Taran Killam, Saturday Night Live star, would love to sign copies of “The Illegitimates” for you at the following location:
12/16/13 Noon
Midtown Comics
459 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 302-8192
About the Author
Taran Hourie Killam (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian best known for his television work on shows such as The Amanda Show, Scrubs, Wild ‘N Out, MADtv, Stuck in the Suburbs and, since 2010, on Saturday Night Live.
In 1994, Killam made his first film appearance as an adolescent in Naked Gun 33?: The Final Insult. Killam was also featured on Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Show starring Amanda Bynes. He played Spalding, a boy who had a huge crush on Moody, in “Moody’s Point.”
Killam joined the cast of MADtv as a featured player during its seventh season from 2001 to 2002, though, of the 25 episodes that aired in MADtv’s seventh season, Killam only fully appeared in four episodes. Joining the MADtv cast at age 19, Killam is the youngest cast member to ever join the sketch program. He was also a regular cast member on the third and fourth seasons of Nick Cannon’s Wild ‘N Out. In 2005, Killam co-starred in the television pilot Nobody’s Watching, which never aired on network TV, however the pilot gained popularity after it was leaked online and they continued making webisodes from 2006–2007.
Killam co-starred in the 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie Stuck in the Suburbs. After MADtv, Killam appeared on TV shows such as How I Met Your Mother, Jake in Progress, Still Standing, Boston Public, Drake & Josh, Do Over, Roswell and Judging Amy. He had also appeared on Scrubs and Scrubs: Interns as Jimmy (the Overly Touchy Orderly). Killam appeared as a contestant on the episode of The Price Is Right which aired on December 7, 2006. The episode was re-aired on July 19, 2007.
He has also been in Just Married, Big Fat Liar, Anderson’s Cross, and My Best Friend’s Girl.
Killam was a member of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings. He retired from the Main Company in 2012.
Killam voices Zip “Frantic” Danger on the Hulu original series The Awesomes.
