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Robert Smigel on his "TV Funhouse" animated sketch on Saturday Night Live skewering NBC's parent company GE; on getting notes from Standards & Practices at NBC to tweak his "Conspiracy Theory Rock!" sketch; on the sketch airing on SNL just as NBC president Bob Wright happened to be watching; on this sketch never re-airing; on SNL assistant director Robert Caminiti letting Smigel know the sketch had been pulled; on Lorne Michaels' continued support for Smigel's sketches despite the backlash; on the sketch's continued popularity; on J. J. Sedelmaier getting original artists who had worked on the original Schoolhouse Rock to animate "Conspiracy Theory Rock"
(Topic - Television Industry)
05:26
Interview: Robert Smigel Topic: Television Industry
Robert Smigel on having his puppet "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog" cover the 2016 presidential campaigns, and on "Triumph's" interview with then-Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee
(Topic - Donald J. Trump)
02:55
Interview: Robert Smigel Topic: Donald J. Trump
Robert Smigel on having his puppet "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog" cover the 2016 presidential campaigns, and on "Triumph's" interview with then-Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee
(Topic - Television and the Presidency)
02:55
Interview: Robert Smigel Topic: Television and the Presidency
Robert Smigel on the start of Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(Genre - Late Night)
21:10
Interview: Robert Smigel Genre: Late Night
Robert Smigel on the Clutch Cargo-style bits he and Dino Stamatopoulos devised for Late Night With Conan O'Brien
(Genre - Late Night)
04:05
Interview: Robert Smigel Genre: Late Night
Robert Smigel on his early ambition to be funny but not believing one could make a living at that profession; on early cartoon drawings he would make, but deciding early on to follow his father's footsteps to be a dentist instead
(Profession - Writers)
03:56
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Writers
Robert Smigel on the "modern" type of "so bad it's good" comedy he was interested in early in his career; catching the comedy bug after performing and winning a comedy standup contest at NYU; "I was stung, I was infected"; on getting to perform at The Comic Strip in New York city; on his closing bit as Ronald Reagan (foreshadowing a later TV Funhouse sketch "The X Presidents"); on getting more gigs after that; on being a fan of comedy that "tore everything down and made fun of itself"
(Profession - Comedian)
14:35
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Comedian
Robert Smigel on wanting to be a comedian since he was three years old
(Profession - Comedian)
01:34
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Comedian
Robert Smigel on wanting to be a comedian since he was three years old
(Profession - Performers)
01:34
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Performers
Robert Smigel on joining a sketch comedy program (The Players Workshop) at Second City in Chicago; on his love of Chicago and how the experience at Second City helped build his confidence as a comedian; on gravitating towards sketch comedy over improv; learning how to develop writing sketch comedy from the players at Second City like Dan Castellaneta; on his early sketch comedy ideas; on meeting Dan Crowley in Chicago and joining his comedy group (All You Can Eat) as his replacement; on Al Franken and Tom Davis, original writers from Saturday Night Live, coming to Chicago to see a show Smigel had created, "All You Can Eat and the Temple of Doom"
(Profession - Comedian)
18:58
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Comedian
Robert Smigel on the "modern" type of "so bad it's good" comedy he was interested in early in his career; catching the comedy bug after performing and winning a comedy standup contest at NYU; "I was stung, I was infected"; on getting to perform at The Comic Strip in New York city; on his closing bit as Ronald Reagan (foreshadowing a later TV Funhouse sketch "The X Presidents"); on getting more gigs after that; on being a fan of comedy that "tore everything down and made fun of itself"
(Profession - Performers)
14:35
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Performers
Robert Smigel on joining a sketch comedy program (The Players Workshop) at Second City in Chicago; on his love of Chicago and how the experience at Second City helped build his confidence as a comedian; on gravitating towards sketch comedy over improv; learning how to develop writing sketch comedy from the players at Second City like Dan Castellaneta; on his early sketch comedy ideas; on meeting Dan Crowley in Chicago and joining his comedy group (All You Can Eat) as his replacement; on Al Franken and Tom Davis, original writers from Saturday Night Live, coming to Chicago to see a show Smigel had created, "All You Can Eat and the Temple of Doom"
(Profession - Performers)
18:58
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Performers
Robert Smigel on the writer Jim Downey and what he brought to the writers' room at Saturday Night Live, and on how Downey's tenure at The Harvard Lampoon impacted his humor
(Profession - Writers)
09:52
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Writers
Robert Smigel on Dana Carvey as a performer on Saturday Night Live and his collaborations with Smigel and enjoying improvising while doing impressions; on contributions from writers Bonnie and Terry Turner; on some of Carvey’s sketches and impressions; on working with Carvey on his Johnny Carson impression, on The McLaughlin Group impression being one of Smigel’s favorite sketches that he wrote; on his Regis Philbin impression; on “finding the music” in an impression with Carvey
(Profession - Writers)
05:50
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Writers
Robert Smigel on writing the "Get a life" line for William Shatner on the classic Saturday Night Live sketch "Trekkers" in which Shatner says the line to some Star Trek superfans, and on the sketch being a turning point in his writing career at SNL
(Profession - Writers)
02:48
Interview: Robert Smigel Profession: Writers