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Darryl Hammond is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on October 8, 1955 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was often He would often portray Chris Matthews in a parody of his show Hardball on Saturday Night Live. in an homage to the show Hardball during Saturday Night Live.

He played baseball in high school and at Brevard Community College. In high school, he was a teammate of San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy. He went on to attend the University of Florida, where he graduated in 1978 with a degree in advertising and a 2.1 GPA. He credits UF theater professor David Shelton for encouraging his work. After completing college, Hammond moved to New York City where he worked as a waiter, studied at HB Studio, played roles in theater productions, performed one set at a comedy club at age 26, and then returned to Florida, where he became a voiceover artist in the Orlando area.

In the late 1980s, Hammond said that he worked briefly as a stand-up comedian on Premier Cruise Line ships. One evening, while the ship was docked in the Bahamas, Hammond says he visited a restaurant, where he consumed the equivalent of 16 shots of rum. He claimed that a man repeatedly pestered him throughout the evening to take a dollar bill with trace amounts of cocaine on it. When the comedian left the bar to use the restroom, the man followed him into the stall and told him, “I think you should take this with you.” Believing he was about to be mugged, he relented, and the man placed the bill inside Hammond’s pocket. Local police were waiting outside the restroom and quickly arrested him. According to Hammond, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration later told him that the episode had been a setup, and that local authorities regularly entrap American tourists; he spent a weekend in a crude jail cell. Hammond was released after his father traveled to the Bahamas and paid $3,000 for his son’s release.

He has one daughter with his wife Elizabeth and whom he initially married in the year 1986. After divorce in 1994, they were married again in 1997.

When he quit Saturday Night Live in 2009 after having been on the show since the show was running, he was 53 years old. He was the oldest member of the cast in the history of the show.

Darrell Clayton Hammond (born October 8, 1955) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2009, and has been its announcer since 2014.