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Club Random with Bill Maher

Seth MacFarlane | Club Random with Bill Maher

15 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

0.031 - 15.711 Bill Maher

Well, in this month's Club Random Classics, we revisit a conversation with my good friend, oh, Seth MacFarlane. I love him. The brilliant mind behind some of your favorite cartoons. He's also a very big front of the camera star.

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15.691 - 36.633 Bill Maher

We swap on-set stories, singing flubs, and why animation lets creators get away with murder, then dig into the bigger stuff, AI, Hollywood endlessly recycling itself, and what it all means for writers and comedians. It's more fun than the internet deserves, and exactly the kind of grown-up conversation nobody else is really having.

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37.134 - 66.045 Bill Maher

So light something, lean back, and enjoy another episode of Club Random Classics. I'm so, I don't usually have all these props. I'm usually very unencumbered, but I'm very verklempt that you're here. You know that. I mean, I don't see you enough. I know, and I don't even look far. You're one of those Hollywood people like me who, how do you get them to be, you work with them. Yeah, yeah.

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66.065 - 66.766 Bill Maher

We're just that way.

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Chapter 2: How do Seth MacFarlane and Bill Maher view the role of animation in comedy?

66.886 - 101.092 Bill Maher

Anyway, let me do your plugs before. All right, take this. There we are. January. Oh, that's me. Yeah, right. Okay, so we're dropping this in the 29th the next day. That's the December 30th. Oh Right. You're doing a live show with Liz Gillies at the Smith Center Which is in Vegas Las Vegas Las Vegas, yeah Christmas album, We Wish You the Merriest. I have your one with Little Jack Frost.

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101.172 - 101.633 Bill Maher

Oh, you do?

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101.953 - 102.514 Unknown

Of course.

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103.355 - 115.451 Seth MacFarlane

God damn it, I should have brought you the new one. Yes, you should have. Fucking A. Well, I'll have someone send it over. Yeah, and that's with your girl. Yeah, Liz Gillies. No, no, no. Oh, you mean Nora Jones. Nora Jones.

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115.471 - 125.605 Bill Maher

Yes, on the original, yeah. Who was so funny. Was it one or two, Ted? She was in Ted 1. Right. I remember he says, thanks for 9-11.

128.13 - 139.05 Seth MacFarlane

It's so great. Apparently, you know what I forgot, too? I forgot that that line was added after the shoot as a piece of loop. Really? And God, thank God she's got the sense of humor.

139.07 - 148.785 Bill Maher

Well, it's so funny because you can't get mad at it because it's ignorant. Yes, exactly. So you can always, you know, we're making fun of the ignorant, which it is. Exactly right.

148.905 - 149.546 Seth MacFarlane

It's exactly right.

149.586 - 155.654 Bill Maher

The younger generation has sort of forgotten that mode of comedy. Has the show started? Yes.

Chapter 3: What humorous stories do Seth and Bill share about their past?

3646.967 - 3659.749 Bill Maher

I remember falling out of the car. We were so hammered by the time we got out. It was like a Beatles cartoon where they just plop out of the car. I don't know. I think it was 2011 or something like that.

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3659.769 - 3664.599 Seth MacFarlane

Where was that event? Was that the one at... Just the fact that we were.

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3664.619 - 3668.363 Bill Maher

It was one where like Jon Favreau was there and you guys got to talk. Oh, who the fuck remembers who was there?

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Chapter 4: How do Seth and Bill view their experiences with fame?

3668.703 - 3679.974 Bill Maher

But I remember we went and, you know, just the idea of passages in life and how you become a different. You love to meet celebrities, don't you?

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3680.374 - 3690.704 Seth MacFarlane

No. Oh, not anymore. What? What are you saying? Because there was every party I've been to with you, I remember you were just like, all right, what fun celebrities are we going to meet?

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3690.764 - 3691.425 Bill Maher

Because I was recruiting.

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3692.106 - 3693.567 Seth MacFarlane

Oh. That's why.

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Chapter 5: What insights do they provide about celebrity interactions?

3694.12 - 3694.901 Seth MacFarlane

For Club Random?

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3695.182 - 3702.232 Bill Maher

No, for my show. Yeah. You know. So there's another show besides? No. I mean, I stopped doing that, actually.

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3702.793 - 3703.614 Seth MacFarlane

It's all about this.

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3703.634 - 3705.276 Bill Maher

Well, because. Put it all into this, Bill.

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Chapter 6: How do they reflect on their changing views over time?

3705.357 - 3707.119 Bill Maher

No. No, I stopped recruiting.

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3707.82 - 3708.241 Seth MacFarlane

Oh, okay.

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3708.261 - 3715.291 Bill Maher

Like I used to. Yes, you're right. If I was in a celebrity-rich environment, I'd be like, oh, I want to get Arnold Schwarzenegger on my show.

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3715.331 - 3719.618 Seth MacFarlane

Celebrity-rich. It's phrased that like this is iron-rich land.

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3719.778 - 3741.281 Bill Maher

Yes. And it worked many times, you know, like people in this business, first of all, their publicists always are protecting them from me. So it's very hard to get through the publicists many times. People don't want, really? Yes, I'm a scary guy. They don't want to, you know, and I'm really not. And I can make you look better than lots of people could ever make you look.

3741.301 - 3750.433 Bill Maher

But they think it's, and they think. Yeah. Oh, my client is too stupid to do his show, which in many cases would be true if you were on the panel. But I could talk to anybody one-on-one. Look at what we're doing.

3751.174 - 3766.015 Seth MacFarlane

Yeah. No, it's true. It's true. Let me ask you this. Because I remember I was on the panel on like for a while. There was a few times I was on the panel. You've got to come back and do that. I'd love to. But then I was like the guy who came out in the middle. Was that because I was too stupid when I was on the panel?

3766.035 - 3787.556 Bill Maher

No, that's because you're a celebrity. Because it's not a celebrity-driven show. Well, we don't do that segment. Well, what's Salman Rushdie? That's not a celebrity. No. He's an author. Come on. But we don't do that segment anymore. I don't know why. You don't. You don't do the middle. You haven't seen the show since we stopped doing that? Wow, I thought you were my fan.

3787.756 - 3793.122 Bill Maher

I thought you used to tell me you loved my show. Oh, God. If you haven't seen the show, you've missed a lot.

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