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Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (born February 5, 1967 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an actor and comedian who was Saturday Night Live cast member in 1998-2001 and 2002-2006.

After graduating 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 re-hired the following March. Budget cuts and hiring four new cast members left Lorne Michaels without room to pay 15 cast members. Parnell and Jerry Minor were chosen as the ones to be fired over Horatio Sanz, Rachel Dratch, and Maya Rudolph. However, thanks to lobbying from Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan, Lorne rehired Parnell, who returned to the cast in March 2002. More budget cuts in 2006 led to Parnell departing from SNL after his 8th season ended in May 2006. Only five people (Darrell Hammond, Tim Meadows, Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman and Horatio Sanz) have been cast members longer. He also starred in the failed unaired sitcom Thick and Thin.

Parnell has played in numerous sketches, commercial parodies, and has performed memorable impressions of various celebrities. 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. He has also performed raps about hosts Jennifer Garner, Britney Spears, Kirsten Dunst and Ashton Kutcher.

In the summer of 2006, Lorne Michaels said that four cast members would be fired due to budget cuts, but he did not say who [1]. On September 19, 2006, a blogger wrote that Chris Parnell told him he was departing from SNL due to the budget cuts [2]. One can infer that this meant that Parnell was fired from the show and did not leave of his own will. On September 22, it was announced that three cast members had been fired: Parnell, Horatio Sanz, and Finesse Mitchell. [3]

Recurring characters

• Alan "Sticks" McRae, one of Deandra Wells's drummers
• Daniel, a student from Jimmy Fallon's "Jarrett's Room" sketch who lived in the dorm next to Jarret and Gobi and always falls for their bogus tricks to get girls (because of Parnell's short-lived termination, Parnell's Daniel was replaced by Jeff Richards's character, Jeff, a jock whose gross habits are always caught on Jarret's webcam)
• Jeph, a member of the boy band 7 Degrees Celsius
• Kevin Aquarius, a dancer covered in silver paint who does the robot on the talk show "Veronica and Co."
• One of the Lundford Twins' Feel Good Variety Hour dancers
• Merv "The Perv" Watson, a sleazy man who hits on women with equally sleazy double-entendres. Has a British cousin named Steve the Skeev (played by Colin Farrell) and a twin brother named Irv (played by Johnny Knoxville).
• Sean DeMarco, a wannabe dancer who auditions to be an interpretive dancer for SNL's musical guests.
• Tato, the strange manservant to bizarre art dealers, Nuni and Nooni
• an eyepatched Telemundo actor from Besos Y Lagrimas
• Terrye Funck, a wannabe talk show host who creates his own show in the basement of his mom's house
• Thad from Gays In Space
• Tyler, a frequent patient from the recurring sketch Appalachian Emergency Room who always tells Nerod (Seth Meyers) the receptionist tall tales about how he got an object (can of Axe body spray, jar of cotton balls, a plastic bowling pin, a Native American rainstick, his car keys, etc) stuck up his rectum (and in one case, how he got a watermelon stuck to his penis).
• Warren Kirney, a married man who always convinces the hired help in his family to have a three-way with him and his wife (Ana Gasteyer)
• Wayne Bloder, a barfly who always hits on the women there, along with his brother, Kip (played by Jimmy Fallon)

Celebrity impersonations

• Andrew Card
• Arlen Specter
• Bert Convy
• Bing Crosby
• Bob Barr
• Cameron Crowe
• MTV VJ Cane
• Chad Lowe
• Charles Gibson
• Chris Fowler
• David Gregory
• Emeril Lagasse
• Eminem
• Eric Bloom from Blue Oyster Cult
• Evan Bayh
• Fred Savage
• Gary Bauer
• George W. Bush (one of the four cast members [after Darrell Hammond, before Will Forte, and before Jason Sudeikis] to play Bush after Will Ferrell left SNL in 2002)
• Jack Osbourne
• Jim Gray
• Jim Lehrer
• Sen. Joe Lieberman
• John F. Lehman
• Sen. John McCain
• Justin Bartha
• Karl Rove
• Kenneth Starr
• Lance Bass
• Mark Geragos
• Michael Isikoff
• Michael Kors
• Newt Gingrich
• Pat Buchanan
• Phil Gordon
• Rick Santorum
• Robert Bork
• Bill Clinton's brother Roger Clinton
• Samuel Alito
• Simon Cowell
• Thom Filicia
• Tom DeLay
• Tom Brokaw
• frequent SNL host Tom Hanks
• William Dailey
• Wolf Blitzer

Movie appearances

• Hot Rod (2007)
• I'm Reed Fish (2006)
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (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 film) (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
• Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher
• 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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