Meadows was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the son of Mardell, a nurse\'s assistant, and Lathon Meadows, a janitor. He studied television and radio broadcasting at Wayne State University.\n', '

Meadows began performing improvisational comedy at the Soup Kitchen Saloon. Meadows\' start in show business was in Chicago as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future star Chris Farley. In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on Saturday Night Live and would go on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on the program until 2000. (Meadows was on the show for ten seasons; this was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005, whose record was also surpassed by Kenan Thompson in 2017.) Meadows\' lengthy tenure on the show was used as a gag in three monologues when former cast members Phil Hartman and Mike Myers returned to the show to host, and when Alec Baldwin hosted for his twelfth time.\n', '

Meadows often spoofed famous personalities including O. J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and Erykah Badu on SNL, and one time remarked that he had no character that was identified to him, such as Wayne and Garth being identified to Mike Myers and Dana Carvey.[citation needed] Eventually he did get an original character with Leon Phelps, "The Ladies\' Man", a perpetually horny talk show host who falsely believed himself to be the living definition of what women search for in a man. The character was adapted into a 2000 film, The Ladies Man, which followed the character\'s attempts to find love and a suitable outlet for his beloved radio program. In 2001, he co-starred in Three Days (2001); in 2003 he appeared as Miles McDermott in The Even Stevens Movie.\n', '

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