Eric H: "Chill its a cartoon..."

Alex: "It's just a cartoon man, relax."

@John Scott Lewinski: Well, I think there's the answer you were looking for. Cartoons get away with polictical and "non-politically correct" humor because they're just cartoons. They're not meant to be taken seriously at all.

Further, Charactertoon characters don't wrry about being blackballed. I mean, Peter Griffin doesn't have to worry about his next gig or how his role on Family Guy will affect his upcoming movie on Lifetime.

And as for the voice actors on Family Guy, Seth McFarlane-voiced characters (Peter, Brian, Stewie, and Quagmire) are the only one who utter "outrageous" things--Mila Kunis, Seth Green, and Alex Bornstein have never had to take the leap and portray a character being extremely offensive.

Seth takes all the risks, and Seth gets all the rewards.

I'd find MacFarlane's shows a lot funnier if I didn't find the creator so insufferably smug.

@BugKiller: I take it you aren't aware that Seth Doesn't actually write for any of his shows anymore? He hasn't written an episode since the 3rd season, which is when the standard for Family Guy was a lot higher. And seriously, the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. My point being that if you despise him to such an extent that you're willing to post a ten paragraph hate comment, then he shouldn't be worth your time in the first place. It's just a cartoon man, relax.

And @John Scott Lewinski: Talk about informative, unbiased reporting! *Slow clap*.

Holy crap ...have an agenda much?

theis pice says a lot more about you than it does about Seth

"As expected, the event had more of a Comic Con feel to it then the normally more reserved Paley atmosphere."

Dude! You are a writer. You should know your "then" from your "than."

Listened to a Bill Simmons (ESPN's The Sports Guy) double podcast a few months back with Matt Stone.

In it, Bill admitted to finding Family Guy funny because of the pop culture references.

Matt Stone then correctly asked Bill if he liked the show because it was actually funny, or because of random pop culture references that made him remember something from when he grew up (the nostalgia factor).

Matt went on again to say that, again correctly, that yeah, Family Guy does all of these pop culture references, they just don't do them funny.

Seth MacFarlane is the single biggest douche bag not named Dane Cook.

He is not funny. His writing is crap. He is petty and vulgar. He makes Richard Dawkins look restrained and open-minded. His singular talent is that he's a decent voice-over artist.

Seth MacFarlane and his popularity is proof that the future seen in Idiocracy written and directed by Mike Judge (you know, someone who's actually funny and has something intelligent to say about life in America) is upon us.

The stupidist people I know seem to be the ones who find this guy and his terrible shows funny.

And then the ones who find him funny and can do simple addition? No senses of humor, so I can't fault them too much.

But yes, the unfathomable popularity of this unbelievable douche and his brand of "comedy" is a sign of the Idiocracy Apocalypse.

I love Bill Maher, and find him hilarious, though I think he's the wrong type of person to host something centered around Seth MacFarlane full of FG fans. It's a different type of humor. That said, Seth was really funny when he was on Real Time with Bill Maher a few weeks ago, Seth and Bill had a good rapport and seem to be good friends.

But if you get off on fart/vomit jokes and obsure 80's references, then Bill Maher's humor is not going to be something you're going to find funny or entertaining.

Yeah, even though I probably prefer MacFarlane's humor to Maher's, I wouldn't be surprised if there were more people in the US that thought otherwise.

Also, I don't know if it was the writer's mis-spelling or the copying of a quote from another source, but you mis-spelled 'Goddammit' Or maybe it should be God dammit. Either way, no n should be involved.

"Unfortunately, the presence of Bill Maher (someone whom I never really found funny) as host of an event"

fixed that for you. unless, unknown to the entire planet, you've become the arbiter of what is funny.