Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is a puppet character created, puppeteered and voiced by Robert Smigel. A Montenegrin Mountain Hound, Triumph often puffs a cigar, which usually falls out of his mouth when he starts talking. He first appeared in 1997 on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and also appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.