Taran Killam
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| Taran Killam | |
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| Born | Taran Hourie Killam April 1, 1982 Culver City, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor/comedian |
| Years active | Since 1994 |
| Spouse | Cobie Smulders (engaged) |
| Children | Shaelyn Cado Killam (2009) |
Taran Hourie Killam (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor and comedian best known for his television work on shows such as The Amanda Show, Scrubs, Wild 'N Out, MADtv, How I Met Your Mother and currently on Saturday Night Live.
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[edit] Early life
Killam is a native of Los Angeles.[1] He was born in Culver City, California and graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. His first name is of Sanskrit origin and means heaven.[2] His great-uncle was actor Robert Stack.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
In 1994, Taran Killam made his first film appearance as an adolescent in Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. Killam was also featured on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show starring Amanda Bynes. He played Spalding, a boy who had a huge crush on Moody, in "Moody's Point."
Killam joined the cast of MADtv as a featured player during its 7th season. Joining the MADtv cast at age 19, Killam was the youngest cast member to ever join the long-running sketch program. He was also a regular cast member on the third and fourth seasons of Nick Cannon's Wild 'N Out. Nobody's Watching never aired on network TV, however the show was leaked and webisodes continued until June 2007 on YouTube.[3]
Killam co-starred in the 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie Stuck in the Suburbs. After MADtv, Killam appeared on TV shows such as How I Met Your Mother, Jake in Progress, Still Standing, Boston Public, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, Do Over, Roswell and Judging Amy. He had also appeared on Scrubs and Scrubs: Interns as Jimmy (the Overly Touchy Orderly). Killam appeared as a contestant on the episode of The Price Is Right which aired on December 7, 2006. The episode was re-aired on July 19, 2007.[1]
He has also been in Just Married, Big Fat Liar, Anderson's Cross, and My Best Friend's Girl.
Killam is a member of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings. He is currently a member of the Main Company. [1]
On September 25, 2010, Killam joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for the 36th season, making Killam the second Nickelodeon veteran after Kenan Thompson to join SNL,[1] and the second SNL cast member who was previously a cast member on its former rival sketch show MADtv (after Jeff Richards). In his first season on the show Killam's impressions included Michael Cera, Chris Pine, Pee Wee Herman, John Galliano, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Eminem. In the summer of 2011, it was announced that Killam would return to SNL for his second season on the show and for the show's 37th season.
In 2011 he appeared in Community episode "Regional Holiday Music" as Mr. Radison (Mr. Rad), a parody of Will Schuester from Glee.
[edit] Personal life
On November 26, 2008, TV Guide reported that Killam and girlfriend Cobie Smulders were expecting their first child in 2009.[4] On January 28, 2009, the couple announced their engagement.[5] Their daughter Shaelyn Cado Killam was born on May 16, 2009.[6]
[edit] Celebrity impersonations
[edit] MADtv
[edit] Scrubs
[edit] Scrubs: Interns
- Seth Rogen
- Tom Hanks
- Frank Welker (as Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget)
- Paul Giamatti
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Topher Grace
- Ashton Kutcher
- Ryan Reynolds
[edit] Saturday Night Live
- Michael Cera
- Brad Pitt (once as Billy Beane from "Moneyball")
- Steve Doocy
- Jon Huntsman
- Ashton Kutcher
- Steven Slater
- Cory Monteith (as Finn Hudson from Glee)
- Gilbert Gottfried
- Paul Reubens (in his Pee-wee Herman persona)[1]
- Chris Pine
- Jack Haley (as the Tin Man from "The Wizard Of Oz")
- Benjamin Millepied (as David from Black Swan)
- Michael Gelman
- Eminem[1]
- Rand Paul
- John Galliano
- Nicholas Hammond (as Friedrich von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music)
- Ian McKellen (in costume as Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings movies)
- Ricky Martin
- Gerard Butler
- Adolf Hitler
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Chris Kirkpatrick
- Tom Hanks
- Bobcat Goldthwait
- Bruce Jenner
- Scotty McCreery
- Tim Tebow
- Michael Gambon(as Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter film series)
- Rupert Grint (as Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter film series)
- Piers Morgan
[edit] Characters On "Saturday Night Live"
- The announcer on "What Up With That" replacing Will Forte
- Guy who is both turned on and grossed out by Shanna (Kristen Wiig) in the "Sexy Shanna" skits (replacing Will Forte, who left the show after the 35th season)
- Francois the star in the "Les Jeunes De Paris" skits
- The Servant in the "Royal Family" skits
- The Gay Theatregoer who is a fan of Meryl Streep as played by Abby Elliott and Chris Rock as played by Jay Pharoah. The Gay Theatregoer has seen "Meryl Streep On Ice" and "Rock's Way"
- The Merryville Brother Robot in the "Merryville Brother" skits alongside Bill Hader and the host
- Jonathan Cavanaugh-san, the male host of J-Pop America Fun Time Now
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f Moynihan, Rob. "SNL's Fab Four", TV Guide, March 7, 2011, Pages 44-45
- ^ "Origin and Meaning of Taran - Baby Boy Name Taran". Babynamescountry.com. http://www.babynamescountry.com/meanings/Taran.html. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "Nobody's Watching Part 2 ", YouTube, June 8, 2006
- ^ "Cobie Smulders a Mother-to-Be", TV Guide. November 26, 2008. Retrieved on November 26, 2008.
- ^ Alexander, Reagan (January 28, 2009). "HIMYM's Cobie Smulders Flashes Her New Engagement Ring". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20255446,00.html. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
- ^ Leon, Anya (July 3, 2009). "It's a Girl for Cobie Smulders". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20289390,00.html. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
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