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 Wikipedia article Robert Smigel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Lorne — Lorne (voice)
• 2026Rain Reign — Executive Producer
• 2025Happy Gilmore 2 — The Lawyer
• Hollywood Squares — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)
• 2024Between the Temples — Rabbi Bruce
• 2024Triumph Presents: Let's Make a Poop Live — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice), Producer, Creator, Writer
• 2023Leo — Miniature Horse / Drone / Old Lizard #1 / Old Lizard #3 (voice), Songs, Writer, Director
• White House Plumbers — Inmate Friedman
• 2022Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm — Fraptaculan (Fraptaculan Robert) (voice)
• 2020The King of Staten Island — Male Pharmacy Owner
• 2019Marriage Story — Mediator
• The Masked Singer — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)
• What We Do in the Shadows — Alexander
• The Aquabats! Saturday Morning! — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice/puppeteer)
• 2018The Week Of — ER Doctor, Writer, Director
• 2017Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
• Match Game — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)
• 2016The Do-Over — Doctor
• 2016Triumph Election Watch — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
• 2016Triumph's Election Special 2016 — Triumph, Writer
• 2016Triumph's Summer Election Special 2016 — Triumph, Executive Producer
• 2015Hotel Transylvania 2 — Marty (voice), Producer, Executive Producer, Writer
• 2015Pixels — White House Reporter #2
• The Jack and Triumph Show — Triumph, Executive Producer, Creator
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest, Triumph the Insult Dog, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
• @midnight with Chris Hardwick — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)
• 2013Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 — Thanks
• 2012Hotel Transylvania — Fake Dracula / Marty (voice), Executive Producer, Screenplay
• 2012This Is 40 — Barry
• Bob's Burgers — Security Guard (voice), Night Security Guard (voice), Yuli (voice)
• 2011Jack and Jill — Executive Producer
• New Girl — Chaplain
• Portlandia — Jarvis
• Louie — Story
• 2009SpongeBob's Truth or Square — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)
• Match Game — Panelist
• 2008You Don't Mess with the Zohan — Yosi, Executive Producer, Screenplay
• 2007I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry — Mailman
• 2007Robot Chicken: Star Wars — Palpatine Parody / Ray (voice)
• 2005Earth to America — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
• 2004Late Night with Conan O'Brien: The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
• Last Comic Standing
• 2003Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special — Self (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), Writer
• Night of Too Many Stars — Executive Producer
• 2002It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie — Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog (voice)
• 2002Punch-Drunk Love — Walter the Dentist
• 2002The Religetables — Writer
• 200150 Years of NBC Late Night — Triumph The Insult Comic Dog (archive footage)
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force — One Hundred (voice)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Yari
• 2000Little Nicky — Beefy
• 2000Ohh Nooo!!! Mr. Bill's Classics! — Director
• TV Funhouse — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice), Writer, Producer, Creator
• SpongeBob SquarePants — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)
• 1998Guess Which Person Is Crazy
• 1998Hete-Roy — (voice), Producer, Writer
• 1998Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman — Writer
• 1998The Letter V — Phillip
• 1998The Wedding Singer — Andre
• 1998Titey — The Captain (voice)
• 1998Tomorrow Night — Mailroom Guy #1
• 1996Happy Gilmore — IRS Agent
• The Ambiguously Gay Duo — Bighead / Beetles of Zolaro / Lizardo / Half-Scary (voice), Creator
• The Daily Show — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
• The Dana Carvey Show — Various Characters, Producer, Creator
• 1995Billy Madison — Mr. Oblaski
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
• 1993Buddy — Homie 2
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Writer
• 1993Wayne's World 2 — Concert Nerd
• 1991Lookwell — Producer, Writer
• Lookwell — Writer, Creator
• 1989Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary — Writer
• The Simpsons — Gabriel Razelton (voice)
• 1988Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel — The Brainwave, Writer
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Various Characters, Marika Backup Singer (uncredited), Partyer (uncredited), Reporter (uncredited), Self (uncredited), Moviegoer (uncredited), Let's Go to the Movies Announcer (voice) (uncredited), Attorney (uncredited), Advisor (uncredited), Caller (voice) (uncredited), Older Fred Savage (voice) (uncredited), Student (uncredited), Sabra Announcer (voice) (uncredited), Carl Wollarski (uncredited), Inhibited Dance Party USA Dancer (uncredited), Bighead (voice) (uncredited), Director (voice) (uncredited), Dr. Bighead (voice), Additional Voices (voice), Various Voices (voice), Boris Yeltsin (voice), The Captain (voice), Various (voice), Heteroy / Various Voices (voice), William Ginsburg (voice), Geppetto (voice), Lorne Michael (voice), Mexican Father / Various (voice), Director / Various Voices (voice), Al Gore / Various Voices (voice), Lorne Michaels / Various Voices (voice), Elephant Man Bones / Various Voices (voice), Lorne Michael / Various Voices (voice), Papa Smurf (voice), Religetables New Anchor (voice), Bugs Bunny (voice), Popeye (voice), Michael Powell (voice), Pothead Theater Announcer (voice), Santa Claus / Various Voices (voice), Elephant Man Bones / Thomas Mesereau / Scientist / Various (voice), Various Voices (voices), Pat Robinson / Darwin (voice), Albert Einstein (voice), Rudolph Giuliani / John McCain / Various Voices (voice), Al Sharpton (voice), Writer
• The Oscars — Other
• Grown Ups 3
• Leo 2 — Director, Writer
• Saturday TV Funhouse — Prozo / Additional Voices, Writer, Creator

Appearances as themselves (21)

• 2026Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been — Self
• 2025Downey Wrote That — Self
• 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self - SNL Writer 1985 - 2013
• SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self
• 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
• The Story of Late Night — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2017Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show — Self
• 2016'85: The Greatest Team in Football History — Self
• 2015Misery Loves Comedy — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• 2009Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants — Self
• The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien — Self
• Lewis Black's Root of All Evil — Self
• The Gong Show with Dave Attell — Self - Celebrity Judge (as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog)
• 2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation — Self
• 2005Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found — Self
• 2001Adam Sandler Goes to Hell — Self
• 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist