The man who virtually owns Fox Sunday nights, Seth MacFarlane, will be joining Carrie Underwood in what is seemingly Fox's attempt to revive the variety show genre. Didn't anybody learn the lesson of Rosie O'Donnell?The show is called Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show. It'll be broadcast on November 8th and be commercial-free thanks to Microsoft (who will be promoting Windows 7). The special will be a mix of animated and live performances. I've seen Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein (the voice of Lois Griffin) perform together in Family Guy Live and they're certainly better together than anything Rosie could produce.
It's interesting how retro these planned variety shows are going. It used to be that shows like The Colgate Comedy Hour would have live sketches about their sponsors sprinkled throughout the show. I wonder how MacFarlane and company will handle shilling Windows 7. Do they even like Windows 7? MacFarlane strikes me more as a Mac guy. "Mac" is even part of his last name.
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10-14-2009 @ 2:22PM
Elf said...
MacFarlane and Borstein have shared the stage together several times at events like this one http://express-press-release.net/49/Alex%20Borstein%20and%20Seth%20MacFarlane%20in%20%60Freakin%20Sweet%60.php which I was lucky enough to attend.
As long as they keep the show to just the two of them doing what they already do well with some Windows 7 plugs mixed in, it will be a great show. I hope they resist the urge to make it a traditional TV variety show and bring out guest stars who won't add anything to the show. Except maybe Bill Gates. He's hilarious!
(Actually come to think of it, MacFarlane has not been particularly kind to Gates in past episodes of FG. I hope that means that Gates really does have a sense of humor.)
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