Seth MacFarlane performs his Family Guy voices | The Graham Norton Show - BBC

because when you were directing yourself I said how hard was it as an actor not to do voices because that is kind of your life yeah I mean it was it was it was it was less of a leap than I was then I feared it would be you know they're doing Family Guy I had gotten into the into the habit of being able to record a line and then go into the booth and listen to it and switch off my brain and kind of feel like I was listen I'm listening to somebody else yeah and that did kick in pretty early on into the process where I was able to run into video village and look at the you know look at the footage and see if I was doing doing it right want me to take over just curious like how many can you do you know just enough to avoid being myself the characters you do you do Peter Brian Stewie quagmire and then a smattering of others okay and are they all based on people or you just there they come from various places Peter I I knew a thousand Peter Griffin's growing up in New England guys who would not think before they spoke like ever no self editing mechanism everything it's coming out here with no gateway and Stewie is is based on your own Rex Harrison who as a big fan of Wow where's quagmire from that can't be a perfect quagmire if it is he's not happy no he's a bad egg he hit quagmire when I was a kid my father used to buy me old radio dramas from the 40s and 50s so I would listen to these things and the commercials were intact you hear these old commercials you know all the like brand sparkplugs the only sparkplug for you and like everyone had this high-pitched voice which I guess the mics were more sensitive to the mid-range voice at that time and and they all sounded like quagmire and so that kind of stuck with me and when I was coming up with a voice for him that he began as a as a as an impression of 1950s admin and when you're doing because you know those characters are in scenes together yeah do you do one line after the other do you all do all one and then go back to the other one when I do a table read yeah I have to jump back and forth okay how much going on hello sad man [Laughter] [Applause] but then sometimes you do them separately yet when I when I record the shows I kind of literally do it one line at a time just to just to make sure that but that's not really because of the voices it's just cuz you have to be naked completely naked for Brian completely the essence of yourself yeah completely emotionally and physically nude you think these people accept you as one of their own but they do like some cool whip like like why are you saying like that what am i say i'm saying cool whip you're saying cool whip yes I'm saying cool quits on the Aged cool whip I say cool quick cool say whip whip it's all recycled vaudeville humor not the only person on the couch who does it does voices because we've heard releases Bach the South African coke I'm sampling it it's going to be my ringtone but no Emily Blunt I heard you earlier you do do a TC goat noise do one line at all what time should I do I don't know I feel the need the need for speed [Laughter] [Applause] how'd you go with that you do Donald Duck yeah do you do it okay now it's your turn [Applause] adorable my text message alert and Mike my last bit of getting a stick and poking Seth I don't know what that means - Liam Neeson Neeson in a million ways to other West so did you ever do you're takin your version of the taken phone call for him our version on Family Guy was Kermit the Frog doing doing tape I'm not gonna be able member the speech I don't have any money [Laughter] [Applause] I do have a very specific set of skills [Music] for somebody like you if you don't let the girl go I will track you down all right we'll find you we'll kill you [Applause]

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Id: B6vmGabgzH4

Length: 6min 25sec (385 seconds)

Published: Fri May 30 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/CarbonPrevails]

I know Tom Cruise has "weird beliefs" but for the most part he really comes off as a genuinely nice guy.

[u/Sphigmomanometer]

I like Seth because at moments you can tell he's (at least on some level) embarrassed or humbled to be getting huge applause by just doing his silly voices.

[u/hammersticks359]

The title of this video should be "Tom Cruise performs his Donald Duck voice"

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_COCK_]

His Kermit was 100%.

[u/theFRANCH15E]

Charlize Theron is a goddess

[u/shtaaap]

how is there a video of this out already? it doesnt usually start till 10:30 uk time

[u/jackrunes]

Cool Whip video.

[u/AlwaysDrunkLiterally]

He keeps drinking because he is uncomfortable. I hate doing voices in public too! makes you feel awkward as, even if you can nail it. hahahaa

[u/Pierce2089]

Do we get this show in America? I see clips all the time on here and always wanted to check it out.