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Tim Meadows (b. February 5 1961, Highland Park, Michigan) is an American actor and comedian.

Meadows' start in showbiz was as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future star Chris Farley. In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on Saturday Night Live and would go on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on the program until 2000. (This was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005). Meadows' lengthy tenure on the show was used as a gag in two monologues when former cast members Phil Hartman and Mike Myers returned to the show to host.

Among his original characters was Leon Phelps, The Ladies' Man, an eternally horny talk show host who believed himself to be the living definition of what females search for in a man. The sketch/character was adapted into a 2000 film, The Ladies Man, which followed the character's attempts to find love and a suitable outlet for his beloved radio program. Despite a surprise guest appearance on Saturday Night Live immediately following his departure to promote the movie, it was not well-received by critics or fans and subsequently flopped at the box office.

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. His greatest post-SNL success to date, however, was a major role as a high school principal in Mean Girls, a hit 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.

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 rates of success. Most recently, he can be seen in the 2006 film The Benchwarmers alongside his former SNL co-stars Rob Schneider and David Spade. He was also featured in CBS' Gameshow Marathon (summer 2006), has appeared on The Colbert Report in the recurring role of P.K. Winsome, and is currently a frequent guest on the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.

Celebrity impressions

• Aaron Neville
• Al Cowlings
• Alan Keyes
• Anwar Sadat
• Bernard Shaw
• Betty Currie
• Bill Bellamy
• Billy Dee Williams
• Bryant Gumbel
• Busta Rhymes
• Christopher Darden
• Clarence Thomas
• Colin Ferguson
• Colin Powell
• Cuba Gooding, Jr.
• D'Angelo
• Danny Glover
• Darius Rucker
• David Dinkins
• Deion Sanders
• Dennis Rodman
• Denzel Washington
• Don King
• Ed Bradley
• Eddie Murphy
• Erykah Badu
• Flavor Flav
• Greg Gumbel
• Ike Turner
• J.C. Watts
• James Baldwin
• John Conyers
• Johnny Cochran
• Julius Erving
• Lenny Kravitz
• Leo Turrell
• Luther Vandross
• Michael Jackson
• Mike Espy
• Montel Williams
• Nat King Cole
• Nelson Mandela
• O.J. Simpson
• Oprah Winfrey
• Rick James
• Roderick Richards
• Rodney Allen Rippy
• RuPaul
• Sammy Davis Jr.
• Seal
• Sean Combs
• Snoop Dogg
• Spike Lee
• Stuart Scott
• Ted Lange
• Tiger Woods
• Todd Bridges
• Tracy Chapman
• Vanessa L. Williams
• Vernon Jordan
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Will Smith

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