Seth MacFarlane Shows Glamour His Softer Side

Normally, Seth MacFarlane is known for his rather crude, sophomoric brand of humor that will have you in tears from laughing so hard with movies like ‘Ted’. For the holidays, however, he’s revealing a softer side of himself. He studied with Frank Sinatra’s vocal coach before recording his second album, ‘Holiday for Swing!’ His vocals are backed up by a 52-piece orchestra. Seth chatted with Glamour about his holiday album as well as some other career highs and lows. RELATED: Seth MacFarlane won’t be hosting the Oscars again.

MacFarlane on making a holiday album…
“The record label suggested it—probably because they sell well. [Laughs.] But I take music seriously. I keep it separate from the Family Guy world.”

MacFarlane on whether he gets nervous before performing…
“I do for live performances, but it’s nothing that a shot of whiskey won’t cure. Oddly, I was only really nervous about the dancing at the Oscars.”

MacFarlane on being called crudely sexist for his opening song at the 2013 Oscars, ‘We Saw Your Boobs’…
“That’s a pretty serious accusation. [The song] was presented as part of an alternate universe where everything at the Oscars was done incorrectly, [but] the media ignored the context entirely. Comedy and satire being treated with more outrage than actual sexism, racism, or homophobia makes no sense at all.”

MacFarlane on the biggest misconception about him…
“I’ll never understand the use of the word misogynist. It’s no different than saying somebody is racist. I’m sure a lot of that comes from Family Guy because of its edge, but I am not Family Guy. My manager is a woman, my accountant is a woman. My producer, who runs all of the animated television series and presides over everyone, is a woman. I’m not sure how that label applies given those realities and my personal philosophies.”

You can read Seth’s entire interview in the December issue of Glamour magazine, which is on newsstands NOW, or digitally at glamour.com/app.