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06/11/2006 Entry: "Seth McFarlene of Family Guy gives Commencement Speech at Harvard."
Seth McFarlene of Family Guy gives Commencement Speech at Harvard. Part 1, 2, 3, 4. I guess they're into comedians as Conan O'Brien did the same thing a few years ago. Did you know that Seth narrowly missed getting killed on 9/11?
Now, you were almost involved in that whole tragedy...Yeah, that came up at one point. I said, "Look, I'm probably as close to that incident as anybody at Fox." There was one point where I was arguing to keep that scene in. Yeah, I was booked on that flight and I was drinking the night before and hung over and I missed the plane by about 10 minutes. It was a very close call for me.
How has that affected you?
The only reason it hasn't really affected me as it maybe could have is I didn't really know that I was in any danger until after it was over, so I never had that panic moment. After the fact it was sobering but people have a lot of close calls; you're crossing the street and you almost get hit by a car....this one just happened to be related to something massive. I really can't let it affect me because I'm a comedy writer. I have to put that in the back of my head.
Well, I'm glad you got drunk the night before.
Yeah, alcohol is our friend. I think that's the moral of that story.
Yeah, drinking can save your life.
Absolutely.
