21 Facts About Tim Meadows

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Timothy Meadows was born on February 5,1961 and is an American actor, comedian, and writer.

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Tim Meadows played main character John Glascott on the ABC sitcom Schooled for its two-season run after playing the same character in a recurring role for six seasons on The Goldbergs.

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Tim Meadows was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the son of Mardell, a nurse's assistant, and Lathon Tim Meadows, a janitor.

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Tim Meadows attended Pershing High School in Detroit and studied television and radio broadcasting at Wayne State University.

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Tim Meadows began performing improvisational comedy at the Soup Kitchen Saloon.

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Tim Meadows's start in show business was in Chicago as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future star Chris Farley.

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In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on Saturday Night Live and went on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on the program until 2000.

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Tim Meadows soon moved on to other projects, including a regular role on the short-lived NBC sitcom The Michael Richards Show and a supporting role in the 2004 film The Cookout.

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Tim Meadows guest-starred as a client on the hit NBC comedy The Office in the second-season episode "The Client".

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Tim Meadows played a high-school principal in Mean Girls, a film written by fellow SNL cast member Tina Fey.

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Tim Meadows had a part in Handsome Boy Modeling School's album White People.

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Tim Meadows has appeared in other feature films, including Coneheads, It's Pat, and Wayne's World 2, all of which were based on popular SNL characters and had varying degrees of success.

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Tim Meadows co-starred in the 2006 film The Benchwarmers alongside his former SNL co-stars Rob Schneider and David Spade.

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Tim Meadows was a frequent guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as a comic field reporter.

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On May 31,2008, Tim Meadows threw out a ceremonial first pitch and conducted the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs game against the Colorado Rockies.

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In 2014, Tim Meadows co-starred alongside Casey Wilson and Ken Marino in the short-lived NBC sitcom Marry Me.

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Tim Meadows had a recurring role in Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Jake Peralta's cannibal prison cellmate.

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Tim Meadows is featured in season two of Netflix's Space Force starring Steve Carell.

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Tim Meadows continues to perform improv in Chicago and Los Angeles, most frequently at venues such as the ImprovOlympic and Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

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On February 17,2023, Tim Meadows was announced to reprise his role as Principal Ron Duvall from the first two Mean Girls films in the stage-to-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical.

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Tim Meadows married Michelle Taylor in 1997, and they had two sons together.