The ambiguously gay duo

Here's why SNL's "Ambiguously Gay Duo: Safety Tips" TV Funhouse sketch was voiced by Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert. It was revealed during these bumper segments that they seem to have an undying obsession with former cast member Jimmy Fallon. The typical episode usually begins with the duo's arch-nemesis Bighead, a criminal mastermind with an abnormally large cranium.

[2] It follows the adventures of Ace and Gary, voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, respectively, two. The characters are clad in matching pastel turquoise tights, dark blue domino mask s, and bright yellow coordinated gauntlets, boots, and trunks.

[1] It is created and produced by Robert Smigel and J. J. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches. Colbert was not present during the taping of this episode, as he was hosting the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner that same night.

The Ambiguously Gay Duo : Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches

Watch it here. Similar gags appear in almost every episode. They were both individually packaged on a card but sold together in a set at the Entertainment Earth Catalog and website and at other toy and comic book stores as well.

The Ambiguously Gay Duo by rhys william ellaway • Playlist • 7 videos • 11, views. One such episode entails Ace and Gary giving children a ride home in their Duocar and offering home decorating tips, all while blithely making various suggestive gestures and comments.

Subsequent episodes debuted on Saturday Night Live. What if we did two superheroes and everyone suspects they're gay? Adam Polaski of The Good Men Project praised the animation and the live-action sketch in as a satire that spoofs "the inherently homoerotic nature of superheroes 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.

The show ended with the duo taking cast members Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg to their secret headquarters — both naked — in the Duocar, with announcer Don Pardo begging to be taken with them and a spurned Jimmy Fallon looking on from his apartment window with tears in his eyes.

Ace [patting Gary on the [[buttocks]]]: Good job, friend-of-friends! The Ambiguously Gay Duo is a parody of the stereotypical comic book superhero duo done in the style of Saturday-morning cartoon s like Super Friends.

Smigel thought the premise would be "unacceptable" to air on ABC. After the conversation Smigel came up with the idea of using superheroes instead. Matt Goldberg of Collider said that the series was a "one-note joke" but that it worked well as a "great parody of superhero cartoon shows.

It was always more about the people obsessed with their sexuality than the heroes themselves. Once the crime is in process, the police commissioner calls on the superheroes to save the day, often engaging in similar debates with the chief of police.

Ace and Gary set out to foil the evil plan, but not before calling attention to themselves with outrageous antics and innuendo, and behaving in ways perceived by other characters to be stereotypically homosexual, as in this conversation from the first episode:.

Bighead is usually briefing his henchmen on a plot for some grandiose plan for world domination, interrupted by a debate as to whether Ace and Gary The Ambiguously Gay Duo are gay. In JuneRobert Smigel told The Daily Beast that the engine of the show was an "obsession with sexuality" and that he thought that it was funny because the homophobes and everyone are obsessed with finding out whether the superheroes are gay or not, calling it "sport and titillation.

Episodes not following this general formula have featured Ace and Gary answering fan mail or offering child safety tips. Smigel was an executive producer for The Dana Carvey Show in They wanted to do cartoons on the show, to differentiate themselves from SNL.

Writer Dino Stamatopoulos pitched Smigel a parody of Wallace and Gromitwhere it was implied that the dog was giving oral sex to the human. The original idea for a live-action movie first came up in when someone pitched the idea to Smigel, he initially balked.

The idea was shelved until years later, when Carell told his Bruce Almighty co-star, Jim Carrey about it.