Former Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Parnell is moving up in the television world from guest-star/recurring character to prime-time regular. He has just been picked to star in ABC's mid-season comedy Miss/Guided.
Guided stars Judy Greer as a former high school wallflower who returns to her alma mater as a guidance counselor. Parnell will play a fellow counselor. Whether he'll be a friend, enemy, lover, sprout horns, or channel Tom Brokaw (one of the characters he played on SNL) is unknown. What is known is that he'll be joining other cast members Brooke Burns and Kristoffer Polaha.
Parnell was part of SNL for nine years and was let go in 2006 during the semi-purge of the cast. This past season he had a recurring role as Dr. Leo Spaceman on the NBC comedy 30 Rock, where he shared the screen with former SNL buddies Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan.












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9-12-2007 @ 11:41AM
Jim said...
I've always loved Parnsy and felt he never got the credit he deserved on SNL.
I'm pretty sure he is the only cast member to be fired and subsequently re-hired by Lorne Michaels. "Lazy Sunday" proved it to be a good move.
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9-12-2007 @ 1:47PM
M-D November said...
But what will become of Dr. Spaceman?
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9-21-2007 @ 8:15PM
Kevin said...
Of all the great characters on 30 Rock, Chris Parnell’s Dr. Spaceman is uniquely funny. He plays that character as if it came out of the Simpsons or something. Just funny as hell!
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