Seth MacFarlane’s clever, if somewhat protracted, opening bit at Sunday night’s Academy Awards starred his hero, Captain Kirk, who traveled back in time to prevent a hosting performance certain to ...

Last night the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) held the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, or “the quest to make Tommy Lee Jones laugh.” Once again television audiences around the ...

MacFarlane also hosted the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” last month and also created the animated series “American Dad!” and “The Cleveland Show.” Hawk Koch, president of the Academy, said ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . While this might in theory be good news for some people, we wonder if MacFarlane's biggest fans, meaning teenage boys and their stoner older brothers, ...

The tapping of “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane to host the next Academy Awards doesn’t come out of left field as much as out of Quahog – which seemingly is about as far from Hollywood as you can ...

MacFarlane, it should be said, hosted a truly bizarre Oscars, and the unfamiliar oddity of his schtick, which to many just came off of as obnoxious, obviously appealed to at least some influential ...