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The cast of Family Guy have been talking about the third installment of their Star Wars parody We Have A Bad Feeling About This at Paley Fest. According to Alex Borstein there will definitely by a slave 'Leia' Lois and that Lois' opinion of the geek-hot costume will "probably mirror that of Carrie Fisher's actual real life distain for the uncomfortable and humiliating garb." Alex also confessed to be a total Star Wars nerd.

Everyone was mostly quiet on the details but Seth Green contributed, "there'll be Ewoks in it!" Seth MacFarlane made a little more noise on the subject of the infamous Jedi Ewoks: "You know I was never as down on Ewoks as other people were. I don't see what the difference is. Everyone s***s on the Ewoks and no one s***s on the Jawas. I don't understand why that is. They're both little dwarves in suits. They both make little cutesy noises. What's the difference? The Ewoks are fuzzier."

So, any plans for further parody shows? "It’s all about legal rights," MacFarlane confessed (reported by IGN). "It’s all about who will give us the movie rights. [George] Lucas was incredibly cool about it. His company is very progressive and I don’t know that Paramount would say yes. We haven’t asked them though." MacFarlane did express interest ultimately. "Yeah, that would be a good time. The Wrath of Khan would be a logical one for us to do" So no mention of Indiana Jones then.

Friday night’s Partners In Health charity event at The Gibson Amphitheatre featuring the casts of "Family Guy" and "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” reportedly raised nearly $300,000 for the cause!

The table read of the abortion episode entitled “Partial Terms of Endearment” was performed by Alec Sulkin, Alex Borstein, Danny Smith, John Viener, special guest Julia Sweeney (best known for appearances on “Saturday Night Live” and her autobiographical shows), Seth Green, and Seth MacFarlane.  

Musical numbers were performed between the acts of the table read. Seth Mac performed “Prom Night Dumpster Baby.” Danny Smith and Seth sang “My Drunken Irish Dad”. Alec Sulkin (who is reportedly dating Sarah Silverman) and Seth performed “Me and Jesus”, a song that was cut from the broadcast version, but appears on the DVD version of “I Dream of Jesus.”

For more details of the Family Guy portion of the show, read the article here.

The casts of “Family Guy” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” will perform one night only, February 12, 2010, at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California to benefit the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. Proceeds from the show will go to Partners In Health’s ‘Stand With Haiti’ program.

The Orange County Register reports that the cast from It’s Always Sunny.., which includes Danny DeVito, will reprise their rock-opera The Nightman Cometh, and the Family Guy cast will revive musical selections from the animated series. Also, expect them to be joined by “to-be-announced special guests”.

Tickets can be purchased from LiveNation.com and TicketMaster.com. Live Nation is also auctioning tickets to the performance along with a post show meet and greet with the casts of It’s Always Sunny and Family Guy. Just click on the “Bid on Auction” tab next to the “Box Office” tab on the event page. The bidding for a special ticket that includes the meet and greet starts at $150.

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The Family Guy Inside the Actors Studio is on Bravo tonight at 7/6C with the main cast of Family Guy, except Mila Kunis for some reason. The show’s host James Lipton has said of tonight’s edition: “I recommend seatbelts in your armchairs as the creator and cast of Family Guy assemble on our stage for a hilarious, irreverent look at themselves, each other, their characters and their spectacularly successful show. This is, quite simply, unlike any Inside the Actors Studio you’ve ever seen.”

Bravo’s Inside The Actors Studio featuring the cast members of “Family Guy” is scheduled to air on Monday, September 14, 2009.

Hulu.com has posted nine different clips from the interviews. The titles of these clips are as follows:

• “Paying a Compliment”
• “The Infamous Stewie”
• “Appeal of Masturbation”
• “Dr. Evil’s Son” *
• “Angry Tubby Elf” *
• “Greased Up Deaf Guy” *
• “Comedy as Persuasion” *
• “Another Shot” *
• “Seth’s Bar Mitzvah” *

*Web Exclusives

Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio will be featuring the cast of Family Guy on September 14th. Presenter James Tipton Lipton says: “I recommend seatbelts in your armchairs as the creator and cast of Family Guy assemble on our stage for a hilarious, irreverent look at themselves, each other, their characters and their spectacularly successful show. This is, quite simply, unlike any Inside the Actors Studio you’ve ever seen.”

The now infamous Family Guy abortion episode, Partial Terms of Endearment, which Fox considered too racy for TV will be read live as a part of an event next Wednesday at Hollywood’s Ricardo Montalban Theater. The event, aimed at Emmy Voters, will feature Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Mike Henry, Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan. Even though the episode, written by Danny Smith, has been hyped up a lot, MacFarlane doesn’t believe this particular episode is much worse than other jokes that have appeared on the show. “The subject matter makes it sound like the raciest thing we’ve ever done, but it’s a balanced episode,” he said.

In the episode, a friend asks Lois to be a surrogate mother, and she agrees. But when her friend unexpectedly dies, Lois isn’t sure what to do. “The whole last act of the show is one long debate by the family over the issue,” MacFarlane said.

As announced by Fox, Seth MacFarlane and cast are set to participate in panel discussions for Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Schedule details are as follows: