Seth MacFarlane singing Ya Got Trouble from BBC Proms 2012 - Broadway Sound 

Too accurate.

I can’t tell if this is supposed to be a negative comment or, I mean I’d take it as a compliment

I feel bad for him honestly, he's so checked out on his comedy stuff but it still makes him money so he sticks with it but when he's singing he seems so content

Accurate, but he’s hilarious

@@reverendglitch That’s why he sings a lot in his comedies. Best of both worlds.

I'm 5 years late but thank you haha

He is in his natural habitat

I watched the Sound of Music for the first time recently and I spotted a few references Family Guy used from that film

Amen to that !! :-)

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Nice to meet a fellow Zachary

He is great I too would be happy as a lark up there singing with that orchestra & chorus

I've got all of his albums on my phone. He is such an amazing singer with a very rich, warm, silky smooth voice. If he lived back in the 40s, 50s and 60s, he would have been part of the Rat Pack.

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For me his cartoons can wither away... but when he sings? Oh lordy.... This is what heaven sounds like :)

Matt Groening, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and Mike Judge all deserve the Mark Twain Prize as well as the National Medal of the Arts.

@@MrTsiolkovskyyour jealousy’s showing

Seth MacFarlane is EVERY goddamn character from The Music Man. Like he is that musical personified in a person.

Besides his celebrity, there are so many people that would be better.

SoaringTrumpet perhaps, but i feel like he's wanted this all his life. He's made numerous Music Man references on his show, plus this performance. at the very least, he'd give it his all.

Fair enough, he certainly has the charisma!

Hard to beat the snake-in-the-grass feel Preston was able to pull off.

I definitely agree he could write or co-write and produce a musical, but I think he is too busy to star in a show. If Family Guy ended he could do it.

@@SardonicALLY He really wants to be off of Family Guy at this point, but imagine if he was able to at least take a break to make his own "The Book of Mormon" or some other big musical where he could just show off his talents.

absolutely! he already made so many musical numbers on family guy.

If Trey Parker and Matt Stone can do it, I have 100% faith Seth could top The Book of Mormon easy

Honestly, I would be all for him doing this but he could do it for Star Trek Bonus points if he adapted Lower Decks for a Broadway musical, I would pay hella money to see that

(which is... kind of Harold Hill...)

He doesn’t seem goofy at all

John O’Rourke I don’t know. There seems to be quite a bit of goofball there, which is totally a good thing.

sweets08816 I get you but he’s to sharp I think not that o know him !!

John O’Rourke he definitely has wit and a super sharp mind. He does showtunes and has a great Xmas album, then on the opposite end of the spectrum he has songs like the pop tart song, “The Frickin FCC” and “Downs syndrome girl”- all of which are well written songs.

We all have to eat and Family Guy puts Bread on the table sadly but Seth would be the best Harold Hill

Peter Pan I agree :)

Thanks :)

Peter Pan I would make a good one :P

Really? Phil Hartman was more charming and emotive in this role in The Simpsons.

Actually, patter songs were best used by Gilbert and Sullivan. Look it up.

Gicole Li "Rock Island" in the Music Man sounded more like a rap than this one'That's my opinion tho

@Chris Railer look up Hugh Jackman doing Rock Island on the old Jay Leno show or at the 2014 Tonys. He clearly agrees with you:-)

But Gicole didn't say patter songs began in the 1950s

Gicole Li it’s 1950s rap and it’s GOOD

Maybe Eric McCormack. He was a far better Harold than I expected. But Seth is neck and neck with Preston.

This is one of the things I love about Family Guy. MacFarlane is obviously a voracious consumer and lover of popular culture and crams as many references as he can into every episode. He could probably do a spot-on impression of Robert Preston if he wanted to, but he seems to be trying to avoid that, but his performance is obviously informed by Preston's.

Definitely better than Matthew Broderick.

He sure is channeling Preston.

Patti LuPone in that interview

I mean, he's a producer and director himself...

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He’d also be an amazing Billy Flynn in Chicago!

No it has to be Lin Manuel-Miranda.

I think he should be Hugh Hackman’s replacement in the upcoming production

Oliver Tilly Don't be SILLY.

Chunk Yogurt In addition to Family Guy he was *hilarious* in the Comedy Central roasts

+Andrew Tolmasoff If only MacFarlane and Parker/Stone didn't have a mutual loathing, otherwise I'd love to see them collaborate together in some musical endeavour.

Secular Scot They don't really, the media just loves to pit people against each other and build feuds out of nothing. They are honestly just apathetic to each other, or curt when the other's mentioned, but when they interact it's always been civil.

Bag of weed

He a showtunes guy, he probably already had it memorised before he even decided to sing it here.

TwoSlenderMen I know your comment is from a while ago but, of course he had it memorized before he sang it here, otherwise he couldn't have sang it here. I'm just amazed at how he didn't slip up once.

DalueKnightMusic haha they mean that he probably already knew the song growing up since that's the kind of music he's into

Well, The Music Man is Seth's favorite musical so it's pretty obvious he will memorize lyrics by heart!

It's actually a surprisingly easy song to sing

I'll tell ya Hugh Jackman really brings a visual physical spectacle. It's been great. I hear you though.

I would love to see both... ❤️

Hugh Jackman did a good job, but you should go back and watch the first version of this song, in the 1962 movie "The Music Man" - watch how Robert Preston did this song. Great job, with MORE "personality" than Seth McFarlane did it here. The movie clip is on RU-vid, if you want to search for Robert Preston's version.

Don't get me wrong, Seth is marvelous, it's a damn hard act to follow though. I wanna have a go myself, I could do it too!

Did you see the entire showing of Broadway musicals at the Albert Hall ? I was enthralled with the whole thing, Sierra Boggess, wonderful stuff.. Its pretty much all here.

***** I wasn't necessarily saying he should remake The Music Man, I was just wondering if he'll ever do a straight up classic music like Music man or something else.

What, Like the "sound of music" ? No he needs a good comedy role. Maybe "West side story" except he's a bit too old for that. Camelot maybe? Did you ever see John Lithgow in "La Mancha" that was pretty damn good.

I mean not star in a remake of any musical, I mean like him making his own music that he wrote, directed, and possibly stared in.

Right in here in RU-vid comments

With a capital T and that rhymes with V and that stands for voice!

Tone Grumbt RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY

His voice has nothing to do with his lackluster borderline terrible cartoons and films.

Tone Grumbt Right here in River city.

he cant write good jokes without cutaway gags but his voice acting is just top notch

the exceptions being his movies

Have you watched American Dad? The whole thing is him proving he CAN make funny jokes without cutaways. It's hilarious! This guy is gold, I think what you said was pretty pretentious really.

True that man. American Dad. The Futurama to Family Guys late SImpsons

American Dad and Family guy will never even come close to reaching Futurama's greatness.

Probably 5th grade.

@@markusnashorn1145 Thanks for the correction.

I could see Bryan Cranston doing this well too 😄

He wasn’t a big name yet, he was just known as the guy who created that short lived tv show family guy, , and wrote a couple episodes of Jonny bravo and Dexters lab

I thought Matthew Broderick did a fantastic job in that film. He has an excellent voice as well as the others who have performed this song originally. :)

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Exactly this.

He most certainly is that

80's Girl weird

No not weird. I'm with you on the crush thing.

Same 5 years later now in 2019 almost 2020

:O

So does mine tbh

my two favourite Seth songs are “The Sadder But Wiser Girl” and “No Moon At All”. they’re fantastic.

george baum .. Very true... Seth & creators of family already made a skit on the musical "Music Man". But I think is binded by a contract with Fox. Having transaction with NBC, will probably compromise his relationship with Fox

jekboy2003 True sadly. But to be fair, he did do two films with another distribution company. So maybe I dunno how it all works. :P

jekboy2003 More than likely Seth MacFarlane's contract with Fox only covers Family Guy, and he's not under personal contract to Fox.

Judging from NBC's last two horribly miscast live musical events, don't count on them casting Music Man properly. Still it would be a smart move for them to get MacFarlane.

Would be a great pairing with Kristin Chenoweth.

Would buy box seats for the rest of my life.

NPH sucks, but Seth is super talented

Watch the movie A Million Ways to Die in the West

add lin manual miranda and they'll get every Tony.

What's NPH?

Seth isn't a natural performer though. You can see in this video that he's a bit awkward on stage. He's a singer, not a musical theatre guy.

@@David-ud9ju Only experience will make him less so...so i say give it to him.

Count me in !! :-)

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@@David-ud9ju I totally hear what you're saying, but I also think that he's someone who just needs a little polishing, I feel like after months of rehearsals he'd be more than fine. I'm not at all worried about a possible "Carrie Underwood in the Sound of Music" situation happening. he is an actor, grant it a voice over artist more than anything but it means he's at least coming from some area of performing as a character and he understands how to be other people, he just needs to get his feet wet with live theatre. I don't think it'd be too much of a challenge for him. especially in a role like Harold Hill who's always "putting on a show" I do understand that'd he'd be a big risk for broadway but I think it'd be one that would really pay off in the long run!

I think he did it so it didn’t sound like poo. He’s really particular about enunciation and pronunciation

Met him through a few friends at an LA party and he was very charming and funny. I was swooning.

runningforyourlifeissogeeky Yeah right, you just happened to be at a Hollywood party 🙄

that 80's girl you got me jealous. Lol

Henry Jackson not everyone is a looser.

Family guy is a $2 Billion tv show, if you ask me, farts jokes are the smartest thing this guy has done.

You do forget that Seth Macfarlane is currently helping Neil Degrasse Tyson write the show cosmos which wouldn't of even made it's return unless Seth helped revitalize it.

i don't debate it works for him, but that does not make it any less stupid as fuck

hulmad Agreed

human beings are complicated animal ,grow up

He's also a songwriter and actor

That was kind of unspoken...

+matt92091 Haters be hating. There is no question how insanely talented Seth is. He just delivers

+matt92091 wow read Sun Tzu Warfare comes in all shapes and sizes.

+matt92091 "where he strictly displays his spoken word skills" Or lack thereof.

Jason Black Seth has been a singer and a wonderful friend of Frank Sinatra JR until he passed away. Frank jr gave him a lot of singing lessons.

He created family guy not just the voic3s

Yeah I know, I was enjoying the video and all, and just as it’s about to end, a wild Christine appears!

Agreed. He's more talented than most people in general.

Jackman is starring on Broadway next year in The Music Man so maybe Seth could take over after Hugh wins a TONY next Summer and walks away from the show.

Cote X thank you for understanding 😂

This should be a role model not some people who teach children that you have to be rich to be amazing

Hey, how ya doing? At the time this comment was posted, I just turned 14. I’m a huge fan of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and even Gene Kelly. Does this mean I qualify?

Sadly kids will only try to be RU-vid famous. Like that's a thing. I pitty those of us that will live to see a future where actual entertainment is replaced with pewdiepie screeching at a video game for 30mins each week. Such a sorry state we have come too.

I love that he can do both.

And then he made the Orville, a great SciFi

Sierra Boggess, brilliant singer and performer.

And he was flawless too, hard to even nitpick. Reminds of actually of Chistopher Walken but with a mad different energy.