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Steve Wilson is an independent television director, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. He also appeared on-air as a cast member of Almost Live! the hit sketch comedy show on KING-TV and Comedy Central during the 1990s.
Wilson most recently[ when? ] directed Northwest Afternoon on KOMO-TV. He was also involved with the PBS program The Eyes of Nye .
In late June 2005, Wilson appeared on Northwest Afternoon, filling in for “Queen of Soaps” Cindi Reinhart. Wilson and his fellow cast-mates on Almost Live! often lampooned Northwest Afternoon’s soap segments during the show's run (including a joke about Reinhart during the September 2005 reunion special). Wilson is currently directing New Day Northwest, a daily studio based talk show with a live studio audience. The show's executive producer is Tracey Green and the host is Margaret Larson. Coincidentally, the show is produced in the same studio Almost Live! was produced during its 15-year run.
In 2013, Wilson began directing episodes of The [206], a new Seattle-based sketch comedy show starring Almost Live! alumni John Keister, Pat Cashman, and Chris Cashman. Wilson has also appeared on-screen in two sketches.
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In Living Color is an American sketch comedy television series that originally ran on Fox from April 15, 1990 to May 19, 1994. Keenen Ivory Wayans created, wrote and starred in the program. The show was produced by Ivory Way Productions in association with 20th Television and was taped at stage 7 at the Fox Television Center on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Mad TV is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by Mad magazine.
Bill Nye the Science Guy is an American half-hour live action science program produced by KCTS Seattle and McKenna/Gottlieb Producers. It was substantially financed by the National Science Foundation. After the producers entered a distribution agreement with Buena Vista Television, the show aired in syndication from September 10, 1993, to December 21, 1994, and on PBS from January 5, 1995 to June 20, 1998, with reruns airing until September 3, 1999. The show, hosted by Bill Nye, aired for 100 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons. Known for its quirky humor and rapid-fire MTV-style pacing, the show won critical acclaim and was nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, winning nineteen. Studies also found that people that viewed Bill Nye regularly were better able to generate explanations and extensions of scientific ideas than non-viewers.
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was an American variety show that starred American pop singers Sonny Bono and Cher, who were married to each other at the time. The show ran on CBS in the United States, and premiered in August 1971. The show was canceled in May 1974, due to the couple's divorce, but the duo would reunite in 1976 for the similarly-formatted The Sonny & Cher Show, which ran for two seasons, ending August 29, 1977.
A recurring character or supporting character is a fictional character, usually in a prime time TV series, who frequently appears from time to time during the series' run. Recurring characters often play major roles in more than one episode, sometimes being the main focus. They may be contrasted with "regular" characters, who typically appear in every or almost every episode of a series. Recurring characters appear less frequently than regulars, but more frequently than guest star characters, who may appear in only one or two episodes without being expected to return.
Mark Douglas Brown McKinney is a Canadian actor and comedian, best known for his work in the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, which includes starring in the 1989 to 1995 TV series The Kids in the Hall and 1996 feature film Brain Candy. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1997 and from 2003 to 2006, he co-created, wrote and starred in the series Slings & Arrows. Since 2015 McKinney has been starring as Glenn on the NBC comedy Superstore, and he also appeared as Tom in FXX's Man Seeking Woman.
Lance Krall is an American producer, screenwriter, and actor of half Vietnamese descent. He became well known after his portrayal as "Kip" in the role in faux-reality show The Joe Schmo Show. He went on to create and star in The Lance Krall Show and Free Radio. He is also the co-founder of Picture It Productions, a television development and production company based in Atlanta.
Almost Live! was a local sketch comedy television show in Seattle, Washington, USA, produced and broadcast by NBC affiliate KING-TV from 1984 to 1999. A re-packaged version of the show also aired on Comedy Central from 1992 to 1993, and episodes aired on WGRZ TV and other Gannett-owned stations in the late 1990s. The show was broadcast on Saturday nights at 11:30, pushing Saturday Night Live back to midnight.
The Eyes of Nye is a science program that aired on public television in the United States in 2005 and featured Bill Nye. The show was more sophisticated than its predecessor Bill Nye the Science Guy, as it was aimed more toward adults and teenagers than children. The creation of the show was motivated by the success of the television program Bill Nye the Science Guy, as well as a widespread contempt among scientists for scientific journalism in the media. The program was based in Seattle, Washington, produced by Buena Vista Television and broadcast during primetime by KCTS, the local PBS affiliate.
Rainn Dietrich Wilson is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom The Office, for which he earned three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is an American comedy-drama television series created and primarily written by Aaron Sorkin. The series was about the production of a live comedy series, similar to Saturday Night Live. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ran on NBC for 22 episodes, from September 18, 2006 to June 28, 2007. On May 14, 2007, NBC cancelled the series after one season. It is the only one of the four television shows created by Sorkin not to air for more than one season.
Shaun Williamson is an English actor, singer, media personality, and occasional presenter, best known for his role as Barry Evans in EastEnders and as a satirical version of himself in the BBC/HBO sitcom Extras.
Northwest Afternoon was a local television talk show in the United States. It aired weekdays at 3PM in the Puget Sound area of Washington. It was produced locally by Seattle TV station KOMO-TV Channel 4, and debuted in September 1984. The series ended its run on September 5, 2008 after a run of nearly 24 years.
Patrick Cashman is an American comedian and television and radio personality, based in the Seattle metropolitan area.
John Keister is a Seattle-based comedian, writer, rock critic, commentator and motivational speaker, best known as the host of the local comedy program Almost Live! from 1988 to 1999.
Tracey Conway is a Writer/Performer and was a regular cast member on KING-TV's Almost Live!, a Seattle-based sketch comedy show, from 1984 to 1999. Tracey came to the attention of the Almost Live! creative team while temping in the HR department of KING television as she pursued her theater acting career. Tracey joined the show full-time the fall of 1990 following her first appearance as the witness-on-the-street in Almost Live!’s infamous April Fool’s Day sketch-joke of The Space Needle Collapse. In 1992, just prior to the show starting its two year run on the Comedy Central network, Tracey won the northwest regional Emmy award for Best Talent. January 21st, 1995, at the close of a live taping of Almost Live!, Tracey‘s heart went into the potentially fatal arrhythmia Ventricular Fibrillation and she collapsed from Sudden Cardiac Arrest on the set of the show. At first, the audience thought they were being punked because the cast had done a sketch spoofing ER during the show. Fellow cast members knew this was not a planned/staged stuntfall. As Tracey‘s skin began to turn blue-gray show host John Keister turned to the audience urgently asking for anyone with medical training. There was no doctor, nurse or first responder in the audience, however a volunteer firefighter, Glen MacLellan stood up and suggested Tracey might be having heart problems. He ran down and begin administering CPR while a number of people in the audience and on the crew called 911. With the assistance of another audience member, Kurt Lyson, MacLellan continued CPR until the team of firefighters arrived and took over. They administered Tracey‘s first two defibrillator shocks and then a Medic One paramedic team arrived and continued life-saving efforts, entubating her, providing cardiac drugs and shocking her an additional four times with the defibrillator. After almost 20 minutes, following the sixth defibrillator shock, Tracey‘s heart converted out of V-Fib and begin to beat on its own. She was transported by Medic One to Harborview Medical Center the sole level one emergency hospital in the Northwest and was treated in the emergency cardiac care unit for four days. Following multiple tests that determined her cardiac arrest was idiopathic, she was transferred to Harborview’s sister hospital, the University of Washington Medical Center, where an ICD, was implanted in her chest. Two weeks after Tracey‘s collapse on the set of Almost Live!, she was back on set delivering a line during the live taping. She continued to be a full-time cast member and writer for the remainder of Almost Live!’s 15-year run.
Biz Kid$ is an American educational television series that teaches financial education and entrepreneurship to kids and teenagers. It uses sketch comedy, musical guests, guest and special guest appearances, and young actors to explain basic economic concepts. Its motto is: "Where kids teach kids about money and business." Biz Kid$ has been described as comparable to KING-TV’s Almost Live!, CBC Television’s Street Cents, KING-TV’s Watch This!, and The Mickey Mouse Club.
Christopher Andrew Cashman is an American egotist, voice actor, and Northwest Regional Emmy winner. He is the son of Seattle comic Pat Cashman.
Nancy Guppy is an American comedian and television personality from Seattle, Washington, U.S. She is perhaps best known from her time as a writer and cast member of KING-TV's Seattle-centric sketch comedy program Almost Live!, which ran for 15 years (1984-1999).
Up Late NW is a sketch comedy and variety television series, which premiered on September 19, 2015. The show is broadcast on Saturday nights across the Pacific Northwest; in Seattle on KING-TV at 1:05 AM (Pacific), following Saturday Night Live, and at 11:30 PM in Portland, Oregon on KOIN-TV; in Spokane, Washington on KREM; in Eugene, Oregon on KEVU-CD; and in Medford, Oregon on KDRV.