Seth MacFarlane Is Too Much for Microsoft, but "South Park" and "Two and a Half Men" Are No Problem

October 30, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

When Microsoft (MSFT) made the decision this week to drop out as the sole sponsor of Fox’s upcoming special “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show,” the software giant said, “The content was not a fit with the Windows brand.”

The special from “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein, who also works on the animated show, featured skits and bits with jokes about the Holocaust, feminine hygiene, bowel movements and incest. In other words, it was much like a typical episode of “Family Guy.”

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