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"Yep, Seth MacFarlane went there. At the Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday Feb. 22., the first-time host, 39, was eager to push the envelope with his opening monologue. Recapping the year&amp;apos;s honored films, the Family Guy creator discussed Quentin Tarantino&amp;apos;s Django Unchained, and managed to invoke the music world&amp;apos;s most controversial couple.\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;This is a story about man fighting to get back his woman who has been subjected to unthinkable violence, or as Chris Brown and Rihanna call it - a date movie,&amp;quot; MacFarlane quipped as the crowd laughed nervously. &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s as bad as it gets, if it makes you feel better,&amp;quot; he then assured the audience. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s really not as bad as it gets.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nContinuing his bit on Tarantino&amp;apos;s slavery-era flick. which famously makes liberal use of the &amp;quot;N&amp;quot; word: &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m told the screenplay is loosely based off of Mel Gibson&amp;#x2019;s voicemails?&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nChatting up the year&amp;apos;s other honoree that deals with issue of slavery -- Lincoln -- MacFarlane praised its dedicated star, Daniel-Day Lewis.  &amp;#x201C;Your process fascinates me. Now you were totally 100 percent in character as Lincoln 24/7 during the movie. That&amp;#x2019;s what I read. Like, you stayed in character all day, every day,&amp;quot; he marveled. &amp;quot;So like, if you saw a cell phone, would you have to be like, &amp;#x2018;Oh my God, what&amp;#x2019;s that?!&amp;#x2019; Like, if you bumped into Don Cheadle on the studio lot, did you try to free him? How deep does your method go?&amp;#x201D;\r\n\r\nBefore launching a musical, star-studded segment, the emcee also poked fun at the Golden Globes&amp;apos; most talked-about speaker, Jodie Foster:  &amp;quot;As I said, tonight&amp;#x2019;s ceremony is being watched by a close to a billion people worldwide, which is why Jodie Foster will be up here in a bit to ask for her privacy.&amp;quot;\r\nTell Us: What did you think of MacFarlane&amp;apos;s speech?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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