1. David Michael Koechner is an American actor and comedian.
30 Facts About David Koechner
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David Koechner relocated to New York City in 1995, doing year-long stints of sketch comedy as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and as a sketch regular on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in the mid-1990s.
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In 1997, David Koechner moved to Los Angeles and started working regularly in various film and television comedies, making his first film appearances with small roles in the films such as Wag the Dog, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Man on the Moon.
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David Koechner's first leading film role, as Coach Lambeau Fields in sports comedy, The Comebacks opened on October 19,2007.
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David Koechner co-starred in the sitcoms Bless This Mess and Superior Donuts and recurred on Another Period and on the reboot of Twin Peaks.
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David Koechner was born on August 24,1962, in Tipton, Missouri, to Margaret Ann and Cecil Stephen David Koechner.
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David Koechner has two brothers, Mark and Joe, and three sisters, Mary-Rose, Cecilia, Joan.
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David Koechner was raised Catholic, and is of German, English, and Irish descent.
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David Koechner studied Political Science at Benedictine College and the University of Missouri, before he eventually decided to pursue a career in improvisational comedy and moved to Chicago.
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In 1995, David Koechner landed a year-long stint on Saturday Night Live, joining the show with Second City friends Nancy Walls and Adam McKay.
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Some of David Koechner's recurring skits included Bill Brasky, the British Fops, Gary Macdonald, Will Ferrell's "Get Off the Shed" sketches, and Gerald "T-Bones" Tibbons.
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David Koechner later said that his firing was due to NBC executives like Don Ohlmeyer, and not so much series creator Lorne Michaels, who wanted to keep David Koechner on.
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David Koechner stated that McKinney was on the chopping block, but assumed that his close relationship with Michaels is what kept McKinney on the next season.
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David Koechner joined the act as Gerald "T-Bones" Tibbons, a character he had been playing on comedy stages for a few years, including a recurring character bit on SNL.
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The "Gerald" character, based on a real drifter named Four-Way George, became so popular that David Koechner would go to auditions, only to find that directors were always demanding his stage persona.
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In 2004, David Koechner landed his largest film role up to that point, as sports reporter Champ Kind in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
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David Koechner's role is the American version of Chris Finch from the original.
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David Koechner guest-starred, both in person and voice, on fifteen episodes of the series.
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David Koechner had a guest starring role as Uncle Earl in an episode on Hannah Montana.
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In 2007, David Koechner was seen in his first leading role in The Comebacks, the first comedy to be released under Fox Searchlight's Fox Atomic division.
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David Koechner played a college football coach with the worst record in the history of the sport who vows to turn things around with his new team of ragtag recruits.
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David Koechner co-starred with Luke Wilson in the 2009 indie-comedy Tenure and was a lead in the 2012 horror film Piranha 3DD.
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David Koechner returned as Champ Kind, in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
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David Koechner made his first return guest appearance to Saturday Night Live on December 7,2013, with his fellow Anchorman co-stars Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, and the episode's host, Paul Rudd.
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In 2015, David Koechner began co-starring as Commodore Bellacourt in the Comedy Central series Another Period.
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In 2023, David Koechner began portraying "Vice President of Party" for a regional marketing campaign for Harrah's Cherokee Casinos.
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David Koechner has the names of his wife and children tattooed on his right upper-arm.
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On December 31,2021, David Koechner was arrested on New Year's Eve for a suspected DUI and hit and run in Simi Valley, California.
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On June 4,2022, David Koechner was arrested for DUI in Ohio, his second DUI arrest in under six months.
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David Koechner soon began to speak publicly about his alcoholism and has pursued sobriety.