![]() The idea for the narrations came from Dave McCary, a segment director on SNL who has worked on a number of Torres’ most popular sketches and helms the HBO special. The show itself is a humorous presentation, in which Torres explains his fascination with certain objects while the three actors narrate inner dialogues of three specific items, a cactus (Miranda), a heel-shaped shoe rack (Stone) and a blue toy penguin (Gosling). The series is followed by the new HBO special My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres, which sees - or rather, hears - the comedian reunite with Miranda, Gosling and Stone, all of whom lend their voices to inanimate objects. Instead, Torres has established himself as a go-to writer for unexpectedly, laugh-out-loud viral sketches, from Ryan Gosling as a mad man disturbed by the Avatar franchise’s font choice (“Papyrus”) to the most recent season, when Sandra Oh romanticized about writing checks (“Cheques”) and Emma Stone played a struggling actor trying to find her character as a straight woman appearing in a gay porn in “The Actress.” Three seasons in, he doesn’t need to rely on recurring sketches. “So if I were tasked to do a skit, it wouldn’t be a princess trapped in a castle.” “We were very lucky to have Cecily on it.” While it continued to amuse audiences, it came to an end a year later after the first lady wore her now-infamous jacket reading "I really don’t care." For Torres, “Melania as a subject matter changed,” he explains. Maybe that’ll happen again,’” Torres recalls to ET, citing the music, tone, cinematography and acting for being exceptionally great. “That was stuff that I’ve been doing in stand-up and I was like, ‘Oh, that was fun. It’s that moment when he notes things really started coming together at SNL. president, however, that became his first signature hit and recurring sketch. “I had no idea it would take off like this.It was “Melania Moments” starring Cecily Strong as the oft-silent wife of the current U.S. He also reveals he sold the font for $750 and “very low” royalty payments. Chris says: “It was not my intent to have it used for everything. In the film, Gosling is haunted by sightings of the font on “hookah bars, Shakira merch and off-brand teas”. ![]() With that broad range I began to see it everywhere, mortgage ads, construction logos, it got out of control.” “I sold the rights and it ended up being with the font set on every computer in the world. “I was thinking very earthy, Middle Eastern, almost hieroglyphics,” he explains. The CBS interviewer asks Chris why his design is considered one of the most hated fonts, and he says at the time he believed it was well thought out. “This man, this… professional graphic designer. “He just got away with it,” he continues. ![]() In the sketch, Ryan Gosling describes Avatar’s typeface choice as a random selection, “like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden, yanking leaves along the way”. I just started scribbling this alphabet… and ended up developing the entire font set.” I was studying the bible and looking for God and this font came to mind… thinking about Biblical times, Egypt and the Middle East. “I designed it when I was 23, right out of college. “I had no idea it would end up on every computer in the world,” says the graphic designer during the video interview, which you can watch here. Now the film has gone viral, Chris Costello, the original designer of the font, has spoken to CBS News in reaction. Starring Ryan Gosling as Steven, a man tormented by the use of the Papyrus font on the Avatar logo, the three-minute sketch tears the design choice to shreds in brilliant satire. ![]() ![]() This weekend’s Saturday Night Live featured a sketch that resonated with design fans around the world. ![]()
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