Timothy Meadows (born February 5, 1961) is an American actor and
comedian and one of the longest-running cast members on Saturday Night
Live, where he appeared for ten seasons and for which he received a
nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a
Variety Series in 1993. He 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.Meadows
was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the son of Mardell, a nurse's
assistant, and Lathon Meadows, a janitor. He attended Pershing High
School in Detroit and studied television and radio broadcasting at
Wayne State University.Meadows began performing improvisational comedy
at the Soup Kitchen Saloon. Meadows' start in show business was in
Chicago as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future
star Chris Farley. In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on Saturday Night
Live and would go on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on
the program until 2000. (Meadows was on the show for ten seasons; this
was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was
surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005, whose record was also surpassed
by Kenan Thompson in 2017.) Meadows' lengthy tenure on the show was
used as a gag in three monologues when former cast members Phil
Hartman and Mike Myers returned to the show to host, and when Alec
Baldwin hosted for his twelfth time.Meadows often spoofed famous
personalities including Oprah Winfrey, Erykah Badu, Michael Jackson,
and Tiger Woods, on SNL, and one time was a quick change artist to
pull off an impersonation of both O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings within
the timespan of one SNL skit. Some skits had Meadows playing a
fictionalized version of himself, such as being a fan of ice hockey on
Weekend Update stating his dissatisfaction with the 1994 NHL lockout
and remarking "What am I supposed to do about this; watch basketball?"
Another sketch as himself was introducing the entire SNL cast as their
most famous characters, such as Wayne and Garth, or Melanie Hutsell as
Jan Brady in a sing-a-long denouncing the 1992 Los Angeles riots,
which ends with Meadows remarking "This is personal to me...mainly
because I don't have an SNL character to play!" Eventually he did get
an original character with Leon Phelps, "The Ladies' Man", a
perpetually horny talk show host who falsely believed himself to be
the living definition of what women search for in a man. The character
was adapted into a 2000 film, The Ladies Man, which followed the
character's attempts to find love and a suitable outlet for his
beloved radio program. In 2001, he co-starred in Three Days; in 2003
he appeared as Miles McDermott in The Even Stevens Movie.
comedian and one of the longest-running cast members on Saturday Night
Live, where he appeared for ten seasons and for which he received a
nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a
Variety Series in 1993. He 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.Meadows
was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the son of Mardell, a nurse's
assistant, and Lathon Meadows, a janitor. He attended Pershing High
School in Detroit and studied television and radio broadcasting at
Wayne State University.Meadows began performing improvisational comedy
at the Soup Kitchen Saloon. Meadows' start in show business was in
Chicago as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future
star Chris Farley. In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on Saturday Night
Live and would go on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on
the program until 2000. (Meadows was on the show for ten seasons; this
was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was
surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005, whose record was also surpassed
by Kenan Thompson in 2017.) Meadows' lengthy tenure on the show was
used as a gag in three monologues when former cast members Phil
Hartman and Mike Myers returned to the show to host, and when Alec
Baldwin hosted for his twelfth time.Meadows often spoofed famous
personalities including Oprah Winfrey, Erykah Badu, Michael Jackson,
and Tiger Woods, on SNL, and one time was a quick change artist to
pull off an impersonation of both O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings within
the timespan of one SNL skit. Some skits had Meadows playing a
fictionalized version of himself, such as being a fan of ice hockey on
Weekend Update stating his dissatisfaction with the 1994 NHL lockout
and remarking "What am I supposed to do about this; watch basketball?"
Another sketch as himself was introducing the entire SNL cast as their
most famous characters, such as Wayne and Garth, or Melanie Hutsell as
Jan Brady in a sing-a-long denouncing the 1992 Los Angeles riots,
which ends with Meadows remarking "This is personal to me...mainly
because I don't have an SNL character to play!" Eventually he did get
an original character with Leon Phelps, "The Ladies' Man", a
perpetually horny talk show host who falsely believed himself to be
the living definition of what women search for in a man. The character
was adapted into a 2000 film, The Ladies Man, which followed the
character's attempts to find love and a suitable outlet for his
beloved radio program. In 2001, he co-starred in Three Days; in 2003
he appeared as Miles McDermott in The Even Stevens Movie.
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