Biography
With a barrage of spot-on celebrity impressions to keep audiences laughing,
Saturday Night Live cast member Darrell Hammond has memorably harassed
Alex Trebek (or at least
Will Ferrell doing an easily angered caricature of Trebek) and skewered former president Bill Clinton on the late-night television staple with equal aplomb.
Finely tuning his impressions from the time of his childhood in Melbourne, FL, Hammond decided to pursue his niche after graduating from the University of Florida at Gainesville. Following his schooling Hammond relocated to New York to appear in off-Broadway plays, though he would soon return to Florida to sharpen his comedy skills in radio. After joining the
SNL cast in September of 1995, Hammond also turned up on television in
3rd Rock From the Sun and performed stand-up for
Comedy Central's Premium Blend. The versatile comic also followed the lead of numerous
SNL cast members before him in shooting for the big screen in such efforts as
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) and with voice work in
The King and I (1999). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide