# Chris Kattan quits SNL **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265 "2003-05-10T03:48:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/1 "2003-05-10T03:48:23Z")
Kattan is leaving SNL after this season to move to Hollywood and concentrate on his post- _Corky Romano_ movie career. That’s funny, I thought that _Corky Romano_ pretty much ensured that Kattan wouldn’t have a movie career. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/2 "2003-05-10T03:54:11Z")
_ **MANGOOOOO!!!** _ I just wanted to be the first to say that. ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/3 "2003-05-10T04:17:07Z")
More like: Man, go far, far away from any medium in which I might accidentally encounter you. Please. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/4 "2003-05-10T04:30:24Z")
The show will be funnier now, simply because now it will be less not funny. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/5 "2003-05-10T04:35:45Z")
I wish good luck to him and his career and look forward to seeing the show in its new and improved form. ---
**Author:** ![bradministrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a698b9/32.png) [@bradministrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bradministrator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/6 "2003-05-10T04:40:15Z")
Gay Hitler: A concept that could only be unfunny in the hands of Chris Kattan. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/7 "2003-05-10T04:42:28Z")
Can you take the blue from the sky? Can you put the wind in your pocket? Can you catch a rainbow? NO! Such is Mango. ---
**Author:** ![lorinada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/8 "2003-05-10T04:47:09Z")
God, that guy always gave me the creeps. Note to self: start watching SNL again. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/9 "2003-05-10T04:56:41Z")
I think I’ll miss Mr. Peepers most of all. ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/10 "2003-05-10T05:17:05Z")
Frankly, I thought that Kattan was doing much better of late. I kind of liked his pseudo phoning-it-in attitude. But, yes, I will miss the Mango. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/11 "2003-05-10T05:20:01Z")
Hardly unexpected. Have you noticed how invisible he’s been during the current season of SNL? Lately he’s been appearing perhaps once per episode, usually in a small supporting role rather than in a starring character role. I figured he was leaving, told everyone he was intent on leaving, and they scaled him back to a bare minimum of appearances so that his uninspired acting wouldn’t be an issue, and I’d imagine he probably welcomed the change. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/12 "2003-05-10T05:31:42Z")
Kattan was funny as hell in “Undercover Brother”. I haven’t seen him in anything else though. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/13 "2003-05-10T06:59:22Z")
I loved him as the Southern attorney with an accent so thick no one could understand him. Aside from that, though, I thought he usually inspired nervous laughter, rather than ha-ha laughter. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/14 "2003-05-10T07:24:23Z")
Am I truly the only person who found him hilarious? I feel so alone. No Mango for you! Why must I be Mango? Why I ask? Why, God, why? Why can’t I be someone normal like John Ritter? ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/15 "2003-05-10T07:39:47Z")
If only I could find the lyrics of the song Andy Dick wrote about Chris Kattan… I always did find his Mango character funny, unfortunately, nothing else he did ever really made an impression. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/16 "2003-05-10T12:09:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JavaMaven1 \* > \*\*I always did find his Mango character funny, unfortunately, nothing else he did ever really made an impression. \*\* The Gollum he did during the SNL news break during the Super Bowl was extremely funny. Other than that, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/17 "2003-05-10T12:19:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\*The show will be funnier now, simply because now it will be less not funny. \*\* I couldn’t have said more stangely myself. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/18 "2003-05-10T12:50:45Z")
Yay! Just keep him away from here (he’s from my county, here in Washington)! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/19 "2003-05-10T13:29:59Z")
I wish him luck in his new career. I wonder if he can say “Would you like fries with that?” ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/20 "2003-05-10T13:45:15Z")
I always felt that when he first got there he was showcased for a few years. It was as if he/they expected that he was going to be the new character actor & break thru star – like Dana Carvey, Mike Myers and to an extent Phil Hartman & that Kattan was never able to pull that off – for whatever reason. Both he and the show were disappointed in that & weren’t sure what to do with each other after it became clear that his stuff wasn’t working (or working wildly). The points about him less and less being on air and about the nervous laughter I agree with and could be symptomatic of my theory. I understand Tracy Morgan is leaving too, for a sitcom [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265.md?page=2)