SNL’s Kate McKinnon to Perform at Rhode Island College
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
GoLocalProv Lifestyle Team
Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon will be performing at Rhode Island College on Tuesday, April 21. The event takes place at 8 p.m. in the Auditorium in Roberts Hall, and tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the door.
McKinnon has been an SNL cast member since 2012, and has recently won a 2014 Best Supporting Actress American Comedy Award, as well as been nominated for two 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards. McKinnon has been named one of GQ's "The 15 Funniest People Alive Right Now," and she recently gained attention for her spoof on Justin Bieber's Calvin Klein ads. She also caused quite a stir with her Hillary Clinton impersonation this past weekend - check out the video below.
McKinnon is a graduate of Columbia University, where she majored in theater and co-founded Tea Party, a musical improv comedy group. Before SNL, she performed and wrote for New York's Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.
Outside of her SNL career, McKinnon is a part of the Independent Film Channel's Comedy Bang! Bang! and is also in Broadway Video's Above Average online shorts. She will soon be making film appearances in Jared Hess' Masterminds and Jason Moore's Sisters, working with the likes of Zach Galifiniakis, Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler.
Charles Claverie aka Charlie Rocket was a fixture on the same underground scene in Providence that gave birth to the Talking Heads. Before Saturday Night Live, he briefly anchored the news on Channel 12.
He was a cast member and Weekend Update host on the ill-fated post Lorne Michaels 1980-81 season, and was fired after letting the "f-word" slip live on the air.
He later went on to star in Dumb and Dumber, and tragically died in 2005.
Don Pardo was the legendary voice of Saturday Night Live, announcing the show from its debut in 1975 until his death at the age of 94 last summer.
Pardo, born in Westfield MA, got his start in radio in Rhode Island. He was first hired at then-NBC affiliate WJAR (now WHJJ) in 1938. He later went on to be the announcer on The Price Is Right and Jeopardy, finally landing at Saturday Night Live in 1975.