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...into animation, but you've taken a real front-of-the-camera role. I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did. With the Family Guy pilot, part of me doing the voices was that there wasn't any money to hire actors. But there was also a very specific vocal and delivery style that I was after. It was just easier to do it myself...
...interesting that you talk about showmanship. You talk about how you're well versed in musical theater and you have so many musical numbers on Family Guy. Is the idea of showmanship an important underpinning of your type of humor? Yeah, I think so. There's an element of showmanship in old television at its best that's been lost today. Where you really see it in the most emblematic sense is with the absence of of opening titles. They don't do it anymore. Certainly in Family Guy and American Dad, we actually had to fight to have...
...What did you do to Stewart? There was a very inside joke on Family Guy referring to the fact that he was working before the writers' strike was over. It was admittedly a very direct middle finger of a joke, which I don't discount. But he called and was very angry about it. The call lasted an hour. It was pretty amazing. He's a very good debater, I'll tell you that. It was fascinating to me that it went on for so long...
...Family Guy you're doing another Star Wars parody, this time of The Empire Strikes Back. What's it called? Something, something, something, Dark Side...
...sounds. Ardai needed writers who could hammer out tales in the style of that less lyrical era, crude but effective books that dispensed with stylistic foofaraw and hooked the reader from the get-go with pure plot. (Sample first line, from David Dodge's The Last Match: "The guy who was waiting for me in my room merely wanted to blow my head off, that's all.") "Pulp fiction was written at high velocity by people who had a bill collector waiting at the door," Ardai says. So far, he has signed up some A-list talent, including Madison Smartt...