Microsoft has pulled its planned sponsorship of the Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show (see “Family Guy Variety Special”). The marketing for Windows 7 was supposed to be integrated with the programming, but after seeing a taping of the show, Microsoft execs decided, “The content was not a fit with the Windows brand.”
The show, according to Variety, included jokes from Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein about deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene, and incest. Somewhere in there they apparently lost Microsoft. The show still hopes to have a single sponsor (as Microsoft was).