Seth MacFarlane really gave it to his Fox bosses early on during the broadcast network’s Monday afternoon upfront presentation.
In a pre-taped sketch aired on giant Beacon Theatre screens, the “Family Guy” creator broke into Fox Ad Sales boss Toby Byrne’s house, calling the poor guy a “tool” over all his “fancy f—ing mustards.”
After that dig, MacFarlane laughed at some of his home channel’s previous efforts.
“Remember ‘Celebrity Boxing’?” MacFarlane posed. “Screech beat the shit out of Horshack, and it wasn’t even for charity.”
And yes, that was a real show. Because old-school reality TV was even more of a trainwreck than the current stuff, we guess.
A few minutes later, in bed with the now-home Byrne, MacFarlane asked: “Do you want to watch ‘Game of Thrones’?”
To which the company man replied, “Don’t you mean ‘Gotham’?”
MacFarlane laughs: “‘Gotham,’ right, that’s what people watch on Sundays.”