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Cast members came and went during the run of In Living Color (Fox-TV, 1990–1994). Some earlier cast members continued to appear in later seasons so later casts also include some previous years' cast members.

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40-612: A "special guest star ") in a number of skits in the fifth season, and reprised his "Cheap Pete" character from I'm Gonna Git You Sucka . In the early years of In Living Color , Rock was parodied as being the only African American cast member on Saturday Night Live ( SNL also had Tim Meadows and Ellen Cleghorne ). In an SNL skit honoring Mother's Day , Rock's mother jokes that she is disappointed in him for being on SNL , and asks "Has In Living Color called yet?" (and later, when Adam Sandler hosted, Chris Rock sang about how he got fired from SNL and kicked off In Living Color when

60-618: A 2010 reality television series on The CW network Swedish Fly Girls , a 1971 sex comedy film Vernice "Flygirl" Armour , the first African-American female naval combat pilot. "A Fly Girl", 1985 rap hit by New York hip-hop group Boogie Boys Characters [ edit ] Flygirl (Archie Comics) , a super hero character in Archie Comics Fly Girl, an alias of the fictional character Lauren Cooper Flygirl (Malibu Comics) , an Ultraverse character See also [ edit ] " B-Boys & Flygirls ", song on

80-796: A client on the hit NBC comedy The Office in the second-season episode " The Client ". He played a high-school principal in Mean Girls , a film written by (and co-starring) fellow SNL cast member Tina Fey . He also had a part in Handsome Boy Modeling School 's album White People . In 2007, he appeared in a substantial supporting role in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story . Meadows has appeared in other feature films, including Coneheads , It's Pat , and Wayne's World 2 , all of which were based on popular SNL characters and had varying degrees of success. He co-starred in

100-401: A fictionalized version of himself, such as being a fan of ice hockey on Weekend Update , stating his dissatisfaction with the 1994 NHL lockout and remarking, "What am I supposed to do about this; watch basketball?" Another sketch as himself was introducing the entire SNL cast as their most famous characters, such as Wayne and Garth , or Melanie Hutsell as Jan Brady in a sing-along denouncing

120-546: A nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1993. He played main character John Glascott on the ABC sitcom Schooled for its two-season run after playing the same character in a recurring role for six seasons on The Goldbergs . Meadows is also known for his role as Principal Duvall in the 2004 teen comedy film Mean Girls , a role he then reprised in Mean Girls 2 and in

140-471: A spot on Saturday Night Live and went on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on the program until 2000. (Meadows was on the show for 10 seasons; this was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005, whose record was also surpassed by Kenan Thompson in 2017.) Meadows's lengthy tenure on the show was used as a gag in three monologues when former cast members Phil Hartman and Mike Myers returned to

160-408: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fly Girls (dance troupe) Starring Featuring Starring Featuring Jim Carrey , Tommy Davidson , David Alan Grier and T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh were the only cast members for all five seasons. Chris Rock was never an official cast member on In Living Color , but did appear (as

180-583: Is featured in season two of Netflix's Space Force starring Steve Carell . Meadows continues to perform improv in Chicago and Los Angeles , most frequently at venues such as the ImprovOlympic and Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre . With Heather Anne Campbell and Miles Stroth, Meadows frequently performed in the improvised sketch show, Heather, Miles, and Tim in Los Angeles . On February 17, 2023, Meadows

200-447: The 1992 Los Angeles riots, which ends with Meadows remarking, "This is personal to me...mainly because I don't have an SNL character to play!" Eventually, he did get an original character with Leon Phelps, "The Ladies' Man", a perpetually sexual aroused talk-show host who falsely believed himself to be the living definition of what women search for in a man. The character was adapted into a 2000 film, The Ladies' Man , which followed

220-479: The 1999 Bomfunk MC's album In Stereo Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fly Girls . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fly_Girls&oldid=1146900485 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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240-591: The 2006 film The Benchwarmers alongside his former SNL co-stars Rob Schneider and David Spade . He was also featured in CBS's Gameshow Marathon (summer 2006), has appeared on The Colbert Report in the recurring role of P.K. Winsome , a conservative pundit and entrepreneur (who made an appearance at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear ), and starred in The Bill Engvall Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm . He

260-550: The bikini-clad female cast members on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In ). In the fifth season Arthur Rainer became the main choreographer with Lisa Joann Thompson and Deidre Lang as assistant choreographers. Tim Meadows Tim Meadows (born February 5, 1961) is an American actor and comedian. He was one of the longest-running cast members on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live , where he appeared for 10 seasons from 1991 to 2000. For his work on SNL , he received

280-528: The character's attempts to find love and a suitable outlet for his beloved radio program. In 2001, he co-starred in Three Days ; in 2003, he appeared as Miles McDermott in The Even Stevens Movie . Meadows soon moved on to other projects, including a regular role on the short-lived NBC sitcom The Michael Richards Show and a supporting role in the 2004 film The Cookout . He also guest-starred as

300-597: The film's 2024 musical adaptation . Meadows is the son of Mardell, a nurse's assistant, and Lathon Meadows, a janitor . He attended Pershing High School in Detroit and studied television and radio broadcasting at Wayne State University . Meadows began performing improvisational comedy at the Soup Kitchen Saloon. Meadows's start in show business was in Chicago as a member of The Second City comedy troupe, alongside future star Chris Farley . In 1991, Meadows landed

320-618: The gay dads of Annie (played by Wilson), who are both named Kevin. Since 2013, he has appeared in a recurring role on the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs , playing Mr. Glascott, the high school's parrot-owning guidance counselor. In 2016, he began starring in the FOX live-action/animation hybrid Son of Zorn opposite Cheryl Hines and Jason Sudeikis . He also had a recurring role in Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Jake Peralta's cannibal prison cellmate. Meadows

340-742: The latter show got canceled). Other recurring guest stars in the fifth season include show writer Nick Bakay (for The Dirty Dozens sketches) and Peter Marshall (ringmaster for several urban parodies of Hollywood Squares ). Rapper Biz Markie also appeared in various roles as a guest star in the fifth season, such as being (not too much) in drag as Wanda the Ugly Woman's sister or as "Dirty Dozens" contestant Damian "Foosball" Franklin. The Fly Girls troupe had various members over In Living Color ' s five-season run. The original lineup consisted of Cari French, Carrie Ann Inaba , Deidre Lang , Lisa Marie Todd , and Michelle Whitney-Morrison . Rosie Perez

360-399: The show to host, and when Alec Baldwin hosted for his 12th time. During his time on SNL , Meadows often spoofed famous personalities, including Oprah Winfrey , Erykah Badu , Michael Jackson , and Tiger Woods , and one time was a quick-change artist to pull off an impersonation of both O. J. Simpson and Al Cowlings within the timespan of one SNL skit. Some skits had Meadows playing

380-548: Was also a frequent guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as a comic field reporter. On May 31, 2008, Meadows threw out a ceremonial first pitch and conducted the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs game against the Colorado Rockies. In 2014, Meadows co-starred alongside Casey Wilson and Ken Marino in the short-lived NBC sitcom Marry Me . Dan Bucatinsky and he played "the Kevins",

400-514: Was the choreographer for the first four seasons. Lang was the only Fly Girl to stay for the entire run. Sometimes the Fly Girls could be used as extras in sketches, or be part of an opening gag (in one sketch, they were shown performing open-heart surgery and revealed that they were dancing in order to pay their way through medical school), though, mostly, the Fly Girls appeared in commercial break bumpers and filler scenes in between sketches (not unlike

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