Acting

Robert Smigel

Born February 7, 1960 · New York City, New York, USA (age 66)

Robert Smigel (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor, filmmaker, and puppeteer, known for his Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He is also known for his collaborations with Adam Sandler, including co-writing the first two Hotel Transylvania films and You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Description above from the W…

Known For

Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania · 2012

Hotel Transylvania

MovieAnimationComedy

Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!

Hotel Transylvania 2

Hotel Transylvania 2 · 2015

Hotel Transylvania 2

MovieAnimationComedy

When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.

Pixels

MovieActionComedy

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore · 1996

Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

You Don't Mess with the Zohan · 2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

MovieComedyAction

An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 · 2013

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

MovieAnimationFamily

After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

Happy Gilmore 2

Happy Gilmore 2 · 2025

Happy Gilmore 2

Happy Gilmore isn't done with golf — not by a long shot. Since his retirement after his first Tour Championship win, Gilmore returns to finance his daughter's ballet classes.

Marriage Story

Marriage Story · 2019

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Filmography

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Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania · 2012

Hotel Transylvania

MovieAnimationComedy

Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!

Screenplay

Hotel Transylvania 2

Hotel Transylvania 2 · 2015

Hotel Transylvania 2

MovieAnimationComedy

When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.

Producer

Pixels

MovieActionComedy

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

White House Reporter #2

Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore · 1996

Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.

IRS Agent

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

You Don't Mess with the Zohan · 2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

MovieComedyAction

An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.

Executive Producer

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 · 2013

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

MovieAnimationFamily

After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

Thanks

Happy Gilmore 2

Happy Gilmore 2 · 2025

Happy Gilmore 2

Happy Gilmore isn't done with golf — not by a long shot. Since his retirement after his first Tour Championship win, Gilmore returns to finance his daughter's ballet classes.

The Lawyer

Marriage Story

Marriage Story · 2019

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Mediator

The King of Staten Island

The King of Staten Island · 2020

The King of Staten Island

MovieComedyDrama

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

Male Pharmacy Owner

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry · 2007

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

MovieComedyRomance

Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. However, things get dicey when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss.

Mailman

Punch-Drunk Love

Punch-Drunk Love · 2002

Punch-Drunk Love

MovieRomanceDrama

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

Walter the Dentist

Leo

MovieAnimationComedy

Jaded 74-year-old reptile Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher.

Writer

Little Nicky

Little Nicky · 2000

MovieComedyFantasy

After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell.

Beefy

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill · 2011

MovieComedyFamily

Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.

Executive Producer

This Is 40

This Is 40 · 2012

Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.

Barry

The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer · 1998

The Wedding Singer

MovieRomanceComedy

Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.

Andre

Billy Madison

Billy Madison · 1995

Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.

Mr. Oblaski

Wayne's World 2

Wayne's World 2 · 1993

Wayne's World 2

MovieComedyMusic

A message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne and Garth to put on a rock concert, "Waynestock," with Aerosmith as headliners. But amid the preparations, Wayne frets that a record producer is putting the moves on his girlfriend, Cassandra, while Garth handles the advances of mega-babe Honey Hornée.

Concert Nerd

Lorne

MovieDocumentary

An unprecedented, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the man who built the inimitable empire of comedy, shaping television and culture for generations. The documentary features exclusive footage, archival treasures, and candid interviews with the show’s most iconic cast members and writers including Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock and many more.

Lorne (voice)

The Do-Over

The Do-Over · 2016

MovieActionAdventure

The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on an adventure.

Doctor

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie · 2002

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

MovieComedyFamily

The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the only copy of the contract between her father and the Muppets, she changes it so the Muppets have very little time to pay a debt they owe. Meanwhile, the Muppets are trying to put on a Christmas show. After the Muppets are confronted by Bitterman, they make a lot of sacrifices to save up so they can keep the Theatre.

Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog (voice)

Between the Temples

Between the Temples · 2024

Between the Temples

MovieComedyDrama

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.

Rabbi Bruce

The Robot Chicken: Star Wars

The Robot Chicken: Star Wars · 2007

The Robot Chicken: Star Wars

MovieAnimationComedy

A series of 30 sketches, following the hilarious antics of various characters from a galaxy, far, far away.

Palpatine Parody / Ray (voice)

The Week Of

The Week Of · 2018

The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.

Director

The Simpsons

The Simpsons · 1989

SeriesAnimationComedy

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

Gabriel Razelton (voice)

The Daily Show

The Daily Show · 1996

SeriesNewsComedy

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

Bob's Burgers

Bob's Burgers · 2011

SeriesAnimationComedy

Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.

Security Guard (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live · 1975

Saturday Night Live

SeriesComedyNews

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

Writer

New Girl

New Girl · 2011

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.

Chaplain

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 2000

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Yari

@midnight with Chris Hardwick

@midnight with Chris Hardwick · 2013

@midnight with Chris Hardwick

SeriesComedyTalk

Chris Hardwick will lead three celebrity contestants down the ultimate internet wormhole. Culling from the darkest recesses of social media, they will compete to determine who has the funniest take on the day's pop culture.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien · 1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

SeriesComedyTalk

Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.

Writer

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Aqua Teen Hunger Force · 2000

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

SeriesAnimationComedy

The surreal adventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad, and their human nextdoor neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski.

One Hundred (voice)

What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows · 2019

What We Do in the Shadows

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Alexander

The Masked Singer

The Masked Singer · 2019

The Masked Singer

Celebrities compete in a singing competition with one major twist: each singer is shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costume, complete with full face mask to conceal his or her identity. One singer will be eliminated each week, ultimately revealing his or her true identity.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)

Portlandia

Portlandia · 2011

Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.

Jarvis

The Oscars

The Oscars · 1953

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

Other

SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants · 1999

SpongeBob SquarePants

SeriesAnimationComedy

Deep down in the Pacific Ocean in the subterranean city of Bikini Bottom lives a square yellow sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob lives in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a knack for getting into all kinds of trouble without really trying. When he's not getting on the nerves of his cranky next door neighbor Squidward, SpongeBob can usually be found smack in the middle of all sorts of strange situations with his best buddy, the simple yet lovable starfish, Patrick, or his thrill-seeking surfer-girl squirrel pal, Sandy Cheeks.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Space Ghost Coast to Coast · 1994

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

SeriesAnimationComedy

A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

Louie

SeriesComedyDrama

Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.

Story

Hollywood Squares

Hollywood Squares · 2025

Hollywood Squares

Two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. The "board" for the game is a vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants. The celebrities are asked questions and the contestants judge the legitimacy of their answers to win the game.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)

Match Game

Match Game · 2016

SeriesRealityComedy

A modern reboot of the classic 70s game show that features two contestants attempting to match the answers of six celebrities in a game of fill-in-the-blank.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)

White House Plumbers

White House Plumbers · 2023

White House Plumbers

The true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect.

Inmate Friedman

Last Comic Standing

Last Comic Standing · 2003

Last Comic Standing

SeriesRealityComedy

A nationwide talent search accepting the best professional and non-professional stand-up comedians. Once the selection process is narrowed to 10, the show covers the contestants as they live together and compete for an exclusive contract with NBC, and to be called the Last Comic Standing.

TV Funhouse

TV Funhouse · 2000

SeriesAnimationComedy

In this spin-off of the Saturday Night Live TV Funhouse cartoons, happy-go-lucky Doug hosts a children's show in the vein of Pee-wee's Playhouse, wherein he chooses a theme for the day (Caveman Day, Western Day, Spaceman Day, Mexicans Day, etc.) and encourages his puppet friends, the Anipals, to participate. Of course, the depraved felt animals are far more interested in other activities, including going to a cockfight, visiting a bordello, becoming lab tests, and even getting (literally) high on Christmas cheer!

Writer

The Ambiguously Gay Duo

The Ambiguously Gay Duo · 1996

The Ambiguously Gay Duo

SeriesComedyAnimation

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. It is created and produced by Robert Smigel and J. J. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches. 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.

Creator

The Aquabats! Saturday Morning!

The Aquabats! Saturday Morning! · 2018

The Aquabats! Saturday Morning!

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Following the cancellation of their network television series, the superhero rock band finds themselves split up and scattered. The M.C. Bat Commander embarks on an epic quest to reunite the rest of The Aquabats (Crash McLarson, Jimmy the Robot, Ricky Fitness, and EagleBones Falconhawk) while gathering a "Legion of Righteous Comrades" to fight boredom, defeat bizarre villains, and bring their music and television adventures back to life.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice/puppeteer)

The Dana Carvey Show

The Dana Carvey Show · 1996

The Dana Carvey Show

Comics offer their takes on controversial subjects.

Producer