Jeff Richards (actor, born 1974)

As a standup comedian, Richards has opened for Chris Kattan, Andrew Dice Clay, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Louie Anderson, and Andy Dick. He has appeared as a guest on Marc Maron's WTF podcast as well as on Aqua Teen Hunger Force and NBC's Late Night. In October 2020, Richards launched "The Jeff Richards Show", a new podcast - guests have included Alec Baldwin, Bob Saget, Brad Garrett, Tommy Chong and more.

In an episode of The Big 3 Podcast which was released on June 8, 2012, Jeff Richards made an appearance where he played Dr Tommy Morris, a psychiatrist with a bachelors degree from The University of Idaho (28:00) This episode became one of the most viewed episodes of the podcast. As reported in Entertainment Weekly, Richards recently launched his own podcast, featuring one of his impressions interviewing celebrity guests. Moviemaker magazine described it as a "very funny, mindbending show where [Richards] uses deepfakes to mimic celebrities interviewing other celebrities."

Richards produced a comedic album titled A$$WAX which was released on iTunes on March 3, 2009; a portion of the proceeds from the album's sales was used to fight world hunger. Richard also performed in a series of comedy benefit shows called "Asswax 4 Hunger" in 2009; the shows were hosted by friend Kato Kaelin. Richards and Kaelin also hosted a podcast called In Pod We Trust in 2011.

In 2009 Richards played the character of Jerome Murphy in episode 3 of the ABC science fiction series FlashForward. That same year Richards appeared in the pilot episode of a sitcom created by comedian Bill Burr called The Burr Effect which appeared on Comedy Central; the series did not get picked up by the network.

In 2007 he appeared on episode 22 of Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen along with comics Jeff Jena, Natasha Leggero, and Mike Epps.

In 2000, Richards became a featured player in the cast of MADtv, appearing in 3 episodes of the show's 6th season. The following year Richards joined the cast of Saturday Night Live during its 27th season, making him the first person to be a cast-member of both sketch comedy shows (Taran Killam would later become the only other performer to do so). Richards was promoted to repertory status for SNL's 29th season although he left the show after the 10th episode, which aired on January 17, 2004. In interviews, Richards has stated that he left the show on his own terms.

In 2004 Richards appeared in the Comedy Central year-end retrospective special Last Laugh '04 as Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly. In 2006 he again portrayed O'Reilly in episode of Mind of Mencia titled "Carlos Smoov".

Richards has also done voice work which includes characters in the 2004 video game EverQuest II, a character in the 2006 MTV animated series Where My Dogs At? and in 2010 he played the voice of Brad Pitt in an episode titled "The Wedding" of the FOX sitcom 'Til Death.

Jeffrey Hanson Richards (born October 21, 1974) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. Richards was the first person to be a cast member on both MADtv and its rival sketch show, Saturday Night Live (SNL). He is perhaps best known for his frequent SNL character "Drunk Girl".