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Actor and comedian Chevy Chase recounted his days as a political satirist on Saturday Night Live (SNL) and commented on present-day political leaders to a packed audience as part of an Institute of Politics (IOP)-sponsored forum last Friday...
GERALD FORD His Defense Sec'y gets old job, and cohort Cheney is V.P. Can Chevy Chase get his gig back at SNL...
...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, who appear lovable on their kiddie show but are dirtier than Redd Foxx...
...prepares to shoot a scene in which the Anipals snort a pink cocaine-like substance, Smigel chuckles to himself. "I do feel like I'm devolving a bit as I get 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...
...wife and I only had to work from inspiration. I didn't make a lot of 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...