As far as acting, the difference is that sketch acting is more commenting on something-you’re not really pretending to be real-whereas this is a heightened version of pretending to be real. With network sitcoms, there’s a certain comedic rhythm that’s inherent to them-it’s punchline, setup, conflict and resolution.
How do you find acting on a comedy sitcom different from, say, doing sketch-comedy work for Saturday Night Live? I had the pleasure of sitting down with Meadows at SCAD’s aTVfest to discuss his transition to sitcom star, time on SNL, and more. He’s a bit more dedicated than his Mean Girls principal but just as unlucky in love.
These days, the 58-year-old funnyman features as Principal Glascott on the ABC sitcom Schooled, a ’90s-set spin-off of the network’s hit The Goldbergs. to “The Ladies’ Man,” and served as a key writer. Most know him from his decade-long tenure on the sketch-comedy show Saturday Night Live-the third-longest ever-where he played everyone from O.J. Winsome, who felt he was fulfilling MLK’s dream by hawking Obama merch. On The Office, he had a memorable sing-along date with Michael Scott (and margaritas) at Chili’s, and The Colbert Report saw him feign sweet, sweet ignorance as right-wing pundit P.K. For some, it’s as the exasperated high school principal in Mean Girls, a carpal tunnel-afflicted man at the end of his rope others may favor his scene-stealing turn as a drug-fueled drummer in Walk Hard who repeatedly tries to warn his lead singer off partaking. They were probably just trying to humanize him a bit.ATLANTA, Georgia-It’s hard to pick a favorite Tim Meadows performance. It didn’t take long for the paper to issue a correction, but it also didn’t take long for the funny faux pas to spread like wildfire across social Don’t fault the paper. Trump has long been a critic of Baldwin’s “Saturday Night Live” impersonation of him, tweeting, “ Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks.” The article in El Nacional reported on President Trump’s Israeli settlements and ran with Baldwin’s Trump-esque pic alongside one of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was a case of mistaken identity for a Dominican Republic newspaper when they inadvertently used a photo of Alec Baldwin portraying Donald Trump instead of a photo of the commander-in-chief himself.
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