Julianne Moore and Backstreet Boys episode Featuring the voices of Barney Cheng, Robert Lin, and Ben Wang. Featuring the voices of Ana Gasteyer as Hillary Clinton and Betty Ford, Paula Pell as Nancy Reagan, and Robert Smigel.Ĭhinese speed-skater Ah Lin gets help from Ben Johnson. When Boris Yeltsin and his nuclear-powered aliens threaten the world with their communism, the X-Presidents spring into action and eventually receive help from their X-First Ladies. Featuring the voices of Stephen Colbert, Ana Gasteyer, Darrell Hammond, Cheri Oteri, and Robert Smigel.
George Clooney fights off the paparazzi in a parody of Speed Racer. " George Clooney in The Sexiest Car Alive" Jesus tries to fix everything that's wrong with today's commercialized Christmas. Brainio create an ice monster as part of a plot to freeze the Earth. Sylvester Stallone and Jamiroquai episodeīighead and Dr. Featuring the voices of Bill Chott, Stephen Colbert, and Robert Smigel.Īce and Gary demonstrate bicycle and home safety tips for local kids. Facing defeat, the X-Presidents use their powers to revive Richard Nixon and Checkers the Dog to help save the day. Vice President Al Gore is kidnapped by aliens posing as trees. Featuring the voice of Stephen Colbert as a Guard.įeaturing the voices of Laura Tietjen as Mom, Stephen Colbert as Dad, John Randolph Jones, Tyler Jones, Andy Newburg, and Brooks Roger.Īs Bill Clinton gives his speech, Ross Perot escapes from a mental hospital on a giant rabbit (voiced by J.J. North Korea allies with aliens to conquer the world. Rosie O'Donnell and Whitney Houston episodeĪce and Gary have to save Santa Claus (voiced by Robert Smigel) and his reindeer from the beetles (voiced by Robert Smigel) of the planet Zolaro. This episode has him, Bubbles the Chimpanzee, and the reanimated bones of Joseph Merrick holding a press conference to promote Camp Michael. The first of three sketches featuring Michael Jackson. Tom Hanks and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers episodeĪce and Gary, a pair of Superman-esque superheroes whose superpowers and friendship is too close to be considered non-sexual, foil Bighead's plan to take over Metroville.Īce and Gary head to the planetoid Grassis to stop the evil scheme of Bighead and Queen Serena (voiced by Ana Gasteyer).
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This article lists the different episodes of TV Funhouse.
And, happily, he suffers no shortage of material. The weekly half-hour show lasted just two months.Įver since, he says, “I’ve tried to carve out a niche in the protected area of late-night and cable, and write what I really think is funny.” Still, “TV Funhouse” is a cakewalk compared with Smigel’s fling with mainstream prime time: As producer of ABC’s “The Dana Carvey Show” in 1996, he battled unsavvy sponsors and a less-than-approving network. I’m also a puppeteer crouching under a stage, sticking my arm up a dog’s, with the other arm under the dog’s chin, trying to make him look like he’s chasing his tail while I scream at the top of my lungs.” “It’s just ridiculously grueling,” he says of his series. But you can’t blame them for being bad actors. “Look at that guy,” says Smigel as he points at the screen: A pecking, strutting rooster pays no mind to its ranting puppet co-star. Their puppet counterparts become the butt of the humor. “To me, what’s so funny about it is, half of the actors in the scene have no idea why it’s so funny-or even any idea what they’re part of.”Īdding to the absurdity is the fact that the animals-with their above-the-fray detachment, their blithe disregard for this or any TV show-are the only participants to hang on to their dignity. “I wanted to have a petting zoo backstage at ‘Conan,’ with a perfectly realistic-looking goat puppet among the real goats,” Smigel recalls. Even in the early days of “Late Night,” which he helped launch as its head writer, he harbored dreams of partnering real and fake creatures for comedic effect. Smigel, a cheery fellow of 40 with wire-rim eyeglasses and a tangle of curly hair, flashes a grin of fulfillment at the screen. Harboring Dreams of Real and Fake Creatures But he keeps an eye on the TV with its live pictures from the studio: puppet roosters and real roosters are now rehearsing a cockfighting sketch. That issue settled, Smigel has retreated to his office with a reporter.
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