Chris Parnell

Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (lahir 5 Februari 1967) adalah aktor komik Amerika yang paling dikenal sebagai pemeran di Saturday Night Live dari tahun 1998–2006 dan saat ini karena perannya yang berulang sebagai Dr. Leo Spaceman di serial komedi pemenang Penghargaan Emmy NBC, 30 Rock. Parnell saat ini menjadi salah satu pengisi suara utama di komedi animasi FX Archer. Pada tahun 2010, Parnell membintangi bersama mantan rekan mainnya di SNL Horatio Sanz dalam serial Comedy Central Big Lake. Setelah tampil sebagai pemain perusahaan dengan The Groundlings selama beberapa tahun, Parnell dipekerjakan untuk bergabung dengan pemeran Saturday Night Live sebagai pemain unggulan pada tanggal 26 September 1998, dan dipromosikan menjadi pemain repertori pada musim berikutnya. Pada musim panas 2001, pemotongan anggaran dan perekrutan empat anggota pemeran baru mengharuskan Lorne Michaels memecat dua anggota pemeran; dia memilih untuk memberhentikan Parnell dan Jerry Minor daripada Horatio Sanz, Rachel Dratch, dan Maya Rudolph. Saat berada di SNL, Parnell muncul dalam berbagai sketsa, dan parodi komersial, dan menampilkan kesan yang mengesankan dari berbagai selebriti. Salah satu sketsanya yang paling populer adalah Lazy Sunday, video rap yang dia rekam bersama Andy Samberg tentang membeli kue mangkuk dan pergi menonton The Chronicles of Narnia. Dia juga melakukan rap tentang pembawa acara Jennifer Garner, Britney Spears, Kirsten Dunst dan Ashton Kutcher. Pada musim panas 2006, Lorne Michaels mengumumkan bahwa empat pemeran akan dipecat karena pemotongan anggaran, tetapi dia tidak mengatakan siapa. Pada 22 September 2006 diumumkan bahwa tiga pemeran telah dipecat: Parnell, Horatio Sanz, dan Finesse Mitchell. Ini secara efektif menjadikannya satu-satunya pemain SNL yang dipecat dua kali oleh Lorne Michaels, meskipun Parnell mengatakan dalam wawancara tahun 2008 dengan podcast The Sound of Young America bahwa dia baik-baik saja jika dilepaskan kali ini, karena dia mempertimbangkan untuk pergi setelah musim itu, tetapi menambahkan bahwa dia mungkin akan bertahan di satu musim terakhir jika dia diminta kembali. Dia telah bersama SNL selama delapan musim; pada saat itu hanya empat orang (Darrell Hammond, Tim Meadows, Kevin Nealon, dan Al Franken) yang telah menjadi anggota lebih lama. Dia telah membuat penampilan cameo tanpa kredit di acara itu, terakhir pada tahun 2008 memparodikan penyiar berita Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer, dan Bob Schieffer. Parnell dan mantan rekan mainnya di SNL Horatio Sanz baru-baru ini membintangi bersama di Big Lake, sebuah sitkom 2010 di Comedy Central dari produser eksekutif Will Ferrell dan Adam McKay. Dia juga baru-baru ini muncul sebagai Dr. Drummer/Santa di episode Spesial Liburan SyFy dari acara televisi Eureka, yang ditayangkan pada tanggal 7 Desember 2010 (Musim 4 Episode 10).

​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).