Chris Parnell

​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).

Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell, 5 Şubat 1967 tarihinde Memphis, Tennessee, ABD'de dünyaya geldi. Liseden sonra North Carolina Sanat Okulu Üniversitesi'nde (UNCSA) drama alanında güzel sanatlar lisansı (BFA) derecesi aldı. Mezuniyetinin ardından bir süre lise öğretmeni olarak çalıştıktan sonra oyunculuk ve komedi kariyerine odaklanmak için Los Angeles'a taşındı. Burada, birçok komedyenin yetiştiği ünlü doğaçlama topluluğu The Groundlings'e katıldı ve yeteneklerini geliştirdi. Parnell, 1998 yılında Amerika'nın efsanevi skeç komedi programı Saturday Night Live (SNL) kadrosuna katılarak ulusal çapta tanınırlık kazandı. 2006 yılına kadar programda yer alan Parnell, program tarihinde iki kez kovulup (2001'de kovuldu, 2002'de geri alındı) tekrar işe alınan tek kadro üyesi olarak da bilinir. SNL döneminde Tom Brokaw taklidi, "Merv the Perv" karakteri ve özellikle Andy Samberg ile birlikte yaptığı "Lazy Sunday" adlı dijital kısa filmle (rap videosu) büyük bir popülerlik yakaladı. "Lazy Sunday", YouTube'un ilk viral videolarından biri olarak internet tarihinde bir dönüm noktası oldu. SNL kadrosundayken, programın başyazarı olan Tina Fey'in yarattığı 30 Rock (2006-2013) dizisinde, tuhaf ve yetersiz doktor "Dr. Leo Spaceman" rolünü oynamaya başladı. Bu karakter, dizinin en sevilen yinelenen rollerinden biri haline geldi ve Parnell'in komedideki absürt ve ifadesiz tarzını pekiştirdi. 2011-2014 yılları arasında Suburgatory dizisinde Fred Shay rolüyle ana kadroda yer aldı. Parnell, kariyerinin en önemli başarılarından bazılarını seslendirme sanatçısı olarak elde etti. 2009'dan 2023'e kadar süren kült animasyon dizisi Archer'da, beceriksiz ve nevrotik ajan Cyril Figgis karakterine sesiyle hayat verdi. Ancak onu küresel bir fenomene dönüştüren rol, 2013'te başlayan ve büyük beğeni toplayan Rick and Morty dizisindeki, ailenin talihsiz ve ezik babası Jerry Smith karakteri oldu. Ayrıca Family Guy, American Dad! gibi birçok animasyonda da konuk seslendirme yapmıştır. Sinema tarafında ise Anchorman: O Bir Efsane (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) (2004), TatlıSert (Hot Rod) (2007), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Liseli Polisler (21 Jump Street) (2012) ve Sisters (2015) gibi komedi filmlerinde unutulmaz yardımcı roller üstlendi.

托马斯·克里斯托弗·帕内尔（Thomas Christopher “Chris” Parnell，1967年2月5日出生）是一位美国喜剧演员。

託馬斯·克里斯託弗·帕內爾（Thomas Christopher “Chris” Parnell，1967 年 2 月 5 日出生）是一位美國喜劇演員