Robert Smigel co-wrote the first two Hotel Transylvania films and You Don't Mess with the Zohan, all starring Adam Sandler.
17 Facts About Robert Smigel
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Robert Smigel is Jewish and frequently went to Jewish summer camp.
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Robert Smigel attended Cornell University, studying pre-dental, and graduated from New York University's College of Arts and Science in 1983 with a degree in political science.
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Robert Smigel began developing his comedic talent at The Players Workshop in Chicago, where he studied improvisation with Josephine Forsberg.
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Robert Smigel was a member of the Chicago comedy troupe "All You Can Eat" in the early 1980s.
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Robert Smigel was hired after then-SNL producers Al Franken and Tom Davis saw Robert Smigel in a Chicago sketch show.
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Robert Smigel later became the first head writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where he created numerous successful comedy bits, including one where Robert Smigel performed only the lips of public figures which were superimposed on photos of the actual people.
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In 1996, Robert Smigel wrote and performed on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show, a primetime sketch comedy program on ABC.
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Robert 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.
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Robert Smigel acted alongside fellow SNL writer Bob Odenkirk in Wayne's World 2 as a nerd backstage at an Aerosmith concert.
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Robert Smigel is one of the executive producers of the film, which is a first for him despite his frequent collaborations with Sandler.
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Additionally, Robert Smigel played a gay mailman in the Adam Sandler film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Yari the Mechanic in the "Mister Softee" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Robert Smigel 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 100 in the episode of the same name of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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Robert Smigel created, wrote, executive produced, and starred as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog in The Jack and Triumph Show, alongside Jack McBrayer in 2015.
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Michelle and Robert Smigel serve on the board of NEXT for AUTISM, formerly New York Collaborates for Autism, a non-profit organization founded in 2003 to address the needs of autistic individuals and their families, as their eldest child has autism.
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Robert Smigel created the Night of Too Many Stars, a biannual celebrity fundraiser to benefit autism education.
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Robert Smigel won a writing Emmy for the 2012 broadcast of Night of Too Many Stars.