Seth MacFarlane is briliant and I can say from a British angle that his take off of Stewie is spot on. I wondered if it was really Rex Harrison but having listened to Rex recently, it is Rex. Btw, Rex Harrison was as heterosexual as they come.
It's funny how little things went the way MacFarlane planed, "just a secondary character that no one would care about turned into the most iconic and important character in the show.
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When Seth stutters, I can feel Stewie trying to come out of his mouth.
I'm American and I love British people and their Humor. And I like how Macfarlane voiced Stewie off of Harrison. But I hear just a tiny bit of Noel Coward in there, too.
I think Seth's take on Rex for Stewie is far better, far funnier and far more commanding than Rex himself ever was. Stewie's got far more punch! Especially considering he's only a baby :) Oh, someone else has also mentioned Noel Coward. Definitely agree.
There's a scene in Drop Dead Fred where he gets his head stuck in the fridge and when he pulls it out he has a Stewie shaped head. The Young Ones also had cutaway gags similar to Family Guy.
Seth Macfarlane is amazing at doing and acting out voices, and singing!! However, you have to acknowledge Hank Azaria and Dan Castallaneta for their amazing work on the Simpsons as well.
I'm British and I apologise on behalf of my fellow countrymen on this thread complaining about being called 'gay' (sarcastically) and ironically being 'gay' at the same time.
I have NEVER heard that Rex Harrison was gay, and I've studied the guy's career pretty extensively. This appears to be something that Seth MacFarlane simply made up.
Yeah i went on a hunt for that info - dude had 6 wives and had kids too, but no men in the picture. Colourful relationships, but no men. Some people think he was bi, but no concrete evidence. It's all just speculation it seems.
I have met Seth Macfarlane and his line about British people being evil if there is any justice was about the fact that our voices are perfect for that evil villain stereotype. Just look at many of the classic villains for example hans Gruber.
To be fair, whenever a Brit appears in some US and CA shows, it was a huge tell they were going to be evil. I remember watching stargate and a brit appeared and me and my family were like "well she's gonna be evil because she's British". It's a formula that holds up to this day XD To be fair and technical, it's probably less about being 'British' and more about speaking with an RP accent. I don't think a Liverpudlian or Yorkshire accent has quite the 'evil' tone required. Similarly with the welsh, somerset, scottish or irish accents. Literally just one English RP accent that very few people actually speak with in the UK and has connotations with the upper class. So yeah, they would be evil...
Geeze Bill seems so fascinated about Seth's cartoon that he makes it seem like Seth has cured cancer. This guy seems like he has nothing else better to do than study this cartoon and compliment Seth because he's so fascinating. -_-
Just want to say this; I'm british and I love American TV, particularly family guy. As yeah it's all fun and games the Americans call us gay we call them fat, etc. But too go as far as too say we're evil? Well I dare you to say that to every single Britsh soldier who's fought on behalf of America, from Korea to Iraq.
I JUST READ THAT LIKE 10MIN AGO... hes agent screwed up on the flight time s and just missed flight 11 the first one that got hijacked... seth stated himself that he thanks god his agent messed up
The voice of Rex Harrison to get girls? No way, you don't even need to say anything!! If looks could kill, all the girls, including me, would be dead because you are drop dead gorgeous!! x
James Crane on the contrary, he was married so many times because he couldn’t find himself to be compatible with any women and was just in denial that he was gay
@@dachshund_gaming Um no, he married so many times bc the woman he wished to remarry after Kay Kendall passed away, Lilli Palmer, had married someone else. Rex's ashes were scattered on her grave in the end.
Wait a minute.. is the person who’s interviewing him been on the show? Live action? He reminds me of that guy who interviewed Brian over his Wish It Want It Do It book. Is that the same guy?
I've heard of Mel Blanc. He's the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig (not his original voice), Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk, Pepe Le'Pew, the Tazmanian Devil, Woody Woodpecker, Figaro and Gideon the Cat from Disney's Pinocchio, Barney Rubble, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff and a few others.
I shall be informing The Queen about this Mr. MacFarlane. Let's see how funny you think it is next time you're driving through a tunnel in Paris!😜 #TooSoon
I actually thought Stewie was supposed to be a posh American for a long time! And besides, the way they portray any culture is basically just the cartoon stereotype x 100 in over-the-top-ness. Don't take it to heart, it's just a bit of a laugh :) Also just to add, personally I love Seth and I also love it when an American who obviously can't do a British accent does one, puts me in stitches every time!
@NMtB4ev4 My dad's side of the family are from England, so I'm partially British as well. I'm just taking the comment with a grain of salt. I mean, he was saying it in the sense that most Americans think that British people are gay because they're sophisticated and that they're evil, which they aren't.
Just look at how many times Harrison kissed Audrey Hepburn at the 1965 oscars. Definitely not gay: th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=oscars+rex+harrison+hepburn
I always thought stewie was based on The late Rik Mayall who was an awesome comedian and actor. There is a lot of Richard Richard of 'bottom' and Lord flash heart from 'blackadder' in stewie.
+HolloVVpoint - those comedies didn't cross the Atlantic as far as I can tell, as nobody I know here in the US knows them. But probably Rik Mayall (yes, loved him) et al took a lesson or two from Rex Harrison who was, after all, a generation or two before them.
@hypnotizerequiem Regardless of rumor or the film "Staircase"-- Rex Harrison was not gay. Nor was six times married Claude Rains even if he did have a hard on for Bogie in "Casablanca". Would that rumor be true; as a lesbian, I'd love to add my favorite actors to the list of "family".
It seems like every American thinks we either talk like the Royal Family or an 1850s Cockney chimney sweep. Yanks would melt if the heard a Scouse or a Geordie accent.
@LtDan42 Yeah if you watch when the cast are on Inside the Actors studio Seth explains that Brian basically is him. They have the same voice, they both used to drink martinis and now they both drink JD, they're both atheists, they both support gay rights and they both hate George Bush.
Aye you know what fair play. Just read a few derogatory comments is all, and being British felt like I should speak up and make light of the situation.
well i dont think this story in wikipedia is true because i saw an interview with seth were he said that he overslept. and it definetly makes him more "human" if he overslept than that his agends messed up everything
For what it's worth,Rex Harrison was my second cousin and was definitely,without any doubt whatsoever...not gay. Quite the opposite in fact,he was a shameless womaniser. Read some biographies Seth!
@@jimwhite2049 you need to see this video again. He affirmed, that Rex Harrison was gay. ... This WAS NOT TRUE The only gay here is himself, that has a huge crush on Rex , and is affraid to come out of the closet.
Really? He said he's not a fatalist or anything and that it doesn't bother him because he had missed flights before and because he didn't know about the hijacking until after it happened.
The British, and English in particular, have that rare ability to be evil but in a disarmingly polite, charming manner, and camp in a way that women go mad over. It's that uniquely eccentric, round-about approach that few other cultures have managed. Americans some times like to mock it, but it works. To be fair to mcfarlane, he has played up other, more positive, british stereotypes, such as their persuasiveness and knack for winning arguments.
Many people do associate speech patterns with gayness and type cast so to speak but when they see James Dean from old movie or off scree interview they don't realize he was and it came out with solid evidence some years ago with letters to his "friend" and was authenticated by handwriting expects and other proof. What regional accent would you associate Rex harrison voice with; would it be Cockney or other.
NO WAy...fess up SEth, he got the idea for the voice of Stewie from a character on "THE FLINSTONES" called 'the great gazoo" in season 6 of the show. look it up people. its true. type in 'the flintstones the great gazoo' here on youtube and you'll see what i mean. the voice of the great gazoo sounds just like Stewie. and seth would have watched the show in re-runs as a kid in the 80's. even though the flintstones aired from 1960-66, it ran in re-runs for years.
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Seth MacFarlane is briliant and I can say from a British angle that his take off of Stewie is spot on. I wondered if it was really Rex Harrison but having listened to Rex recently, it is Rex. Btw, Rex Harrison was as heterosexual as they come.
I agree ....Seth is one talented dude ....really enjoy his talent and big fan of the Show ..Family Guy is in my Top 5
it was Noel Cowards voice!!! Not Rex harrison! come on Seth do your homework!!
It's funny how little things went the way MacFarlane planed, "just a secondary character that no one would care about turned into the most iconic and important character in the show.
When Seth stutters, I can feel Stewie trying to come out of his mouth.
Stewie has the best lines he has good comebacks etc
"How did you think to make a baby a snob?"
Aren't they?
As a British person whom also also loves family guy, It is just hilarious
"A very highly sophisticated gay baby"
😂
I'm American and I love British people and their Humor. And I like how Macfarlane voiced Stewie off of Harrison. But I hear just a tiny bit of Noel Coward in there, too.
LOVE his album. He's a really good singer. Definitely dreamy :-)
this isnt enough, i want more seth
"If you're British you're evil", I know it's just for a laugh
Rex Harrison is not gay. But I do think his role in My Fair Lady, was a closet homosexual...
I think Seth's take on Rex for Stewie is far better, far funnier and far more commanding than Rex himself ever was. Stewie's got far more punch! Especially considering he's only a baby :)
Oh, someone else has also mentioned Noel Coward. Definitely agree.
What the deuce...!
Ha! That's cool!
i would have thought the recently deceased Rik Mayall would have been more of an inspiration... sounds exactly like him sometimes.
OMG, yeah!!! Never occurred to me. Thanks.
GatecrasherSlim I remember saying this years ago! Glad I'm not the only one!!
There's a scene in Drop Dead Fred where he gets his head stuck in the fridge and when he pulls it out he has a Stewie shaped head. The Young Ones also had cutaway gags similar to Family Guy.
Seth Macfarlane is amazing at doing and acting out voices, and singing!! However, you have to acknowledge Hank Azaria and Dan Castallaneta for their amazing work on the Simpsons as well.
I'm British and I apologise on behalf of my fellow countrymen on this thread complaining about being called 'gay' (sarcastically) and ironically being 'gay' at the same time.
Rex was married 6 times. Not gay.
I have NEVER heard that Rex Harrison was gay, and I've studied the guy's career pretty extensively. This appears to be something that Seth MacFarlane simply made up.
Yeah i went on a hunt for that info - dude had 6 wives and had kids too, but no men in the picture. Colourful relationships, but no men. Some people think he was bi, but no concrete evidence. It's all just speculation it seems.
Nope it was a joke.he looved woman,2 of them committed suicide over him.
I have met Seth Macfarlane and his line about British people being evil if there is any justice was about the fact that our voices are perfect for that evil villain stereotype. Just look at many of the classic villains for example hans Gruber.
To be fair, whenever a Brit appears in some US and CA shows, it was a huge tell they were going to be evil. I remember watching stargate and a brit appeared and me and my family were like "well she's gonna be evil because she's British". It's a formula that holds up to this day XD
To be fair and technical, it's probably less about being 'British' and more about speaking with an RP accent. I don't think a Liverpudlian or Yorkshire accent has quite the 'evil' tone required. Similarly with the welsh, somerset, scottish or irish accents. Literally just one English RP accent that very few people actually speak with in the UK and has connotations with the upper class. So yeah, they would be evil...
When is MacFarlane NOT drinking?
Ikr
Off camera
It saved his life so that’s how he shows his appreciation I guess
While he is working 80 hours a week making a hit tv show, and maybe while masterbating, or maybe not?
He didn’t drink between the ages of 7 and 9.
I'm studying Pygmalion and My Fair Lady in theatre class, and happen to come across this. My whole life makes sense now. 0.o
Why is it, it seems, that every interview Seth is in he's holding a drink... lol
That’s Brian for you
@@bizzy8912 no it’s because he’s part Irish
Doesn't Seth also does quagmire voice too
Jamie Willis
HA!
The funny thing is, I always think about Quagmire whenever I hear "Anything Goes" in Fallout 3!
Confirmed!
XD
Yes
i like how Seth Green is waaaaaaaaay in the back!
I like this man very much :))
Rex harrison was not gay
Sure, Jan.
I'd love to hear Seth's voicemail greeting.
I love being British, I can sit and watch other Brits get pissed off at you yanks. XD
Ummmm Rex Harrison was never gay. And Rex Harrison was extreeeemely attractive to the ladies (just look at or listen to him)
you gotta be kidding I literally just watched the entirety of My Fair Lady
Stewie is spot on I thought it was Rik Mayall the first time I heard him
The Young ones also has cut away gags similar to the ones in Family Guy.
I'm british and this man is HILARIOUS.
Geeze Bill seems so fascinated about Seth's cartoon that he makes it seem like Seth has cured cancer. This guy seems like he has nothing else better to do than study this cartoon and compliment Seth because he's so fascinating. -_-
i shall date him and make him speak like stewie the entire day.
IT'll feel like dating a year old gay baby LOL
He didn't do the CHARACTER after Rex. He did the voice. Go listen to one of his interviews and you'll understand.
+Kassidy Gonzales - not, just the voice but the character of Henry Higgins as played by a gay Rex Harrison who, BTW, was not gay.
Just want to say this; I'm british and I love American TV, particularly family guy. As yeah it's all fun and games the Americans call us gay we call them fat, etc. But too go as far as too say we're evil? Well I dare you to say that to every single Britsh soldier who's fought on behalf of America, from Korea to Iraq.
Dear god, are you even real? What part of his delivery told you he was being serious? Relax and grow up.
Sorry but you are all evil considering what you did to India.
Liked his stuff
I don't suppose anybody happens to know in which biography the (3:10) conversation between Harrison and Lerner was featured?
Rex Harrisson wasn't gay.
If you listen to ‘like a women’ by Bob Dylan, you can definitely hear a bit of Bob in stewies voice.
Being German I humbly invite you in my "Evil By Nature" club! ;-)
I JUST READ THAT LIKE 10MIN AGO... hes agent screwed up on the flight time s and just missed flight 11 the first one that got hijacked... seth stated himself that he thanks god his agent messed up
I love the random solo clap after the people finish laughing.
The voice of Rex Harrison to get girls? No way, you don't even need to say anything!!
If looks could kill, all the girls, including me, would be dead because you are drop dead gorgeous!! x
Rex Harrison was married 6 times, so it's not likely that he was gay.
James Crane on the contrary, he was married so many times because he couldn’t find himself to be compatible with any women and was just in denial that he was gay
Pfft Hollywood insiders know things we humans don't.
@@dachshund_gaming His last wife and him were together from 1979 up to his death in 1990. so i doubt that
It's his role in " Staircase"
@@dachshund_gaming Um no, he married so many times bc the woman he wished to remarry after Kay Kendall passed away, Lilli Palmer, had married someone else. Rex's ashes were scattered on her grave in the end.
Well, I have a connection to RH (and not from Wikipedia) so you can take my word for it that he wasn't gay.
Wait a minute.. is the person who’s interviewing him been on the show? Live action? He reminds me of that guy who interviewed Brian over his Wish It Want It Do It book. Is that the same guy?
It is. Bill Maher, if you want to look him up.
I find i can only think of Brian whenever his voice talks, I see why he always answers the phone:)
ay bill you never heard of mel blanc
I thought exactly the same thing!!
I've heard of Mel Blanc. He's the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig (not his original voice), Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk, Pepe Le'Pew, the Tazmanian Devil, Woody Woodpecker, Figaro and Gideon the Cat from Disney's Pinocchio, Barney Rubble, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff and a few others.
harry schnepp I don't know if Bill has ever watched the Looney Tunes cartoons. Especially the Flintstones.
"That New England.. accent is the most hideous thing on the planet" He clearly hasn't heard Birmingham/Black Country!
I'm British and I find it hilarious.
I shall be informing The Queen about this Mr. MacFarlane.
Let's see how funny you think it is next time you're driving through a tunnel in Paris!😜
#TooSoon
I actually thought Stewie was supposed to be a posh American for a long time! And besides, the way they portray any culture is basically just the cartoon stereotype x 100 in over-the-top-ness. Don't take it to heart, it's just a bit of a laugh :)
Also just to add, personally I love Seth and I also love it when an American who obviously can't do a British accent does one, puts me in stitches every time!
@NMtB4ev4 My dad's side of the family are from England, so I'm partially British as well. I'm just taking the comment with a grain of salt. I mean, he was saying it in the sense that most Americans think that British people are gay because they're sophisticated and that they're evil, which they aren't.
Just look at how many times Harrison kissed Audrey Hepburn at the 1965 oscars. Definitely not gay:
th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=oscars+rex+harrison+hepburn
Seth seems so awkward, that it's fucking adorable.
Hahaha, Niles would've been awesome if he went all 'Stewie' on everybody! xD
always drinking scotch in EVERY interview
I always thought stewie was based on The late Rik Mayall who was an awesome comedian and actor. There is a lot of Richard Richard of 'bottom' and Lord flash heart from 'blackadder' in stewie.
+HolloVVpoint he did actually only recently say that he liked blackadder and the young ones, don't know if he'd only quite recently saw them
Yes! I have always thought that.
+HolloVVpoint - those comedies didn't cross the Atlantic as far as I can tell, as nobody I know here in the US knows them. But probably Rik Mayall (yes, loved him) et al took a lesson or two from Rex Harrison who was, after all, a generation or two before them.
@@clairelambe6699
The Young Ones was shown on MTV in its early years.
@@clairelambe6699 I think Blackadder is pretty well known in the States but Mr. Bean is the more mainstream of Rowan Atkinson's work over there.
When Mc Farlane will reach the stature of Rex Harrison and its elegance and diction chickens will have teeth!
OMG best ad ever haha
Shark Week, with Andy Samberg, and Lady Gaga song 'teeth' awesome haha
Yeah... Rex Harrison was not gay.
Roger Collins from Dark shadows also reminds me of Rex
Being British and quite well spoken I attest to this.
@hypnotizerequiem Regardless of rumor or the film "Staircase"-- Rex Harrison was not gay. Nor was six times married Claude Rains even if he did have a hard on for Bogie in "Casablanca". Would that rumor be true; as a lesbian, I'd love to add my favorite actors to the list of "family".
It seems like every American thinks we either talk like the Royal Family or an 1850s Cockney chimney sweep. Yanks would melt if the heard a Scouse or a Geordie accent.
Best villains in Hollywood are usually British actors with German accents. Alan Rickman in Die Hard springs to mind.
Just saw My Fair Lady for the fist time tonight. Couldn't help but think of Family Guy and "the life of the wife" song.
Does Super Mario = Stewie as well? Minus Mario's hat Stewie is wearing the same exact uniform as him.
Who the fuck is the woman next to Seth
looks like Courtney Love gained some weight
elton john was married...
Matt Barber not 6 times....
@LtDan42 Yeah if you watch when the cast are on Inside the Actors studio Seth explains that Brian basically is him. They have the same voice, they both used to drink martinis and now they both drink JD, they're both atheists, they both support gay rights and they both hate George Bush.
seths love of musicals in family guy makes me wonder
Bill and Seth would make the cutest couple.
nicole goaldman, the bird who voices muriel.
Stewie always reminds me of Hannibal Lecter.
Rex Harrison was not gay.
You are correct. Look at his list of female wives. Includes the sexpot Rachel Roberts.
agreed!!
pix046 who are you?
Nicole Sullivan, who voices Muriel Goldman (Mort Goldman's wife)
@XblackswanXx Correct! Seth is an American.
I realize Seth is closest to Brian.. he actually says that. I was quoting him direct from the clip.
Aye you know what fair play. Just read a few derogatory comments is all, and being British felt like I should speak up and make light of the situation.
When Seth switched from martinis to Jack Daniels.. Brian did too.. Coincidence? I think not. lol
Seth is from Newyorachusetts ahh I mean Connecticut. He should know not all who hail from Southern New England speak the same.
well i dont think this story in wikipedia is true because i saw an interview with seth were he said that he overslept.
and it definetly makes him more "human" if he overslept than that his agends messed up everything
For what it's worth,Rex Harrison was my second cousin and was definitely,without any doubt whatsoever...not gay. Quite the opposite in fact,he was a shameless womaniser. Read some biographies Seth!
tim garner I thought the same thing... even double check researched it after watching this. Yeah, he was married six times, but was absolutely not gay
He's talking about the character in the movie in which that line is said, not Harrison himself. And yes, the character did turn out to be gay.
@@jimwhite2049 you need to see this video again. He affirmed, that Rex Harrison was gay. ...
This WAS NOT TRUE
The only gay here is himself, that has a huge crush on Rex , and is affraid to come out of the closet.
your second cousin? i would definitely love to get in touch with you then.
@@SAKHEESINGH any time
Guys, look what the terrorists didn't take from us on 9/11. Thank scotch for the fact that we still can laugh at this comedic genius.
love the "in america if you're sophisticated you're gay" what with the huge number of people who keep saying that Seth is gay
Really? He said he's not a fatalist or anything and that it doesn't bother him because he had missed flights before and because he didn't know about the hijacking until after it happened.
PUT IT ON ITUNES
3:03 I LOVE SETH
The British, and English in particular, have that rare ability to be evil but in a disarmingly polite, charming manner, and camp in a way that women go mad over. It's that uniquely eccentric, round-about approach that few other cultures have managed. Americans some times like to mock it, but it works.
To be fair to mcfarlane, he has played up other, more positive, british stereotypes, such as their persuasiveness and knack for winning arguments.
When I close my eyes I see Brian sitting in that chair holding a martini
Man i had a teacher In High school, Mr Wright, Damn he sound so much like Peter
@LifeOfTheParty323 And that's why I love British comedians/Sketch Comedy so much. :)
searched him on wikipedia have you?
sure you are
Many people do associate speech patterns with gayness and type cast so to speak but when they see James Dean from old movie or off scree interview they don't realize he was and it came out with solid evidence some years ago with letters to his "friend" and was authenticated by handwriting expects and other proof. What regional accent would you associate Rex harrison voice with; would it be Cockney or other.
NO WAy...fess up SEth, he got the idea for the voice of Stewie from a character on "THE FLINSTONES" called 'the great gazoo" in season 6 of the show.
look it up people. its true.
type in 'the flintstones the great gazoo' here on youtube and you'll see what i mean. the voice of the great gazoo sounds just like Stewie. and seth would have watched the show in re-runs as a kid in the 80's. even though the flintstones aired from 1960-66, it ran in re-runs for years.
i wonder if seth ever put on the scrotty the scrotum mascot costume while he was at rhode island school of design