Chris Parnell
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
196
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
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
The Simpsons
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Friends
Conan
Conan
Rick and Morty
Seinfeld
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Bob's Burgers
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Archer
Archer
Fallout
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Goldbergs
Glee
30 Rock
BoJack Horseman
Love, Death & Robots
Love, Death & Robots
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls
The Tom and Jerry Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
black-ish
Eureka
Childrens Hospital
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Comedy Bang! Bang!
grown-ish
Caroline in the City
Krapopolis
The Jamie Foxx Show
Dawn of the Croods
Dawn of the Croods
Dawn of the Croods
Hotel Transylvania
Murphy Brown
Fish Hooks
Workaholics
WordGirl
Drunk History
Drunk History
Drunk History
Drunk History
Miracle Workers
My Adventures with Superman
Suburgatory
Elena of Avalor
Match Game
T.U.F.F. Puppy
Close Enough
Ed
Will & Grace
Hotel Transylvania 2
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Suddenly Susan
Suddenly Susan
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
The $100,000 Pyramid
Another Period
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Better Off Ted
Great News
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
The Dictator
Adam Ruins Everything
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
21 Jump Street
Garfunkel and Oates
Name That Tune
Ask the Storybots
Dogs in Space
Jingle All the Way
The Grand
Bad Judge
Glenn Martin, DDS
Escape from Planet Earth
Down with Love
Turbo
Hope and Gloria
Labor Pains
The Life & Times of Tim
Elena and the Secret of Avalor
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
Union Square
Benched
The Ridiculous 6
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Senior Year
Slice
Home Sweet Home Alone
Hot Rod
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
Happy Together
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Sisters
TV Funhouse
Micro Budget
Hollywood & Wine
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Our Little Secret
Barely Legal
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
Life of the Party
Conrad Bloom
The Laundromat
Sunny and Share Love You
The Ladies Man
The Spoils Before Dying
Break Point
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
The Dogfather
I Am Woman
Dummy
Austin Found
The Women of SNL
Miss Guided
Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances
Paper Man
Kung Fu Magoo
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
Battle of the Sexes
The Maya Rudolph Show
Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
The Five-Year Engagement
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell
The Better Half
Harold
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
The Last Laugh
Electric City
Alpha Betas
As We Know It
Big Lake
Hot Mess Holiday
Alien News Desk
Mimics
Kabluey
Rhett & Link's Buddy System
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
Finding ʻOhana
WordGirl: The Rise of Ms. Power
Ira & Abby
The Dink
I Just Want My Pants Back
In Fidelity
Millennial Hunter
I'm Reed Fish
Eavesdrop
GOLF
A Freezerburnt Christmas
Highston
Yung Punx: A Punk Parable
Looking for Kitty
Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies
Evil Alien Conquerors
Answer This!
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
Wake
Harry and the Mutant Mid-Century Furniture
AJ's Infinite Summer
Farm Sluts
The Religetables
