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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
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Raw
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
American Dad!
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
The Simpsons
Bob's Burgers
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Rick and Morty
Craig of the Creek
We Bare Bears
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
30 Rock
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
The League
Drunk History
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
No Activity
Lab Rats
The Cleveland Show
The Afterparty
Krapopolis
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Sausage Party: Foodtopia
That '90s Show
How I Met Your Mother
Future Man
Somebody Feed Phil
The Shivering Truth
Flight of the Conchords
Parks and Recreation
Drawn Together
Up All Night
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
The Life & Times of Tim
Grown Ups 2
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
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
Tour de Pharmacy
Staten Island Summer
Rock of Ages
Baby Mama
Gravity Falls
Around the World in 80 Days
The Laundromat
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Keanu
Studio 666
The Watch
Good Boys
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
Beerfest
The Ridiculous 6
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Booksmart
America: The Motion Picture
The Four Seasons
That's My Boy
Bodkin
Strays
Kinda Pregnant
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Sit Down Shut Up
Skott & Behr
The Great North
Moonbeam City
Sweet Tooth
Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
Young Person's Guide to History
Thelma the Unicorn
Nebraska
MacGruber
Expiration Date
Haunted Hotel
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Win or Lose
Clone High
MacGruber
The Willoughbys
The Last Man on Earth
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Scoob!
Clone High
Flipped
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That '70s Show
Saturday Night Live
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MTV Movie & TV Awards
3rd Rock from the Sun
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