Chris Parnell

Le Batard & Friends - South Beach Sessions

Dan Le Batard, Stugotz

Sports, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Chris Parnell has a voice made of liquid gold and comedy timing you can set your watch to... which has earned him legendary status at two comedy institutions - The Groundlings and 'Saturday Night Live' - both celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. Known as "The Iceman" during his eight seasons on SNL (because he never broke character, not even during the classic Christopher Walken “More Cowbell” sketch), Chris reminisces about his comedy career with Dan-- the amazing early Groundlings moments, the wild world of SNL afterparties, working with fellow greats Will Ferrell, Tim Meadows, and he reveals a few regrets from his time on comedy's biggest stage. Chris also opens up to Dan about how his religious upbringing shaped him, his family legacy of speaking in front of a microphone, and the weight of wrestling for years with the idea of contacting his biological parents for the first time. SNL's three-hour live 50th anniversary primetime special airs Sunday, February 16th, on NBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now's a good time to remember where the story of tequila started. In 1795, the first tequila
0:05.7	was opened by the Cuervo family, and 229 years later, Cuervo is still going strong. Family owned
0:12.6	from the start, same family, same land. Now's a good time to enjoy Cuervo, the tequila that
0:18.8	invented tequila. Go to Quervo.com to shop tequila or visit a store near you.
0:23.5	Quervo, now's a good time.
0:25.7	Trademarks owned by Becler, SAB, the CV.
0:27.7	Copyright, 2024.
0:28.7	Proximo.
0:29.2	Jersey City, New Jersey.
0:30.0	Please drink responsibly. Hello and welcome to South Beach Sessions. Look, we've got velvety couches. We brought in bigger star power. This is very exciting.
0:56.0	We're celebrating here in Los Angeles 50 years with two comedy institutions that this man has a
1:02.2	legendary status at both of them, the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles, sketch comedy and improv
1:07.0	and Saturday Night Live, both celebrating their 50th anniversary, Saturday night live in February,
1:13.3	with a three-hour primetime special. So thank you, Chris, for making the time for us.
1:17.9	That's for having me, Dan. I want to probe your biography, but you have to have all the good stories,
1:23.4	though. You have to be, you have worked with so many interesting people in a time in comedy that was so
1:29.8	vibrant that i just i simply don't even know where to begin with asking you about who you've
1:35.3	enjoyed working with the most who you've been awed by when you're in the presence of because comedy
1:40.3	can be hard and improv is so vulnerable it's true it. It's true. You know, I, for me,
1:47.6	at the groundlings, like, you know, I would go see shows while I was taking the classes.
1:52.7	I moved here on New Year's Eve going from 91 to 92, drove out with my buddy Matthew.
1:59.0	And by February, based on the advice of some friends,
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