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Six Degrees: J.J. Sedelmaier, ‘The Ambiguously Gay Duo’ heading to Ottawa
Posted by: | CommentsCongratulations to J.J. Sedelmaier and the folks behind Episode 11 of “The Ambiguously Gay Duo” on their selection for competetion in the “Television Animation for Adults” category of the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival. From AWN:
J.J. Sedelmaier Screens Ace And Gary In Ottawa
July 25, 2008They may be getting a little long in the tooth — and elsewhere — but Ace and Gary of THE AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO still know how to please a crowd.
J. J. Sedelmaier, the animation director whose studio has produced all of the AGD cartoons since the characters first appeared over a decade ago, will be taking the series’ latest installment, AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO Episode # 11 — “First Served, First Come” to the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival in Ottawa, Canada. The festival runs September 17-21, 2008.
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Sedelmaier said that even now, the Duo is still a treat for his White Plains, New York-based studio to work on. “After more than a decade, it’s nice that Gary and Ace can still charm a die-hard international jury like Ottawa,” he said. “And it’s ironic that I was at the Ottawa festival last year as we were crunching on this cartoon — gotta love email and ftp sites! But I think the Ottawa audience has a genuine soft-spot for the team; they always go wild when the cartoon is announced.”
Good luck, Mr. Sedelmaier!
If you haven’t seen this installment yet, watch it here:
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Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist
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Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. We here at No Fact Zone have had a tame but relaxing weekend so far. In honor of the Cookie Monster being on The Colbert Report on Thursday, I made me up a big plate of cookies. However, there’s just too many tasty morsels in the flotsam and jetsam of the blogosphere to not share them with you. So, without further ado, here is Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report in the zeitgeist for Sunday, June 22.
Who’s Honoring Stephen Now?
Quite a few people other than the Peabody awards, apparently.
- “Forget March Madness; we’ve got Best Things madness” – The Orgegonian:
“ESPN’s not going far enough. If you’re going to commit to a non-binding, totally subjective declaration, make it Big. Thus was born The Best Thing In The World. … The top seeds: Stephen Colbert, photosynthesis, enlightenment and bacon. Bacon’s the overall No. 1, if you must know, because almost every vegetarian that’s ever been tempted by meat, is tempted by bacon. That’s how good it is.” - “The New Classics: TV” – EW.com:
Check out number (no kidding) 69. *snerk*
(h/t shamskygirl)
Now that’s what I call a Five-shot Venti Caramel Mocha
Apparently Stephen’s caffeine withdrawal garnered the approval of Starbucks.
- “Tall Order” – Portfolio.com:
“This February, in a great theatrical stroke, Schultz closed more than 7,000 stores for three hours to allow 135,000 baristas to relearn—or learn—how to make decent espresso. (Three hours apparently sufficed; much of the process at Starbucks is automated anyway.) Schultz insists, though, that the gesture, which cost the company an estimated $10 million in labor costs and lost revenue, was no gimmick. It did seem to confirm what aficionados have long known: Starbucks’ espresso often isn’t very good, and it has gotten worse. But the stunt garnered priceless publicity, including a Stephen Colbert depiction of Starbucks withdrawal that outdid anything Ray Milland endured in The Lost Weekend. When the clip was shown at the company’s annual meeting in March, it brought down the house. “People want to know why we don’t advertise,” Schultz joked afterward.” (h/t Sharon R.)
They’re extremely close in an ambiguous way
Who knew when Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert were making a short with Robert Smigel for SNL in the early 1990’s that the Ambiguously Gay Duo would have featured such current comedic superstars?
- “Robert Smigel Interview for ‘You Don’t Mess With the Zohan’” – Moviefone:
“Are there any plans for an ‘Ambiguously Gay Duo’ movie?
I wrote [the script] with Stephen Colbert. It’s about an evil plan that keeps getting waylaid because the villains were more obsessed with whether Ace and Gary were gay. And at the same time, the government is noticing Ace and Gary as heroes … [but] there’s a growing curiosity and suspicion on that end whether or not Ace and Gary are gay … And ultimately the government and the villains realize that each side has been more busy and obsessed with Ace and Gary. And then the two sides join forces.” (h/t Andie T.)
The Daily Show/The Colbert Report Global Edition
- Jon Stewart Speaks Arabic in this promo for Showcomedy. (h/t Fifi)
- Excellent news for Aussie fans of The Daily Show/The Colbert Report – in mid-July, the shows are being moved to 6:30p and 7:00p, three hours earlier than previously scheduled, and just four hours after the American broadcast.
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Six Degrees: Robert Smigel interview
Posted by: | CommentsThe Onion’s A.V. Club has posted a cool interview with Robert Smigel (Late Night with Conan O’Brien, TV Funhouse, The Dana Carvey Show) to coincide with the release of his film You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. It’s well worth the read anyway, but I’m guessing our audience will be most interested to learn that there are some rather sweet little tidbits in there on Stephen.
From The A.V. Club:
Robert Smigel
Interviewed by Nathan Rabin
June 3rd, 2008. . .
AVC: Getting back to the dick jokes, in Zohan, Adam has the largest package I’ve ever seen onscreen.
RS: I’m actually jealous of this movie, because I wrote an Ambiguously Gay Duo live-action movie with Colbert a couple of years ago. Every successful character on Saturday Night Live prompts the question, “Is this a movie?” Ace and Gary were two characters I had no interest in doing a movie about. When I thought of them doing it live-action though, I thought, okay, I can make the characters much more dimensional, and, boy, would they look funny in those costumes with the enormous packages.
AVC: Especially if they were Carell and Colbert.
RS: Well, at the time, Carell and Colbert were, you know, it was the year 2000, and they weren’t superstars. Nobody had any idea. They blew us away at The Dana Carvey Show and we thought that they should have incredible careers, but we were surprised that they weren’t famous even then. We were surprised that Saturday Night Live hadn’t hired them back in 1996. Because they were both like 30 years old already, and they’d been around Second City. You never know when someone’s going to get a break. But it’s refreshing to see talent win out like that.
AVC: You were briefly a consultant on The Colbert Report.
RS: Yeah, I probably never earned a credit less. That was nice of Stephen to do. I talked conceptually about the show a few times with him and I didn’t even know he was going to do that until they called me and asked me where I wanted my check to go. Then later he told me he did it for his own inspiration, which was sort of sweet and nice of him to say and nice of him to do.
AVC: What did he mean by that?
RS: Well, I didn’t want to get into that. “What do I mean to you, Stephen?” We’re great friends and I hired him at the Carvey show and I believed in him. I’m so proud to see what he’s done. I saw him when I was still at Saturday Night Live in ‘92 one summer. We were scouting for people and I went to Second City. We saw their show and we were told there was an understudy that night for this guy Steve Carell, who’s really great, but, you know, this was the night that Lorne Michaels could go. But I was just blown away by the understudy, who of course was Colbert. I became obsessed with getting Colbert involved with something I was doing. I tried to get him involved with Conan when we started. It didn’t come together then.
AVC: As a writer or a performer?
RS: As either a writer or a performer. But for some reason it didn’t click at the time. So then The Dana Carvey Show happened and he was not available to audition so he sent in a pathetic videotape where he didn’t really do anything, he just was trying to be funny to the camera. Then he showed us his newborn child and begged us to hire him. I told Carvey, let’s just fly him in and see what he can do. Then we flew him in and did a genuine audition and he was hilarious. At that point it became very easy. But anyway, Zohan has a big dick.
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This exchange totally made me think about the commentary that Robert Smigel, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell did for the Ambiguously Gay Duo here (warning: the, um, “adult themes” in the commentary might make this one a good candidate for headphones):
Anyway, you really should read the whole interview, but I’ll also mention here that Mr. Smigel said that there will be a Comedy Central TV Funhouse DVD coming out on July 22nd. Sounds like a blast!
Tip of the hat to TWoP’s Dogbert for the link!
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