Gay Robot
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| portrayer = Nick Swardson
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Gay Robot is a comedy skit on Adam Sandler's fifth album, Shhh... Don't Tell.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gay-robot-as-ani-project-137285 |last=Nordyke |first=Kimberly |title=Gay Robot as Ani Project |date=May 25, 2007 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=February 26, 2021}} In the sketch, a group of friends are watching football when the neighbor calls to let them know that his invention, Gay Robot, is coming over.{{cite web|last=Sandler|first=Adam|title=Gay Robot lyrics|url=http://www.elyrics.net/read/a/adam-sandler-lyrics/gay-robot-lyrics.html|publisher=Elyrics|access-date=November 27, 2012}} Gay Robot is very good with football statistics and is very horny because he does not know any other gay guys. The sketch consists of Gay Robot constantly trying to entice the others into sex with him.{{cite web |url=http://strictlycommercials.blogspot.com/2010/10/nick-swardson.html |title=Nick Swardson |date=October 24, 2010 |access-date=February 24, 2021}}
Overview
As a comedy TV series, it was initially rejected until posted online, where it became a hit.{{cite news |last=Snicks |first=Nick |title=Ready or not, 'Gay Robot' is coming to TV |url=http://www.afterelton.com/blog/snicks/ready-or-not-gay-robot-is-coming-to-tv |access-date=November 26, 2012 |newspaper=AfterElton |date=March 13, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426033713/http://www.afterelton.com/blog/snicks/ready-or-not-gay-robot-is-coming-to-tv |archive-date=April 26, 2009 }}{{cite news|last=Grossman|first=Lev|title=It's Wrong to Laugh at Gay Robot|url=https://techland.time.com/2007/05/25/nerd_video_its_wrong_to_laugh/|access-date=November 27, 2012|newspaper=Time|date=May 25, 2007}}{{cite news|last=Holbrook|first=Damian|title=What Do Buffy, Hellboy and a Gay Robot Have in Common?|url=http://www.tvguide.com/news/Buffy-Hellboy-Gay-40478.aspx|access-date=November 27, 2012|newspaper=TV Guide|date=March 29, 2007}} In 2005 Comedy Central ordered a pilot of Gay Robot as a live-action series from Sony Pictures TV and Adam Sandler and Jack Giarraputo's Happy Madison. In 2006, Comedy Central filmed a pilot for a TV show based on the comedy bit, which has never aired. But clips posted online (first on MySpace) quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views.[https://books.google.com/books?id=zSMQAQAAMAAJ&q=%22gay+robot%22+sandler Broadcasting & Cable, Volume 136] (2006) ("When Comedy Central didn't pick up the pilot, Sony put it up on MySpace and attracted several hundred 'friends' to its page") The robot, voiced by Nick Swardson, discovers he is gay after a wine cooler is spilled on him and fries his circuit board.{{cite news|last=Towle|first=Andy|title=Adam Sandler's Gay Robot As Animated Film?|url=http://www.towleroad.com/2007/05/sandlers_gay_ro.html|access-date=November 27, 2012|newspaper=Towleroad|date=May 25, 2007}}{{cite news|title=Gay Robot out as ani project|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ifbfdd1bcb53266ad2487cd854a8e7e8e|access-date=November 27, 2012|newspaper=Hollywood Reporter|date=May 25, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202132958/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ifbfdd1bcb53266ad2487cd854a8e7e8e|archive-date=December 2, 2008}} According to the Hollywood Reporter, "The original pilot, in which Gay Robot and his fraternity buddies try to find him a date for the homecoming dance, was written by Swardson and Tom Gianas, who both executive produced with Sandler." TV Guide called the show a guilty pleasure and Gay Robot "the feyest droid since C-3PO". Inside the robot itself is actor Doug Jones. In an interview, he confirmed the insides of Gay Robot are based on Jon Lovitz's butler robot guy in The Benchwarmers, named Number 7. Although Jones is in the robot, it takes three people to maneuver Gay Robot. The robot suit costs $250,000. A feature-length Gay Robot movie has been worked up in an initial treatment, but is in limbo.
In 2007, the series was redeveloped as an animated project. The original run is composed of two eleven-minute stories per episode. According to the Comedy Central press release, "[T]he show follows the day-in-the-life adventures of Gay Robot and the guys partying their way through life while trying to find their way in the world."{{cite web|title=Gay Robot |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch/gay-robot/|work=Synopsis of Gay Robot animated series|publisher=The Futon Critic/Comedy Central|access-date=November 26, 2012}} Gay Robot lives with his friends Nick, Pat and Matt after college.{{cite news|last=Surette|first=Tim|title=Comedy Central dev slate includes a gay robot|url=http://www.tv.com/news/comedy-central-dev-slate-includes-a-gay-robot-11012/|access-date=November 26, 2012|newspaper=TV.com|date=March 13, 2008}} The character, voiced by Swardson, appeared in promos for Swardson's new series, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, and appears in the show. In the premiere of Pretend Time Gay Robot is shown to be a bouncer/door ID-checker at a party where guest star Ryan Phillippe tries to enter, and Gay Robot makes passes at him.{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Oliver|title=Ryan Phillippe Meets a Gay Robot on 'Pretend Time With Nick Swardson'|url=http://www.aoltv.com/2010/10/13/ryan-phillippe-meets-a-gay-robot-on-pretend-time-with-nick-swar/|access-date=November 26, 2012|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=October 13, 2010}}{{cite news|title=Gay Robot Has Eyes for Phillippe|url=http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2010/10/13/gay-robot-has-eyes-ryan-phillippe|access-date=November 26, 2012|newspaper=Advocate|date=October 13, 2010}}{{cite news|title=Gay Robot Has Eyes for Phillippe|newspaper=Dallas Voice|date=October 13, 2010}} In another episode he uses an iPhone Offender App, and as a newer, presumably young, robot he defends himself against a pedophile.{{cite news |last=Barry |first=Morgan |title=Gay Robot Gets It All Wrong, Again, On Nick Swardson's Pretend Time |url=http://gawker.com/5692339/gay-robot-gets-it-all-wrong-again-on-nick-swardsons-pretend-time |access-date=November 27, 2012 |newspaper=Gawker |date=November 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123012046/http://gawker.com/5692339/gay-robot-gets-it-all-wrong-again-on-nick-swardsons-pretend-time |archive-date=January 23, 2015 }}
In 2011 Swardson revealed he had written a four-part mystery series, "Gay Robot and the Curse of the Haunted Jockstrap" for Gay Robot, but the network killed it after the script phase.{{cite news|last=Potts|first=Kimberly|title=Nick Swardson Talks About 'Bucky Larson,' 'Pretend Time' and Censoring Gay Robot|url=http://www.thewrap.com/tv/print/31992|access-date=November 27, 2012|newspaper=The Wrap|date=October 19, 2011}}
Other appearances
Posters were also seen in the movie Grandma's Boy. It was shown as a new video game.
In the Futurama episode "Proposition Infinity", Gay Robot can be seen in the crowd during Bender and Amy's speech; he can also be seen dancing at the robosexual parade.{{Cite episode |title=Proposition Infinity |series=Futurama |network=Comedy Central |season=6 |number=4 |language=en}}
See also
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Category:Comedy television characters
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