With his everyman looks and highly professional announcer’s voice, comedic performer Chris Parnell was often cast as a utility player for NBC’s venerable “Saturday Night Live” – until he and fellow cast member Andy Samberg took the world by storm with their hilarious rap parody, “Lazy Sunday.” After this digital short aired in 2005, SNL switchboards were inundated with inquiries about both the rap and the white boy “rappers” who had taught unsuspecting viewers that nothing was more “crazy delicious” than Red Vines and Mr. Pibb soda.

Born Feb. 5, 1967 and raised in Memphis, TN, Parnell’s father