Ambiguously Gay Duo

The Ambiguously Gay Duo
The Ambiguously Gay Duo title card
Genre	Animation
Created by	Robert Smigel J. J. Sedelmaier
Voices of	Stephen Colbert Steve Carell Robert Smigel
Narrated by	Bill Chott
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	12 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Robert Smigel J.J. Sedelmaier Tanya Ryno Samantha Scharff
Running time	~3 minutes
Production company(s)	J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc.
Release
Original network	ABC (1996) NBC (1996 – present)
First shown in	September 28, 1996
External links
Website

ABC (1996)

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.

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. The characters are clad in matching pastel turquoise tights, dark blue domino masks, and bright yellow coordinated gauntlets, boots and shorts. The shorts were intended to satirize suggestions that early Batman comics implied a homosexual relationship between the eponymous title character and his field partner and protégé Robin, a charge most infamously leveled by Fredric Wertham in his 1954 book, Seduction of the Innocent, the research methodology for which was later discredited.