Seth MacFarlane Could See This Person on FOX’s The Masked Singer

Earlier this month, FOX’s The Masked Singer made the kind of headlines we’re not sure it wanted to make heading into its seventh season. That’s when reports surfaced that judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke left the stage in protest during tapings when Donald Trump spokesperson, 2020 election-denier & speaker at the January 6th insurrection rally Rudy Giuliani was unmasked as a contestant (with fellow judges Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger remaining onstage to interact with Giuliani). One person who wasn’t surprised by all of this mess? Family Guy & The Orville creator Seth MacFarlane, who tweeted his lack of surprise at what he saw as a ratings ploy and another example of Rupert Murdoch blurring the line between FOX “News” and the entertainment company. But as the world continues bracing itself for the global fallout from Russia’s attempted invasion of Ukraine and FOX “News” commentators offering support & words of praise to Vladimir Putin, MacFarlane can’t help but wonder when Murdoch will attempt to take advantage of a bad situation once again.

Here’s a look at MacFarlane asking the question that might’ve just been a joke ten years ago. Today? Well…

Here’s a look back at MacFarlane’s retweet of the original reporting along with his understandable lack of surprise about the Giuliani affair from earlier this month:

While MacFarlane continues making the most of his exclusive $200M deal with NBCUniversal that he signed back in 2020 with a diverse slate of projects in varying stages of development as well as his work on Hulu’s The Orville culminating in a third season premiering this summer, he doesn’t hesitate to express his disgust at having Family Guy still associated with the FOX name. MacFarlane took to Twitter in August 2021 to make it clear that he was ready to serve FOX divorce papers on behalf of Peter Griffin and the family. “Tucker Carlson’s latest opinion piece once again makes me wish ‘Family Guy’ was on any other network. Look, Fox, we both know this marriage isn’t working anymore. The sex is only once a year, I don’t get along with your mother, and well… I’ve been having an affair with NBC,” MacFarlane wrote in a tweet:

In September, MacFarlane again took to Twitter to question why an animated character like Family Guy‘s Peter Griffin gets held to a different standard than the real-life cartoon character who speaks to millions on a regular weekday basis.

In December, MacFarlane took to Twitter to once again call out FOX Corp. for its choice to turn a blind eye to the lies while peddling way too much fake outrage over the smoking habits of an animated character. “Darkly hilarious that Fox Corp. has zero issue with Lara Logan calling Anthony Fauci “Josef Mengele” or Tucker Carlson regularly casting doubt on life-saving vaccines and certified valid elections, but ‘please delete the action of Peter Griffin inhaling a cigarette in scene 23,'” MacFarlane wrote in his tweet: