Zoneboy
11-13-2008, 03:19 PM
Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20081113/en_top_eo/68630;_ylt=ApZaWgBQ6I4cFNA1fmPEN5pxFb8C)
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Never heard of Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins? Well, they just might be the next Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, if Lorne Michaels has his way.
Elliott and Watkins have just been named Saturday Night Live's stable of Not Ready for Prime-Time Players, ostensibly to fill the void left by the exits of Fey and Poehler.
SNL mastermind Michaels invited the pair to join the show's lineup just weeks after Poehler's tenure ended with the birth of her first child. Next season she'll star in her own NBC series from the producers of The Office. Fey, meanwhile, says she is giving up her Sarah Palin impersonation to focus on 30 Rock.
The daughter of veteran funnyman Chris Elliott, Abby Elliott had a stint with improv group Upright Citizens Brigade (a company cofounded by Poehler) and has voiced several episodes of King of the Hill and Mike Judge's upcoming ABC 'toon The Goode Family.
Watkins, meanwhile, is an alum of Los Angeles' Groundlings and has logged guest appearances on Malcolm in the Middle, Without a Trace, Charmed, Californication and The New Adventures of Old Christine.
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Never heard of Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins? Well, they just might be the next Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, if Lorne Michaels has his way.
Elliott and Watkins have just been named Saturday Night Live's stable of Not Ready for Prime-Time Players, ostensibly to fill the void left by the exits of Fey and Poehler.
SNL mastermind Michaels invited the pair to join the show's lineup just weeks after Poehler's tenure ended with the birth of her first child. Next season she'll star in her own NBC series from the producers of The Office. Fey, meanwhile, says she is giving up her Sarah Palin impersonation to focus on 30 Rock.
The daughter of veteran funnyman Chris Elliott, Abby Elliott had a stint with improv group Upright Citizens Brigade (a company cofounded by Poehler) and has voiced several episodes of King of the Hill and Mike Judge's upcoming ABC 'toon The Goode Family.
Watkins, meanwhile, is an alum of Los Angeles' Groundlings and has logged guest appearances on Malcolm in the Middle, Without a Trace, Charmed, Californication and The New Adventures of Old Christine.