Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove to appear in Family Guy

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

American right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and former president George Bush's strategist Karl Rove are to play themselves in a forthcoming episode of Fox's animation Family Guy.

In the episode being produced for next season, Brian, the liberal dog of the cartoon's central family, the Griffins, gets bored and frustrated because he feels he no longer has anything to complain about with Barack Obama in the White House, so he becomes a Republican and starts listening to Limbaugh.

"Family Guy tends to be very liberal because it's written by liberals," creator Seth MacFarlane told US trade magazine the Hollywood Reporter.

"So we thought let's give the other side some face time. So we put it out there to a lot of Republicans - 'we're doing this show, who wants in?' - and we got some bites. I'm sure the reaction from some will be, 'you monsters, how could you have Karl Rove on your show?'"

MacFarlane was appearing at an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences event, where the cast of the animation performed a live read-through of its controversial episode about abortion, which Fox has refused to air.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/14/rush-limbaugh-karl-rove-family-guy

[Robb]

1. ...Aaaaaaand there's the shark. nt

[BlooInBloo]

2. Awesome.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. har..those two posts pretty much sum up DU, yes?

I wonder if SM's recent howard stern appearance is available online anywhere

[Greyskye]

4. Can't wait to see how they'll tear 'em to shreds.

This is going to be good. :evilgrin:

[Ian David]

5. Why do I think somehow that McFarlane is setting a trap as payback for banning the abortion episode?

Just a feeling.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Mine too. He seems like a Jim Morrison type, when asked to tone down lyrics for teevee.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Is that the one where they break into the Bush compound?

Stewie finds Laura Bush's Planned Parenthood receipts and remarks, "wow, she's been scraped more times than a fisherman's knuckle!"

[romantico]

8. Limbaugh has already appeared

In the Blue Harvest Episode where Chris and Obi Wan listen to talk radio on Tattoine in the landspeeder.For years I didn't think it was really Rush.Don't expect them to make fun of themselves. I have a feeling it will be a pro Conservative episode where they make fun of liberals a lot.

[Ian David]

9. I don't expect that at all.

If THAT happens, Seth McFarlane will be dead to me.

[EOTE]

10. MacFarlane already had rush on the "Blue Harvest" Star Wars episode.

He wasn't funny then and I really doubt he'll be funny in this upcoming episodes. Conservatives simply don't get humor. I'll probably live my whole life not having seen a funny conservative. I know a lot of people here say that P.J. O'Rourke is funny, but he's never seemed funny to me. To me, he's just seemed like an old curmudgeon desperately trying to prove how hip he is by wearing totally age inappropriate clothing.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. I saw Anne Beatts and a few other original NatLampers at a club last year, and they all

HATED that prick at the time, as well as now. nothing but contempt for his talent, as well....said he stole everybody's ideas, not funny, typical back-stabbing jag who weaseled his way into power at the Lampoon, and presided, basically, over its demise

he's embarassingly unfunny on shows like Maher's or Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

[EOTE]

13. I can't stand him on Maher.

It's so incredibly awkward watching him say something obscure in a Dennis Miller type of way and then wait for the few chuckles that come from the audience. If he needs to try that hard, he should really just give it up. Leave humor and the rest of the arts to liberals. Conservatives can have gay bashing and Lee Greenwood.

[The Gunslinger]

11. Looks like that show has run it's course for me.