Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hosts quiz show “Let’s Make a Poop!” with Michael Winslow, Adam Savage, Rob Schneider, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Thomas Lennon, Amber Ruffin and Dave Hill during SF Sketchfest at Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2024. Courtesy Jakub Mosur.

SAN FRANCISCO — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the alter ego of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” writer Robert Smigel, had a number of celebrity guests like Adam Savage, Rob Schneider and Weird Al Yankovic to poop on Sunday at Castro Theatre during SF Sketchfest’s two-week comedy celebration.

The cigar-chomping puppet began the show with footage from his many appearances on “Conan,” including interviews with a group of “Star Wars” fans camping out at movie theaters to watch that series’ prequels. Pointing at the array of controls on a cosplaying Darth Vader’s chest, Triumph asked,”Which one of these buttons calls your parents to have them come and pick you up?”

The next set of clips featured Triumph interviewing politicians. “Why do you look like every man who saw “Cats” alone?” Triumph asked South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham before holding up a sign that read “Will lie for rubles” next to Graham as the senator was interviewed on CNN. Texas senator Ted Cruz was another of Triumph’s targets. “I support spaying and neutering, just like Trump did to you,” Triumph told Cruz.

Smigel and a TV crew were arrested but not charged in 2022 after they were caught allegedly trespassing in an attempt to interview politicians in the Longworth House Office Building, which houses congressional offices.

The Sketchfest audience didn’t escape unscathed. either.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hosts quiz show “Let’s Make a Poop!” with Adam Savage, Rob Schneider, “Weird Al” Yankovic and others during SF Sketchfest at Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2024. Courtesy Jakub Mosur.

“You used to have to go to a Coldplay concert to see this many white people,” Smigel, as Triumph, said referring to attendees as “ladies and gentrifiers.” “San Francisco is a great city… for me to poop on,” he said, delivering his signature line before adding, “On the way here, I saw so many people doing my act.

“Even the city is transitioning… from progressive to neoliberal.”

The evening’s main event was a game of “Poopardy” featuring celebrity guests who were each roasted upon introduction.

“Is there anything you can’t build besides an appealing Tinder profile?” Triumph zinged as Adam Savage of “Mythbusters” emerged onstage.

Next up was “Deuce Bigalow” star Rob Schneider, who recently stumped for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and shared anti-vaccination theories online.

“I know you like to spend January 6th with your family,” Triumph said. Looking at Schneider and Savage, he quipped, “A myth buster and a myth spreader.”

Weird Al Yankovic received huge applause from the audience.

“Weird Al, so many people have kept their virginity to your music,” Triumph said. “But you made more money off Michael Jackson than those kids he molested.”

Emcee Michael Winslow, who made all the amazing vocal sounds in the “Police Academy” movies, provided sound effects like ticking clocks and chimes as the guests provided questions for answers in categories like “Poo-pouri,” “A Sip of Your Pee” and “A Swing at the next Minority I See” (the latter two of which Triumph would insist be prefaced with the words “I’ll take”). Of Winslow, who appeared on “America’s Got Talent” in 2023, Triumph remarked, “He can reproduce any sound, except a casting director telling him he’s got the job.”

Several audio clues in the game involved alleged Weird Al Yankovic parodies, a couple of which were sung by Thomas Lennon (“Reno 911”), including “Choosing My Persimmon” (sung to R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”) and “Now Sears Closes at Seven” (sung to Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven”).

Schneider’s good-natured participation in the ribbing was particularly refreshing in a culture in which comedy is too often a partisan endeavor. The audience laughed just as hard at the jokes poking fun at liberal politicians as it did the ones skewering Trump and republicans.

Weird Al was declared the winner of “Poopardy” before singing a musical tribute the ’80s TV sitcom “Mr. Belvedere.”

The evening ended with a short film featuring Blackwolf The Dragon Master, a cosplayer Smigel befriended after interviewing him during the “Star Wars” prequel segment. Smigel told the crowd Blackwolf had passed away recently. Casually dressed when he emerged from behind the dais where he operated the rubber dog puppet, in a moment of seriousness, he said he was honored to be able to show footage of someone who wasn’t afraid to be himself.