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Family Guy's Stewie to Host Talk Show 241

Posted by CmdrTaco from the at-last-a-reason-to-turn-your-computer-on dept.
blake3737 writes "Stewie, of Family Guy Fame, will be joining the ranks animated talk show hosts, such as Space Ghost (Tad Ghostal). He will be hosting an internet talk show. " Somewhere Brak is crying.
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Family Guy's Stewie to Host Talk Show

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  • This means that it is time for.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Artie_Effim ( 700781 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:01PM (#14561192)
    A SEXY PARTY !!!! Oh, wait, slashdot..hmmm... A LAN PARTY then!

  • I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)

    by rob_squared ( 821479 ) <rob@rob - s q u a red.com> on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:01PM (#14561202)
    I wonder if he'll allow Bill Cosby to come on as a guest. :)

  • Lois (Score:4, Funny)

    by underground alliance ( 582424 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:01PM (#14561204)
    Hey, mother, I come bearing a gift. I'll give you a hint. It's in my diaper and it's not a toaster.

  • A Ruthless, Abrasive , Arrogent Talk Show Host... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Cr0w T. Trollbot ( 848674 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:02PM (#14561205)
    ...who longs to take over the world.

    Nah, no one will ever buy that...

    Crow T. Trollbot

    • Stewie rules. He's a modern day edition of The Brain (from Pinky and The Brain) without all the bumbling.
      • Brain did not "bumble." He was often foiled by outside circumstances, and often by his associate. Those cases in which it was his plan's fault, usually it was 90% successful but that last little bit was enough to wreck the whole thing.

        Hell, Brain'd be a much better ruler than Bush. I mean, if he ran, I'd vote for him rather than just about any Republican these days.

        "Vote Brain in 2008. At least he's up front about his plans for world domination!"
      • No, he used-to be that. Now he's just a loud-mouthed child with limitless unfunny gags about repressed homosexuality.

        He hasn't been interesting in a long time.

  • at-last-a-reason-to-turn-your-computer-on (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ackthpt ( 218170 ) * on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:02PM (#14561213) Homepage Journal

    Depends upon your perspective on Stewie and/or Family Guy. At first Stewie was a megalomaniacal infant with Peter Lorre's voice, now he's some amalgamation of sleazy teenager/adult in an infant body with some of the imagination of a toddler (i.e. holding a phone call with Grover while Brian sits in a cubicle outside his office.)

    I dunno. I don't think I can come up with any real questions other than, "Why is this a good idea?"

    I find myself constantly challenged to actually turn on the TV to watch Family Guy

    • "Why is this a good idea?"

      According to the article here is why it is a good idea:
      "He added that the idea for the show has been embraced on Madison Avenue by potential advertisers."

    • Re:at-last-a-reason-to-turn-your-computer-on (Score:4, Funny)

      by LoveMuscle ( 42428 ) * on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:28PM (#14561487)
      You can't figure out how to turn on the TV?

    • Peter Lorre?!?! (Score:3, Insightful)

      by C10H14N2 ( 640033 )
      I think you have him confused with this man. [imdb.com]
    • I actually do like Family Guy, but I don't know if a talk show is going to work for the Stewie character. I'm afraid the Stewie character on Family Guy doesn't really have enough depth on his own. I like Stewie in small doses, but I don't think I'll want to sit through a half hour of him. Space Ghost works because of the other characters on the show, the quirkiness of the show in general, and the length of the segments. Without a supporting cast to carry some of the load, I'm not sure any of this will w
    • At first Stewie was a megalomaniacal infant with Peter Lorre's voice, now he's some amalgamation of sleazy teenager/adult in an infant body with some of the imagination of a toddler.

      There! You've nailed exactly why I don't think the Family Guy is nearly as funny as it was when it started out. Stewie's megalomania and hatred for his mother are very large parts of what drew me to the show. Now that he's just all confused about sex and more of a smartass than anyone his age could be, I really don't care for
      • Absolutely. You two said it. I *loved* Family Guy at first, and that is the single worst thing that happened to the series.

        The other thing that got old was jokes involving Peter where the humor was supposed to derive from how long the joke was. An example would be Peter saying something to someone ("I'll bet you like hamburger"), then waiting for maybe five seconds and blinking while looking at that person. Then he'd say something to them with a sly grin ("C'mon, I'll bet you really like it"), then he'd

  • Actually, this could be good (Score:3, Funny)

    by Rooked_One ( 591287 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:03PM (#14561221) Journal
    I mean, its stewie - which is great, but if McFarlen makes up the questions for the interviews, it would be fabulous, becuase hes a very deep guy and a brilliant philosopher.

  • You know mother... (Score:4, Funny)

    by varmittang ( 849469 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:03PM (#14561225)
    Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get. However your life is more like a box of ACTIVE HAND GRENADES!

  • No, he can't! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Landshark17 ( 807664 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:03PM (#14561227)
    If he does get his own talk show he'll have ample opportunity to unleash his mind-control device on an unsuspecting populace!

  • How interesting (Score:2, Insightful)

    by gasmonso ( 929871 )

    I loved this show when it first came out. Of course the network didn't support it well and it got canceled. My how times have changed because this show has taken off much to the credit of the loyal fan base which resurrected the show. I hope FOX remembers who was right in the future when another show like this comes along. And good luck to you Stewie and you new found success :)

    http://religiousfreaks.com/ [religiousfreaks.com]

    • Hopefully, the rumors of resurrecting Futurama are true. Same scenario- Fox cancels show, rabid fanbase interests another network in ordering more.

      oh please oh please oh please oh please....
      • I think it has progressed past rumors at this point. Second-to-last post, straight from Billy West himself, confirms it is coming back as 4 feature length movies.
        http://www.billywest.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID =1685&PN=1&TPN=4 [billywest.com]
        • Thanks for the tip! Good news it is.... Movies are cool, but I wonder if they'll hold up to a series type implementation.
          • They should. At least then we'd have to suffer only one saccharine sweet ending to a particular story.

            I love Futurama but they often emulated the early Simpsons habit of ending each episode with an "awwwww" moment that, to me, didn't fit at all with the rest of the show. The ones that particularly bother me are the "Fry wants Leela" episodes which could be really funny and silly, only to end like they constituted a tragic tale of ill-fated romance. And, let's face it, the main reason Fry wants to be wi
            • I don't understand why people like Futurama so much. I've tried over and over to get into it. My friends love it. It just isn't funny, though. I laugh at Family Guy, and I like (well, liked back in the day...haven't watched it for a very long time) the Simpsons, but I just don't see the appeal of Futurama.

              For example, I remember one episode where the characters were on a planet with robots, and the robots were trying to build a building. They dropped a new chunk of building in, and it completed a "tetr

    • it came along and is called (Score:5, Informative)

      by BitterAndDrunk ( 799378 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:23PM (#14561432) Homepage Journal
      Arrested Development [freeannyong.com]

      And it's basically been cancelled by Fox after three seasons. Like Futurama they really didn't give it much of a shot:
      Cancelling episodes in season 2
      Cutting back to 13 episodes in season 3 and yanking it from sweeps

      ABC and Showtime have both made overtures of interest, so naturally Fox hasn't said "it's cancelled". I wish they would; it's obvious they can't market the show worth a damn.
      But how would you? It's smart, funny, and many of the jokes require knowledge of current events. And it's on Fox. What's going to lead in to it, Meet Your New Mommy? Reality Makeover Tour?

      Anyone who was a Simpsons fan when it was a good show abandoned it a long time ago so it couldn't even hold viewers in a Sunday 8:30 timeslot.

      To paraphrase David Cross: A show that wins critical acclaim and multiple awards that can't keep viewers. Perhaps the problem isn't the show, but the people in marketing who don't know how to sell it.
      It was much nicer the way I put it.
      Basically Fox needs to drop it so Showtime or ABC can pick it up and give it the chance it should have.

      It's funny; any hard core Seinfeld fanatic I know picked up on Arrested Dev immediately and have loved it from the get-go. Fox never understood that.

      • I'm not sure Fox understands much at all. The littany of good show Fox has killed is truely stunning. (all the while they leave this reality TV crap on the air..)
      • Now if only they would cancel that God-awful mess called "The War at Home". What a terrible imitation of Married with Children.
      • Fox should sell Arrested to the highest bidder. I hope they do. I'd pay for Showtime in a heartbeat to see Arrested Development.

        Problem with Fox is 90% of the content is brain-dead programming.
      • Kitchen Confidential was a pretty good show that never really got a chance, but complemented Arrested Development pretty well. The American Office on NBC didn't really start really strong, but now has a great following.
        • And it shows in their programming. As everphilski indicated, shows like "The War At Home" will stick around for a long time. (In its defense, the pilot episode for War At Home, or perhaps the following one about marijuana, were extremely funny episodes. Since then it's just sucked. All the characters are one trick ponies)

          Personally I think it's reaping what you sow. Fox panders to the low intelligent demographic, the trailer trash so to speak. Their endless parades of reality programming, their low-brow hu

      • Amen to that god i hate fox
    • Lets see... Futurama, FireFly (Serenity), and lately Arrested Developement. Futurama is looking more and more like its coming back, almost more of a when than an if. I wish the same were true of FireFly, though we at least got a movie out of it. Hopefully it will get picked up again somewhere. Arrested developement was good too, though I didnt watch too many episodes.

      Tm

    • Stop whoring your site and put it in your sig.
  • "Shut up, Damn you!"
  • This may be a way for writers to work out some jokes, etc. before they hit prime time. Additionally, they can use feedback from the web-based show to drive the overall direction of the TV series. It's good to see that they know who their audience is, to some extent...

    Come on, they can't put "peanut butter jelly time" into a cartoon on TV without realizing that they should reciprocate with some TV character-based internet cartoons.

  • Meh... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by niteskunk ( 886685 )
    I don't really see this lasting long... The first few episodes will be catchy, cause it's something new (particularly something new involving Stewie Griffin) - but after a while, where can you go with it?
    • I really agree with another poster, it's most likely a testing ground. That's one thing TV writers lack(Watch your favorite comedien, then watch, a lot of them have travelling shows that aren't advertised, aren't big, and not in a huge theater, and are normally about $10 or $15 per person at some small improv. It's not as funny, but you'll hear all the good jokes again from the big tour). It's a great idea for a testing ground. It will NOT replace the show, it will NOT replace the show, and, it will also NO

  • You have been warned ... (Score:4, Funny)

    by hotspotbloc ( 767418 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:12PM (#14561333) Homepage Journal
    Victory shall be mine!

  • Stewie is my least favorite character on that show (Score:4, Interesting)

    by ezeecheez ( 931550 ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @03:13PM (#14561336)
    A talk show hosted by Brian, on the other hand, that would be great.
  • Yes some co-workers and mysefl (all IT folks) were discussing Family Guy over lunch. But does it have a big enough geek following for this to be "News for Nerds"?

    Or will slashdot post anything these days?
  • He does not expect the program to cannibalize viewing for the Fox series or other "Family" brand extensions like DVD.

    This sentence is wrong in so many ways.

    Besides, if we wanted cannabalize viewing we would just watch the Discovery Channel. But then again, to release something in different formats at the same time is an interesting idea.
  • Ah...I do say, a group of people who are either insightful, informative, redundant, funny, or trolls. Clearly none of which exist in my current confines. Except for maybe that troll-faced Meg and the dog who is very funny when trying to put on his lipstick which also has become quite redundant.

  • On Space Ghost Coast to Coast, I always got the feeling that they asked the interviewees one set of questions, then recorded SG asking totally different questions. Their guests often seemed uncomfortable or confused. I guess that's part of the joke.

    I always preferred Cartoon Planet, because there was more of Brak. Brak makes me happy.

  • hmm a cross between .. (Score:2, Interesting)

    by soloes ( 415223 )
    so stewie as a host is going to be a cross between Dennis Miller and Bill Mahr. I think it has potential, but to be honest i would prefer to see one with Quagmire and only female guests. Well maybe he could interview the guy who started "Girls Gone Wild."
    diggity
  • Quote from TFA: "Stewie wouldn't be the first animated character to get his own talk show; that distinction belongs to "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," which aired on Cartoon Network"

    Really? What about Max Headroom back in 1987.
  • OK, he was a guy in a suit and makeup that we all pretended was completely computer generated, but still.

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