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By sheer coincidence we must have gotten seats in the “friends and family” section of the audience. Sitting two rows in front were the parents of Seth McFarlane. Directly in front of us sat the director of the famed banned episode When You Wish Upon A Weinstein. And directly behind us, laughing the entire time, sat Sarah Silverman.

The Family Guy Live! show started out with a music video for Stewie that got old rather quick. The cast came out next with brief introductions from Seth MacFarlane and then launched into a live reading of When You Wish Upon A Weinstein. To hear the different voices come out of these people is quite jarring at first, and the actors all got applause when we first heard them say their lines. Poor Mila Kunis though, Meg doesn’t really have a “voice” other than that of Mila’s own.

For the most part the action was narrated and the actors would just say their lines with a big projector screen behind them showing a close up of the actor. Some of the cast had their fun when the projector did a cross-fade effect to display two actors at once. On occasion animated bits would be played, but only for important scenes where the animation was necessary.

They then did a musical number from the upcoming “Family Guy Live In Vegas” album coming out in a couple of weeks. Nothing of real note here as they played it like a marketing stunt and the song and music is what you expect from Family Guy.

Finally the much-awaited first act of the first episode of the new season of Family Guy premiering May 1 was shown to the audience, and it was freakin’ hilarious. People kept yelling for more when the clip ended but according to the cast, the rest hadn’t been completed yet. Definitely far better than American Dad

They ended with a brief Q&A session (no autographs) where people asked about obscure references, fanboys made requests to Seth Green, and casting choices were revealed (Lacey Chabert was fired?).

And this is where we stood up to leave, only to see Chris get all excited and shout, “That’s Sarah Silverman!”, and then Brad wanted to touch her and Richard couldn’t figure out how he knew her. According to Chris, seeing her was the highlight of the night.

I still don’t think she’s that hot.