Christian Duguay

Christian Duguay (born January 3 1970) is an American comic actor. Duguay is most notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv. Image File history File links Duguay1. ... MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series based on the popular humor magazine, Mad. ...

Biography

Christian Duguay was born on January 3 1970 in Standford, California and raised in Readfield, Maine. Duguay attend the Berklee College of Music where he majored in Jazz Theory and Composition. After three years of playing the guitar in a tiny practice room, he decided that he wanted to be a stand-up comedian. Duguay moved back to California, where he enrolled in the film school at California State University at Northridge, majoring in screen writing. He performed with the improv comedy group Legitimate Freaks, and then enrolled in the Groundlings Theater, where he took classes for three years and eventually was elected to the Groundlings Sunday Company. Readfield is a town located in Kennebec County, Maine. ... Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ... The Groundlings is an improvisational comedy troupe based in Los Angeles, California. ...

After a one year stint on MADtv, Duguay returned to the Groundlings Theater. As of March 2006, he is still with the Main Company of the Groundlings.

Career

MADtv

Christian Duguay as MADtv's Edward.

Duguay joined the cast of MADtv in 2000, as a repertory performer, for the sixth season. His background as a Groundling veteran served him well in the sketches which he appeared in on the show. Duguay's characters included the hyperactive teenager Edward and Loopgarue (Loopgarue and Hoolahoop). He soon found popularity for his celebrity impressions, which included: Joey Fatone, Jim Backus, Dan Rather, Jay Leno, Jeff Patterson, Colin Quinn, Martin Sheen, Howie Long, Andy Griffith, Bob Eubanks and John McDaniel. Duguay even portrayed Adolf Hitler during a sketch. However, Duguay is most famous for his George W. Bush impersonation, in which he lampooned the Commander-in-Chief by portraying his as an "absent minded" and "itellectually challenged baffoon." Image File history File links EdwardMAD.JPG‎ Summary MadaboutMADtv. ... Image File history File links EdwardMAD.JPG‎ Summary MadaboutMADtv. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2000. ... Joseph Anthony Fatone Jr. ... James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913 in Cleveland Ohio - July 3, 1989 In Los Angeles, California). ... Dan Rather, from a telecast in October 2004. ... Jay Leno (born James Douglas Muir-Leno April 28, 1950) is an American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC televisions long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. ... Jeff Patterson is a professional wrestler currently contracted to World Wrestling Entertainment to wrestle for the WWE Smackdown! Junior Division under the name Pitbull Patterson. ... Colin Quinn Colin Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an Irish-American comedian, best known for his five years on the cast of Saturday Night Live. ... Martin Sheen Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), better known as Martin Sheen, is an American actor, best known for his roles in the film Apocalypse Now, and most recently as President Josiah Bartlet on the television drama The West Wing. ... Howard Howie Michael Long (born January 9, 1960 in Somerville, Massachusetts) played football as a defensive end, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000. ... Griffith as Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is an American actor, singer, writer and producer from Mount Airy, North Carolina. ... Robert Leland Eubanks (born January 8, 1938, in Flint, Michigan) is an American radio and television personality. ... Hitler redirects here. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American businessman and politician, was elected in 2000 as the 43rd President of the United States of America, re-elected in 2004, and is currently serving his second term in that office. ... Commander-in-Chief (in NATO-lingo often C-in-C or CINC pronounced sink) is the commander of all the military forces within a particular region or of all the military forces of a state. ...

Catch phrases

“I CAN’T DO IT!” - Edward

Television projects

Aside from MADtv, Duguay has made other television appearances on shows like Arrested Development and Yes, Dear. Due to his current commitments with the Groundlings Theater, Duguay's television projects are limited. Arrested Development is a character-driven American comedy television series about a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family. ... Yes, Dear is an American television sitcom which aired from 2000 to 2006 on CBS. It stars Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly, Mike OMalley, Liza Snyder, and Joel Homan. ...

Trivia

• Christian Dugay is married to fellow Groundling Rachel Duguay.

Rachel Duguay was a member of the famous Los Angeles, USA group The Groundlings. ...

Filmography

Television Appearances

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External links

• Christian Duguay at the Internet Movie Database