But funny Watch the video after the jump. By telling its audience that transgender women should be laughed at and ridiculed, NBC contributed to an environment that sees transgender people subjected to near-universal discrimination in the workplace and an environment in which at least one transgender person is murdered every month.ĭemand that NBC apologize to its transgender viewers and all of those who were deeply offended by seeing the lives of transgender people turned into a punch line - and tell the network to remove this dangerous segment from its website, from Hulu, and from any future reruns of this episode. Just like the Ambiguously Gay spots of yore, last night’s half-cartoon, half-live action version was cheap, listless, and mildly offensive. Can you name the cast and guests from Saturday Night Lives live-action segment of the Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoon (from ) By Librarysquirrel. This 4-inch scale mini bobble head sticks to the top of your computer monitor and is sure to make you laugh every time you see it. But there were no "jokes" per se all the laughs came from the commercial's offensive and dehumanizing portrayals of transgender women. Ace and Gary are back and just as ambiguously gay as ever. The sketch was a fake commercial for an estrogen product, intended to help transgender women who are in the process of transitioning. Published Live-action version of Saturday Night Live's The Ambiguously Gay Duo starring Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and Ed Helms. In a press release sent out Monday, GLAAD said: This weekend, NBC's long-running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live decided to make its transgender viewers the punch line of a joke. And boy, oh boy, "Fallon and Hamm hilariously perfected the two superheroes," says Kathleen Perricone at the New York Daily News.GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, an organization that hands out awards to straight people for being famous) is upset at a recently aired skit on Saturday Night Live, one that poked fun at pre-op transgender people. The long running sketch cartoon, created by Robert Smigel and voiced by Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert has been beloved by many/reviled by some for it’s parody of the homoeroticism of. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches. 1 It is created and produced by Robert Smigel and J. Saturday Night Live spent some bucks last night on their latest Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoon. The Ambiguously Gay Duo Summary The Ambiguously Gay Duo is an American animated comedy sketch that debuted on The Dana Carvey Show before moving to its permanent home on Saturday Night Live. While not exactly a laugh riot, "give it credit for trying something so conceptual - and packing so many great stars into one sketch," says Adam Markovitz at Entertainment Weekly. Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon as the Ambiguously Gay Duo. Indeed, this was "the most surreal thing to air on SNL this entire season," says Mike Ryan at Movieline. The reaction: In an otherwise "subpar" episode, this segment, packed with the usual parade of double entendres, was easily the "most attention-grabbing," says Mike Vilensky at New York. (Carell and Colbert voiced the original "Ambiguously Gay" cartoons, which date back to 1996.) Although I had animated several of the Gay. ![]() ![]() The video: This weekend, Saturday Night Live resurrected Robert Smigel's long-running superhero cartoon, "The Ambiguously Gay Duo." (Watch the clip below.) But in a big twist, the animated short morphed into a star-studded, live-action video when a "flesh ray weapon" turned the the 2D characters into real people - namely Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon as the crime-fighting, can-can-dancing title characters, along with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Ed Helms as villains. The Ambiguously Gay Duo Appearances Characters Impressions Gallery 1 It Takes Two To Tango 2 Queen of Terror 3 Don We Now. Share: Last night’s Saturday Night Live surprised us with something we hadn’t known we’d always been missing the return of the classic short The Ambiguously Gay Duo. Here are the end credits for the SNL Gay Duo cartoon that I had worked on which aired on Saturday May 14, 2011.
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