'Family Guy' Insults Emmy Voters -- Again!

[Brian Damage]

Instead of pumping hands and backslapping Emmy voters, producers of "Family Guy" are back to their usual treatment -- whacking them with insults. Or, rather, the program's famously offensive characters are doing it for them. In the FYC DVD mailing just shipped to TV academy members, crude dimwit dad Peter Griffin snarls, "Come on, you bloated, overprivileged Brentwood Jews. Let us into your little club." His bizarrely sophisticated infant son Stewie nudges voters a bit more slyly, "It's a secret ballot. You can still tell people you voted for 'Modern Family.'" (A nice inside joke, since Twentieth Century Fox Television produces both programs.)

Such outrageous wooing worked in the past. In 2009, "Family Guy" became the second animated show in Emmy history to be nominated for Best Comedy Series (following "The Flintstones" in 1961) after sending a FYC mailer that plopped Stewie face in Barack Obama's "Vote for Change" poster. Inside pages said, "You have to vote for us. We did a Holocaust episode" and "We peaked three years ago so by your logic we should get an Emmy now."

"Family Guy" failed to be nominated over the past two years, but it continued its cheeky attack. In 2010, Peter was depicted on the cover of its FYC mailing looking like "Precious" star Gabourey Sidibe. Headline text read: "'Family Guy' based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire." Inside text: "Vote for us or you're a racist" and "Celebrating diversity – written by 8 Wasps, 6 Jews, 2 Asians and 1 Gay."


Last year's mailer showed Stewie looking up at an empty trophy case, saying, "It's been this way for 8 years and it's starting to hurt morale." Inside: "We paid for a Golden Globe and we didn't get it so we're owed an award" and "This DVD has 1 frame of porn – find the porn."

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[Mark Glicker]

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Well done animation.

[Brian Damage]

Seth MacFarlane apologizing?

As if.

The Family Guy head honcho kicked up some controversy last week when his show released Emmy consideration mailers and ads addressed to "Brentwood Jews."

We just talked to MacFarlane and this is what he had to say to his critics...

"I put it in the same category as Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes a few years ago—Hollywood must be able to laugh at itself," MacFarlane told us at Spike's Guys Choice Awards in L.A.

"Hollywood is a town of very well-to-do folks who live very comfortably," he continued. "They have a very comfortable lifestyle, they do what they love, there's not much that is bad in their life. So they should be able to laugh at themselves. If they can't, it's a rather sad thing."

The material featured Family Guy character Peter Griffin saying, "Come on, you bloated, overprivileged Brentwood Jews. Let us into your little club." Inside, the copy read, "It's a secret ballot. You can still tell people you voted for Modern Family."

Ads featuring that text were rejected by trade publications The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.

Controversy aside, MacFarlane dished to us on Ted, his new movie that stars Mark Wahlberg as a man whose best friend is a potty-mouthed teddy bear that comes to life.

"You will never be able to have a teddy bear again," MacFarlane laughed, adding, "They're calling it a hard R comedy, but dare I say it's actually a very sweet movie that happens to have an R rating...it's not like there's gratuitous sex or violence. It's R for language."

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[Brian Damage]

Move over Obama, Romney and the Super PACS, “Family Guy” knows how to cause a stir with campaign ads.


In 2009, “Family Guy” became the second animated series in TV history to be nominated for Best Comedy Series at the Emmy Awards; the first was "The Flintstones" in 1961. In a video chat with Gold Derby, showrunner Steve Callaghan recalled: “We were so thrilled when people took a look at the show and really came at it with an open mind and realised that just because it’s an animated show doesn’t mean that it’s not also a comedy and should be judged by the same standards as some really great shows.”

Upon receiving the recognition, “Family Guy” released a series of videos online attacking each of its fellow nominees in one of the most aggressive Emmy campaign moves in history. Defending the arguably negative campaigning Steve said, “I guess you could call it negative campaigning. We have tried very much to have all of our campaigning ... reflect the show. We want people to vote for us because they like the show and if they like the show hopefully they will respond to the way we’ve done our campaign ... We hope that none of the other shows took offence; we were just trying to have some fun and shake up the campaign. It just seems like so often these Emmy campaigns can fall into the same rhythms and you see a lot of the same shows getting nominated ... We can only be ourselves.”

Again this year, "Family Guy" has not shied away from controversy with its Emmy campaigning. An ad with this year’s material has Peter Griffin saying “Come on, you bloated, overprivileged Brentwood Jews. Let us into your little club.”

Responding to the new controversy Steve said, “We just sort of tried to think of what would Peter’s take be on the whole Emmy campaign ... and the notion of the television academy itself. We weren’t really trying to offend anybody, we just kind of thought it was in Peter’s voice and this is what Peter would think of it and what his reaction to it would be ... If people took offence it wasn’t our intention, it really was just our attempt to speak in the voice of the show. The truth of the matter is if it causes people to open up that screener and watch the DVD of episodes that’s the best thing of all.”

On whether “Family Guy” ever tries to cause offence with its pushing the envelope no hold barred comedy Steve responded, “We don’t go about writing the show in any mean spirited fashion. We try to be equal opportunity offenders. We’ll take shots at anybody and anything. We do try to be edgy and we do try to be provocative ... Anyone is fair game, even including ourselves. We’ve made many, many jokes at our own expense. So we feel we are just as much a target as anyone can be ... That’s the role of comedy to poke fun at different people.”

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