Don't look for the ambiguously gay duo to put up a pup tent on Brokeback Mountain.

Robert Smigel, creator and producer of the animated Saturday TV Funhouse segments featured on Saturday Night Live, says, "If there's anything I can do for this country, it's to spare them one more Brokeback Mountain parody."

Everyone -- and everything else -- however, is fair game. For proof of that just consider the recent satire of what evil lurks inside the Disney vault. Smigel -- speaking to journalists to promote tomorrow's special SNL, which is devoted to the best of his animated work -- says he didn't intend the Disney segment to be mean-spirited.

In fact, he's a fan -- sort of.

"I was a kid, I didn't get into the Disney stuff at all. I found it too sweet, but I was a Peanuts fanatic.

"That's what spoke to me. But as a parent, I love (Disney) stuff. I've watched Lady and the Tramp with my son 50 times. There's something about it that touches you as a parent that doesn't necessarily apply to kids."

Smigel, also the man behind Triumph The Comic Insult Dog on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, began on SNL as a staff writer in 1985.

It wasn't until 1996 when Saturday TV Funhouse debuted, eventually introducing such segments as The Ex-Presidents (a now-defunct cartoon which cast former commanders-in-chief as superheroes); Ace and Gary (Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell), the aforementioned ambiguously gay crime-fighting pair; and Fun With Real Audio, which takes audio clips and twists them for Smigel's own comic purposes. All of these, and more, will be highlighted in tomorrow's special, airing on NBC and Global.

"I'm going to try to avoid redundancy. The recurring themes tend to be Disney and genitals and superheroes. So I have to portion them out with restraint ... Ace and Gary are hosting the special ... They'll be interacting with cast members and you'll see them backstage.

"I don't want to disappoint people who want to see Ace and Gary."

Smigel, who drew characters such as Fred Flintstone and the Peanuts gang as a kid, admits part of the appeal of animation is that "you can get away with a lot more."

Which is not to suggest animators are completely immune to controversy, as the braintrust behind South Park has aptly demonstrated.

"I think you don't want to go out of your way to generate press. What they do is hilarious and I think if press results from that, then that's great -- as long as it's organic. It's happened to me more with Triumph unintentionally," Smigel says, referring to the puppet's clash with rap superstar Eminem and then with the population of Quebec after he insulted the province on Late Night.

"We were doing something without any knowledge that something would come out of it."

He reports, though, he has long since made his peace with French Canadians. "I went to Just for Laughs (in Montreal) that summer and had the best time with Triumph. The audience was fantastic."