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Family Guy Actor Sides With Palinth

Patrick Warburton, who the true geeks among us will remember as The Tick, sides with Palin over the FamilyGuy attack onTrig episode:

Cast member Patrick Warburton told TV critics Wednesday he objected to the joke.

“I know it’s satire but, personally, that [joke] bothered me too,” Warburton said on a conference call to promote his other primetime show, CBS’s sitcom “Rules of Engagement,” which returns for a fourth season on March 1. (On “Family Guy” Warburton does the voice of the wheelchair-bound police officer, Joe.)

“I know that you have to be an equal-opportunity offender, but there are some things that I just don’t think are funny.”

Shhh. Wait. It gets better:

“Look, I have fun. I like Seth [MacFarlane, the show’s creator]. He’s got a great comic mind and I think that the show can be fantastically funny. But I do believe that it can be hurtful at times,” Warburton said in response to a question about the episode posed by WaPo Team TV’s “Family Guy” bureau chief Emily Yahr. […]

“A show like that … is going to offend everybody at one point or another,” the actor said.
“My mother actually believes my soul’s in peril for being on the show,” he added.

Hold up, for the Post felt it needed to make sure readers knew Warburton was being sarcastic with that last line:

Note to Ms. Palin — he was making a joke.

Phew. And I thought he was being serious.

Warburton is a Catholic, and he and his wife have four kids.

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RL
RL
Friday, February 26, AD 2010 7:43pm

He may be The Tick to geeks, but to us dorks he’s Puddy!

brettsalkeld
brettsalkeld
Friday, February 26, AD 2010 8:26pm

I’m a dork. The episode where Puddy gets religion jumps to mind.

Blackadder
Blackadder
Friday, February 26, AD 2010 8:45pm

If we’re going to play this game, I suppose I should note that Andrea Fay Friedman, the actress who played the girl on the Family Guy episode (and who herself has Downs Syndrome) thinks Palin was the one who was out of line.

Bill Hoogsteden
Bill Hoogsteden
Friday, February 26, AD 2010 10:35pm

Ms.Friedman seems to be doing the part of the house “low life African-American” for the Family Guy IMHO.

Mike Petrik
Mike Petrik
Saturday, February 27, AD 2010 3:33pm

Marv,
I see you haven’t changed. Still wrong about pretty much everything, including contributors and commenters on this site. How very sad for you.

Deacon Chip
Saturday, February 27, AD 2010 3:39pm

Oh, my goodness!

That last comment actually interrupted the finishing touches on a homily that has to be delivered in 25 minutes!

Judge much, Marv? “Her children are heavily involved in sex and drugs”? Scandalize much, either, for that matter?

what do you know of what Chelsea Clinton has or has not done (not that it matters)? the one thing everyone knows about Chelsea Clinton is that she hasn’t given birth to a child. We know *nothing* else. (not that I care to, but there it is.)

And it would not be inappropriate to moderate that little puppy out of the conversation.

I’ll pray for y’all at Mass.

Deacon Chip
Saturday, February 27, AD 2010 6:04pm

In all honesty, haven’t had a chance to read the comments re Pat Buchanan. I’m not singling you out, Marv, really. I’m singling the comment out.

Re Sarah Palin and her motherhood, well…she ain’t Catholic. Is she a good role model for young women? I like much of what she does in public. MILF? Perhaps the carnal man might think so. But I choose to TRY not to think of ANYONE in that way, so as not to degrade either her or myself. Seems like she gets an awful lot of bad commentary based on the gifts god gave her. it isn’t like she spent millions on plastic surgery to look the way she does.

Lastly, “judge not” in the context of Scripture doesn’t mean that we should never call anything wrong because we all sin. Right and wrong are OBJECTIVE. Just because I smoke crack doesn’t mean I can’t call someone else wrong for doing it; it just means I recognize that I am wrong too. And your comments really do verge on being awfully ad hominem (what difference does my opinion about Sarah Palin’s politics OR body have to do with the correctness of her criticism of Seth Macfarlane (the correct answer is, “none”)?

We’d all be much more effective debaters if we stuck to the facts, and those conjectures and opinions supportable by facts. Whether Sarah Palin is pretty or not has no bearing, does it?

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