Chris Kattan Green With Matrimony
It turns out Chris Kattan would rather drape himself in green than gold lamé.
The former Saturday Night Live star swapped vows Saturday with model Sunshine Tutt in what was described to News as an environmentally friendly affair.
“Married in beautiful Yosemite Valley, Calif., today,” Kattan, 37, writes on his website.
The couple, who enjoyed an uncharacteristically long Hollywood engagement of 18 months, walked the aisle in front of a small group. Invitees included Kattan’s onetime SNL castmates Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon.
Nature played a big part in the wedding theme, starting with biodegradable invitations printed on flower seed paper that could be replanted in the guests’ own gardens.
Kattan popped the question Christmas Eve, 2006, at Tutt’s grandmother’s house in Gainesville, Texas.
Tutt, 31, has appeared on E!’s Sunset Tan and in the feature film Monkeybone, in addition to print work.
Kattan left SNL in 2003 and has kept busy doing voice workhe had roles in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters and will be heard in the upcoming Foodfight!and various other film and TV spots, including the Night at the Roxbury-spoofing Super Bowl commercial for Diet Pepsi Max.
More recently, Kattan has been working on the big-screen comedy Hollywood and Wine with Pamela Anderson and David Spade and may be back on the small screen soon.
Serving as host, Kattan shot the pilot in April for CBS’ Game Show in My Head, another wacky sounding offering from Ashton Kutcher’s production company, Katalyst TV, in which contestants do embarrassing things in public for money. So far, it’s unclear whether CBS will be carving out a spot on its schedule for the Candid Camera-style series.
But that’s OK, Kattan has a honeymoon to get to.
Stump the King - Mike Myers
So this week, NBC aired The Best of Mike Meyers and it brought back a lot of memories for me. When I was in my twenties, Meyers was the man. Wayne, Dieter and Simon were some of my favorite topics to discuss on Sundays. More importantly, he was one of the few SNL alums to make the move to the big screen successfully.
For those of you who have been living in a cave, while wearing a blindfold with your hands over your ears, the special was clearly just a way for Meyers to promote his new film, The Love Guru. Even though, the movie looks like crap, it’s nice to see Meyers making another try at a film franchise.
Wayne’s World was the first SNL-inspired movie to achieve the TV to cinema success since The Blues Brothers. Unfortunately there were some residual effects.
Once Lorne Michaels saw how much money he could make by recycling sketches, he forced the public to sit through a collection of the worst movies ever put on film.
Superstar, Night at the Roxbury, The Ladies Man and It’s Pat were all bad ideas. The amazing part is that the only star of those movies to have any kind of film career is Will Ferrell, who has managed to make a movie out of characters who weren’t much more than one joke characters in the first place.
I was a fan of the first two Austin Powers films and I respect Meyers for realizing that he couldn’t make a decent film out of Dieter, so I wish him luck with Love Guru and hope he can get back to the business of funny.
Now for this week’s question…
Who is the only person to appear on SNL as a musical guest, host and cast member?
Congratulations to Bill and Ben. Dan Aykroyd and Michal Mckean are both correct.
The Hot Rod Ultimatum
The following editorial is written by Zack Lawrence.
Ok, we all knew Hot Rod was going to crash at the box office worse then a spectacular wreck on Rod’s moped. But I am here to vehemently defend its greatness as one of the funniest movies of the year. Not Oscar worthy, I assure you, but in its own way, funnier than the norm. Because that’s exactly why, its sketch comedy as a flick! Deliciously absurd and unconventional so much so that it has no intentions of making sense.
Someone asked me, “Will I like it?” and I said “No.” and that reason alone is because if your expecting a regular Waterboy-esque slam bang funny stunt movie, don’t go. If you like Kung Pow, Monty Python, The State, or Andy Samberg’s digital shorts, this is your movie. If not? Run far, far away. Repeating the same words, constant falling, or dumbness for the sake of being dumb, all these things that most people see as an easy laugh are right. But they have finely crafted all these things into a brainless, ridiculous, and straight up fucking stupid, piece of art. It now will fit perfectly into that genre of movies that are all basically sketch comedies, stretched into something more, which takes talent. Most SNL movies are god awful spin offs with a few laughs, to say the least, flicks like A Night At the Roxbury, Superstar, Stuart, It’s Pat, sucked it, hard. I pay homage though to the greats, Wayne’s World was immaculate.
Hot Rod is a clean franchise that was an original piece with almost all players being tagged to SNL somehow, which I believe they should follow suit with and do more often, originality! Do you want big? See Rush Hour 3 for generic. Do you want masterfully dim witted, done to a polished piece of funny shit? See Hot Rod. But hurry, it’ll be out of the theatres by next week. Cool Beans.
Jennifer Coolidge Biography
A voluptuous blonde actress who has made a career of playing bimbos despite her more experimental comedy background, Massachusetts native Jennifer Coolidge took her Emerson College degree to New York City and joined the Gotham City Improv group before heading to Los Angeles to become a member of the famed Groundlings. Discovered in the early 1990s, she was cast in her first television series guest role on NBC’s “Seinfeld”, playing a masseuse who won’t offer her professional services to boyfriend Jerry in a 1993 episode. The following year she was a featured regular on the short-lived sketch series “She TV” on ABC. Another short-lived sketch comedy series, “Saturday Night Special” (Fox, 1995-96), featured Coolidge as writer and cast member, though this would-be “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) competitor that first aired in mid-April didn’t make it through May.
Having appeared on the Showtime-aired Roger Corman horror presentations “Not of This Earth” and “Bucket of Blood” in 1995, Coolidge made her big-screen debut in the inane courtroom comedy “Trial and Error”, co-starring “Seinfeld” alum Michael Richards. Equally believable as a pampered princess or a frumpy manicurist, Coolidge appeared in films more frequently with several character parts in 1998, including roles in the children’s comedy “Slappy and the Stinkers”, and a cameo as a sexy traffic cop in “A Night at the Roxbury”. She also continued television work, most notably in a recurring part on the animated series “King of the Hill” (Fox) from 1997-1999, and in the more adult comedy “Rude Awakening” (Showtime) in 1998.
Coolidge had her breakthrough role in the popular comedy “American Pie” (1999) playing a well-preserved, boozed-up mom who seduces her son’s classmate with the admission that she likes her scotch and men the same way: aged eighteen years. Recreating the character with a larger part in the 2001 sequel, “American Pie 2â€, wasn’t the only time Coolidge played drunk and sultry. “Down to Earth”, the 2001 remake of “Heaven Can Wait”, co-starred the actress as the scheming wife of an elderly mogul, a gold-digging type she previously visited as a wealthy dog owner more enamored with the trainer than her husband in the improv-based comedy “Best in Show” (2000). As Betty, a mostly silent hairstylist in the warm “The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy” (2000), Coolidge heard the confessions and life lessons of a group of gay friends; as the unlucky but good-natured manicurist Paulette in “Legally Blonde”, she was a confidante to Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), a walking Malibu Barbie-cum-Harvard Law student.
With roles that showcased the actress’ no-holds-barred approach to comedy and her vanity-free comfort with altering both her appearance and manner to be unappealing, Coolidge emerged as a valuable character player and gifted comedienne. Working steadily, she had a brief cameo in the fashion espionage spoof “Zoolander” (2001) and was featured in the police parody “Showtime” (2001) as well as co-starred in the Showtime-aired romantic comedy “Oooph!” (2001), which was set to debut in the 2001-2002 season. In 2003, Coolidge joined with former co-stars once again, as she briefly reprised her manicurist role in “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde”, and made another cameo as Stifler’s mom in “American Wedding,” followed by a turn as Hilary Duff’s wicked stepmother in “A Cinderella Story” (2004).
Coolidge’s pneumatic form graced several TV comedies as well, with major guest appearances on “Frasier,” “Sex and the City”, and “According to Jim.” A 2003 stint on an episode of “Friends” brought her to the attention of the producers who, upon the show’s finale, departed for the Matt LeBlanc spin-off “Joey” (NBC, 2004 - ), where she was cast in a semi-regular role as dim but sweet actor Joey Tribbiani’s all-too-blunt Hollywood agent Bobbi. Coolidge was then underused in a brief role as a White-Faced Woman in the Jim Carrey vehicle, “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events†(2004), an adaptation of the popular series of children’s books. She then was the voice of Aunt Fanny in “Robots†(2005), the well-reviewed animated feature about a world inhabited by mechanical beings.
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on 08/28/63 in Brookline, Massachusetts - Job Titles:
Actor, Writer
Milestones
- 1993 Had early television credit guesting on a memorable episode of NBC’s “Seinfeld” as a masseuse who won’t offer her professional talents to boyfriend Jerry
- 1994 Was a regular on the short-lived sketch comedy series “She TV” (ABC)
- 1995 Featured in the Roger Corman sci-fi/horror presentations “Not of This Earth” and “Bucket of Blood” (both aired on Showtime)
- 1996 Was a cast member and writer for “Saturday Night Special” (Fox), another short-lived sketch comedy series
- 1997 Had a recurring voice role on the Fox animated sitcom “King of the Hill”
- 1997 Acted in the comedy feature “Trial and Error”
- 1998 Cast in a two-episode recurring role on the Showtime series “Rude Awakening”
- 1998 Co-starred in the children’s comedy “Slappy and the Stinkers”
- 1998 Guest starred on an episode of the sitcom “Alright Already” (The WB)
- 1998 Had a cameo as a desirable police officer in “A Night at the Roxbury”
- 1999 Played a boozed up bimbo who beds her son’s high school classmate in “American Pie”
- 2000 Had a supporting role in “The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy” as Betty, the incommunicative haristylist who hears everyone’s problems and theories
- 2000 Played the golddigging owner of Rhapsody in White, a perfectly manicured poodle and returning champion, in the dog show-set comedy “Best in Show”
- 2001 Appeared on Broadway in the revival of “The Women”
- 2001 Featured in the “Heaven Can Wait” remake “Down to Earth”, playing the scheming wife of the elderly mogul inhabitated by the spirit of Chris Rock’s prematurely deceased comedian
- 2001 Had a brief cameo in the fashion model espionage spoof “Zoolander”
- 2001 Made guest appearance on the NBC sitcom “Frasier”
- 2001 Played Paulette, the manicurist befriended by fashion plate sorority girl turned Harvard Law student Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), in “Legally Blonde”
- 2001 Reprised role as Mrs. Stifler in “American Pie 2″
- 2001 Reteamed with Rock in the comedy “Pootie Tang”
- 2003 Reprised her role as Paulette in the sequl “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde”
- 2003 Returned as Stifler’s mom in the comedy “American Wedding”
- 2004 Cast in “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” based on the books by Daniel Handler
- 2004 Portrayed the wicked stepmother in the modern day fairytale “A Cinderella Story”
- 2005 Voiced Aunt Fanny in the animated feature “Robots”
- Acted in the police parody feature “Showtime” (lensed 2001)
- Moved to New York City and joined the Gotham City Improv group
- Raised in Massachusetts
- Relocated to Los Angeles; joined the renowned sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings
- Starred in the romantic comedy “Oooph!” (lensed 2001), set to air on Showtime in the 2001-2002 season