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Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

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Seth MacFarlane
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 26
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I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.
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I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
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I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.
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