Chris Elliott appeared in comedic sketches on Late Night with David Letterman, created and starred in the comedy series Get a Life on Fox, and wrote and starred in the film Cabin Boy.
20 Facts About Chris Elliott
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Chris Elliott's writing has won four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Chris Elliott appeared in the film Groundhog Day, There's Something About Mary, Snow Day and Scary Movie 2.
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Chris Elliott attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for a semester.
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Chris Elliott was hired as a production assistant on Late Night with David Letterman, and was with the show from its very beginning in February 1982.
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Chris Elliott became known in the mid-to-late 1980s for playing an assortment of recurring quirky, oddball characters on Late Night.
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Chris Elliott has a small supporting role in an episode of Miami Vice.
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In 1986, Chris Elliott co-wrote and starred in the Cinemax special FDR: A One Man Show, a spoof comedy about the life and times of the president.
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Chris Elliott looked and sounded nothing like the man; he portrayed events from Roosevelt's life that never happened, such as a Japanese bombing of the White House, and his crossing the Potomac in a rowboat.
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Chris Elliott left Late Night in early 1990, though he would return as a guest interview subject many times on Late Night and Letterman's subsequent talk show The Late Show with David Letterman.
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In 1993, Chris Elliott teamed up with producer Brad Hall and directed a series of critically acclaimed short films that Chris Elliott showed when appearing on Late Show with David Letterman.
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Chris Elliott became a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1994.
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Chris Elliott was nominated for a Razzie Award as Worst New Star.
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In 2007, Chris Elliott again began appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman with fellow former Letterman writer Gerard Mulligan.
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Chris Elliott played a serial killer in the series Third Watch in the episodes "The Hunter, Hunted" and "Greatest Detectives in the World" from season six.
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Chris Elliott played the role of Peter in the last three seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond and a role in a semi-autobiographical sitcom pilot for CBS, entitled You've Reached the Elliotts, playing a man who tries to balance a modest show business career with his home life.
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From 2009 to 2014, Chris Elliott played the estranged father of How I Met Your Mother character Lily Aldrin, whose relationship strengthened as the show progressed.
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From February 3,2011 to January 16,2014, Chris Elliott starred in the Adult Swim series Eagleheart, produced by Conan O'Brien's production company, Conaco.
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Chris Elliott was in an Avocados from Mexico commercial in February 2018.
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Into Hot Air tells the story of Chris Elliott climbing Mount Everest with a group of celebrities tagging along to underwrite the trek as he investigates his Uncle Percy's failed Everest expedition.