![]() We did the first episode ( It Takes Two to Tango) using cel animation - acetate cels, paint, film - the whole megillah! All the subsequent episodes (there have been 11) were produced using digital ink and paint. We’d also recently done a retro-technique Speed Racer commercial for VW and were in full retro mode! I designed Ace & Gary but throughout the series, everyone at the studio got a chance to do everything from additional character design and conventionally painted backgrounds. ![]() Comic-book superheroes have always been a part of my DNA, and this (it was 1996) was a chance to parody them like never before! He sent it over and I never laughed out loud at any script I’d ever read before. Ambiguously Gay Duo Saturday Night Live Gary + Ace Action Figure Set. He called (back when people used telephones) and said he had an idea for a kid’s Saturday morning-type cartoon and could/would I take a look at the script. ![]() Later he hopped to the short-lived Dana Carvey Show and that’s when he had the initial idea for the Ace & Gary cartoon. Soon after we did the opening for the then-new, Late Night With Conan O’Brien - Robert was executive producer/head writer. Sedelmaier: I had an ongoing working relationship with Robert Smigel that had begun in 1992 with an SNL commercial parody Cluckin’ Chicken. H/T The Absorbasconĭan Greenfield: Some time ago, I asked you to write a tribute to Lou Scheimer’s Filmation because it so clearly influenced satire like “The Ambiguously Gay Duo.” So before we even get into the merch, tell me how the Ambiguously Gay Duo came together. Maybe the best thing would be a webseries.Gary hitches a ride on Ace. Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon as the Ambiguously Gay Duo. I’d still like to see these actors play the characters again. SNLs Ambiguously Gay Duo goes live-action with Hamm & Fallon. It might even be impossible to make a sketch like this work in a movie. ![]() And how about a focus on the villains? Colbert and Carrell obviously work well together, the villains bickering was fun and it would be another layer of humor besides the innuendo.īut I get it … it would be very tough to make this movie good. If Ed Helms, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell wanted to be in the movie, I’d be all for it. How about them coming back to do it? I don’t remember if the villains ever stay the same on the sketches, but the ones in the live-action sketch made me laugh. Jimmy Fallon and Jon Hamm were funny together - especially Hamm, who is hilarious whenever he lets go of the Don Draper intensity. Would it be enough? I don’t know, but the right writer could do something special with it. If the focus was put on the hokey Batman/Robin parody aspect of the sketches, it would probably help the jokes stay funny. They didn’t just have Wayne and Garth sitting on the couch for an hour and half. Those “What are you looking at?” jokes would need to be spaced out throughout the movie, or the audience would start thinking, “OK, we get it, they’re ambiguously gay.” The best SNL movies take the sketch and add funnier stuff to it - think of Wayne’s World. I think the one thing they could do if they were going to attempt a non-irritating AGD movie is to spread out the obvious gay jokes. So, would a movie based on a sketch that is 90% gay jokes actually have a chance to be funny? Or would it just be annoying? MacGruber was the ultimate example of that … a sketch that thrived on its brevity being made into a full-length film. The Ambiguously Gay Duo Announcer: The Ambiguously Gay Duo Tonight’s episode: The Third Leg of. They’re extremely close in an ambiguous way. They are fighting all crime to save the day. The big problem with the large majority of SNL movies is that it’s very difficult to take something that is hilarious in a 3 minute sketch and make it just as funny - hopefully funnier - in a 90 to 120 minute time-frame. Jingle: The Ambiguously Gay Duo The Ambiguously Gay Duo They are taking on evil, come what may. The first thing my boyfriend said when he saw the episode was, “Aw, man! That would make a good SNL movie.” And it got me thinking. And third, that Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert - the actual voices of Ace and Gary - were two of the other villains. Second, that Jimmy Fallon and Jon “Don Draper” Hamm played the live-action version of the duo. First, that episode host Ed Helms was one of the villains. What really got me excited (and got me laughing) was the cast for this skit. ![]() So, when Keith mentioned in his weekly SNL post that they did a surprising Ambiguously Gay Duo skit, I was intrigued. Saturday Night Live doesn’t have too many surprises now-a-days. ![]()
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