I have long felt that Tim Meadows is one of the greatest and most underappreciated comic actors of his generation

Just watched mean girls, which confirms this.

Seconded. I wish his career reflected that.

Yeah feel like no one has really known what I do with him, including, often, snl

SNL usually has a spot I like to call the utility ethnic, a castmember who gets a certain guaranteed position in sketches when they call for someone ethnic, but usually as the straight man. It's not a terrible fate to be the utility ethnic because you'll probably end up being on the show quite a bit, but they'll never give you the meaty roles. You could probably make a concerted effort not to get in this spot, but I feel Tim made his choice.

thirded - dude TOTALLY stole the show w/ the 'you don't want any part of this shit' drug scenes in Walk Hard.

meadows only utility ethnic in game of life

Yeah feel like no one has really known what I do with him, including, often, snl

― michael bolton's reckless daughter (Hurting 2), Friday, October 12, 2012 10:36 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait, you do what with him?

lol

BAhahahaha

iphone posting. fuck.

don't tell snl

(full disclosure: hurting [redacted] with Tim meadows)

he's an aerosmith fan /BRAGGIN

"utility ethnic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DXj_7ae0Y

he did the robot v well in the 'bad doctor' sketch

maybe put him on a show where he does that

my fav snl skit he did was the commercial for tshirt in a can
he got so mad when he fucked up his original shirt

I saw Tim Meadows and Chris Farley at Second City the years before they ended up on SNL and they were far and away the funniest people on stage, to the point where I as a 17-year-old made a point of remembering their names so I could follow their careers.

one of teh best parts of walk hard which is one of the best movies

my fav snl skit he did was the commercial for tshirt in a can
he got so mad when he fucked up his original shirt

― you don't have to be a tsar, baby, to be in Moscow (m bison), Friday, October 12, 2012 11:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i remember this exactly

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m87dolwB8H1qz9lb6o1_500.jpg

He's been good on a few episodes of Improv4Humans

http://www.hulu.com/watch/292148

oh hey we have the same birthday

xp - thanks for posting that, buzza! I've never seen that skit before & it is HILLARIOUS - further confirmation that thread title is otm.

*hilarious, even

his drugs bit is the only part of walk hard i remember fondly

Agreed.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2320

Oh whoa, ellen cleghorne -- an even more underutilized talent. Just looked her up on wiki and found this kind of lol mostly sad tidbit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Cleghorne
Cleghorne was mentioned on a segment of the Family Guy DVD Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, when Stewie asks if "they ever found a successful vehicle for Ellen Cleghorne." Seth Mcfarlane has said that she was so offended she called the studio and yelled at an animator who answered the phone.

I used to love the Perspectives bit, which doesn't seem to be on youtube. I also loved when he played black celebrities where it was obvious that the ONLY reason for the casting choice was that he was the black guy on the show -- I might have been reading into it, but I always detected this slight smirking irony in his performance when he had to do this, and it would crack me up.

there was some anecdote on maron's podcast recently about an SNL sketch where the host was asking tim meadows why he looked so depressed, and he says "because this is the only sketch i'm tonight."

^^^ I remember this sketch, it was very lol

I remember that too. He reminds me of Parnell in that there is something very deadpan about their humor that snl was flummoxed by and didn't know what to do with. Both of them have much funnier away from snl.

remember when he played Buttafuco in the long island Lolita sketch? I just snickered out loud thinking about that

The part where he was talking about his italian blood boiling lol

they gave parnell some good bits (centaur sketch, etc...) and he always seems to get dibs at announcer roles (the kind phil hartman would get). pretty much the majority of stuff handed to tim meadows were boring "i'm the only normal dude in this sketch while everyone else gets to be crazy"
after he left they tended to give these to kenan.

Does he still do those correspondent bits on Craig Ferguson? I felt bad for him.

He's AMAZING as "Percy Kittens" in the Strangers With Candy episode where Jerri finds the N word spray painted on the wall.

And the voice that he gives The Ladies Man absolutely kills me every time.

Total classic, this guy.

I stumbled across this for the first time today, and am dying

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/525dc47146/the-80s-were-awesome-with-tim-meadows