Chris Kattan
Chris Kattan, a native of Southern California, joined Saturday Night Live in March 1996 as a featured player. With this season's end, he has wrapped up yet another year of success on SNL.
Kattan's characters on SNL, include: nightclub swingers "The Roxbury Guys," who Kattan created with SNL repertory player Will Ferrell; the half-man, half-monkey Mr. Peepers; Eddie Lewis of the Shopping at Home Network; Suel Forrester, the jibberish guy no one can understand; the Prince of Sorrow, Azrael Abyss, who co-hosts the fictional cable access show "Goth Talk" and my personal favorite, the mystery known as Mango, the exotic dancer.
Before joining SNL, Kattan was a member of the Los Angeles-based improv/sketch comedy group founded in 1974, The Groundlings, following in the footsteps of his father Kip King, the Master of Improv. The Groundlings also boasts other SNL alumni: current cast members Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer and Cheri Oteri and former cast members Laraine Newman, Phil Hartman, Julia Sweeney, Conan O'Brien and Jon Lovitz plus Paul Reuben[feld] (Pee Wee Herman) and Lisa Kudrow.
Kattan has also guest starred on several network and cable television programs, including "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "NewsRadio," "Grace Under Fire", HBO's "Def Comedy Jam," the "1997 Emmy's","The Big Show with Keith Olbermann", one of five judges on "MTV Live's So You Wanna Be a VJ" contest and the "1998 ESPYs Awards".
Kattan spent the summer of 1997 filming the Roxbury Guys movieentitled A Night at the Roxbury, a film based on the recurring "SNL" characters the "Roxbury Guys." The movie was set to open in the United States on August 21st, 1998 and is now rumoured to have been pushed back to September. He also had the role of Movie Goer #1 in the movie And God Spoke, a film by Arthur Borman.
