"Family Guy" crashes the Oscars

After sitting through the bloated four-hour leviathan that is the Oscar ceremony tomorrow evening, you’ll no doubt be starved for entertainment, so “Family Guy’s” MySpace site will happily appease you with a new short flash-animated talk show that will double as a bald promotion for Seth MacFarlane’s latest production, “The Winner.”

In “Up Late,” Stewie and Brian will interview Rob Corddry, who stars in the new sitcom (created by Ricky Blitt) as a socially inept doofus who starts to turn his life around. No idea if it will be an animated Rob Corddry or a Rob Corddry brought alongside Stewie and Brian via the magic of greenscreen, but they’ll banter and do everything in their power to ensure that you watch “The Winner” next Sunday.

Don’t go there now – if you do, you’ll have to sit through a commercial for the “Family Guy” Stewie DVD. They’re throwing it up sometime Sunday evening, so it might be a good idea to check in somewhere between the honorary award to Sheri Lansing and the montage of dead people.