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Sulkin made the comment one day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, which killed over 10,000 people in Japan. The following day, Sulkin deleted the joke and apologized, saying the post was insensitive and that he had not realized the extent and severity of the disaster. Personal life. Sulkin once dated Sarah Silverman. He is Jewish.
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- 1999–present
- Tal Rabinowitz
- Connecticut College
Alec Sulkin: Jesus Christ, Man, Jewish Man, Waiter, Audience Member #1, Bellgarde, Doctor, Dumb Beaver, Jock, John Lennon, Pirate, Pirate #1, Satan, Scientist #2, Singer, Tomik, AA Member, Adam Kenneth Handleman, Alan Rickman, Alarm, Albino, Alien, Amazon Drone, Andy Garcia, Announcer #10, B-Ryan, Band Member, Band Member #1, Baseball Announcer ...
Sep 23, 2022 · Sulkin: God, I hope not. Appel: By that, Alec means [that] while we of course wish for the public to be healthy enough and in a good place, it was a lot of extra work. That was Seth [MacFarlane]'s ...
- Mike Bedard
- Be Funny in 140 Characters
- Be Bold in The Writers' Room
- Be Offensive
- Be A Good Collaborator
- Be Able to Withstand Rejection, Not to Say Outright Hatred, of Your Work
- Be Able to Make The Transition from TV to Movies
"Twitter is now another version of a résumé for somebody who wants to be in comedy. Jobs can be won or lost on Twitter. I don't know if it's quite on the level of a spec script but it's another way to check out someone comedically. When I was at Saturday Night Live in the early 90s, the staff was filled with Harvard people. Today it's different, an...
"American sitcoms are traditionally created by shoving a large group of funny people into a small room and forcing them to compete, gladiator-style, to get their gags on the air. It is not an environment for the socially awkward, which, ironically, is what most funny people are. It can be a nightmare. But a lot of writers are frustrated performers ...
"Being shocking and offensive was a device writers used over the years, but as that stuff becomes more permissible across the board, it's harder and harder to shock and offend people. All that stuff tends to blend into one and make you yawn. The word 'cunt' 10 years ago, even five years ago, would have been incredibly shocking. Now I feel that it's...
"Seth [MacFarlane] has huge strengths. He's a hilarious guy, he generates big ideas – Ted was his – and he has the confidence to believe that what he's doing is right at all times. I would definitely call him the leader of the three of us. When it comes to Wellesley and I, we've known each other since college. I love slapstick and Wellesley comes f...
"Seth has an up-and-down relationship with critics so we expected them to be against Dads [the now-cancelled show, which was reviled as racist by American TV critics unamused by the pilot episode, which featured a female Asian character forced to wear an anime sailor suit to win the business of visiting Japanese investors; a joke about the microsco...
"The fact that Ted was as successful as it was turned out to be was a surprise. I think part of that was just because people are pretty simple. It's true! Ted was just a cute character that was funny and brash, but a teddy bear. They're so lovable and you instantly cared about him at the end when he's getting ripped in half. It was horrifying! That...
Apr 16, 2024 · Under its showrunners, Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin, “Family Guy” continues to carve out its own indelicate but undeniably funny path on Fox, FXX and Hulu. (To quote one representative bit ...
Feb 12, 2010 · 3:21 PM. After her very public on-again, off-again relationship with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman has a new man in her life: "Family Guy" writer Alec Sulkin. Unlike Kimmel,...
Nov 14, 2016 · After publishing the piece, Family Guy showrunner Alec Sulkin contacted me about it. He said that he agreed with some, if not all, of my points, and that he was working on fixing some of the ...
