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The Ambiguously Gay Duo host this special edition of Saturday Night Live devoted to 24 installments of Saturday TV Funhouse. In between they slip backstage to find out as much as possible about their favorite cast member, Jimmy Fallon. | add synopsis
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Bill Hader | ... | Himself |
 | Stephen Colbert | ... | Ace / Various Voices (voice) |
| Dino Stamatopoulos | ... | Michael Jackson (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Steve Carell | ... | Gary (voice) |
 | Tracy Morgan | ... | Mr. T. (voice) (archive footage) |
| Darlene Love | ... | Herself (voice) (archive footage) |
| Robert Smigel | ... | Various Voices (voice) (archive footage) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Jason Alexander | ... | Titey (voice) (archive footage) |
| Fred Armisen | ... | Himself |
| Erik Bergmann | ... | Various Voices (voice) (archive footage) |
| Michelle Blakely | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Jeff Bottoms | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Bill Chott | ... | Various Voices (voice) (archive footage) |
| Paul Christie | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Jim Conroy | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Brian Cummings | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Jim Cummings | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Doug Dale | ... | Various Voices (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Andrew Daly | ... | Various Voices (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Rachel Dratch | ... | Herself |
| Chad Everett | ... | (voice) (archive footage) (as Chas Everett) |
 | Jimmy Fallon | ... | Himself |
 | Tina Fey | ... | Herself / Co-worker (archive footage) |
| Tyrone Finch | ... | Various Voices (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Kate Flannery | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Jared Fogle | ... | Himself (voice) (archive footage) |
| Will Forte | ... | Himself |
 | Megan Gallagher | ... | Girl in the Disney vault (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Ana Gasteyer | ... | Various Voices (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Jeanine Giovanni | ... | Pokahotass (archive footage) |
 | Whoopi Goldberg | ... | The Iceberg (voice) (archive footage) |
| Gilbert Gottfried | ... | Napoleon (voice) (archive footage) |
| Wael Haggiagi | ... | (segment 'Saddam & Osama') (voice) (archive footage) |
| Darrell Hammond | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Tia Dionne Hodge | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Kalif Jenkins | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| John Randolph Jones | ... | (archive footage) |
| Brian Kennedy | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Sara Krieger | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Lisa Lewis | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Nasry Malak | ... | (segment 'Saddam & Osama') (voice) (archive footage) |
| Kerin McCue | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Tim Meadows | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Seth Meyers | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Lorne Michaels | ... | Himself |
| Jim Morris | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Andy Newburg | ... | (archive footage) |
| Fred Newman | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Stephen D. Newman | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Don Pardo | ... | Himself (voice) |
| Chris Parnell | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Chris Phillips | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Brad Pitt | ... | Himself (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Amy Poehler | ... | Herself |
| Cary Prusa | ... | (voice) (archive footage) (as Carey Prusa) |
 | Rob Riggle | ... | News Reporter (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Molly Ringwald | ... | Anne Frank (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Saudaa Robinson | ... | (segment 'Saddam & Osama') (voice) (archive footage) |
| Brooks Rogers | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Maya Rudolph | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Scot Ruggles | ... | Passenger on Airplane (archive footage) |
 | Andy Samberg | ... | Himself |
| Horatio Sanz | ... | Himself |
| J.J. Sedelmaier | ... | Rabbit (voice) (archive footage) |
| Carol Lee Shahid | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
| Thomas Sharkey | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
 | David Spade | ... | Thumper (voice) (archive footage) |
| Jason Sudeikis | ... | Himself |
| Kenan Thompson | ... | Himself |
| Laura Tietjen | ... | (archive footage) |
| Rob Webb | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Kristen Wiig | ... | Herself |
| Gary Yudman | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
 | Michael Ziegfeld | ... | (voice) (archive footage) |
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Ace:
Tell us, what's Jimmy Fallon like?
Gary:
Is this where he would have snacks?
Maya:
Eh, this is where we all grab a snack.
Gary:
What would Jimmy snack on?
Ace:
What does Jimmy like to put in his mouth?
Chris:
Ehm... all kinds of things.
Gary:
Wow!
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse shorts were a recurring highlight on Saturday Night Live for over ten years (!): from September 1996 to March 2008, but disappeared without a fanfare after the WGA strike, owing to a cut in the show budget (thanks for the info Wikipedia). Granted, the Toons had lost some of it's fun by then, but this collection brings together some of the most hilarious and best remembered Funhouse segments in one place.
From Disney & Hanna-Barbera to the US Presidency and Saddam & Osama, no target is safe from the wit of Smigel and friends. And the animators produced quite impressive copies of the animation styles of all the cartoons spoofed (how they got away with including all those actual Disney clips I'll never know). They even featured a couple of painstakingly hand animated stop motion peaces a la Rankin-Bass. However, over an hour's worth of Smigel & co's biting humor can be a bit of an overload. With so many rapid fire jokes packed into each single Funhouse, this compilation is a non stop animated attack on the viewer's brain. And with the segments spanning over a decade, it's hard keeping up with all the pop culture being referenced (anyone remember Anna Nicole Smith's reality show).
This is probably why the entire cast of the then current 2005-2006 season makes an appearance interacting with hosts Ace (voiced by Stephen Colbert) and Gary (Steve Carell's voice) aka The Ambiguously Gay Duo. This is unlike any of the other 'Best Of' specials which usually only collect archive footage (as IMDb would categorize it). The running gag here is that Ace and Gary are obsessed with former cast member Jimmy Fallon, who lo and behold also briefly appears during the end credits. Another typical weird Smigel gag is that Bill Hader (who was still a featured player at the time) is the only one credited up front and still gets the least screen time of them all. Even Lorne Michaels and Don Pardo have more lines to say.
There are a surprising number of segments devoted to Christmas, two adventures of the Ambiguosly Gay Duo, one with The X-Presidents (also billed as musical guests) and a whole lot of Fun with Real Audio. And this is just the version aired on TV I'm talking about, the DVD version most likely has even more Funhouse for your bucks. Still I prescribe caution before watching it all in one go: it might make your head explode with laughter and/or outrage. TV Funhouse, much as I love it, is better served in small doses.
8 out of 10