-Were you an inventive -- inventive kid?
Did you always come up with things?
-No, no. -Really?
-´Cause I would think that you would,
´cause I think you´re a genius.
-I mean, you know, I can invent characters and stuff,
but as far as, like, physical things
that actually improve life...?
[ Laughter ]
-No, you do -- you improve life.
I mean, please, "Family Guy" -- hello --
has improved all of our lives.
-Well, you know, that´s... [ Cheers and applause ]
That´s exactly what the Catholic church says.
[ Laughter ]
-But "Family Guy" -- "Family Guy" premiered in 1999.
-Yeah. -And this is --
The launch of that show was after the Super Bowl.
-Yes. -That´s a great opening.
-That´s kind of crazy. It´s kind of crazy.
-Did you freak out when you were --
-You know, yeah. I mean, it was -- it was --
I had nothing to compare it to at the time.
Like, I didn´t realize I was having this sort of
Mr. Magoo career, where, like, I´m driving,
and the support strut comes into place
just at the right time so I don´t go off a cliff.
-Oh, my God. A Mr. Magoo reference.
[ Both laugh ]
-That´s the only time all year
I´ll ever hear a Mr. Magoo reference.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Enjoy, kids.
[ Laughter ]
-But, I mean, you -- So, I mean --
To get that position is a coveted spot.
-Yeah, it also so often spells doom for so many shows.
You know, ´cause the buildup is so strong,
and then, you´re after the Super Bowl,
and there´s all eyes on you.
-Did you go to the Super Bowl? -I did, I did.
And it´s funny, I forgot about it.
Your pre-interviewer said,
"Where were you when ´Family Guy´ premiered?"
and I had to think a second.
And I was, like, "Oh, I was at the Super Bowl.
That´s right."
-So you actually were there? -Yeah, it was that good a game.
-Yeah, really --
I was literally at the Super Bowl, and I forgot.
-And you´re Mr. Football, I always thought.
-I can´t get enough of it.
-I want to show a picture. -Yeah.
This is a picture of you in 1999 when it started.
-Yes. -Do you remember this dude?
-Look at that. Isn´t that something?
[ Laughter ]
-Look at that hair.
-There´s Sherman. Where´s Peabody?
[ Laughter ]
-What was this from?
-Which one was the kid? Which one was the dog?
I should know that, shouldn´t I?
-I think Peabody was the dog.
-Okay, good. That joke works.
-Yeah. [ Light laughter ]
But you had the Caesar? -Yeah, I had the Caesar haircut.
-I did that, too, yeah. -Did you really?
-Yeah, yeah. -That was the thing to do.
-It was the thing to do. -And it was easy.
-It was so easy... -It was a better time.
-...but you had to have George Clooney´s face...
[ Laughter ]
...to pull that off.
-You did, you had to have a certain bone structure.
-Yeah. Tell me about "The Orville."
Now, this is your new show. -Yeah.
-You´re launching another show.
You´ve launched now a bunch of shows and movies
and records and tours.
I mean, you´ve done this, so this is a big deal.
But this is something that you´ve had for a while.
-Yeah, this is one of those things that,
when I look at it, I´m like,
"Okay. This is kind of what I came out to Hollywood to do."
It´s sort of a new kind of thing.
It´s been billed as kind of a hard comedy.
It´s actually really not that.
It´s kind of -- It´s an hour-long
sci-fi comedic drama that kind of takes --
takes its science-fiction seriously
and kind of casualizes at the same time
and adds some -- adds some laughs.
-Are you a sci-fi -- -I was, yeah.
I was a big sci-fi fan in high school and college.
-Like, what? "Star Trek"?
-"Star Trek," "Twilight Zone," you know.
I think I even watched "Seaquest" once or twice.
That´s how deep into it I was.
-I´ve heard different comparisons of this show,
being almost like "Guardians of the Galaxy,"
where it´s like it´s funny,
but there´s actually story into it, as well.
-Yeah, I mean, that´s -- that was a model,
obviously, that we looked to.
You know, what´s the TV version of that?
´Cause if you look at that movie,
I mean, it´s a great adventure movie
that happens to have comedy. -Yeah.
-And so we´re trying to do that for TV, I guess, is the --
-Well, what is the idea behind "The Orville"?
-It´s an exploratory vessel.
It kind of is the classic -- the classic mold of, like,
these are a bunch of people out in space exploring the galaxy.
-How fun is that? Do you get to like --
Do you sit behind the controls and stuff?
-We have chairs.
We have big arm chairs with buttons on the side,
which is kind of cool. -That´s what you have to get.
-It´s all about a chair with buttons.
-That´s all you need!
That´s how you know you´ve made it in this world.
-I don´t care about if I´m on a spaceship or getting a massage.
-Either one, yeah. -It doesn´t matter.
At a Brookstone somewhere. Yeah, exactly, yeah.
You´ve got some great guest stars.
Jeffrey Tambor. -Mm-hmm.
-Come on. I love Jeffery Tambor.
-Yeah, he´s the best. He´s the best.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-And this -- this character is voiced by Norm Macdonald.
-Yeah, that´s Yaphit.
[ Laughter ]
-He´s just a blob. -He´s a blob.
-Yeah. And how did you get Norm to do it?
I love Norm Macdonald.
-You know what? I -- I --
I asked him, "Do you want to be a blob?"
[ Laughter ]
And he was like, "Eh, sure. I´ll be a blob.
Sure, why not."
[ Laughter ]
-"Yeah, sure, I´ll be a blob. What are you talking about?"
-That´s how it happened. -Is that really?
-Yeah. -Are you buddies with Norm?
-You know, I didn´t -- I don´t know Norm super well,
but I´ve been a huge fan of his for many, many years.
He´s that guy who´s --
You know, for me, he´s like --
He´s high on the list of "SNL" people,
yourself included, my friend.
-Yeah, thank you, bud. I appreciate it.
Do people recognize your voice?
Do you ever get, like, delivery or food deliveries or something,
and you´re like --
´Cause your voice is pretty famous.
-Yeah.
You know, if somebody recognizes my voice on the phone
if I´m making a food del-- you know, a food order
or something, I try to maybe call somewhere else,
because I don´t know if they like the show
or if they don´t like the show.
[ Laughter ] -You want your food to be good.
-Yeah, you got to -- you got to make sure
that whoever´s handling your food is your friend.
[ Laughter ]
-"Can I order a pizza, please, with pepperoni on it?"
-Yeah, yeah. By the way, that´s a good idea.
That´s what I´m doing from now on.
-From now on, you´re a Southern gentleman...
-Uncle Tex ordering... -[ Laughing ]
-...ordering from the good Earth.
-So, "The Orville," when is it? This Sunday at 8:00 p.m.?
-Uh, yeah. This Sunday at 8:00, on Fox.
-On Fox, "The Orville." Everybody, Seth MacFarlane.