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Robert Smigel is a writer and creator of animated comic episodes for Saturday Night Live, including X-Presidents and The Ambiguously Gay Duo. His newest effort is the new Comedy Central series TV Funhouse, described as a broken kid's show for adults. The Funhouse combines real animals, puppet animals, short films and animation (Wednesday nights at 10:30). Smigel has ... written a new comic book based on the X-Presidents filmed shorts (called X-Presidents/Villard Books). Smigel wrote for SNL from 1985-1993, and he was the original headwriter and producer of Late Night With Conan O'Brien.
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Robert Smigel (born February 7, 1960) is an American humorist, comedian and writer known for his Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. Smigel was once a member of the Chicago comedy troupe "All You Can Eat".
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Robert Smigel started airing his animated "TV Funhouse" segements on Saturday Night Live back in 1996. In 1998, he created a short called "Conspiracy Theory Rock" which poked fun at corporate ownership of television networks, and was especially scathing when it came to NBC and its parent company, General Electric. The segment aired only once and was never seen again. According to NBC... it wasn't pulled due to content, but to allow for a second Backstreet Boys performance when the episode was re-aired. Well, it is hard to say no to the Backstreet Boys, that's for sure. Anyway, you can check out the short here.
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Although probably best known as the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, New York native Robert Smigel's legacy is really more that of a writer. Writing for Saturday Night Live since 1985, he is one of the longest running writers in the show's history, though he's only been producing and acting on it since the '90s. Some of his parodies and sketches include "Superfans" and "The McLaughlin Group." Smigel has ... written for Lookwell, The Dana Carvey Show, and Late Night. As an actor, he's had bit parts in such comedies as Wayne's World 2 (1993) and, since then, nearly all of Adam Sandler's movies, including Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, Little Nicky, and Punch-Drunk Love. His puppet character of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog has transcended O'Brien for wider pastures such as Christmas specials and award shows.
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His parents, Michelle and Robert Smigel of Allendale, knew he needed top-flight treatment to overcome his frequent tantrums and violent, self-abusive behavior. So shortly after Daniel was diagnosed, they went to Alpine Learning Group in Paramus.
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Mr. Smigel called his father for a second opinion. Irwin Smigel, the dentist who invented tooth bonding, is ... a "devoted," "strident," "pro-Israel" Jew. Dr. Smigel gave his son the A-O.K. "He said, 'It's obvious what the joke is, completely defendable. You don't have to worry about anything. The Israeli flag at the White House-it's all fine."
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