He went on to liken Liam Neeson's turn as Clinch Leatherwood to a crucial character in the 1985 comedy classic "The Naked Gun" (itself a genre parody much like "A Million Ways to Die in the West").

While Neeson only had a cameo in Ted, he played the chief antagonist of MacFarlane's big-screen directing debut, Clinch Leatherwood. Though Clinch was a cowboy in 1882 Arizona, he spoke with ...