Chris Parnell

Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (born February 5, 1967) is an American comic actor best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998–2006 and currently for his recurring role as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's Emmy Award-winning comedy series 30 Rock. Parnell is currently one of the lead voices on the FX animated comedy Archer. In 2010, Parnell starred alongside his former SNL castmate Horatio Sanz in the Comedy Central series Big Lake. After performing as a company player with The Groundlings for a number of years, Parnell was hired to join the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player on September 26, 1998, and was promoted to repertory player the following season. In the summer of 2001, budget cuts and hiring four new cast members required Lorne Michaels to dismiss two cast members; he chose to lay off Parnell and Jerry Minor over Horatio Sanz, Rachel Dratch, and Maya Rudolph. While on SNL, Parnell appeared in numerous sketches, and commercial parodies, and performed memorable impressions of various celebrities. One of his most popular sketches is Lazy Sunday, a rap video he shot with Andy Samberg about buying cupcakes and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia. He has also performed raps about hosts Jennifer Garner, Britney Spears, Kirsten Dunst and Ashton Kutcher. In the summer of 2006, Lorne Michaels announced that four cast members would be fired due to budget cuts, but he did not say who. On September 22, 2006 it was announced that three cast members had been fired: Parnell, Horatio Sanz, and Finesse Mitchell. This effectively made him the only SNL performer to have been fired twice by Lorne Michaels, though Parnell did say in a 2008 interview with The Sound of Young America podcast that he was okay with being let go this time, because he was considering leaving after that season anyway, but added that he probably would have stayed one last season if he was asked back. He had been with SNL for eight seasons; at the time only four people (Darrell Hammond, Tim Meadows, Kevin Nealon, and Al Franken) have been cast members longer. He has since made uncredited cameo appearances on the show, most recently in 2008 parodying newscasters Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer, and Bob Schieffer. Parnell and his former SNL castmate Horatio Sanz recently starred together in Big Lake, a 2010 sitcom on Comedy Central from executive producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. He also recently appeared as Dr. Drummer/Santa in the SyFy Holiday Special episode from the television show Eureka, which aired on December 7, 2010 (Season 4 Episode 10).

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Filmografia

Hot Rod - Uno svitato in moto

Abbasso l'amore

Walk Hard - La storia di Dewey Cox

Evil Alien Conquerors

Anchorman: La leggenda di Ron Burgundy

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie

Turbo

I'm Reed Fish

Yung Punx: A Punk Parable

Eavesdrop

Paper Man

Fuga dal pianeta Terra

Cip e Ciop - Agenti speciali

Answer This!

Lanny & Wayne - Buoni vs. Cattivi

Millennial Hunter

Break Point

As We Know It

Hot Mess Holiday

Austin Found

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell

Kung Fu Magoo

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

Our Little Secret

Una notte al museo - La vendetta di Kahmunrah

Ira & Abby

The Ridiculous 6

The Grand

Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood

Hotel Transylvania

The Ladies Man

Le sorelle perfette

Una promessa è una promessa

Incinta o... quasi

The Religetables

Micro Budget

Harold

Kabluey

Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special

Elena e il segreto di Avalor

Looking for Kitty

5 anni di fidanzamento

Barely Legal - Doposcuola a luci rosse

Life of the Party - Una mamma al college

AJ's Infinite Summer

Hollywood & Wine

La battaglia dei sessi

Il dittatore

L'altra metà di me

Piccoli Brividi 2 - I fantasmi di Halloween

21 Jump Street

Hotel Transylvania 2

Hotel Transylvania 3 - Una vacanza mostruosa

Slice

Panama Papers

Anchorman 2 - Fotti la notizia

Un'ultima risata

Sunny and Share Love You

The Women of SNL

The Maya Rudolph Show

A Freezerburnt Christmas

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs il Reverendo

WordGirl: The Rise of Miss Power

Home Sweet Home Alone - Mamma, ho perso l'aereo

I Am Woman

Farm Sluts

Alla scoperta di 'Ohana

Cheerleader per sempre

The Dogfather

Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins

In Fidelity

The Dink - Mago del pickleball

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music