# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/41 "2003-05-11T02:47:17Z")
Am I the only one who liked [A Night at the Roxbury](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120770)? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/42 "2003-05-11T02:56:20Z")
Gee. It’s not as if he’s Tim Kasurinsky, Charles Rocket, or Robert Downey Jr. Those were people who BLEW on SNL. Evil is Doug and Wendy Whiner. It makes everything Kattan did look Oscar™ caliber. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/43 "2003-05-11T03:46:21Z")
Man, he’s been in every skit so far tonight, I think. Last hurrah? ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/44 "2003-05-11T03:51:00Z")
Tracy Morgan is hilarious in his Brian Fellows skit. A parrot that can talk? Thats cwwrraazzy. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/45 "2003-05-11T06:49:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bill H. \* > \*\*Am I truly the only person who found him hilarious? I feel so alone. > > \*\* Nope, I’ve always thought he had a lot of talent as well, and I have enjoyed his work. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/46 "2003-05-11T15:28:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr2001 \* > \*\*Am I the only one who liked [A Night at the Roxbury](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120770)? \*\* Liked it? You were the only one who _saw_ it!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/47 "2003-05-11T15:58:38Z")
I will admit to having some small affection for _A Night at the Roxbury_. I’ve found SNL movies are great for weekend mornings when you want to watch TV but don’t want to think too hard over your morning coffee. I’ll miss Chris Kattan, if only for his old Goth Talk sketches. I wonder how funny Tracy Morgan would have been if they’d ever given him anything but Bryan Fellows and bit parts to do. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/48 "2003-05-11T19:29:51Z")
Goth Talk always cracked me up. The Prom of Doom with Steve Buscemi was CLASSIC. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/49 "2003-05-12T09:29:12Z")
He’s done some great characters in the show that will definitely be missed. _Goth Talk_ is probably the best. I never really cared for the club gowers sketch, but I do like the way they kept consistancy going from when they had Martin Short on and his mustache fell off. The fact they made the waving of the fingers in front of their face a part of the bit was an interesting cover. Consistancy’s just something you don’t see much of in sketch comedy. As for his movie carreer, although **Corky Romano** was shit, he did do an absolutely fantastic job in **Monkey Bone** and was the only real enjoyable actor in **House on Haunted Hill** , so I think given the right material, he can do very well. Of course, we’ve all seen what’s happened to Rob Shnider’s carreer after he left SNL, so who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/50 "2003-05-12T17:14:09Z")
Unless I’m mistaken, they stopped doing the Goth sketches when Jim Breuer (who played “Azrael’s” brother) left the show. I always thought Morgan wasn’t used enough. Brian Fellow, Astronaut Jones, Woodrow the homeless guy, Star Jones, and Fat Albert were all funny characters. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/51 "2003-05-12T18:32:06Z")
I for one am THRILLED to see him go: more than being untalented, he was simply BAD. He obviously had talent, but he was such a bad judge of what was funny and what was not. He was more obnoxious than funny. I will enjoy continuing to speak of him in the past tense. Here’s a more direct link to the Andy Dick lyrics: [http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/SNLers/lyrics.txt](http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/SNLers/lyrics.txt) ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/52 "2003-05-12T20:02:10Z")
I’m really going to miss the sketch where he’s a third-(or fourth-) rate nightclub host. With the bad drummer and the various waitresses who walk by and look directly at the audience as they pass. I think those are completely hilarious. The rest I can do without, though. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265/53 "2003-05-13T10:29:46Z")
Kattan leaves…I yawn. He probably should have left much earlier. He seemed out of place, SNL-generation wise, for the past few seasons. Tracey Morgan leaves…I celebrate! I wish him a very Kevin Nealon or Melanie Hudsell-like post-SNL career. Brian Fellows was cute as a one-off sketch, but it was the same damn sketch everytime, all built around a catchphrase and run into the ground. The Astronaut Jones theme song was cool but the skits were always the same, waiting for him to say something sleazy to the hot space chick of the week. I always found him a distracting ham, without being funny enough to justify it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kattan-quits-snl/174265.md?page=2)