Comments on: Just Seen & Heard on FOX: A Majorly Anti-Semitic Seth MacFarlane

By: Moe

Moe — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:53:36 +0000

Really? People are still complaining about racist and prejudice satire on a comedy show? When will people understand that comedy is comedy and thats where it usually stays (sure some crazies out there will take it to heart but then again there are always some radical in any group or situation).Do you mean to tell me that because someone makes a joke about another’s way of life that it is immediately fueled by hate? Cmon, lighten up, the point of comedy is to take life and exaggerate it to make it humorous, never take it to heart.

By: MacFarlanefan92

MacFarlanefan92 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:23:30 +0000

You guys grow up! Alot of the Staff members on family guy are Jewish!!!!!

Alex Borstein, David Goodman, Alec Sulkin etc.

They’re jokes and yes they make a lot of them but, i believe a lot of people take things to heart or take it too seriously!

By: froylein

froylein — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:24:36 +0000

Well said.

By: ActaNonVerba

ActaNonVerba — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:16:47 +0000

Disclaimer: Not Jewish. I think McFarlane is a bigot. It’s easy to use the weak excuse “I make fun of everybody” when you are in the dominant group. It’s like me grabbing a little white guy (I’m a fairly big Latino) and starting a slap fight and saing, “what? You can slap me too. It’s fair”. So, I’m down with wanting to bitch slap McFaggot for taking Jew jokes too far. BUT, not that I’m always around Jewish people, when I have been I have never really heard any sympathy for extremely crude humor against, for example, Jesus. I’m not a big devout Christian, I just find it hypocritical. I submit that the most honorable thing is just to be down on anyone that just pointlessly and irresponsibly slams anybody’s sacred beliefs or their identity as human beings. I’ll stand with anyone in that fight. Criticism is cool, poking fun is cool, but trying to denigrate while hiding behind the “comedy shield” is not cool.

By: beth

beth — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:02:33 +0000

Let’s clarify that I said I found the joke and his jokes in general “anti-semitic”- I made no statement that he’s an anti-semite. Anyways, judging by his humor he probably is the latter so I guess you bring up a sound point.

Not sure how any Jew out there can defend MacFarlane’s Jew jokes after a while. But, there is particularly not funny something about Jews dying in the Holocaust.

By: Grand Muffti

Grand Muffti — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:23:26 +0000

Muffti is pretty self-happy and he likes family guy. Making comedy that treads upon sacred cow lines and dares to draw the sacred into the profane always runs the risk of offense and will frequently turn people off who thinks it has gone too far. But ‘going too far’ and ‘being anti-F’ for whatever parameter F someone has gone too far with should not be as easy a slip as suggested above. You may not like the joke but to say that someone who tells it, who has CLEARLY taken on the role of parodying and joking in areas that are sensitive is truly a disgusting thing to do and regretably lends credence to the claim that jews will use the charge of ‘anti-semite’ all-together too quickly.

In other words, offensive jokes don’t the anti-semite make, even if anti-semites make offensive jokes.

By: ML

ML — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:03:05 +0000

Lighten up.

By: Tiff

Tiff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:49:42 +0000

Of course I am not a self hating Jew… Esther, I completely agree with you.

By: AlexK

AlexK — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:18:09 +0000

American Jews being “eternally vigilant to the extreme for any signs of a resurgent anti-Semitism”? Hahaha. You’ve got to be F’in kidding me! They, 75% of them, elected and campaigned on behalf of Barrack Hussein Obama, a guy who sat and listened to 20+ years of his anti-Semitic pastor rant about Them Joos, was buddies with Rashid Khalidi, Farrakhan, et al. American Jews are soo busy hunting for Jew haters in southern GOP districts that they let real haters walk in the front door and even handed them money and credence. And when Jewish kids in college are afraid to say they are “pro-Israel” and worship cretins like Noam Chompsky, what do you expect?

By: ck

ck — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:48:42 +0000

OMG I can assure you Tiff is not a self hating Jew. My sister only hates certain Jews. Justifiably so I might add. Family Guy makes me laugh. Maybe I’m a moron, I dunno. And the best Holocaust joke ever is the fucking notion, promoted by some, that inordinately commemorating or deifying the Holocaust is an adequate replacement for, you know, actual Jewish values. And the best joke relating to Anti-Semitism? That American Jews have to remain eternally vigilant to the extreme for any signs of a resurgent anti-Semitism lest jack booted thugs start marching down 5th Avenue chanting “Juden Raus!” tomorrow.