But then the same thing happened where once we started working together we did develop this chemistry together. I knew David Koechner, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Horatio Sanz, and Adam McKay. And then with the second wave, Norm Macdonald, Spade, Molly, Ana Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri, Will, it was a little bit different because in the beginning I didn’t know any of those guys. That’s how it was with that group of guys, because we came in together. There was a camaraderie, and then once we all got to know each other after two or three seasons, we hung out with each other all the time outside of the shows and really did become best friends-and we’re still friends now. There seemed to be more chemistry-or maybe it’s camaraderie-in your SNL heyday than we see today.ĭuring that period, a lot of us had chemistry because those guys-Rock, Sandler, Spade, Schneider-knew each other from stand-up and they had been friends for a while, and Mike Myers, Farley and myself knew each other from Chicago improv. Working with Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon or Jimmy Fallon, for me, it was always really fun to see if I could make them laugh during the scene.
We would do it on SNL on sketches we wrote personally, so you didn’t feel like you were ruining some other writer’s gig, or if you were working with people that you liked to have fun with on camera. So these are real characters, but they say and do things that a regular person certainly wouldn’t do.Īnd I imagine there’s more wiggle room as far as improv goes.Įven with sketch performance there’s a script you stick to, and there’s a little room, depending on who you’re working for, where you can deviate from that script. As far as acting, the difference is that sketch acting is more commenting on something-you’re not really pretending to be real-whereas this is a heightened version of pretending to be real. With network sitcoms, there’s a certain comedic rhythm that’s inherent to them-it’s punchline, setup, conflict and resolution. How do you find acting on a comedy sitcom different from, say, doing sketch-comedy work for Saturday Night Live? I had the pleasure of sitting down with Meadows at SCAD’s aTVfest to discuss his transition to sitcom star, time on SNL, and more. He’s a bit more dedicated than his Mean Girls principal but just as unlucky in love. These days, the 58-year-old funnyman features as Principal Glascott on the ABC sitcom Schooled, a ’90s-set spin-off of the network’s hit The Goldbergs. to “The Ladies’ Man,” and served as a key writer. Most know him from his decade-long tenure on the sketch-comedy show Saturday Night Live-the third-longest ever-where he played everyone from O.J. Winsome, who felt he was fulfilling MLK’s dream by hawking Obama merch. On The Office, he had a memorable sing-along date with Michael Scott (and margaritas) at Chili’s, and The Colbert Report saw him feign sweet, sweet ignorance as right-wing pundit P.K.
For some, it’s as the exasperated high school principal in Mean Girls, a carpal tunnel-afflicted man at the end of his rope others may favor his scene-stealing turn as a drug-fueled drummer in Walk Hard who repeatedly tries to warn his lead singer off partaking. ATLANTA, Georgia-It’s hard to pick a favorite Tim Meadows performance.
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