The Untold Truth Of Seth MacFarlane

Remember the Hollywood writer's strike of the aughts? All the people in the WGA — the group you have to belong to in order to write for Hollywood movies or shows — collectively went on strike, and just about everything went to Hell. Shows were cancelled, plots were dropped, everything was complete anarchy. In there, though, were a handful of shows that could, conceivably, make do without a staff of writers, like The Daily Show, which did go back on since Stewart is a comedian and writer, not just a host.

MacFarlane thought that sucked, and that Stewart was undermining the strike, so he made fun of Stewart for it via jokes on Family Guy. Stewart reacted the only way he knew how — no, not jokes, he called MacFarlane and screamed at him for an hour over it. "Who the hell made you the moral arbiter of Hollywood!?" Stewart reportedly demanded, because he had skipped his daily Moment of Zen and was clearly agitated.

That, more than any series of jokes, is hilarious on so many levels. Whether you agree with the strike or not, an hour-long browbeating by a major celebrity is absolutely what you'd expect the whole thing to boil down to.