Comedienne born June 16, 1987, was the youngest female cast member on
Saturday Night Live * the youngest male is still Anthony Michael Hall, who was only 17 years old when he was hired in 1985
, and is the first
SNL cast member who is the child of a former cast member (see
Generation Xerox below). She also appeared in the movie
No Strings Attached, and lending her voice to the last couple of seasons of
King of the Hill.
After four years on
SNL (2008 to 2012), Abby Elliott announced that she wouldn't come back for another season.
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- The Cast Showoff: Made use of her singing skills by playing pop stars (most notably Christina Aguilera, but she's played other pop singers too, like Melissa Etheridge, Ke$ha *
whom Elliott plays up as a strung-out
Valley Girl who actually takes her songs seriously, citing them as "not parodies" when Weird Al Yankovic — played by Andy Samberg — referred to her as "the reigning queen of parody songs"
- Cute, but Cacophonic: Her portrayals of Khloe Kardashian, Anna Faris, and Joan Cusack (especially Anna Faris, who sounds eerily like the real Faris, and Joan Cusack, who doesn't sound like Cusack at all).
- Generation Xerox: Her dad is Chris Elliott, from the short-lived FOX sitcom Get A Life. He also was a cast member on SNL during its 20th season, which, like seasons six and eleven, was despised by fans and critics for being bad (this makes Abby Elliot the first SNL cast member to be the child of another — and, now that she's left the show, the only child of a former SNL cast member to last longer on the show and have more fan appeal than the parent). Her grandfather is a famous comedian too and cameoed on a 1978 Christmas episode of SNL hosted by Elliot Gould, making Abby Elliott a third-generation SNL performer.
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