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Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Addresses, Terrorizes Comic Con!
Beaks here...
Well, whaddya know? While diligently shilling his wares at Comic Con '08, Robert Smigel somehow found time to shoot an entire Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog segment for LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN. Observe the carnage below:
Better yet, Triumph's entire speech from the TV FUNHOUSE panel is also available. Though that WATCHMEN reel knocked me on my keister, this might've been the highlight of the Con for me.
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You have a very good post...FOR ME TO POOP ON!
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Chocolate's right, same shit, different day.
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I had something to say but Iam stoned and forgot. Wolverine! That and the hulk hand were the tits. I have got nine ninja turtle swatches. Nine. One time I peed on a nine year old. I was seven at the time.
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TR2N is dumb. TRON 2.0 motherfuckers. N.O.D.U.H. -
Triumph could easily recycle his Star Wars Dork jokes- and it would still be hilarious
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I think I was laughing the whole way through. If you can't take the heat from a dog puppet, you've got more problems than a Hulk hand can help you out with.
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Get a sense of humor, fatass.
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this was ok but the jokes are just about the laziest jokes i've ever seen on the subject matter. it was like when I had sort of long hair in college and frat guys would yell "HEY BEATLE!!" out the window at me. Just, come on man, conan is sposed to be the not lazy late night comedy show right?
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king of internet predators was gold...anyone remember the Michael Jackson sketch, when the lady dressed as a clown with a michael jackson puppet refused to do an interview with him, and he replied sarcastically, "oh yeah, I understand. you wouldn't want to compromise your dignity."if that doesn't make you laugh, I can't help you..
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haha, I had totally forgotten about that MJ one. Gold.
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Or was that Harry Knowles dressed as the Joker in the straight-jacket? I'm kidding!! And you can say it is similar territory to Star Wars... except when he asked the woman about her superpower: "Is your power that you kill erections?"
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funny as hell
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ever said a funny thing in his life?Just from these few posts he sounds so dour and humorless, it's no wonder he can't get some laughs from Smigel's routine!I'm a total geek, and still enjoyed this. It's like a roast, it's an honor to get insulted by the best.Funny thing is, it did take me a split-second longer to recognize the vagina than the Boba Fett.
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Why does he even bother staying on this forum if he's so disinterested in the subject matter... does he need to be heard anyway?
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half of it was tired.. we've already seen him make fun of dorks, that jokes 5 years old. but there was enough fresh humor in there to edit it into a better 4 minute sketch.
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I can't seem to get enough of that fucking dog puppet. For real.
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get a fuckin sense of humor.Period.
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no shit? really? thats kind of the point. see the "insult comic" thing was tired and old back when don rickles started doing it way back in the day. the funny part is the idea that you can now ONLY get away with that type of humor just because a puppet dog is doing it.
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What do you find funny? Just curious.
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get a funny bone, loser
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My favorite part was when the guy dresses as Spock gave the fans the bird.
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I just don't get why he has to be such a buzz kill.
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Aug 02, 2008 8:44:15 PM CDT
I'd be afraid to ask in case he asked me to do so in return
by buckys_kick_ass_arm
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Aug 02, 2008 8:55:58 PM CDT
~~~people DO take comicon a LITTLE too seriously~~~
by the marquis de side 3
never got why dressing up as your character was "fun"... in public... kind of like exposing your privates in front of schoolchildren... it's just wrong... =0p
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1) Naming a current insult comedian who isn't "tired" and doesn't insult his superior intellect
2) Explaining why, irrespective of his feelings toward Smigel, he persists in being a troll on wheels. (A "tired" act if I've ever seen one!)3) Why he's posted 5 times in a thread about a puppet dog... that he, *ahem*, DOESN'T LIKE!4) What the flash card after Boba Fett was, and why he hasn't crawled back into it5) Why, as the arbiter of all that is good, he STILL hasn't said anything insightful, illuminating, witty, or amusing, and6) Is he, in fact, the blue monster. -
is all the anger and resentment towards a dog puppet.Is there a story you would care to share with the rest of us.
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I'm pretty sure when Fallon takes over, Smigel will go to LA with Conan.
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...where the bad dog puppet touched you.
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That guy selling the fat blue things was a GAL. I know, it's a tough one to call as casual viewer, but she is in fact a female. Watch it again. She took it pretty well though - that be one mean puppet dog!
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Self-awareness IS cool. Know thyself, and laugh.
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...was most likely Scott Kurtz himself, the creator of PvP Online. And that was a Skull plushie he was waving around -- I'm pretty sure he's just tickled pink to have been featured in a Triumph skit!
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That was the creator of the online comic PVP, incidentally, at pvponline.com. I believe Image also puts out collections of the comics. The blue guy was one of the characters. On the guy's site, he commented on it and found the whole thing funny. Jut FYI.
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...maybe I like Rebeck2's explanation better.
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Beat me to it by one post! Curses!
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We're now doomed into a response-temporal loop until the universe itself collapses unto a fiery cavalcade of popcicles!
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I got $20 on the over -- I'm now convinced he's that Aladdin-looking guy hiding two kids in his turban.....AND the blue monster.
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You DO know why his "monster" is blue, don't you? It has to do with a too-tight grip . . . but that is something that we all must learn ourselves.
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Lets see you in a cheery mood with some strange mexican dude probing you small intestine.
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bring my friend dave next year...i need someone to hang with at the con
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He reused some of the jokes from his con visit a couple years ago. Still it was funny. Nothing will match the brilliance of his Star Wars line visit or the Bon Jovi segment.
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Damn near got tears going down my cheeks.
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bet his wife doesnt even know
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Good stuff... but clearly Smigels B+ material. And folks are right...just a "TAD" more mean spirited than usual..Smigel musta had a rough night in TJ.
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Worth it for that bit alone. Hilarious.
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I guess you guys are right. I swear to God I thought he was a woman. A really dykey-but-sweet woman...sort of It's Pat for 2008. I can't believe that's a guy. He has bigger problems than weight, he needs to get a testosterone shot every week or something! Man...
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dumb but f'ing funny
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not being funny, he has a bigger double chin.
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sorry Scott!
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... Triumph has been one of the most consistently side-splitting TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY FACE comic schticks I'm ever seen. He always, ALWAYS makes me laugh. I'll watch, re-watch, and tell others to watch everything he does!!
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I just got back from Grant Park in Chicago and I can honestly say the only thing that could've made it better is seeing a plastic dog puppet insult some of the faux hipsters, pseudo goths and real-live frat boy douches. Funny as this was, I think geeks have suffered enough ridicule in their lives. Frat boys, on the other hand, can never suffer enough.
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http://tinyurl.com/6yn8d7 Here's a picture of Kurtz.
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When Triumph debuted many years ago I thought that it would be a one time gag and we would be done with it. I can't believe that this stupid character is still in the public consciousness. There's no accounting for taste I suppose (after all, SNL is still on) Big sigh.
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Although uncomfortably mean (I could have done without the "whore" bit). And it's ironic that Smigel looks like a bigger nerd than most of the people he's making fun of. After having watched this and Borat and Wonder Showzen I have to ask, can comedy get any meaner? Maybe 20 years from now, America will be a desolate wasteland patrolled by roving bands of homicidal insult comics. (They'll be kind of like the Boobs McPooter character from Angry Youth Comics; "Children run! That man's a comedian!")
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If this annoyed you its probably because you are one of the types of people he was making fun of. And even then, thats part of the joke, right? You know, insult comic? Some people are too sensitive.
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HAHAHA!!! Even Triumph knows that 300 is HOWLINGLY Super Ultra Mega Rainbow Nipple Disco Gay.
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C'mon, stop being such pussies. We live in a dying, wretched world, the only thing we have left is laughter.
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I'm in frakin' tears whenever Triumph speaks!
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....if you don't like "insult comedy" why even bother with an article about triumph? the beauty about the internet is that most things come as advertised. so, for example, if you are at a porn site, but anal fisting of grown women by midgets isn't your thing, maybe you don't click on the links with that headline. see how that works? the best way to not get offended in life is to avoid the things that offend you. simple when you think about it.
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That's the one that really killed me.
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I think he was dissing the whole fandom thing, not Chuck specifically. (A show I've never seen or heard of previous to watching this clip, actually.) By and large, the actors who do these things at conventions run the gamut from having no desire to be there but accepting that they have to as part of their contracts, to outright loathing the entire experience and cursing their very existence. Thats why anybody who waits in line to get their chotchkis signed is a RAGING dork. They don't like you. Point of fact, they probably hate you. And you stand before them, quivering with adoration and unfulfilled desires as they write their names on your stuff.
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He confirms it here: http://tinyurl.com/64hemr
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We were there watching it. Funniest part didn't make the cut: "You can see him on the next X-Men movie or even sooner, next week, on To Catch A Predator!" All in the delivery, but the funniest rip of the interview. Surprised that Smigel openly needed to ask the crowd, "What is this guy? I don't read Marvel, I don't know anything about him..." I thought he would have had more geek cred then that...
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Why are dudes with no shirts suddenly pure homoerotica? Never got the universal bashing of 300 on account of "gayity".
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It's Pat!
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As a matter of fact I just got back from Summer Jesus Camp, where I prayed and fasted such that God mighteth grant his Anointed G.W. Bush the power to purify sin from the lands, such as when two men are within sight of each other whilst with no shirts. Also, when it comes to sexuality, I don't see color. I guess I'm kind of like Colbert, but for gayness.
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I'm not a huge fan of "insult comedy". Take Borat, for example. Yes, the frat guys deserved to be made fun of. But what, exactly, did the dinner party people do to invite ridicule? Sure, they're different, but is that any reason to present them with a bag of poop? Same thing here. I'm sure life is tough enough when you're obese without a plastic dog puppet making fun of you. Especially when the guy behind it is even dorkier than you are. But yes, it's funny. I just don't feel good about myself after laughing at it.
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because even though insult comedy in general, and Comic Con bashing in specific, is terribly beaten to death, it's still pretty funny coming from a puppet dog. I just wish Tron Guy was there at the time. Oh, and I'd have bukkaked the living shit out of that japenese chick who just laughed a lot. She'd have thought it rude to deny me.
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Aug 03, 2008 7:16:31 PM CDT
300 Is The Ultimate Butch Gay Fantasy (and Triumph Agrees)!
by laserpants
300 greased down male models in speedos, hitting each other and grunting in slow-motion for two hours? And then they battle the final enemy -- who is clearly the bottom / femme -- and penetrate him with their swords. Hero = Top / Butch / Dominant / Pitcher vs. Villain = Bottom / Femme / Submissive / Catcher. 300 is HUGELY popular in the gay community.
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I'll take a stab at it. They like: Zack Galifianakis, David Cross, Doug Stanhope, and Brian Posehn. Somtimes, when they're feeling "sassy," they'll go for some Bill Hicks or Mitch Hedberg.While I too find the above comics to be brilliant, they're like the "indie films" of the comedy community. Triumph is more like the "Harold and Kumar" of the comedy community.I love both styles... more fun for me!
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And there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. What I'm saying is why does it generate the bashing because there are shirtless men, and movies with attractive women aren't bashed because they might be popular with lesbians? It's because evidently too many males find it too difficult to deal with seeing another man's nipples in hi-def. That's the only explanation for the amount of homophobic flak this movie's received. I submit my findings to the committee.
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LaserPants has some strange inner compulsion to propagandize '300' as, as he puts it, "The Ultimate Butch Gay Fantasy". Check out the "It's like THE WARRIORS..." talkback [node 37752] for a discussion he and I are having.
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Hey, if I was gay, I'm sure I would've loved it too. But I'm not, so I just thought it was silly, not to mention hilariously ironic how over-the-top homoerotic AND homophobic it was. What I think is even more funny (and telling), is how resistant hardcore fans of the movie are to its raging homoeroticism. Hmm. Interesting. I think they call that repression. Or a "tell."
@Cholera, dude, if 300 was about a group of 300 scantily clad butch female models running about in their panties, hitting each other, and grunting in slow motion for two hours, hells to the hells yeah people would be calling it a lesbian fantasy. For proof of this, see Xena. The big difference being a social one -- people, both gay and straight would accept 300 Women as a lesbian fantasy, and enjoy it as such. BUT, its okay to be a lesbian in our society. Being a gay man, on the other hand, isn't really socially acceptable, which is why films like this are so popular amongst secretly gay men and gay men who are out -- it allows repressed homosexuals to enjoy their repressed homosexuality in a safe context -- the butch gay good guy army (pitchers) going to penetrate the femme gay bad guy army (catchers). -
I can recognize the homoeroticism of the film, bask in it, and still walk away liking girls.Just look at Lord of the Rings -- there's a drinking game for all of the Frodo/Sam homo moments, for goodness's sake! You don't have to rebuke that to enjoy it.
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Never said 300 makes people gay, just that it is gay.
LOTR is also pretty gay, at least the Hobbits are. I mean, its pretty clear that Frodo and Sam are a couple. And theres nothing wrong with that, and it didn't make me not like the movie. Besides, I'm not a homophobe.
The main reason I didn't like 300 is because it is a retarded movie. The raging gay subtext just makes it funny and an object of camp appreciation. -
Jew-loving bastard pigs.
So basking in their imperialist avarice, they revel in OFFENSE.
The terrorists should have obliterated all of you by now.....
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that why everyone is laughing in both videos
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Am I the only one?
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Can a single fucking TB on this site get through a single fucking day without you screaming about "how gay" 300 is? Can it??
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There is no god, so stop trying to find answers. I am also glad to see that your perspective is through the lens of the homosexual community, just don't be hatin' on 'em.
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You took the words right out of my brain. Now I don't have to bother re-pwning VegasRon. @VegasRon: There are lots of things I'm obsessed with, but pointing out the obvious homoerotic nature of 300 isn't one of them. I just find the resistance to the cold hard fact of 300's gayness endlessly amusing; especially from guys like you who just can't let it go. (Classic denial phase of a man in, as Triumph pointed out, "a fight to the death with your sexuality.")
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I appreciate your evaluation of the matter at hand. I still say that many people are too sensitive to male scantily cladness.
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I don't even really like 300. I just find the uproar amusing. Not the "Hey, there are shirtless men, so gays might like this" but the "Hey, there are shirtless men, society is coming to an end."
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Cuz I liked 300, with all it's gayness. (Yeah, no shit, shirtless man screaming and flexing has a gay subtext. You guys are fucking insightful. Write a book.) But this "IF U LIKED 300 U R TEH GAYZ" shit gotta stop. You're better than that.
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Comic fans are fat virgin nerds!!! OMFG LMAO BBQ Lololol wow seriously that is sooooo fucking funny
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It's not so much the fact that the movie is gay. Clearly it is and no one should care. But the fact that it's also homophobic makes for great irony.
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Changing the subject to the matter at hand, does anyone else here want to tentacle rape (consensually, of course, you know, sexual role play) that Japanese cat girl? I know I do. I love hot, slightly dopey girls into fetish-wear. They're usually down for anything.
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Yep, no doubt about it. But I guarantee, they were the ones getting blow jobs from the hot Japanese chick.
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Loved the dissing of that shite show "Chuck". Funny and true.
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I bet those two Spartans were too busy sucking each other off to run screaming from a vagina, Asian or otherwise. Nice try though.
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Getting the blow jobs from the hot Japanese chick. I'm sure the Spartans were more interested in each other and whatever was going on through the glory hole in the men's bathroom at the disco next door.
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Wipe the donkey shit off your dick and eat some bacon. It will relax you.
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How does the dude having sex with Sarah Conner factor into the gayness?
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If I was out-of-shape. But since I run 3 days a week, exercise daily, and eat a well-balanced diet, I'm fit, thin, and trim. Of course, I'm not ripped like those Spartan queens in 300, sure, but my girlfriend doesn't seem to mind. I think she likes that fact that I'm heterosexual as well.
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Unless you want to. It is an increasingly irksome part of our culture these days to dismiss movies with male relationships or male skin as purely homoerotic (i.e. eliciting homosexual desire as opposed to, say, a close friendship, see LOTR) with such certainty as has been displayed here and then to talk about it as if it were a bad thing.As regards 300, this reading into it is highly superficial and uninspired even while seemingly obvious. It may show scantily clad men, but a far more obvious interpretation throughout the movie is the all-around celebration of heroicism it sought to invoke, and in doing so, emphasizes not only military skill but physical perfection, the kind desired by men of any orientation projecting themselves into the film. 300 had a lot of themes to choose from, and the fact that there were scantily clad men in it is only the most sensationalist from the perspective of our culture. Not everyone liked the movie to ogle hot sweaty men, and only the most sensitive or homophobic obsess over the "gayness" aspect and then use it to call people closet cases even if it was quite justifiably not what they got out of the movie. It is an unenlightened perspective that although having the most superficial merits, doesn't see with enough of a critical or encompassing eye. I'm not saying everyone here is doing that, but I am compelled to defend those who liked 300 from such doltish antics. Also, wasn't Xena explicity lesbian? Man, it's been a while.
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I'm dismissing it because it was a profoundly stupid movie. I just find the blatant homoerotic / homophobic subtext (and denial of demonstrated subtext by many allegedly heterosexual fans) it parades across the screen to be amusing. Especially because so many fans of the film were men, and so many of them LOVE it, but stubbornly refuse to admit what they see screaming at them throughout its running time. Even the heterosexual love scene between the hero guy and his wife seems perfunctory at best whereas the long, lingering, slow motion shots of greased down nearly naked models exerting themselves and grunting in the ecstacy of battle goes on FOREVER. Verily, in truth, the actual Spartans were gay, or at least bisexual, and had gay sex. Look it up! Its all true.
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The Spartans had quite gay sex. In fact if I recall a lot of warrior cultures such as the Samurai did as well, for a variety of reasons. It's an interesting historical note. Of course, the warrior culture known as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish did not. They just jacked off a lot.
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Please don't describe that kind of image again. We already had enough homoeroticism from 300, we don't need you to give us a follow up. :p
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If anybody's interested in an alternate view of 300, I'd recommend this article by Matt Feeney at www.slate.com/id/2169061
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his BON JOVI one will never be beat.
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Yes, I know he's just a rubber puppet, but that was so funny I want to lick his rubber taint like Morbid licks his mom's va-jj (non-stop and without a glass of water!) Amen. Go ahead and try to lynch me Morbid!!!
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