Seth MacFarlane: “People just want to laugh their asses off”

Seth MacFarlane: “People just want to laugh their asses off”

It’s a little weird watching Ted’s voice get misty-eyed about Nelson Riddle, but here we are.Nine albums in and Seth MacFarlane still has to remind people he’s not doing some ironic Rat Pack cosplay. “The last thing I wanted to do was more fucking jokes,” he says, recalling the day a record label asked what kind of album he wanted to make. “I said, ‘I’d love to do an actual serious orchestral recording of great songs.’ And astonishingly, they sa…