Chris Parnell
Chris Parnell
Chris Parnell has appeared in 43 movies on CringeMDb. 27 contain sex scenes, nudity or sexual violence, and 16 do not.
Born February 5, 1967 · Known for acting
62.8% Featured Movie Cringe Score (43 movies)
Chris Parnell Movie Credits
Certified Parent-Safe
Hot Rod
...as Barry Pasternack
Turbo
...as Announcer #2 (voice)
I'm Reed Fish
...as Ralph
Escape from Planet Earth
...as Hammer (voice)
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
...as Dave Bollinari (voice)
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
...as Washington (voice)
The Grand
...as Harold Melvin
Hotel Transylvania
...as Mr. Fly (voice)
Jingle All the Way
...as Toy Store Sales Clerk
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
...as Walter
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
...as Stan / Fish Man (voice)
Hotel Transylvania 2
...as Fly (voice)
Home Sweet Home Alone
...as Uncle Stu
Finding ʻOhana
...as Brown
The Dogfather
...as Brian Franks
Mimics
...as Jack Conrad
Certified Cringeworthy
Down with Love
...as TV Emcee
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
...as Theo
Evil Alien Conquerors
...as Du-ug
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
...as Garth Holliday
Paper Man
...as Peter
Answer This!
...as Brian Collins
Break Point
...as Jay LaRoche
As We Know It
...as Ted Sommers
Ira & Abby
...as Dr. Ronald Silverberg
Sisters
...as Phil
Labor Pains
...as Jerry Steinwald
Harold
...as Coach Vanderpool
Kabluey
...as Frank
Looking for Kitty
...as Guy Borne
The Five-Year Engagement
...as Bill
Barely Legal
...as Mr. Ronald Greitzer
Life of the Party
...as Mr. Truzack (Wayne)
Hollywood & Wine
...as Peter West
Battle of the Sexes
...as DJ
The Dictator
...as News Anchor
21 Jump Street
...as Mr. Gordon
Slice
...as Mayor Tracy
The Laundromat
...as Doomed Gringo #2
Senior Year
...as Jim Conway
The Dink
...as Neil
Stop! That! Train!
...as Conductor Davenport
Lorne
...as Narrator
About 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).
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