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Will Forte
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Orville Willis Forte IV (/ˈfɔːrteɪ/ FOR-tay; born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He was a cast member and writer on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for eight seasons from 2002 to 2010. During his time on the show, he played a recurring character that led to a feature film adaptation, MacGruber (2010), and a streaming limited series in 2021. Forte also created and starred in the sitcom The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018). He received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the series: two for acting and one for writing. After obtaining a history degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and becoming a financial broker like his father, Forte changed his career path to comedy and took classes with the improv group The Groundlings. Before joining Saturday Night Live, he worked as a writer and producer on 3rd Rock from the Sun and That '70s Show. Forte played various roles in comedy before starring in the drama film Nebraska (2013). He has provided voice work for the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films (2009–2013), My Life as a Courgette, Get Squirrely (2016), Luis & the Aliens (2018), The Willoughbys and Scoob! (2020), also voicing Eddy in Disney XD's Lab Rats, and Abraham Lincoln in Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024), The Lego Movie films (2014–2019), Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops (2014), America: The Motion Picture (2021), Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023) and Sausage Party: Foodtopia (2024–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Forte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Orville Willis Forte IV (/ˈfɔːrteɪ/ FOR-tay; born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He was a cast member and writer on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for eight seasons from 2002 to 2010. During his time on the show, he played a recurring character that led to a feature film adaptation, MacGruber (2010), and a streaming limited series in 2021. Forte also created and starred in the sitcom The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018). He received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the series: two for acting and one for writing. After obtaining a history degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and becoming a financial broker like his father, Forte changed his career path to comedy and took classes with the improv group The Groundlings. Before joining Saturday Night Live, he worked as a writer and producer on 3rd Rock from the Sun and That '70s Show. Forte played various roles in comedy before starring in the drama film Nebraska (2013). He has provided voice work for the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films (2009–2013), My Life as a Courgette, Get Squirrely (2016), Luis & the Aliens (2018), The Willoughbys and Scoob! (2020), also voicing Eddy in Disney XD's Lab Rats, and Abraham Lincoln in Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024), The Lego Movie films (2014–2019), Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops (2014), America: The Motion Picture (2021), Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023) and Sausage Party: Foodtopia (2024–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Forte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
Raw
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
American Dad!
The Simpsons
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Bob's Burgers
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Rick and Morty
30 Rock
Craig of the Creek
We Bare Bears
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
The League
Drunk History
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
No Activity
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Sweet Tooth
Lab Rats
The Cleveland Show
Krapopolis
The Afterparty
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
That '90s Show
How I Met Your Mother
Future Man
The Shivering Truth
Flight of the Conchords
Parks and Recreation
Up All Night
Drawn Together
The Life & Times of Tim
Grown Ups 2
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Saturday Night Live
22 Jump Street
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Horrible Bosses 2
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
The Lego Movie
Staten Island Summer
Tour de Pharmacy
Baby Mama
Gravity Falls
Rock of Ages
Around the World in 80 Days
The Laundromat
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Keanu
Studio 666
Good Boys
The Watch
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
Beerfest
The Ridiculous 6
Booksmart
Sausage Party: Foodtopia
That's My Boy
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
America: The Motion Picture
The Four Seasons
Bodkin
Strays
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Sit Down Shut Up
Kinda Pregnant
Skott & Behr
Moonbeam City
Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
The Great North
Young Person's Guide to History
Thelma the Unicorn
Nebraska
The Last Man on Earth
The Willoughbys
Win or Lose
Scoob!
MacGruber
Haunted Hotel
Expiration Date
MacGruber
Flipped
Clone High
Clone High
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Production Credits
MTV Movie & TV Awards
3rd Rock from the Sun
Saturday Night Live
Expiration Date
That '70s Show
MacGruber
MacGruber
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