Douglas Powers, commonly known as Dr. Evil, is a fictional character portrayed by
Evil was based partially on Michaels, but also on another actor. “The Dr. Evil voice is a little bit Lorne Michaels, there are no two ways about it, but there is a lot more Donald Pleasence in there than Lorne. Lorne has a pinky thing, but he doesn't do it anymore,” Myers said then.
Evil character from him and used the creation in the Austin Powers movies. On The Howard Stern Show in 2016, Carvey claimed he originated Dr. Evil as an impression of Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, back when Carvey and Myers starred on the show.
Austin Powers was a character seen as a parody of James Bond, and being influenced by Evelyn Tremble (played by Peter Sellers) in the spoof James Bond 1967 movie Casino Royale.
In popular culture. In The Kids in the Hall movie Brain Candy, the character of Don Roritor was based heavily on actor Mark McKinney's impersonation of Lorne Michaels.
On October 11, 1975, Saturday Night Live (SNL), a topical comedy sketch show featuring Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman, makes its debut on NBC.
Stuart Smalley is a fictional character created and performed by comedian and satirist Al Franken. The character originated on the television show Saturday Night Live, in a mock self-help show called "Daily Affirmations With Stuart Smalley." It first aired on the show's February 9, 1991 episode hosted by Kevin Bacon.
He is a parody of James Bond villains, primarily Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Basil is a parody of the M character in the James Bond franchise.
Goldmember is a loose parody of the James Bond films Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice, also incorporating elements of Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me and GoldenEye.
Austin Powers. Austin Powers is a film series created by Canadian comedian Mike Myers. Many of the characters throughout the franchise are parodies of Bond characters, including Myers' character of the same name. Myers has said that Sean Connery was the inspiration for his character, especially Powers' thick chest hair ...
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Bigglesworth is the infamous cat of Dr. Evil in the James Bond spoof series, Austin Powers. He is actually played by two different cats of two different breeds!
How he got it: The origins of Dr. Evil's facial scar aren't explained in any of the “Austin Powers” movies, but Wikipedia says the wound is a result of Mensur fencing, which definitely sounds like something Dr. Evil would do.
Following a series of appearances on several Canadian television programs, Myers came to recognition during his six seasons as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995, which won him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
Deborah Myers was a major character in the remake of Halloween and the mother of Michael Myers, Judith Myers, Angel Myers. Deborah Myers is played by Sheri Moon Zombie.
As revealed in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, a group of druids belonging to Halloween's Cult of Thorn placed a curse on Michael when he was an infant. This curse causes him to be possessed by Thorn, a demonic force that requires its host to sacrifice their family on Samhain (now known as Halloween night).
Basil is a boy's name of Greek origin. Along with referring to the eponymous herb, Basil also translates to “royal” and “kingly.” It originally stems from the Greek name Basileios, who was a ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
The green leafy herb has a history steeped in folklore. In India, it was used to ward off evil and was considered sacred. Europeans in the Middle Ages thought that basil caused the spontaneous generation of scorpions and that even smelling basil could lead to an unfortunate case of scorpions in one's brain.
Bond's first encounter with Oberhauser has the villain cry "cuckoo". This is a reference to Bond being a "cuckoo in the nest", the foreigner disrupting the happiness of Oberhauser's family life. Franz Oberhauser is supposed to be the son of the Fleming-created character, Hannes Oberhauser.
In Spectre, Waltz's Blofeld was provided with an entirely new backstory, controversially revealing him to be Bond's own adopted brother.
Blofeld is also heard describing Madeleine as a "daughter of SPECTRE." Ultimately, nothing came of the idea. No Time To Die made no suggestion whatsoever that Madeleine and Blofeld were blood-related, and any lines that might've been interpreted as such proved wholly figurative.
Known for his lying character, Tommy Flanagan, from his years on “Saturday Night Live,” fans thought it was time for Lovitz to dust off his famous teller of untruths and return to TV as George Santos.
While attending St. Catherine University for visual arts, Collins was asked to leave in response to an act of graffiti she and her fellow art program friends had committed. Collins is in remission from a rare form of cancer known as gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST).
His decade on MADtv was marked by a number of popular recurring characters, including Stuart, Bible Dude, and Rusty Miller, to name a few.