Banned Family Guy Ad anti-Semitic?
Ad attempts to appeal to “bloated, overprivileged Jews” for Emmy consideration
The banned adFamily Guy creator Seth MacFarlane tweeted a photo Tuesday, featuring a banned ad asking Emmy voters to consider the show as a nominee in the Outstanding Comedy Series category.
The ad contains a picture of main character Peter Griffin saying, “Come on, you bloated, overprivileged Brentwood Jews. Let us into your little club.”
Family Guy has won five Emmys overall, but has never won for Outstanding Comedy Series.
According to MacFarlane, it was an ad that “the trades refused to run.”
Inside of the card that would have been mailed out to voters, in addition to a DVD of four Family Guy episodes, a picture of baby Stewie added, "It’s a secret ballot. You can still tell people you voted for Modern Family."
“Wow, if Family
Guy was
that funny on a regular basis, it might get nominated,” a Brentwood TV producer
told The Hollywood
Reporter. Another producer said, "It’s so
heavy-handed. It's light on funny.”
“While I think Family
Guy is
a genuinely funny show, we all—including this ‘Brentwood Jew’—need to think twice
about this kind of humor,” said another executive.
“Stereotyping any particular ethnic group is just not cool and can lead others with the wrong intentions to feel a certain license to take shots. Surely Seth has better stuff than this.”
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The pop sensation and his manager appear in this Sunday’s episode
‘Almost Human’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ were announced for Fox’s 2013-14 season
The 34-year-old and his producing parnter, Jordan Feldstein, will create “scripted and alternative programming” for the network.
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