n this conversation from the first episode: Ace [patting Gary on the buttocks]:




The Ambiguously Gay Duo with Gary mounting Ace in flight
Ace and Gary set out to foil the evil plan, but not before calling attention to themselves with outrageous antics and innuendo, and behaving in ways perceived by other characters to be stereotypically homosexual, as in this conversation from the first episode:
Ace [patting Gary on the buttocks]: Good job, friend-of-friends!
Villains/Bystanders [gasps, and ghastly stares]
Ace: What's everybody looking at?
Villains/Bystanders [in unison]: NOTHING!
Similar gags appear in almost every episode.
Episodes not following this general formula have featured Ace and Gary answering fan mail or offering child safety tips. One such episode entails Ace and Gary giving children a ride home in their Duocar and offering home decorating tips while blithely making various suggestive gestures and comments.
Characters[edit]

The Ambiguously Gay Duo[edit]
Ace (voiced by Stephen Colbert) - Ace is the leader of the duo. He is mentor to Gary, refers to him as "friend of friends," and has a wide array of superpowers, including most (if not all) of Gary's powers.
Gary (voiced by Steve Carell) - Ace's sidekick and the youngest of the duo. Gary is less experienced, and has fewer superpowers than Ace. His powers include super strength, breath, stamina, flexibility, flight (although Ace and Gary use the phallic-shaped Duocar more often than fly), and "laser vision".
Supporting characters[edit]
Police Commissioner (voiced by StStephen Colbert
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home on Saturday Night Live.[1] It is created and produced by Robert Smigel and J. J. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches.[2] It follows the adventures of Ace and Gary, voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, respectively, two superheroes whose sexual orie


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Running time    ~3 minutes
Production company(s)    J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc.
Broadcast
Original channel   
ABC (1996)
NBC (1996 - present)
First shown in    September 28, 1996
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.[1] It is created and produced by Robert Smigel and J. J. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches.[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.[3]
Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Characters
2.1 The Ambiguously Gay Duo
2.2 Supporting characters
2.3 Villains
3 Episode guide
3.1 Other appearances
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Background[edit]

The Ambiguously Gay Duo is a parody of the stereotypical comic book superhero duo. The characters are clad in matching pastel turquoise tights, dark blue domino masks, and bright yellow coordinated gauntlets, boots and shorts. The shorts were intended to satirize suggestions that early Batman comics implied a homosexual relationship between the eponymous title character and his sidekick Robin, a charge most infamously leveled by Fredric Wertham in his 1954 book, Seduction of the Innocent.[4]
The typical episode usually begins with the duo's arch-nemesis Bighead, a criminal mastermind with an abnormally large cranium. Bighead is usually briefing his henchmen on a plot for some grandiose plan for world domination, interrupted by a debate as to whether or not Ace and Gary (The Ambiguously Gay Duo) are gay. Once the crime is in process, the police commissioner calls on the superheroes to save the day, often engaging in similar debates with the chief of police.

orted that young female recruits have been sexually abused by veteran guerrilla soldiers and in several cases pregnancies were interrupted against their will by FARC doctors.[245][246][247][248]

resistance." The CRIC also indicated that neither the Colombian government nor the mediators and armed groups involved consulted with the indigenous people and their authorities about the hostage release, raising concerns about the application of national and international law guaranteeing their autonomy, self-determination and self-government. The indigenous organization also demanded the immediate end of all violence and conflict within indigenous territories and called for a negotiated solution to the war.[241]
Official Colombian government statistics show that murders of indigenous people between January and May 2011 have increased 38% compared to the same timeframe in 2010.[242] Colombia is home to nearly 1 million indigenous people, divided into around 100 different ethnicities. The Colombian Constitutional Court has warned that 35 of those groups are in danger of dying out.[243] The Permanent Assembly for the Defense of Life and Territorial Control has stated that the armed conflict "is not only part of one or two areas, it is a problem of all the indigenous people."[244]
Sexual abuse and forced abortions[edit]
According to Amnesty International, both civilian women and female combatants have been sexually exploited or victimized by all of the different parties involved in the Colombian armed conflict.[245] In the case of FARC, it has been reported that young female recruits have been sexually abused by veteran guerrilla soldiers and in several cases pregnancies were interrupted against their will by FARC doctors.[245][246][247][248]
Organization and structure[edit]

See also: Military structure of the FARC-EP
FARC-EP remains the largest and oldest insurgent group in the Americas. According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6,000–8,000 members in 2008, down from 16,000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.[249] Political analyst and former guerrilla León Valencia has estimated that FARC's numbers have been reduced to around 11,000 from their 18,000 peak but cautions against considering the group a defeated force.[250] In 2007 FARC-EP Commander Raúl Reyes claimed that their force consisted of 18,000 guerrillas.[251]
From 1999 to 2008, the FARC-EP, together with the ELN guerrilla group, was estimated to control up to 40% of the territory in Colombia.[252] The largest concentrations of FARC-EP guerrillas are located throughout the southeastern parts of Colombia's 500,000 square kilometers (190,000 sq mi) of jungle and in the plains at the base of the Andean mountains.[253]
FARC's organized hierarchically into military units as follows:[254][255]


Alfonso Cano, former FARC Commander-in-Chief, was killed by Colombian military forces on 4 November 2011
Central High Command – composed of a five-member Secretariat (one of them being the, Commander-in-Chief) and two "supplements". Coordinates the activities of the individual blocks, and determines overall strategy of FARC-EP.[254]
Estado Mayor Central – 25 members, who also coordinate activities of blocks[256]
Block – 5+ Fronts, with each block corresponding