Patrick Warburton Joins MacFarlane's "Ted"

Seth MacFarlane has already dominated the animation world with his hit series "Family Guy," and with his new film "Ted," he is looking to make his first foray into live action comedy and its shaping up to be quite the project.

The film has an already stacked cast and has just added another comedic vet to the fold. According to Deadline Patrick Warburton has joined the cast of MacFarlane's "Ted" at Universal Pictures.

The story revolves around a thirty-something Boston man (Mark Wahlberg) whose childhood teddy bear came to life and is now a cursing, smoking, delinquent that prevents the man from maturing. Warburton will play Guy, a sexually confused Enterprise Rent-A-Car co-worker of Wahlberg's character.

The films cast is already deep with Mila Kunis, Giovanni Ribisi and Joel McHale also starring, and now having Warburton just adds another layer to the project. The film sounds like it’s a perfect project for MacFarlane, and having Wahlberg in the lead role is just too good to be true. While the actor might be better known for his dramatic or action work, he clearly is comfortable in comedy as seen in "The Other Guys," which was absolutely hilarious.

I'll always love Warburton for his Puddy character on "Seinfeld" and I can see him playing off the other cast members in the movie very well.

The film will start production later this year.

Giovanni Ribisi Joins MacFarlane's "Ted"

As a big "Family Guy" fan, I've always been curious as to what creator Seth MacFarlane would do with a feature film, or live actors at least. He's able to push the boundaries of comedy with animation, could he do the same with real people? Whether he is able to or not remains to be seen, but either way his new project "Ted" sounds totally interesting.

MacFarlane serves as co-writer and director on the film, which will be rater-R and feature a grown man, and a teddy bear that has come to life. What makes things even better is that Mark Wahlberg is set to play the grown man and the project has also just added another member.

According to Variety Giovanni Ribisi is attached to co-star in MacFarlane's comedy "Ted." Ribisi will play Donny, a man obsessed with Ted. Mila Kunis is also in final negotiations to star.

MacFarlane directs, and co-wrote the film with Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. The bear itself will be stop motion and voiced by McFarlane.

One great thing this film has going for it is that it will be rated-R and features a talking animal. MacFarlane has pushed the envelope on network TV for years and it will be amazing to see what he can do when he is almost completely unfettered from censors. On top of that, anyone who watches "Family Guy" knows that he has a knack for talking animals, as evidenced by Brian Griffin the dog.

The film should be hilarious because of MacFarlane and also because the teddy bear Ted will be a drinking, smoking loudmouth.

The closer it is to Brian Griffin the better.