Chris Parnell actor
- All known tv series 116
- Total known movies 74
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 NBCs 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).
therapist (voice)
Movie 2021
Terrence
Movie 2008
Brian Collins
Movie 2011
Mr. Thistleton (voice)
Movie 2011
Voice Actor (voice)
Movie 2016
John (voice)
Movie 2023
Movie 2023
Mike
Movie 2021
Himself / Various (archive footage)
Movie 2002
Movie 2006
Edward Turlington (archive footage)
Movie 2009
Veterinarian
Movie 2024
Self
Movie 2015
Movie 2002
Coach Vanderpool
Movie 2008
Dad (voice)
Movie 2014
Mayor Tracy
Movie 2018
Kevin Keith Baker
Movie 2007
Various (archive footage)
Movie 2010
Self
Movie 2014
Movie 1997
Movie 2012
Larry
Movie 2003
Brian Franks
Movie 2010
Migs (voice)
Movie 2017
Movie
Tv 1996
DJ Curtis Morris
Tv 2000
Tv 1988
Self - Guest
Tv 1993
Bruce Terry
Tv 2008
Tv 2008
Tv 2009
Tv 2007
Chris Henkel
Tv 2010
Fred Shay
Tv 2011
Tv 2011
Wilbur Liggetts
Tv 2015
Tv 2019
Tv 2016
Announcer / Allibut (voice)
Tv 2010
Self
Tv 2014
Warren Fitzgerald (voice)
Tv 2011
Self - Contestant
Tv 2021
Self - Panelist
Tv 2016
Self
Tv 2016
Harrison Whitby
Tv 2013
Vice Chairman
Tv 2016
Gene
Tv 1995
Tv 2015
Chris
Tv 2005
Talent scout
Tv 2005
Interviewer
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