Seth MacFarlane: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic)

50 Years of the Playboy Interview

by Playboy, Playboy Magazine

In mid-1962, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was given a partial transcript of an interview with Miles Davis. It covered jazz, of course, but it also included Davis’s ruminations on race, politics and culture. Fascinated, Hef sent the writer—future Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Alex Haley, an unknown at the time—back to glean even more opinion and insight from Davis. The resulting exchange, published in the September 1962 issue, became the first official Playboy Interview and kicked off a remarkable run of public inquisition that continues today—and that has featured just about every cultural titan of the last half century.To celebrate the Interview’s 50th anniversary, the editors of Playboy have culled 50 of its most (in)famous Interviews and will publish them over the course of 50 weekdays (from September 4, 2012 to November 12, 2012) via Amazon’s Kindle Direct platform. Here is the interview with the Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane from the September 2009 issue.

19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 26, 2012

Reviews

[Goth Gone Grey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very light reading

I'm hooked on The Orrville and thought this would be an interesting read. It's not awful, but the majority of the interview is about Family Guy and scatological humor, due to the interviewer's questions.

It feels like Seth could have done so much better with interaction that allowed for his various passions and intensity, as shown here:

"Once you learn the basics, timing is the thing that separates great animators from mediocre ones. You have to know exactly how many in-between drawings will make an action funny. The Simpsons reinvented animation timing for television. Its slapstick is funny because it doesn’t have a lot of squash and stretch; it isn’t cartoony."

[Jim Chisholm · Rating 5 out of 5]

McFarlane is a thinking man's humorist.

Great interview good questions not just fluff about his next project.
A little disappointed there weren't any pictures to go along with the story, this was in playbook after all.