- Tim Kazurinsky
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yearsactive =Tim Kazurinsky (born
March 3 1950 ) is an Americancomedian best known for performances on theNBC show "Saturday Night Live ". Typically his characters were mousey, sheepish types.Biography
Early life
Kazurinsky was born in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania . Kazurinsky started out in St. Louis,Missouri as acopywriter for adepartment store chain.On
Saturday Night Live , Kazurinsky was a fairly versatile player, even though he clashed often with then-executive producerDick Ebersol about the show's creative direction.Memorable recurring characters
*Dr. Jack Badofsky, a doctor appearing on Weekend Update (then called SNL Newsbreak or Saturday Night News) with a list of
pun ny names of diseases.
*Mr. Landlord fromEddie Murphy 's "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood"
*Father Timothy Owens, an Irish priest
*Havnagootiim Vishnuuerheer, a Hindu wiseman who answered audience questions
*Worthington Clotman, "SNL"'s resident network censor who would interrupt sketches and point out any and all objectionable material that needed to be changed. Based on real-life network censor at the time, Bill Clotworthy.
*The husband to a chimpanzee on "I Married A Monkey"Memorable celebrity impersonations
*
Mahatma Gandhi (in a movie trailer parody called "Gandhi and the Bandit")
*Billie Jean King
*Adolf Hitler
*Ozzy Osbourne
*Klaus Barbie
*Gary Hart
*Douglas MacAuthur
*Deng Xiaoping
*Franklin Roosevelt Other work
Soon after he left "SNL" he co-wrote "About Last Night" and played the role of Sweetchuck in three of the Police Academy films.
In the 1990s, Kazurinsky also appeared on a Season Six episode of "
Married...with Children " whereAl Bundy mistakes an angel (played by Kazurinsky) who was murdered by ahit man his family hired for God and creates God's shoes (which turned out to be an invention that the angel created in the 1920s).In the 2000s, Kazurinsky guest starred on popular TV shows such as
Curb Your Enthusiasm andAccording to Jim .External links
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