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...Averell--a campus funny-man known for membership in the improv group On Thin Ice and his cartoon Neil World in The Crimson--wants to make having fun into serious business for the council...
Indeed, Smigel is back in risky territory. In the raunchy but not-altogether-awful Adam Sandler movie Little Nicky, he is the voice of the scene-stealing talking bulldog. A new comic book-style novel, X-Presidents (Villard; $12.95), co-written by Smigel, based on a cartoon about four of our former Commanders in Chief endowed with radioactive superpowers that he created for SNL, hit bookstores in October. Meanwhile, TV Funhouse, a parody of an afternoon children's program, premieres Dec. 6 on Comedy Central. TV Funhouse, which merges cartoons with talking-animal puppets, tracks the adventures of the Anipals...
...older. When I was 25, I was writing sophisticated sketches on SNL. Ever since I started Conan, I've been really silly." And lucky. After The Dana Carvey Show tanked in 1996, Smigel had enough money saved to write only when inspiration struck. He salvaged his Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoon (about a superhero combo that is really close) from Carvey and started making episodes for SNL. That, and his work on Late Night as Triumph, the insult comic dog (whose catchphrase is "For me to poop on!"), spawned TV Funhouse. "I have this strange career where I bounce around between...
...money, but I had made a lot of money from the previous two years doing "Conan." I cruised, and it was just a great feeling to write from inspiration only, sketches for "SNL" and bits for "Conan." And then the Dana Carvey thing was back to insanity. But the cartoons, the idea to do cartoons came out of that, and that's the best job I've probably ever had, because I have complete creative freedom. They just expect 10 cartoons a year and Lorne doesn't even ask or care what it is I'm doing. He just likes...
...fourth graders didn't find it confusing," she says, referring to a similar ballot with cartoon characters given to several elementary school students in an experiment last week...