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The former SNL cast member (along with Robert Smigel) is the host and star of this sketch comedy series. Each week, the show would be sponsered by a different soda, usually Pepsi or Mug Root Beer.... more
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Mr. Smigel embarked on a pre-dental path that began at Cornell and ended at New York University, where he entered a student stand-up comedy contest. Being both a Steve Martin and Andy Kaufman worshipper, Mr. Smigel appeared onstage dressed as an Orthodox rabbi. He wore a cotton-candy beard and an unimpressed look on his face. He ran long, but he ended up being one of three winners who went on to compete at the Comic Strip, and he won there. "It definitely changed everything, because strangers thought I was funny, which was the thing that I always needed," he said. At 22, he moved to Chicago and joined a comedy group called All You Can Eat.
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The comedy, developed at Revolution Studios from an original screenplay by Apatow, Smigel and Sandler, follows the exploits of a Mossad agent who fakes his death so he can anonymously move to New York and become a hair stylist. Smigel is penning a rewrite.
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Mr. Smigel grew up on the pre-gentrification streets of the Upper West Side, in a city besotted with disco and Woody Allen. In addition to inventing tooth-bonding, his father has been president of the American Society for Dental Aesthetics for the past 28 years. "My dad is way more important to dentistry than I'll ever be to comedy," Mr. Smigel said.
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