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Currently funniest creator in TV today? Seth McFarlane.

With FOX picking up his ripened cartoon Family Guy, and following it up with American Dad, McFarlane has taken control of Sunday night TV (at least for those who are at home and don't mind watching toons). And it couldn't be better for FOX, who already has The Simpsons locked up for years.

Family Guy (already cancelled once before, until its burgeoning cult status drove it back to primetime) tracks the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family, with dad Peter being a worse idiot than Homer Simpson. This Sunday, Peter (voiced by McFarlane) and his buddies joined a costume contest and won as ... the A-Team. Laughs abound as they try to help their community (e.g., bringing a cat down from a tree by ... shooting down the tree with machine guns). There's also Stewie, the baby of the family who has an English accent and secretly plots world domination (and earlier in the series, thinks of ways to murder his mother). Stewie, also voiced by McFarlane, has become such a popular character and now has his own spinoff DVD. There's also Brian, who's a talking and cultured dog (he's a freelance writer who nearly got into a regular gig as a New Yorker columnist until they kicked him out for not having graduated from college - and only then for being a canine).

In American Dad, McFarlane gets his claws on current events and American politics thru the eyes of demented CIA agent Stan Smith, who also has his own dysfunctional family (wonder what McFarlane's family is like), including a non-human member, the effete Roger the Alien. The latest storyline, a two-parter where the Smith family moves to Saudi Arabia, has a killer opening where a Bin Laden/Zarqawi character tapes a recording with the usual anti-American ranting, and then bursts into laughter as he flubs his lines. It then degenerates into a Jim Carrey-like blooper reel. Priceless.

As it should in any cartoon, McFarlane's babies try to get in a lesson or two, but also make you bust a gut or two by butchering every sacred cow and calf that comes to his wicked mind. In effect, he has already upstaged The Simpsons and South Park as the funniest toons on TV.

Damn you, McFarlane. Damn you, FOX Network. Now I can't stop watching.