlane/199486   (1107 words)

  
 IGN: An Interview with Seth MacFarlane
MACFARLANE: There weren't any episodes cut… The only thing that was cut was that Osama bin Laden scene.
MACFARLANE: That was actually cut for the rerun of that episode, and it was because… That was one of the very few situations where we got a lot of flak for a joke, and it was kind of indefensible…
MACFARLANE: Well, it was a legal thing, and I called their legal department and never heard back.
tv.ign.com /articles/539/539467p4.html   (625 words)

  
 IGN: An Interview with Seth MacFarlane
MACFARLANE: I wasn't nuts about, on 90 degree days, having to keep my coat on because it was the proper thing to do.
MACFARLANE: You know, I was doing cartoon strips for our local newspaper, and that was sort of about the extent of where I was at.
I mean, I had done them, I had been drawing since I was about two, and I had made an animated film that was very, very crude in the eighth grade.
movies.ign.com /articles/429/429628p1.html   (1022 words)

  
 Flak Magazine: Seth MacFarlane's Third Act, 11.30.03
MacFarlane, a 28-year-old graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, has a lot on his plate.
If the answer is "yes" for either show, MacFarlane's fans will have played a big role in putting him back in the game, despite populist crusades' generally low success rate in TV-land.
Fans worried that "American Dad" will be a major departure from the formula that made "Family Guy" one of the funniest shows on TV have little to worry about; MacFarlane sees the new show as an evolutionary step, not a major departure.
www.flakmag.com /features/macfarlane.html   (1252 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: Seth MacFarlane
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Seth MacFarlane is the creator of Fox's "American Dad!" and the often cancelled "Family Guy," cancelled three times since its television premiere in 1999.
When someone does several bad impressions and all the voices sound the same, you say, "This guy's a total Seth MacFarlane." (You don't say "Seth," but you're required to use the entire name/term for submitting a definition)
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 IGN: An Interview with Seth MacFarlane
MACFARLANE: There is! Yeah, there's a ballad that he sings to Chris.
MACFARLANE: The plan is also, if this album does well, to release an album of songs from the show.
Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy follow-up offers plenty of patriotic pleasures, including four featurettes, 12 commentaries and 13 episodes.
tv.ign.com /articles/539/539467p7.html   (968 words)

  
 Get Out! Amarillo's Entertainment Guide :: Seth MacFarlane Is The Master Voice Of 'Family Guy' And 'American Dad'
Meet Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Fox's "Family Guy" and "American Dad," as well as the voice of many of the characters on the two witty and ribald animated series.
Roger, a space alien also voiced by MacFarlane, lives in the Smiths' attic, and the family circle includes Klaus (Dee Bradley), a German-speaking, sexually obsessed goldfish, the result of a CIA experiment gone wrong.
MacFarlane says the show's concept "sprang from the climate during the (presidential) election...
getout.amarillo.com /content/stayingin/042905_familyguy.shtml   (743 words)

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