1. Christopher Lee Kattan is an American actor and comedian.
23 Facts About Chris Kattan
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Chris Kattan played Doug Butabi in A Night at the Roxbury, Bob on the first five seasons of The Middle, Bunnicula in Bunnicula, and the main antagonist Mr Feather in Undercover Brother.
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Chris Kattan's father, Kip King, was born to Jewish parents from Iraq and Poland and worked as an actor and voice artist.
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Chris Kattan is a native of Budapest, Hungary, and is a Buddhist.
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Chris Kattan's half-brother, Andrew Joslyn, is a professional musician and composer.
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Chris Kattan was raised on a Zen retreat on Mount San Antonio, outside Los Angeles.
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Chris Kattan was a member of several improvisational comedy and sketch comedy troupes, one of them being The Groundlings in Los Angeles.
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Chris Kattan's father was an original member of the troupe.
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Chris Kattan did some minor roles on TV, including the second episode of the second season of NewsRadio, "No, This Is Not Based Entirely on Julie's Life", as a photo shop employee.
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Chris Kattan moved to New York City to work on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2003.
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Chris Kattan's recurring characters included Mr Peepers, Mango, Azrael Abyss, Kyle DeMarco from The DeMarco Brothers, Gay Hitler, and, most notably, one half of the Butabi Brothers with fellow SNL cast member Will Ferrell, known for their trademark head-bobbing.
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Chris Kattan appeared in a Diet Pepsi Max commercial during Super Bowl XLII in 2008 that featured the song "What Is Love" and had many actors in the commercial performing the head bob from A Night at the Roxbury.
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Chris Kattan played Bob, a colleague of Frankie Heck's at Mr Ehlert's car dealership.
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Chris Kattan appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother as a star in "The Wedding Bride", a fictional movie within the show.
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Chris Kattan played himself portraying Jed Mosely, the film's villain, which the screenwriter bases on his girlfriend's ex-fiance, series protagonist, Ted Mosby.
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Chris Kattan reappeared as the character in the fictional film's sequel, Wedding Bride 2.
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On December 17,2011, Kattan made a guest appearance on the Saturday Night Live Christmas show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, and again briefly on the final episode of SNL's 37th season.
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In June 2014, Chris Kattan reprised his role as former SNL character Mango in a preview of the music video for Sharaya J's "Shut It Down", featured in a fashion campaign by Alexander Wang.
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In 2017, Chris Kattan was a contestant on season 24 of Dancing with the Stars paired with professional dancer Witney Carson.
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In 2022, Chris Kattan was announced as a HouseGuest competing on the third season of Celebrity Big Brother.
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Chris Kattan competed in Dancing with the Stars in 2017, where judges criticized him for his stiff upper body movement.
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Chris Kattan further admitted the pain medication he began taking following his fourth surgery led to a 2014 DUI arrest.
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In 2019, Chris Kattan published a memoir, titled Baby Don't Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live, which included the accident on SNL.