TV Funhouse

Production
Saturday TV Funhouse
Format	Animated television series Sketch comedy
Created by	Robert Smigel
Starring	Doug Dale Robert Smigel Jon Glaser Dino Stamatopoulos David Juskow Tommy Blacha Frank Simms
Theme music composer	Steven Gold
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	8
Executive producer(s)	Robert Smigel Dino Stamatopoulos Lou Wallach
Producer(s)	Samantha Scharff
Running time	30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Comedy Central
Picture format	NTSC 480i
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	December 6, 2000 (2000-12-06) – January 24, 2001 (2001-01-24)
Chronology
Related shows	Saturday Night Live
External links
Official website

Description

Saturday TV Funhouse is the title of a recurring skit on NBC`s Saturday Night Live featuring cartoons created by longtime SNL writer Robert Smigel and J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, as well as a short-lived spinoff series TV Funhouse that ran on Comedy Central. TV Funhouse frequently satirizes public figures and corporations. In between the host segments, it would show either parodies of 1950s educational films or cartoons most frequently drawn in the flat, low-budget style of Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the 1970s and `80s. Another frequent target is the classic 1960s "Animagic" stop motion animated holiday specials of Rankin-Bass. The opening and closing sequences of the SNL skits features a cartoon Lorne Michaels grappling with a small dog for control of his show.