Hotel%20Transylvania%201080p%20WEB-DL%20DD5.1%20H.264-CrazyHDSource.jpg' alt='Cult Comedy Movies Hotel Transylvania 3 ' title='Cult Comedy Movies Hotel Transylvania 3 ' />Robert Smigel Wikipedia. Robert Smigel born February 7, 1. American actor, humorist, comedian and writer known for his Saturday Night Live TV Funhouse cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. He also co wrote both Hotel Transylvania films and You Dont Mess with the Zohan, all starring Adam Sandler. Early lifeeditSmigel was born in New York City to Irwin Smigel and Lucia Smigel. He is Jewish and frequently went to Jewish summer camp, which is a particularly Jewish thing to do even for a Jewish person. He attended Cornell University, studying pre dental,2 and graduated from New York University in 1. Smigel began developing his comedic talent at The Players Workshop in Chicago, where he studied improvisation with Josephine Forsberg. Cult Comedy Movies Hotel Transylvania 3 ' title='Cult Comedy Movies Hotel Transylvania 3 ' />Bob Odenkirk was a fellow student there. Smigel was also a member of the Chicago comedy troupe All You Can Eat in the early 1. Buy The Lion King 1 1/2 Movie Online there. Smigel first established himself as a writer on Saturday Night Live by joining the writing staff when Lorne Michaels returned as executive producer for the 1. Smigel was hired after then SNL producers Al Franken and Tom Davis saw Smigel in a Chicago sketch show. After the 1. Brandon Tartikoff who was planning to have SNL canceled by the last episode of season 1. Michaels fired most of the cast and writers, retained the cast and writers who were standouts during the otherwise dismal season Smigel being one of them, and hired new ones for the 1. This is when Smigel began to write more memorable sketches, including one where host William Shatner urged worshipful attendees at a Star Trek convention to get a life. Smigel rarely appeared on screen, though he was credited as a featured player in the early 1. Bill Swerskis Superfans sketches. While on a writers strike from Saturday Night Live following the 1. Smigel wrote for an improvisational comedy revue in Chicago with fellow SNL writers Bob Odenkirk and Conan OBrien called Happy Happy Good Show. Smigel co wrote Lookwell with Conan OBrien for NBC. IMDbs advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Find exactly what youre looking for Were still trying to figure out why there was a need for this one to get made. Hotel Transylvania was fun enoughit wasnt on the level of Shrek or. These scary movies that arent too scary will set the Halloween mood for the entire family. The pilot never went to series, but it has become a cult hit and has screened live at The Other Network, a festival of un aired TV pilots produced by Un Cabaret, featuring live and taped intros by Smigel. Smigel later became the first head writer at Late Night with Conan OBrien, where he created numerous successful comedy bits, including one where Smigel performed only the lips of public figures which were superimposed on photos of the actual people. This technique was pioneered on the Clutch Cargo cartoon series as a cost saving measure, and was known as Syncro Vox. In 1. Smigel wrote and performed on the short lived Dana Carvey Show, a primetime sketch comedy program on ABC. Despite its premature end, the show provided Smigel the opportunity to debut his first cartoon, The Ambiguously Gay Duo. Upon the shows cancellation, Smigel continued developing more cartoon ideas the following summer and would begin airing them on Saturday Night Live under the TV Funhouse banner. Smigel would later claim, My whole career came out of the impulse to do cartoons on The Dana Carvey Show. Smigels most famous creation, however, would be the foul mouthed puppet Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, who mercilessly mocks celebrities and others in the style of a Borscht Belt comedian. This character debuted on Late Night with Conan OBrien in February 1. Smigel continued to establish himself on Saturday Night Live by producing short animated segments under the title TV Funhouse, which usually satirizes public figures and popular culture. It spawned a TV show on Comedy Central featuring a mix of puppets, animation, and short sketches, although only eight episodes were aired during the winter of 2. Smigel occasionally appears in films usually alongside SNL veterans such as Adam Sandler. According to interviews, Smigel helped punch up the scripts for Little Nicky and The Wedding Singer. Smigel acted alongside fellow SNL writer Bob Odenkirk in Waynes World 2 as a nerd backstage at an Aerosmith concert. His contributions were uncredited. In 2. 00. 0, he voiced a sage bulldog in Little Nicky. Smigel, along with Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow, wrote the script for the film You Dont Mess with the Zohan in which Smigel played Yosi, an Israeli electronics salesman. Smigel is also one of the executive producers of the film, which is a first for him despite his frequent collaborations with Sandler. It was reported in 2. Smigel and Adam Sandler were working on an animated sitcom for Fox called Animals. Fox has not made any official statement regarding the show. Additionally, Smigel played a gay mailman in the Adam Sandler film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Yari the Mechanic in the Mister Softee1. Curb Your Enthusiasm. He voiced Ray and a parody of the Star Wars character, Emperor Palpatine, in the first episode of Robot Chicken Star Wars, as well as the monster 1. Aqua Unit Patrol Squad on Cartoon Networks adult swim. Currently living in New York, he co wrote and co executive produced the films Hotel Transylvania 2. Hotel Transylvania 2 2. Marty, a fake version of Dracula, and Harry Three Eye, respectively. In the fifth season of the FX show, Louie, Smigel received a story credit on the episode Cop Story, as a similar incident as to what appears in the show actually happened to him, down to the cop crying in his apartment while Smigel went out, found the missing gun and carried it home, terrified that anyone would notice. Michael Rapaports character wasnt based on the man Smigel knew, however, since all Smigel ever told Louis C. K. about was the gun itself. Smigel created, wrote, executive produced, and starred as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog in The Jack and Triumph Show, alongside Jack Mc. Brayer in 2. 01. 5. It was announced in January 2. Smigel would be starring as Triumph in Triumphs Election Special 2. Hulu the following February. Personal lifeeditSmigel has a wife, Michelle, and a child with autism. They serve on the board of New York Collaborates for Autism NYCA, a non profit organization founded in 2. Smigel created the Night of too Many Stars, a biannual celebrity fundraiser to benefit autism education. He won an Emmy on the 2. Night of too Many Stars for his writing. Recurring characters on SNLeditCarl Wollarski, from Bill Swerskis SuperfansHank Fielding, with The Morons Perspective on Weekend Update. One of the Hubs Gyros employees aka the You like ah the Juice guysAvi, the Sabra Price is Right announcer. Bighead, in The Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoons. Celebrity impressionseditRecurring characters on Late Night with Conan OBrieneditTriumph, the Insult Comic DogClutch Cargo celebrity interviews Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Don King, Bob Dole, etc. One of the Nicknames for Conan guys aka the Conan the Barbarian guysOne of the Ameri clan guys with Doug Dale, Louis CK and Dino StamatopoulosVoice of The Late Night Emergency Guest mannequin. Gibberish Speaking Ronald Reagan on the Phone. Ira, Conans publicist. FilmographyeditFurther readingeditReferenceseditInterview Rober Smigal. The A. V. Club. Retrieved September 2, 2. Rolling Stone Magazine Robert Smigels Dog Days. Rollingstone. com. Retrieved September 2, 2. Rabin, Nathan August 4, 2. Robert Smigel Interview. The A. V. Club. Retrieved September 2, 2. SNL Transcripts Anjelica Huston Billy Martin 0. Snltranscripts. jt. May 2. 4, 1. 98. 6. Retrieved September 2, 2. Happy Good Conans big Chicago show. Retrieved 2. 2 January 2. Animation TV Broadcast The Dana Carvey Show. J. J. Sedelmaier Productions. Retrieved 2. 2 January 2. Heisler, Steve Interview Dana Carvey and Robert Smigel. The A. V. Club June 1. Retrieved on 5 0. West, Kelly 2 October 2. Smigel And Sandler Team Up For A New Fox Animated Series. Cinemablend. Retrieved 2. January 2. 01. 6. Pl. 3TEl. Thw. XL. The Nutty Professor Wikipedia. The Nutty Professor is a 1. American science fiction romantic comedy film produced, directed, co written with Bill Richmond and starring Jerry Lewis. The score was composed by Walter Scharf. The film is a parody of Robert Louis Stevensons Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 2. 00. 4, The Nutty Professor was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. It is largely considered to be Lewiss finest and most memorable film. In 1. 99. 6, a remake starring Eddie Murphy and Jada Pinkett Smith was released, directed by Tom Shadyac. Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, scruffy, buck toothed, accident prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football playing bully embarrasses and attacks him, Kelp decides to beef up by joining a local gym. Kelps lack of physical strength prompts him to invent a serum that turns him into the handsome, suave, charming and cheeky girl chasing hipster, Buddy Love. This new personality gives him the self confidence to pursue one of his students, Stella Purdy. Although she resents Love, she finds herself strangely attracted to him. Buddy wows the crowd with his jazzy, breezy musical delivery and poised demeanor at the Purple Pit, a nightclub where the students hang out. He also mocks a bartender and waitress and punches a student. The formula wears off at inopportune times, often to Kelps humiliation. Although Kelp knows that his alternate persona is a bad person, he cannot prevent himself from continually taking the formula as he enjoys the attention that Love receives. As Buddy performs at the annual student dance the formula starts to wear off. His real identity now revealed, Kelp gives an impassioned speech, admitting his mistakes and seeking forgiveness. Kelp says that the one thing he learned from being someone else is that if you dont like yourself, you cant expect others to like you. Purdy meets Kelp backstage, and confesses that she prefers Kelp over Buddy Love. Eventually, Kelps formerly timid father chooses to market the formula a copy of which Kelp had sent to his parents home for safekeeping, endorsed by the deadpan president of the university who proclaims, Its a gasser Kelps father makes a pitch to the chemistry class, and the students all rush forward to buy the new tonic. In the confusion Kelp and Purdy slip out of the class. Armed with a marriage license and two bottles of the formula, they elope. During the short closing credits, each of the characters come out and bow down to the camera, and when Jerry Lewis, still portraying Kelp, comes out and bows, he trips and goes into the camera, breaking it and causing the picture to go black. ProductioneditThe entire production was filmed from October 9 to December 1. Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The casts costumes were designed by Edith Head. Les Brown and his Band of Renown play themselves in the extended senior prom scenes. Walter Scharfs score makes extensive use of the Victor Young jazz standard Stella by Starlight including an upbeat version over the films main titles. Paramount was the copyright holder of the theme from its original appearance in The Uninvited 1. Love instructs the bartender to make an Alaskan Polar Bear Heater, mix it nice and pour it into a tall glass. The bartender asks if he can take a sip after doing so, he freezes like a statue. While the drink started as fictional, it is now listed on some cocktail websites. Professor KelpBuddy Love charactereditThe basic characterization of Julius Kelp was a Lewis staple, having appeared earlier in 1. Rock A Bye Baby, and basically identical characters would appear in 1. The Family Jewels and 1. The Big Mouth. Buddy Love is often interpreted as a lampoon of Lewis former show business partner Dean Martin. Lewis, however, has consistently denied this. In his 1. 98. 2 autobiography and again in a DVD featurette entitled The Nutty Professor Making The Formula, Lewis stated that the character was based on every obnoxious self important hateful hipster he ever knew. In the DVD commentary, Lewis speculates that he perhaps should have made Love more evil since to his surprise more fan mail came for Love than for the professor. Film critic Danny Peary has made the claim in his 1. Cult Movies that the character of Love is actually the real counterpart of Jerry Lewis. Lewis has stated that the two represented good and evil. The character of Professor Frink from the animated television series The Simpsons loosely borrows much of his mannerisms and technique from Lewis delivery of the Julius Kelp character, as well as the transition to a Buddy Love version of Frink in several episodes. In one episode, the character of Frinks father was voiced by guest star Lewis. Home videoeditThe DVD of the film contains a long deleted scene in which Kelps love interest is portrayed as a sultry siren whose choreographed, jaw dropping entrance to the Purple Pit, accompanied by jazz music, contrasts with the final edit in which she is portrayed as smart but fairly unassuming. Awards and honorseditIn 2. American Film Institute placed the film on its 1. Years. 1. 00 Laughs list, where it was ranked 9. Home mediaeditThe Nutty Professor was released on DVD in October 2. In October 2. 00. Special Edition was released including an audio commentary by Lewis and Steve Lawrence, a documentary and a short feature. In the commentary, Lewis discusses aspects of production, including his creating a real time, on camera monitor, which subsequently became standard in the film industry. He mentions that he recut the film for his own home viewing. He also identifies scenes that he would have liked to redo for example, making the professors watch sound tinny. Animated sequeleditAn animateddirect to DVDsequel, also titled The Nutty Professor, featured the voices of Lewis and Drake Bell and was released on November 2. Directed by Paul Taylor, the film involves Julius Kelps teenage grandson Harold discovering his grandfathers secret formula and unleashing his alter ego. Lewis had for decades talked about doing a sequel and until then had to settle for the 1. Eddie Murphy, for which Lewis was credited as a producer. The 1. 99. 6 version did produce a sequel of its own Nutty Professor II The Klumps. Musical adaptationeditA musical theater version premiered at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville from July 3. August 1. 9, 2. 01. Rupert Holmes and with a score by Marvin Hamlisch. The production was directed by Jerry Lewis, with choreography by Joann M. Hunter. The cast featured Michael Andrew, Klea Blackhurst, Mark Jacoby and Marissa Mc. Gowan. The scenery was by David Gallo, with costume design by Ann Hould Ward. See alsoeditReferenceseditTHE NUTTY PROFESSOR U. British Board of Film Classification. June 1. 8, 1. 96. Retrieved November 1. Top Rental Films of 1. Variety, 8 January 1. Box office information for film in France at Box Office storyThe Celluloid Pantry. Cherry Capris Cocktail Recipes. Alaskan Polar Bear Heater. The Nutty Professor, Special Edition, commentary. AFIs 1. Years. 1. LaughsPDF. American Film Institute. Retrieved August 2. Jones, Kenneth. Producers of Nutty Professor Hope to Earn Broadway Tenure for New Marvin Hamlisch Rupert Holmes Show, Playbill, August 1. August 1. 9, 2. 01. Ng, David 2. 01. Jerry Lewis Nutty Professor musical opens in Nashville. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1. 8 August 2. External linksedit.