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Chris Elliott (born May 31, 1960 in New York City) is an American comedian and the son of comedian Bob Elliott.

Elliott became known in the early 1980s playing an assortment of recurring oddball characters on NBC's Late Night With David Letterman. His characters on the show included

"The Regulator Guy",
"The Fugitive Guy" (a parody of the TV series, The Fugitive),
"The Guy Under the Seats",
"Marlon Brando" (an impersonation of the well-known actor
in which Elliott portrays the actor as semi-deranged man who performs a "banana dance" to the tune of "Alley Cat"),
"Chris Elliott, Jr." (a spoof of talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr.),

and others.

In 1990, Elliott started his own sitcom, which was called Get A Life!, about a 30 year old paperboy named "Chris Peterson" who lived at home with his parents. Elliott's real life father, Bob Elliott appeared in the show as Peterson's father. The January 1999 issue of TV Guide called the "Zoo Animals On Wheels" episode the 19th funniest TV moment of all time.

Elliott became a cast member of the popular Saturday Night Live
in 1994. Also that year, Elliott starred in his first movie entitled Cabin Boy
, which also featured a short appearance by Elliott's old boss, David Letterman and was produced by Tim Burton.

Elliott has also appeared in the films There's Something About Mary
, Groundhog Day, The Abyss
, Scary Movie 2
, Osmosis Jones
, and others. He also had a short cameo appearance in the 1986 Hannibal Lecter film Manhunter.

Elliott has also written two books. Daddy's Boy is a fictionalized biography about growing up with his famous father. The Shroud of the Thwacker is a fictional historical novel about Elliott's investigation of a serial killer in 1882 New York City, spoofing London's infamous Jack the Ripper Case.

Elliott often tends to play a smarmy character who thinks he is a "ladies' man" and is clueless to the fact that the women can't stand him. He exploited that in a series of TV ads touting snack foods, in which the women tell him "Get out of here!" and mean it, only he doesn't quite catch on. In the last couple of seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond, he played the strangest member of Robert's strange collection of in-laws. In real life, Elliott has been happily married since 1986 and has two children.

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