Tim Meadows

6	Listal rating

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Age: 52, born 5 February 1961

Country of origin: United States

Ethnicity: Black / African descent

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Favorite On-Screen Teams (1980 - 2009) (31 items)
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Published 3 years, 3 months ago

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Live From New York... (128 items)
list by NMartucci

Published 2 years, 10 months ago

5 votes

Funniest People in Hollywood (36 items)
list by melbelleinsc

Published 4 years ago

1 comment

3 votes

50 Celebrities Turn 50 in 2011 (50 items)
list by Denise

Published 2 years, 4 months ago

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About: Meadows began performing improvisational comedy at the Soup Kitchen Saloon. Meadows' start in show business was as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future star Chris Farley. In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on Saturday Night Live and would go on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on the program until 2000. (This was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005.) Meadows' lengthy tenure on the show was used as a gag in t Meadows began performing improvisational comedy at the Soup Kitchen Saloon. Meadows' start in show business was as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future star Chris Farley. In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on Saturday Night Live and would go on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on the program until 2000. (This was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005.) Meadows' lengthy tenure on the show was used as a gag in three monologues when former cast members Phil Hartman and Mike Myers returned to the show to host, and when Alec Baldwin hosted for his twelfth time.

Meadows often spoofed famous personalities including O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and Erykah Badu on SNL, and one time remarked that he had no character that was identified to him, such as Wayne and Garth being identified to Mike Myers and Dana Carvey.[citation needed] Eventually he did get an original character with Leon Phelps, "The Ladies' Man", a perpetually horny talk show host who believed himself to be the living definition of what females search for in a man. The sketch/character was adapted into a 2000 film, The Ladies Man, which followed the character's attempts to find love and a suitable outlet for his beloved radio program. Despite a surprise guest appearance by Meadows on Saturday Night Live immediately following his departure to promote the movie, it was not well received by critics or fans and subsequently flopped at the box office. It has, however, become a cult classic on DVD and cable. In 2001 he co-starred in Three Days (2001); in 2003 he appeared as Miles McDermott in The Even Stevens Movie.

Meadows soon moved on to other projects, including a regular role on the short-lived NBC sitcom The Michael Richards Show and a supporting role in the 2004 film The Cookout. He also guest starred as a client on the hit NBC comedy The Office in the second-season episode "The Client". He played a high school principal in Mean Girls, a film written by (and co-starring) fellow SNL cast member Tina Fey. He also had a part in Handsome Boy Modeling School's album White People. In 2007, he appeared in a large supporting role in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Meadows has appeared in other feature films, including Coneheads, It's Pat, and Wayne's World 2, all of which were based on popular SNL characters and had varying rates of success. Most recently he was in the 2006 film The Benchwarmers alongside his former SNL co-stars Rob Schneider and David Spade. He was also featured in CBS's Gameshow Marathon (summer 2006), has appeared on The Colbert Report in the recurring role of P.K. Winsome (who made an appearance at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear), and starred in The Bill Engvall Show. He is also a frequent guest on the The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as a comic field reporter. On May 31, 2008, Meadows threw out a ceremonial first pitch and conducted the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs game against the Colorado Rockies.

Meadows can frequently be seen performing live at the iO WEST with Heather Campbell and Miles Stroth in their improvised show Heather, Miles, and Tim. Recently, Meadows has been back performing in the Chicago improv scene at the ImprovOlympic and other venues
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Comedian (2), SNL Alum (1), Sometimes Funny (1), SNL (1), Actor (1), Male (1), American (1)

Movies

1. Mean Girls (2004)

Rating:

6.4

3061 Watched

2. Wayne's World 2 (1993)

Rating:

5.8

901 Watched

3. Coneheads (1993)

Rating:

4.7

836 Watched

4. Grown Ups (2010)

Rating:

5.5

741 Watched

5. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

Rating:

6.1

366 Watched

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TV

1. Saturday Night Live (1975)

Rating:

7.4

871 Watched

2. The Colbert Report (2005)

Rating:

7.6

632 Watched

3. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)

Rating:

7.2

525 Watched

4. The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006)

Rating:

6.2

259 Watched

5. Suburgatory (2011)

Rating:

7.1

149 Watched

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TV written by

1. Saturday Night Live (1975)

Rating:

7.4

871 Watched

2. Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley (1998)

Rating:

6.8

38 Watched

Movies written by

1. The Ladies Man (2000)

Rating:

122 Watched

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Denise added this to a list 2 years, 4 months ago

50 Celebrities Turn 50 in 2011 (50 person items)

"Birth Date: February 5, 1961 Birth Place: Highland Park, Michigan, USA MiniBio: Actor: He was a cast member (1991-2000) on the TV series "Saturday Night Live" (1975->). He played "Leon Phelps" in the movie "The Ladies Man" (2000)."

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Live From New York... (128 person items)

"1991-2000"

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Favorite On-Screen Teams (1980 - 2009) (31 person items)

"SNL's Third Wave 1996-2006 Jim Breuer Rachel Dratch Dean Edwards Jimmy Fallon Will Ferrell Tina Fey Ana Gasteyer Darrell Hammond Chris Kattan David Koechner Tim Meadows Mark McKinney Jerry Minor Finesse Mitchell Tracy Morgan Chris Parnell Cheri Oteri Amy Poehler Colin Quinn Jeff Richards Rob Riggle Maya Rudolph Horatio Sanz Molly Shannon "

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Funniest People in Hollywood (36 person items)