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The Dream of 90s Is Alive in 'Mr. Box Office'

by | May 8th, 2012

Before you get too excited, no, Mr. Box Office is not a Mr. Show prequel, it's anything but.  Mr. Box Office (or Mr. B.O. as mocking people will call it) is a first-run syndicated sitcom, starring Bill Bellamy, Jon Lovitz, Vivica A. Fox, Gary Busey, Keshia Knight Pullman (Rudy from The Cosby Show), Tim Meadows, and Rick Fox. Imagine how amazingly huge this show would have been in the 90s with a post-Independence Day Vivica A. Fox, a post-The Critic Jon Lovitz, a in his playing prime Rick Fox, a equally as crazy but less publically so Gary Busey, a pre-trying to have a movie career Bill Bellamy. [...]

SNL

Saturday Night's Children: Tim Meadows (1991-2000)

by | March 6th, 2012

Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.

Much like Seth Meyers and Darrell Hammond, I've always classified Tim Meadows as his own breed of SNL cast member separate from all the impressionists and recurring character machines he worked with during his ten seasons on the show from 1991-2000. While he did have the lispy afro-sporting womanizer Leon Phelps who spawned his own Michaels-produced film The Ladies Man, Meadows' stint on SNL [...]

Late Night

Tim Meadows Celebrates a Particularly Two-Faced Holiday Season

by | January 3rd, 2012

On the Late Late Show last night, Tim Meadows shared his holiday tradition of taking food to orphans and old people on Christmas Day and then murderously praying for a Times Square massacre on New Year's. Pick a side, Meadows! Are you with humanity, or against it? People cannot be allowed to have multiple facets!

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