Steve Higgins
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Steve Higgins (born August 13, 1963) is an American writer, producer, announcer, and comedian.
He currently appears as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and as both a writer and producer of Saturday Night Live.
Higgins appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2014.
Early life
Higgins was born in Des Moines, Iowa, to Marian (née Coppola) and Harold Higgins, who supervised the custodial services in West Des Moines schools on August 13, 1963. He was one of five children, including his brothers David and Alan. With brothers David and Alan Allen, and friend Dave "Gruber" Allen, Higgins formed the comedy troupe "Don't Quit Your Day Job." During this time, Country music star David Allen Coe was also seen playing in Iowa back woods clubs, causing a lot of confusion among fans and promoters and resulting in some disconcerting double bookings of Coe and Gruber, as well as Coe and Higgins. With Dave Allen at the helm, the comedy troupe made it through these times. They appeared at prominent venues in Iowa, including the Hotel Kirkwood, Corky's, and the Spaghetti Works.
Career
They eventually moved to California, where they started performing in Los Angeles and soon got their big break on the Comedy Central sketch comedy series The Higgins Boys and Gruber. Following a very lean year after their third year performing the group was suddenly relegated to selling donated "merch" at yard sales in the Mississippi back woods. These forays into sales usually netted the group lunch money or at least Vienna sausage money.
In 1989, Higgins performed at The Vic Theatre in Chicago for HBO's One Night Stand television series, along with his brother Dave, and Gruber. Alongside Nick Bakay, Higgins performed in 1993 at the Girly Magazine Party show at Theatre/Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles. They played "a sleazoid male chauvinist comedy duo who exchange off-color ethnic jokes and prance around in suits and ties like Steve Martin on PCP". His brother, Dave, performed in the show and in a separate act. Higgins was praised for his ability of knowing "when to go over the top and when to rein it in", and how he was able to be "acutely tuned in to the comings and goings around them and know how to play off each other". Soon after, Higgins went on to become a writer for the short-lived MTV programs Trashed and The Jon Stewart Show.
From 1995 to 1997, Higgins was the co-head writer of Saturday Night Live. Since 1997, he has served on the writing staff of the show, and since 1996, he has served as a producer of the show. In 2000 he played the inspirational AV teacher in the last episode of Freaks and Geeks. He has been nominated for several Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program in 2008, for his work on Saturday Night Live and as a writer. In a 2012 interview with The A.V. Club, former Saturday Night Live writer Michael Schur revealed that Higgins was the inspiration for the Parks and Recreation character Andy Dwyer after Higgins would playfully fight with him when they worked together at SNL.
From 2009 to 2014, Higgins served as announcer on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. When Jimmy Fallon was selected by NBC to succeed Jay Leno, Higgins was brought on as announcer for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. From 2013 to 2015, Higgins voiced Mr. Awesome in the Hulu original series The Awesomes. He voiced the character "Chadwick the Edible Blargmonger" in the 2014 animated special Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas. In 2017, he won an Emmy for his work on SNL.
In July 2015, while Jimmy Fallon was recovering from surgery after suffering a serious injury to his finger, Higgins was hospitalized for Lyme disease. He returned to the Tonight Show fully recovered and on the same night as Fallon's return.