Chris Parnell

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Chris Parnell
Joined SNL	1998
Status	Repertory
Web Page	[link]

Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (born February 5, 1967 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an actor and comedian who graduated from Germantown High School and the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Chris Parnell joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player on September 26, 1998 and was promoted to regular cast status the following season. He was fired in the summer of 2001 and then re-hired the following year in March. Parnell is currently in his eighth season on SNL. Only five people (Darrell Hammond, Tim Meadows, Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman and Horatio Sanz) have been cast members longer than he. He had expressed an interest in simultaneously remaining on SNL and working on his new TV sitcom entitled Thick and Thin, which begins in 2006.

Parnell (right) starred in the SNL Digital Short "Lazy Sunday," aka "The Chronic-WHAT?!-cles of Narnia".

Parnell has played in numerous sketches, commercial parodies, and has performed memorable impressions of various celebrities. Some of his most recognized characters are Sean Demarco, a dancer wannabe, barfly Wayne Bloater, Tyler from the Appalachian Emergency Room, and Mervin "Merv the Perv" Watson. Some of his most memorable impersonations are of Tom Brokaw, Sen. Joe Lieberman in which he appears in a hot tub with former Vice President Al Gore and discusses politics, Pat Buchanan, Jim Lehrer, Bing Crosby, John McCain and Eminem. Parnell is particularly adept at rapping. One of his most popular rap sketches is Lazy Sunday, a nerdcore rap video he shot with Andy Samberg about buying cupcakes and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia. The sketch has gained such widespread fame that it has been reproduced and parodied itself, mainly by amateurs who have posted their versions of the sketch at online viral video sites. He has also performed raps about hosts Jennifer Garner, Britney Spears, Kirsten Dunst and Ashton Kutcher.

Movie appearances

• I'm Reed Fish (2006)
• (2006)
• (2004) as Garth Holliday
• Looking for Kitty (2004) as Guy Borne
• After School Special (2003) as Mr. Ronald Greitzer
• Down with Love (2003) as the TV Emcee
• Farm Sluts (2003) as Larry
• Evil Alien Conquerors (2002) as Du-ug
• The Ladies Man (2000) as Phil Swanson
• Megalomania (2000) as Stanley Brutus
• Operation (1998) as a cadaver
• Jingle All the Way (1996) as a toy store sales clerk

TV guest appearances

• Caroline in the City
• Conrad Bloom
• Ed
• Friends
• Hope & Gloria
• The Hughleys
• The Jamie Foxx Show
• Murphy Brown
• Seinfeld
• Suddenly Susan
• Union Square
• Saturday Night Live

See also

• Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches

External links

• [Chris Parnell] at the Internet Movie Database
• [Official SNL cast biography]
• [Official fansite]

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