J.J. Sedelmaier

Directing

J.J. Sedelmaier

Born

1956-03-11 (70)

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

Sedelmaier and his wife Patrice run J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc., a multiple award-winning animation/graphic design studio they established in 1990 in White Plains, New York, to create and produce animated television commercials utilizing print illustrators as designers – an approach they continue to this day.

Known for

Saturday Night Live poster
6.9

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

Saturday Night Live

1975

Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show poster
7.9

It had all the makings of a huge television success: a white-hot comic at the helm, a coveted primetime slot, and a pantheon of future comedy legends in the cast and crew. So why did The Dana Carvey Show—with a writers room and cast including then unknowns Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K., Robert Smigel, Charlie Kaufman, and more— crash and burn so spectacularly? TOO FUNNY TO FAIL tells the hilarious true story of a crew of genius misfits who set out to make comedy history… and succeeded in a way they never intended.

Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show

2017

Titey poster
7.0

A Saturday Night Live parody of a (fictional) Walt Disney film of the famous Titanic. Jason Alexander provides the voice for the ship, and Whoopi Goldberg is the Iceberg.

Titey

1998

Cartoon Carnival poster
5.7

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences.

Cartoon Carnival

2021

Hete-Roy poster
10.0

Hete-Roy, in his conservative suit and tie, is a one man conversion-therapy campaign as he zaps gay people with his Bible, switching them from gay to straight

Hete-Roy

1998

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera