![]() ![]() In the early '90s, the show found success with stand-up comedians. In recent years, Saturday Night Live producers have plucked a lot of cast members from the worlds of sketch comedy and improvisational troupes. Cleghorne went back to school and earned a Ph.D in Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She doesn't seem to be sweating it the now Dr. After a recurring part on the short-lived C-16 FBI in the late '90s, Cleghorne never again got a huge gig, although Sandler cast her in a supporting role in Grown Ups 2. Like most WB shows of that era, Cleghorne! tanked in the ratings and was canceled after just one short season. Cleghorne left the show of her volition in 1995, when the WB gave the comic performer her very own sitcom called Cleghorne! She played a single mom living next door to relatives fellow SNL alum Garrett Morris played Cleghorne's uncle. Cleghorne offered a complement to those dudes' segments with memorably daffy characters like Queen Qhenequa and Zoraida the NBC page, along with portrayals of contemporary newsmakers like Anita Hill and Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders. Probably his most prominent work came in five episodes of the short-lived ABC sitcom Trophy Wife, and Killing Gunther, an indie comedy written and directed by his old SNL co-worker Taran Killam.Įllen Cleghorne was a vital part of the Saturday Night Live cast of the early '90s, a time referred to as the "Bad Boys" era due to the dominance of bro humor sketches from the tight-knit group of Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spade, and Rob Schneider. He popped up in a few Adam Sandler movies (voicing characters in a pair of Hotel Transylvania cartoons along with Grown Ups 2), and for some sketch work on Comedy Bang! Bang! and Kroll Show. Since then, Brittain has racked up scarcely more than a dozen credits, all of them small character parts. He quickly made a name for himself with multiple (and totally original) characters: weirdo romance coach "Sex" Ed Vincent, Croatian "catchphrase" comic Goran "Funky Boy" Bogdan, and Lord Cecil Wyndemere, an immature (but actually 47-year-old) old-timey aristocrat who dances around to harpsichord music and demands "sweets." During the 2011-12 season, SNL's Lorne Michaels put Brittain on a half-season contract and opted not to renew it, making for an abrupt mid-season disappearance. In 2014, Hammond went back to doing what he does best, rejoining the SNL family as its announcer, taking over for the deceased Don Pardo.Ī bit older than the usual young and hungry twenty-something newbies in the SNL cast, Paul Brittain was 33 when he joined the show in 2010. He scored a couple of bit parts in movies ( Scary Movie 5) and recurring roles on TV shows ( Damages, Are We There Yet?), but nothing monumental. ![]() ![]() During his time on SNL, Hammond focused not on big breakout recurring characters, but impersonating newsmakers, and he so thoroughly disappeared into those portrayals that even after 14 years in the cast, Hammond wasn't an attention-getting star. A remarkably skilled impressionist, he's probably the best mimic the show has ever had, taking a nuanced, realistic approach for his uncanny takes on Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Regis Philbin, Ted Koppel, and Donald Trump. On a show that often includes impersonations of celebrities and political figures, it's important for SNL to have a "man of 1,000 voices" in the mix, and from 1995 to 2009, Hammond was that man. After producer Lorne Michaels let go of most of his long-standing SNL cast in 1995, he brought in a new slate of performers that included Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, and Darrell Hammond. ![]()
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