White Plains, New York-based animation house J. J. Sedelmaier Prods. has tamed again with writer/producer Robert Smigel (Latenite with Conan O’Brien) to produce a new cartoon scheduled to run during this weekend’s season premiere of Saturday Night Live.
The latest installment of SNL’s toon interlude known as TV Funhouse will be a politically-based installment of Fun with Real Audio, a series of animated shorts that uses actual broadcast audio of television programs and events and spoofs it with animation.
Sedelmaier’s studio is also re-creating and reformatting the animated TV Funhouse intro and outro, which it originally produced nine years ago. Additional animation will be created and adjustments will be made to accommodate SNL’s eventual transition to HDTV.
In addition to Fun with Real Audio, J. J. Sedelmaier Prods. has created such TV Funhouse favorites as The X-Presidents and The Ambiguously Gay Duo.
The studio’s most most recent contribution to the show SNL was a short titled The Passion of the Dumpty, a parody that aired in March of 2004.
In 2000, animation work on TV Funhouse was taken over by Wachtenheim/Marianetti, a studio formed by J. J. Sedelmaier Prods. alumnus Robert Marianetti and David Wachtenheim.
Sedelmaier served as director and one of the designers on the new cartoon, working with head animators Dave Lovelace and Dan Madia. He says the new Fun with Real Audio cartoon may lead to more work for SNL. "We’ve been asked to consider contributing some of the cartoons again," he comments. "We’re intrigued by the offer and are considering it. It’s a great stage to play on, and it’s very gratifying that the studio still hears from fans of our original work for the show." The studio can be found on the web at www.jjsedelmaier.com.
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