Darrell Hammond Biography
Darrell Hammond is a comedian, actor, impressionist, and broadcaster from the United States. He was a regular cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, and he has been its announcer since 2014.
How old is Darrell Hammond? – Age
He is 68 years old as of 8 October 2023. He was born in 1955 in Melbourne, Florida, United States. His real name is Darrell Clayton Hammond.
Darrell Hammond Family – Education
He was born to Margaret and Max Hammond. His mother abused him brutally, which contributed to his lifelong issues with depression and substance abuse. Dealing with his own psychological troubles as a result of his military duty during WWII, Hammond’s father frequently drank heavily and acted violently. As a child, Hammond discovered that doing impressions was the only thing his mother enjoyed. In high school and at Brevard Community College, he played baseball. He played high school baseball with future San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy. He went on to the University of Florida, where he earned a 2.1 GPA and a degree in advertising in 1978.
Darrell Hammond Wife
On May 9, 1990, Hammond married Elizabeth. After divorcing in the early 1990s, the pair remarried in 1997. Mia, their daughter, was born in 1998. In May and June 2011, Hammond was spotted with another woman multiple times, sparking speculation about their marriage. During an interview on Imus in the Morning in 2012, Hammond stated that the pair was divorcing, and the divorce was finalized later that year.
Darrell Hammond Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Darrell Hammond Stand-Up
On Comedy Central, he had his own stand-up comedy special: Darrell Hammond is featured on Comedy Central. Hammond is frequently spotted at New York City’s The Comedy Cellar. Hammond stated that he briefly worked as a stand-up comedian on Premier Cruise Line ships in the late 1980s. While the ship was stopped in the Bahamas one evening, Hammond claims he went to a restaurant and had the equivalent of 16 shots of rum. He said that throughout the evening, a man continually begged him to take a dollar bill with trace amounts of cocaine on it.
Darrell Hammond SNL(Saturday Night Live) – Impressions
After seven years and two failed Saturday Night Live auditions, he was noticed by an SNL producer performing a Bill Clinton impression in 1995, just after Phil Hartman, who played Clinton, left the program. After an exclusive audition for creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, Hammond was cast as a regular for 14 seasons. He formerly held the record for the longest consecutive tenure of any SNL cast member in the show’s history, which was broken in 2017 by Kenan Thompson.
He also holds the SNL record for the most impressions by a single cast member (107, as of the Zac Efron/Yeah Yeah Yeahs episode), only surpassed by Thompson, and for the most times saying the show’s catchphrase “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” to begin the show (76 times, eclipsing Dana Carvey).
In the recurring “Celebrity Jeopardy!” skits, he is best known for his impersonations of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Donald Trump, John McCain, Regis Philbin, Dick Cheney, Chris Matthews, Phil Donahue, Phil McGraw, Ted Koppel, John Travolta, Jesse Jackson, Geraldo Rivera, Dan Rather, and Sean Connery.His impression of Clinton is right now the most successive SNL impression ever, showing up in 87 portrayals more than 14 years in the cast and various appearances. Hammond additionally imitated SNL broadcaster Wear Pardo, filling in for Pardo on events when the host was inaccessible.
After the finish of the 34th season, Hammond resigned from the show following a record-breaking 14 years as a repertory player. Hammond was the last SNL cast part from the 1990s to leave the show. Subsequent to leaving the show, he has made different appearance appearances.
In 2014 Hammond assumed control over the host job on SNL beginning with the 40th-season debut, supplanting Pardo, who had kicked the bucket that August. Since he started as broadcaster, he has likewise showed up in productions various times repeating his Clinton and Trump pantomimes.
The accompanying season Hammond returned on the show, doing his impression of Trump similarly as the genuine Trump started performing great in the conservative primaries. Hammond moved back to New York in 2016 after Trump won the selection, hoping to show up consistently during the political race. In any case, SNL maker Lorne Michaels chose rather to go with Alec Baldwin’s impression, accepting that it all the more really caught the contemporary Trump.
Darrell Hammond Movies
♦ 2003 – Agent Cody Banks
♦ 2003 – Scary Movie 3
♦ 2004 – New York Minute
♦ 2006 – Kiss Me Again
♦ 2006 – Puff, Puff, Pass
♦ 2006 – Ira & Abby
♦ 2007 – Epic Movie
♦ 2007 – Netherbeast Incorporated
♦ 2007 – Shortcut to Happiness
♦ 2008 – Wieners
♦ 2012 – BuzzKill
♦ 2012 – Nature Calls
♦ 2013 – Scary Movie 5
♦ 2023 – Cora Bora
Darrell Hammond TV Shows
♦ 1995–2009, 2014–present – Saturday Night Live
♦ 1997 – A Freezerburnt Christmas
♦ 2000 – 3rd Rock from the Sun
♦ 2001 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
♦ 2001 – Primetime Glick
♦ 2005 – Law & Order: Criminal Intent
♦ 2005 – Las Vegas
♦ 2009 – Damages
♦ 2012 – Are We There Yet?
♦ 2014 – Deadbeat
♦ 2016 – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
♦ 2016 – Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio
♦ 2017 – Criminal Minds
♦ 2017–2020 – At Home with Amy Sedaris
♦ 2018 – The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time
♦ 2018 – Dream Corp LLC
♦ 2019 – Bizaardvark
♦ 2021 – What If…?