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Seth MacFarlane Shares His Thoughts on Creating a Frank Sinatra Biopic at 'The Naked Gun' Premiere | THR Video
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At 'The Naked Gun' premiere in NYC, Seth MacFarlane chats with THR on the red carpet and shares his views on the state of comedy. Plus, shares his thoughts on creating a Frank Sinatra biopic.
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So Liam Neeson recently shot a Save Comedy PSA.
00:03
Do you think comedy is struggling as a genre? Why or why not?
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I don't know the comedies. I think comedy goes through phases.
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I think once every 15 years or so, people say comedy is dead.
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And then something like Seinfeld comes along or something like Old School comes along
00:19
and completely rewrites the book and then suddenly everybody's doing that.
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I don't think it's, I don't think it's, I think a voice.
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And look, Akiva Schaffer, who wrote and directed this movie, is one of those voices
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who comes along and just approaches comedy from a selfless point of view.
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He's out to get laughs. He's out to make his audience happy.
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He's not going in to, like, win Oscars.
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He's just here to do the job that comedy is supposed to do.
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I also know you recently dropped a Sinatra album.
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I was wondering, would you ever consider venturing into producing or starring in a Sinatra film?
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I mean, Sinatra's career spanned five decades, so I don't know.
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It's, it's, there'll be a lot of CGI.
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Listen, you can do it, you can do it.
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Yeah, I, it's, that's a, that's one of the hardest,
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I think many people have tried to make a Sinatra biopic.
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And I think that's the challenge is that he started when he was in his 20s
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and he finished when he was in his 80s.
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So either it's three different actors or it's a Pixar movie.
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You've been standing outside from tomb suspect,
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So, whatever this is all about,
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So, I think that's the challenge.
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So, this is breaking swipe.
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