Ambiguously gay duo voices

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It was subsequently. Carell and Colbert voiced the original "Ambiguously Gay" cartoons, which date back to The reaction: In an otherwise "subpar" episode, this segment, packed with the usual parade of double entendres, was easily the "most attention-grabbing," says Mike Vilensky at New York.

They’re extremely close in an ambiguous way. The Week Staff. By The Week Staff. Social Links Navigation. Newsletter sign up Newsletter. It was the first cartoon to have a character voiced by Stephen Colbert, who played Ace. Gary was voiced by fellow comedian Steve Carell. Sign up for Today's Best Articles in your inbox.

Indeed, this was "the most surreal thing to air on SNL this entire season," says Mike Ryan at Movieline. Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell made their debut voicing Ace and Gary, the Ambiguously Gay Duo, when the very first installment debuted on The Dana Carvey Show. Watch them mince heroically:.

In the Spotlight Is it 'woke' to leave nostalgia behind? The show originally aired on short-lived Dana Carvey Show, of which Colbert and Carell were members of the cast. Get to know Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell as they voice the iconic superhero duo and the rest of the wacky cast on The Ambiguously Gay Duo, part of the Saturday TV Funhouse sketches on SNL.

96a: Tom Hanks / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. The Ambiguously Gay Duo!” Announcer: The Ambiguously Gay Duo!. The characters are clad in matching pastel turquoise tights, dark blue domino masks, and bright yellow coordinated gauntlets, boots, and trunks. They’re ambiguoysly gay.

And boy, oh boy, "Fallon and Hamm hilariously perfected the two superheroes," says Kathleen Perricone at the New York Daily News. The Week. 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.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. US Edition. Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day. Subscribe to The Week Escape your echo chamber. The Ambiguously Gay Duo is a parody of the stereotypical comic book superhero duo done in the style of Saturday-morning cartoons like Super Friends.

It is created and produced by Robert Smigel and J. J. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches. Sign up. The Ambiguously Gay Duo. Jingle: “The Ambiguously Gay Duo! The Ambiguously Gay Duo! They are fighting all crime to save the day. A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day — and the best features from TheWeek.

It follows the adventures of Ace and Gary, voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, respectively, two superheroes whose sexual orientation is a matter of dispute, and a cavalcade of characters preoccupied with the question. Escape your echo chamber. The video: This weekend, Saturday Night Live resurrected Robert Smigel's long-running superhero cartoon, "The Ambiguously Gay Duo.

But in a big twist, the animated short morphed into a star-studded, live-action video when a "flesh ray weapon" turned the the 2D characters into real people — namely Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon as the crime-fighting, can-can-dancing title characters, along with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Ed Helms as villains.

While not exactly a laugh riot, "give it credit for trying something so conceptual — and packing so many great stars into one sketch," says Adam Markovitz at Entertainment Weekly. Sign in View Profile Sign out.