Seth MacFarlane has pulled himself out of the running as the host for the 2014 Oscars. He broke the news in a series of tweets earlier this week saying that while the show's producers were interested, his schedule wouldn't accommodate.
"Traumatized critics exhale: I'm unable to do the Oscars again," MacFarlane tweeted Monday afternoon. "Tried to make it work schedule-wise, but I need sleep."
The news will likely come to the joy of critics, who widely panned MacFarlane's low brow humor. And though he was blasted as sexist and off-color, he boosted viewership by roughly 21 million viewers from the previous year, hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.
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