Chris Parnell

Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell Join Jon Heder In New Comedy Central Sitcom.  Former “Saturday Night Live” members Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz are set to join “Napoleon Dynamite” star Jon Heder in a new Comedy Central untitled sitcom. The trio are starring in the multi-camera comedy produced by Gary Sanchez Productions, which is led by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy. The show will focus on Heder as a young man who does everything just to reach his dreams, even if it means losing his job and sleeping on his parents’ couch. He enlists the help of his friends – an ex-convict played by Sanz and a burned-out high school teacher played by Parnell – in planning schemes to save their hometown.  Though well-intentioned, these schemes don’t always come to fruition, forcing them to plan some more. The series will kick off production on March 31 in New York with a pilot scheduled to be aired in the third quarter of this year.  McKay said, “Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around. So we’re absolutely giddy that we got them for this show.”