When he proposed the animated segment to "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels, a deal was quickly made. Smigel helped O'Brien get his show started, but after two years, he says, it began to wear on him. After winning a stand-up comic contest, he joined a comedy troupe in Chicago, where then "SNL" staffers Al Franken and Tom Davis saw the group and hired him as a writer for the show.
He thought about following his father into dentistry, attending a pre-dental program at Cornell University for two years before switching to communications at New York University. Still, he successfully performed his already planned surreal and over-the-top impression of Clinton - "a Bruce Springsteen-from-the-South Hardy Boy."Ī New York native, Smigel lives in a Greenwich Village penthouse apartment with his wife, Michelle, and their 7-month-old son, Daniel. What made it worse was the excellent Clinton impersonation by his late friend Phil Hartman, which Smigel admired. The 38-year-old Smigel, who spent eight years on the "SNL" writing staff until he became the first head writer and a producer for "Conan," says he was daunted by the prospect of imitating Clinton when he first did it on O'Brien's second show five years ago. "I'm usually this shuffling, mumbling guy who just sort of thinks a lot around the office, giggles to himself, and frightens people on the street." Smigel enjoys doing Clinton because it gives him a chance to act totally out of character. "Now it's taking up almost as much time as the cartoons on 'Saturday Night Live,' which is the job I actually get a real salary for doing," he says. These days, he's doing the bit once or twice a week. "I'm not too worried about Clinton joining forces with those guys anytime soon," he says, then chuckles "He'd just mess it up."įor a while Smigel was doing the Clinton lips on "Conan" every few weeks, sometimes only monthly. Smigel says he figures his quartet of "X-Presidents" won't become a quintet in the next year. Smigel is also the "lips" of President Clinton on "Late Night With Conan O' Brien" as well as the voice of Triumph the Insult-Comic Dog, a Don Rickles-like canine hand puppet.Įven if they're weird gimmicks, Smigel says his creations serve as sturdy vehicles for fertile material. rendering them all the more extraordinary" and "Fun With Real Audio," which typically juxtaposes actual sound bites with incongruous images. Sedelmaier - under the umbrella title of "TV Funhouse." They include "The Ambiguously Gay Duo," a Batman-and-Robin-like tandem whose friends and foes wonder about their sexuality "X-Presidents," with Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush as superheroes "struck by a hurricane-powered dose of radiation while appearing at a celebrity golf tournament. On the venerable "SNL," which begins its 24th season Saturday, he writes the show's hilarious animated shorts - drawn by J.J. Smigel may be the funniest guy on television nobody knows. He doesn't want to give away what it is about, but offers a hint "It's President Clinton-oriented." If you Google him you may become confused.With this season's premiere of "Saturday Night Live" only a few days away, Robert Smigel is still working on the show's animated segment.
He is also a contributor to Print’s blog “Imprint.” Sedelmaier’s interests are varied. Sedelmaier is a popular speaker for major industry events corporations schools agencies and television programs such as CBS’ Sunday Morning. Sedelmaier’s design expertise technological experience and extensive knowledge of history make him a unique creative source for sculpting any project. His creative development and production studio assists with corporate branding for companies like The Chicago Tribune Nickelodeon S.
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Sedelmaier is responsible for many of the most-talked-about broadcast productions of the past two decades including the launch season of MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head Saturday Night Live’s “Saturday TV Funhouse ” Cartoon Network/Adult Swim’s Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law animation for The Colbert Report and more than 500 television commercials animations and design pieces. Sedelmaier covers these important questions and discusses several experiences he and his studio have endured while producing some of the most entertaining animation ever to come out of a small independent cartoon and design shop in White Plains New York.
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