Mark McKinney
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Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian actor and comedian best known for his appearance in The Kids in the Hall, a sketch comedy troupe.
He appeared on Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995 as a cast member and feature film (Brain Candy).
He co-created, wrote, and starred in Slings & Arrows, a TV show about a Canadian theatre company struggling to thrive, from 2003 to 2006, while a traumatic genius director inspires the actors to find authenticity in their acting.
McKinney currently appears on the NBC comedy Superstore as Glenn and appeared as Tom in FX's Man Seeking Woman.
Early life
McKinney was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and the nephew of Chloe, an architectural writer, and Russell McKinney, a diplomat. He did a lot of traveling when he was young because of his father's work. Trinidad, Paris, Mexico, and Washington, D.C. were all places he visited while growing up. He also attended Trinity College School, a residential school in Port Hope, Ontario. McKinney was a student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he was a political science major for a short time.
Career
He began performing comedy with the Loose Moose Theatre Company in Calgary, Alberta. Bruce McCulloch was interviewed there by McKinney. They formed "The Audience," a comedic team. McKinney and McCulloch eventually moved to Toronto, where they met Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald, who were forming a comedy troupe. The Kids in the Hall was established in 1985 with Scott Thompson, who joined after attending a stage performance.
The troupe appeared in The Kids in the Hall, a Lorne Michaels-produced television series that ran from 1988 to 1995, including the Chicken Lady, Darill (pronounced da-RILL), bluesman Mississippi Gary, and Mr. Tyzik the Headcrusher, an enraged Eastern European who pretended to crack the heads of passers-by between his thumb and forefinger.
McKinney appeared on Saturday Night Live, another Lorne Michaels sketch comedy series, as a repertory player, after The Kids in the Hall. McKinney survived the cast rewrite at the end of season 20 and remained on SNL until the end of the 1996–1997 season (season 22). McKinney had six recurring characters (including Ian Daglers from "Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly," Melanie Campbell, a Catholic schoolgirl, and Lucien Callow, a rival often matched with David Koechner's chumsy character Fagan) and twenty-seven celebrity impersonations (some of note include Mel Gibson, Barney Frank, Al Gore, Jim Carrier, Wolf Blitzer, Bill Gates, and Ellen DeGenere
He has appeared in several films, including the SNL spinoffs Superstar, The Ladies Man, and A Night at the Roxbury. In Guy Maddin's tragicomedy The Saddest Music in the World, McKinney appeared alongside Isabella Rossellini. He appeared in the Spice Girls' film Spice World. In 1999, he appeared in Jacob Two Meets the Hooded Fang, a Canadian television film adaptation.
McKinney wrote and appeared in the Hall film Brain Candy, in which he spoofed SNL and KITH executive producer Lorne Michaels, among other things.
The Ugly Man with One Yellow Rabbit at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and Glasgow were among his theatre appearances. In her Ear and David Lindsay Abaire's Fuddy Meers for the Manhattan theatre company, he appeared in the cast of The Roundabout theatre performance of Flea. McKinney performed Fully Committed at the Wintergarden Theatre in Toronto and again in 2002 at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal during the fall of 2001. In September 2022, he will appear in the European premiere of Eureka Day at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
He appeared in the first season of Robson Arms, as well as on the Canadian comedy Corner Gas.
He co-created, co-wrote, and appeared in the TV series Slings & Arrows about the backstage operations of a Canadian Shakespeare company struggling with financial constraints as they rehearse and stage various productions from 2003 to 2006.
Andy Mackinaw, a humourless widowed writer/story editor for the show-within-a-show, appeared as a story editor and a recurring role in NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip in 2006–7. He appeared as a cast member on the CBC comedy Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching, as well as its 2017 sequel A Christmas Fury.
He produced the short film Not Pretty, Quite for the 2006 anthology Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction.
He produced and appeared on Steve, The First and its sequel, as well as his friend Matt Watts, on CBC Radio post-apocalyptic comedy Steve, The First and its sequel, Steve, The Second. He also wrote one episode of Watts' sitcom Michael, which aired on CBC Television in fall 2011.
He became the showrunner and executive producer of Less Than Kind, a half-hour comedy starring Maury Chaykin in the summer of 2007.
McKinney appeared on "Prehistoric Zoo/Ready," a Canadian children's TV program called Dino Dan.Set?
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In the second part, "Ready? he plays Dino Dan's track coach."Set?
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"This two-part episode, which was released in Canada, was titled "I"" by the author.He co-wrote and appeared in the Kids in the Hall 2010 reunion project Death Comes to Town.
He was an executive producer of Picnicface, a sketch TV series from the Halifax comedy troupe of the same name produced for The Comedy Network in 2011.
Lord Peel, the main antagonist in Rocket Monkeys, appeared in the film in 2013. He appeared in the CBC television series The Best Laid Plans in 2014. He appeared on the NBC sitcom Superstore, which was cancelled in 2021, beginning in 2015.
He appeared on the Sunset Strip marathon fundraising episode of The George Lucas Talk Show in 2020.