By Clarice Burger
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Christopher Lee Kattan (/kəˈtæn/ kə-TAN; born October 19, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. After performing with numerous comedy troupes, including The Groundlings in Los Angeles, he broke through as a regular cast member on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (1996–2003).
Following his breakout, Kattan had starring roles in the films A Night at the Roxbury (1998), House on Haunted Hill (1999), Monkeybone (2001), Corky Romano (2001), and Undercover Brother (2002). He experienced a career resurgence with a main role as Bob Weaver on the first two seasons of the ABC sitcom The Middle (2009–2011). In the 2010s, Kattan voiced the title character on the Cartoon Network and Boomerang animated series Bunnicula (2016–2018) and had a supporting voice role in the animated comedy film Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015).
Kattan was born in Culver City, California. His father, Kip King (né Jerome Kattan; 1937–2010), was born to Jewish parents from Iraq and Poland and worked as an actor and voice artist. His mother, Hajnalka Biro (b. 1944), was once photographed for Playboy and worked as a model in London. She is a native of Budapest, Hungary, and is a Buddhist. His stepfather was a Buddhist therapist and monk. His half-brother, Andrew Joslyn, is a professional musician and composer.
Kattan was raised on a Zen retreat on Mount San Antonio, outside Los Angeles. He and his mother moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he attended Bainbridge High School, graduating in 1989.
In 2019, Kattan published a memoir, titled Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live, which included the accident on SNL.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Anytime before the first hard frost. A variety called hard-shelled maximas can handle light frost, but all others should be harvested before the temperature drops to 32°F. As harvest time approaches, pinch out plant leaders and flowers, and remove small green pumpkins that have no chance of ripening. This will help the remaining pumpkins along.
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Jonathan Swift (author) –
- Leo Clarke (Victoria Cross recipient) –
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet) –
- Richard Blackwell (fashion designer & critic known simply as Mr. Blackwell”“) –
- Tom Bosley (actor) –
Born
- Martha Jefferson (wife of Thomas Jefferson; died before presidency) –
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist) –
- Alice McLellan Birney (child welfare worker; the work by her and others led to the formation of the PTA) –
- Eddie Bauer (merchant) –
- Jack Anderson (journalist) –
- John Le Carre (author) –
- Robert Reed (actor) –
- Peter Max (artist) –
- John Lithgow (actor) –
- Giorgio Cavazzano (comic strip artist & illustrator) –
- Jennifer Holliday (singer) –
- Evander Holyfield (boxer) –
- Ty Pennington (carpenter; host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) –
- Brad Daugherty (basketball player) –
- Jon Favreau (actor, writer, & director) –
- Chris Kattan (actor) –
- Keith Foulke (baseball player) –
- Jason Reitman (Canadian-Ameerican filmmaker; born in Montreal, Canada) –
Events
- Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American Revolutionary War –
- President Abraham Lincoln wrote to an 11-year-old girl who requested that he grow a beard –
- First wedding to take place in balloon occurred, over Cincinnati, Ohio –
- Government autos were first used to deliver U.S. mail –
- Watertown Senior High School, in South Dakota, was the first school to fingerprint students –
- Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University –
- Queen Elizabeth II went to a U.S. football game –
- The Miracle Worker, a dramatization of Helen Keller’s early life, opens on Broadway –
- U.S. auto executive, John DeLorean, was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police –
- The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas –
- Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22% on what has become known as Black Monday”“ –
- Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II –
- In Indiana, a family’s pet Amazon parrot saved their lives by mimicking the sound of a fire alarm to alert them their house was on fire –
- An earthquake measuring 2.5 hit Littleton, Massachusetts –
- The Tampa Bay Rays won the American League Championship Series for the first time in franchise history –
- First object (‘Oumuamua) from another solar system detected in ours –
Weather
- A hurricane that blew for five hours swept Great Lakes waters into Buffalo, drowning 200 people –
- Hurricane Wilma made history by dropping pressure to 882 millibars –
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