Chris Parnell
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
200
Gender
Male
Birthday
1967-02-05 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Chris Parnell
Biography
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).
Known For
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Friends
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
Rick and Morty
Seinfeld
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Conan
Conan
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bob's Burgers
Fallout
Curb Your Enthusiasm
30 Rock
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls
BoJack Horseman
Glee
Love, Death & Robots
Love, Death & Robots
The Tom and Jerry Show
Archer
Archer
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Robot Chicken
black-ish
The Goldbergs
Jingle All the Way
Eureka
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Workaholics
grown-ish
Childrens Hospital
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Miracle Workers
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Elena of Avalor
Krapopolis
Murphy Brown
Fish Hooks
WordGirl
Hotel Transylvania
Caroline in the City
Close Enough
Dawn of the Croods
Dawn of the Croods
Dawn of the Croods
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
21 Jump Street
Home Sweet Home Alone
Hotel Transylvania 2
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
My Adventures with Superman
Match Game
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
Drunk History
Drunk History
Drunk History
Drunk History
The Jamie Foxx Show
The Dictator
Sisters
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Will & Grace
Ed
Suburgatory
Turbo
The $100,000 Pyramid
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Finding ʻOhana
Ask the Storybots
T.U.F.F. Puppy
Another Period
The Dogfather
Millennial Hunter
The Hughleys
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
Glenn Martin, DDS
Our Little Secret
Dogs in Space
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
Break Point
Labor Pains
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Better Off Ted
Hollywood & Wine
Life of the Party
The Life & Times of Tim
Hot Rod
Micro Budget
Escape from Planet Earth
Paper Man
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Benched
The Ridiculous 6
Slice
Kabluey
Great News
Suddenly Susan
Suddenly Susan
Ira & Abby
The Grand
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Adam Ruins Everything
The Laundromat
Austin Found
Elena and the Secret of Avalor
Senior Year
Electric City
TV Funhouse
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Bad Judge
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice
Barely Legal
Dummy
Name That Tune
Answer This!
Mimics
Happy Together
Wake
Harold
The Five-Year Engagement
Garfunkel and Oates
Union Square
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
Hope and Gloria
The Spoils Before Dying
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
Battle of the Sexes
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
The Last Laugh
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell
The Ladies Man
Eavesdrop
I Am Woman
Rhett & Link's Buddy System
The Better Half
The Women of SNL
Miss Guided
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
The Maya Rudolph Show
Conrad Bloom
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Hot Mess Holiday
Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances
Down with Love
I'm Reed Fish
I Just Want My Pants Back
Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
Kung Fu Magoo
Alien News Desk
As We Know It
Big Lake
Sunny and Share Love You
Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
Highston
Evil Alien Conquerors
GOLF
WordGirl: The Rise of Ms. Power
Looking for Kitty
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies
A Freezerburnt Christmas
AJ's Infinite Summer
Farm Sluts
The Dink
In Fidelity
The Religetables
Harry and the Mutant Mid-Century Furniture
Yung Punx: A Punk Parable
