Tim Kazurinsky
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| Born | Tim Kazurinsky March 3, 1950 Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Tim Kazurinsky (born March 3, 1950) is an American comedian best known for performances on the NBC show Saturday Night Live. Typically his characters were mousey, sheepish types.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Kazurinsky was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Kazurinsky started out in St. Louis, Missouri as a copywriter for a department store chain. Kazurinsky was a fairly versatile player on the show, even though he clashed often with then-executive producer Dick Ebersol about the show's creative direction.
[edit] Memorable recurring characters
- Dr. Jack Badofsky, a doctor appearing on Weekend Update (then called SNL Newsbreak or Saturday Night News) with a list of punny names of diseases.
- Mr. Landlord from Eddie Murphy's "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood"
- Father Timothy Owens, an Irish priest
- Havnagootiim Vishnuuerheer, a Hindu wiseman who answered audience questions
- Worthington Clotman, SNL's resident network censor who would interrupt sketches and point out any and all objectionable material that needed to be changed. Based on real-life network censor at the time, Bill Clotworthy.
- The husband to a chimpanzee on "I Married A Monkey"
[edit] Memorable celebrity impersonations
- Mahatma Gandhi (in a movie trailer parody called "Gandhi and the Bandit")
- Billie Jean King
- Adolf Hitler
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Klaus Barbie
- Gary Hart
- Douglas MacAuthur
- Deng Xiaoping
- Franklin Roosevelt
[edit] Other work
Soon after he left SNL he co-wrote About Last Night and played the role of Sweetchuck in three of the Police Academy films. Pre-SNL, he also had an uncredited appearance in the opening scene of Scanners. Kazurinsky also appeared on a Season Six episode of Married...with Children where Al Bundy mistakes an angel (played by Kazurinsky) who was murdered by a hit man his family hired for God and creates God's shoes (which turned out to be an invention that the angel created in the 1920s).
Kazurinsky also had a minor role as an alcoholic attorney in the campy 2000 film Poor White Trash which stars Jaime Presley and William Devane.
