Chris Parnell
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
201
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
Fallout
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
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Conan
Conan
Glee
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Bob's Burgers
30 Rock
Archer
Archer
BoJack Horseman
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls
Robot Chicken
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Tom and Jerry Show
Love, Death & Robots
Love, Death & Robots
The Goldbergs
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
black-ish
Eureka
Krapopolis
Childrens Hospital
Dawn of the Croods
Dawn of the Croods
Dawn of the Croods
Fish Hooks
Workaholics
The Jamie Foxx Show
Miracle Workers
Caroline in the City
Close Enough
Murphy Brown
Ed
21 Jump Street
grown-ish
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Drunk History
Drunk History
Drunk History
Drunk History
Hotel Transylvania
Match Game
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Elena of Avalor
Will & Grace
WordGirl
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
Suburgatory
My Adventures with Superman
Hotel Transylvania 2
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
T.U.F.F. Puppy
Sunny and Share Love You
The Dictator
Another Period
The $100,000 Pyramid
Great News
The Life & Times of Tim
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
Harold
Hot Rod
Turbo
Name That Tune
I'm Reed Fish
The Spoils Before Dying
I Am Woman
Kabluey
Glenn Martin, DDS
Kung Fu Magoo
Hot Mess Holiday
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Looking for Kitty
Answer This!
Eavesdrop
Ask the Storybots
Mimics
Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances
Suddenly Susan
Suddenly Susan
Wake
Jingle All the Way
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Bad Judge
The Hughleys
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Better Off Ted
The Ridiculous 6
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Adam Ruins Everything
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Home Sweet Home Alone
The Laundromat
Hope and Gloria
Rhett & Link's Buddy System
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Evil Alien Conquerors
The Five-Year Engagement
Sisters
Garfunkel and Oates
Dogs in Space
Benched
Escape from Planet Earth
Union Square
Dummy
Senior Year
Life of the Party
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
TV Funhouse
Battle of the Sexes
Slice
Barely Legal
Finding ʻOhana
Our Little Secret
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
Happy Together
A Freezerburnt Christmas
Alien News Desk
Down with Love
Conrad Bloom
Farm Sluts
Miss Guided
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
Elena and the Secret of Avalor
Labor Pains
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
I Just Want My Pants Back
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
The Ladies Man
The Grand
Paper Man
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Big Lake
The Last Laugh
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
Break Point
Highston
The Women of SNL
The Dink
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
Ira & Abby
Hollywood & Wine
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell
GOLF
AJ's Infinite Summer
Electric City
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
Harry and the Mutant Mid-Century Furniture
Austin Found
Micro Budget
Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
The Better Half
As We Know It
The Dogfather
In Fidelity
Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood
The Maya Rudolph Show
Batman: The Audio Adventures
The Religetables
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies
Millennial Hunter
WordGirl: The Rise of Ms. Power
Yung Punx: A Punk Parable
