On Wednesday, December 6,
2000, Comedy Central will start an eight-week run of comedian Robert
Smigel's TV FUNHOUSE, a live-action satire of 1950s children's shows
including twisted cartoons. Animated shorts include "Wonderman," a
superhero who uses his super powers to line-up dates for his alter
ego and "The Baby, The Immigrant and the Guy on Mushrooms," each of
whom always says, "Ahhhhhh." "I get a lot of pleasure out of writing
things that maybe I couldn't have WRITTEN when I was 10 years old,
but which remind me of things that made me LAUGH when I was 10 years
old," said Smigel. "Comedy writers get a bad rap. What they do isn't
a function of angst or anger or a need to be loved. Writing comedy
isn't a talent or disease. It's just a condition: We find lots of
things funny!"
Rick DeMott
Animation World Network
Creator of Rick's Flicks Picks
