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.

[2] 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 characters are clad in matching pastel turquoise tights, dark blue domino masks, and bright yellow coordinated gauntlets, boots, and trunks.

Writer Dino Stamatopoulos pitched Smigel a parody of Wallace and Gromit, where it was implied that the dog was giving oral sex to the human.

[4] 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,[6] the research methodology for which was later discredited.

The skit was written by Smigel, McKay, and Louis C.K.. On April 29, 2006: The Ambiguously Gay Duo co-hosted Saturday Night Live: The Best of TV Funhouse.

The show ended with the duo taking cast members Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg to their secret headquarters — both naked — in the Duocar, with announcer Don Pardo begging to be taken with them and a spurned Jimmy Fallon looking on from his apartment window with tears in his eyes.

That same year, Bif Bang Pow Toys produced the Ambiguously Gay Duo Tin Tote (Lunchbox) action figure set of three 5" action-figures of Ace, Gary, and Bighead.

[18] Lorne Michaels loved the idea, but ownership disputes between Universal, who still held rights from the Dana Carvey Show days, and Paramount, who produced SNL films, kept the project from being made.

[21] Smigel recalled that one of Colbert's ideas for the script was an opening sequence that featured a naked muscular male chest, with the credits appearing on it formed by water and soap.

[25] TVLine writers said in 2018 that if the crime fighters had reappeared that year, viewers might have found out whether the two protagonists had changed, whether they'd be "out and proud, rebranded as the Unambiguously Gay Duo", and whether they'd fight to mend "the social divisions in our country.