A compilation of the animated shorts featured on NBC’s Saturday Night Live is slated for release on DVD on Oct. 24. Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse will feature classic installments of The Ambiguously Gay Duo, The X-Presidents, Saddam and Osama and Fun with Real Audio, as well as animated appearances by Michael Jackson and Oprah.
Saturday TV Funhouse is the brainchild of Emmy-winning SNL writer Robert Smigel, creator of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and other popular bits on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The irreverent toons were initially animated by JJ Sedelmaier Prods. and later picked up by Wachtenheim & Marianetti.
On the DVD, Smigel provides commentaries along with members of the animation teams including David Wachtenheim, Robert Marianetti and JJ Sedelmaier. Also providing commentaries are Gay Duo voicers Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, and many celebrities who’ve been parodied on Funhouse including Mr. T, Al Franken, Bryant Gumbel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and James Carville. Other bonus features will include original art, storyboards and more than an hour of additional, un-cut cartoons, some of which have never before aired on TV. The Universal Studios Home Entertainment release will list for $19.98
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