Jeff Richards at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis Jeff Richards joined
the cast of Saturday Night Live as a Featured Player in September 2001
after touring the country doing stand-up comedy and impressions.
Growing up in Walnut Creek, California a suburb of San Francisco, Jeff
excelled in both football and baseball. When a knee injury forced him
off the field in his senior year of high school, he focused on public
access television. His show "Hanson Live" put Jeff in front of and
behind the camera for the first time. After graduating high school,
Jeff hosted a morning show radio and created a sketch comedy show that
also appeared on public access TV in the bay area. In 1996 he began
attending the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. There he
joined the Chapel Hill Improv Players (CHIPS) where he performed live
comedy for the first time. Friends, family and teachers encouraged
Jeff to unitize his gifts of impersonation as a standup comedian. Jeff
soon began hosting shows at Charlie Goodnights in Raleigh, North
Carolina. In late 1997, Jeff moved to Los Angeles to pursue comedy as
a career. He soon became a regular at the world famous Comedy Store
and appeared in several local and nationwide commercials. He began
touring comedy clubs across the country. In 2000 Jeff briefly joined
the cast of Fox’s MAD TV, appearing most memorably as David
Letterman. In 2001, Jeff performed on CBS Late Late Show with Craig
Kilborn and NBC’s Late Friday. His performance on Late Friday caught
the attention of Saturday Night Live who invited him to audition and
then to become a feature player for the 27th season of the show.
Jeff’s high-energy stand-up is a mix of his-growing arsenal of
impressions (including Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, Louie Anderson,
Kevin Spacey, Gary Shandling, Charlie Rose, Don Imus, Dustin Hoffman,
and Ozzy Osborne) and outrageous original characters (including the
"knife guy", the "drunk girlfriend," her "jealous boyfriend" and the
"jock/meathead" from every 80’s teen movie). Official Website |
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