'Single Parents': 'SNL' alum Taran Killam's new show is definitely worth your time
'Saturday Night Live’ is known to breed some of the best comedians of the country, many of whom are masters at impersonation. However, what Taran Killam did on the NBC show was beyond anything we have seen before, he impersonated people who seemingly have no distinctive, impressionable characteristics – Brad Pitt, for example, or even Eminem. We have also seen him bring characters like 1860s critic Jebidiah Atkinson and the co-host of the ‘J-Pop America Fun Time Now!’ but for the first time we get to see him play a more realistic, grounded character and we are all for it.
While Killam has been busy doing films and theatre on the side – which included the slave abductor Abram Hamilton in ‘12 Years a Slave’ and King George III in the Broadway production of ‘Hamilton’ - ‘Single Parents,’ which is set to premiere on September 26 will be the more grounded, realistic character that we will see him perform. In it, he will play a seemingly helpless, hopeless single parent stuck in what his co-star Leighton Meester's Angie calls the “parenthood vortex" - of which his mermaid bag and tearaway pants are visual representations.
