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Nicole Frances Parker (born February 21, 1978) is an American actress best known for her work on Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company , commonly referred to as Fox , is an American television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, from 2004 to 2009 Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the 18–49 demographic...

's sketch comedy
Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 show MADtv
MADtv
MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series. It licenses the name and logo of Mad, but otherwise has no connection with the humor magazine outside of animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts and images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s. Its first TV...

. She is the longest-serving female actress on the show since 2003. She concluded her run as Elphaba
Elphaba
Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, Wicked. In the original L. Frank Baum book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West is unnamed and we know little about...

 in the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...

 production of Wicked
Wicked (musical)
Wicked is a Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End musical, with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L...

in July 2009.

Early life


In her hometown of Irvine
Irvine, California
Irvine is an incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28, 1971, the 69.7 square mile city has a population of about 212,793...

, California
California
California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

, she performed at South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California.SCR, founded in 1964 and continuing today under the leadership of Artistic Directors David Emmes and Martin Benson, is widely regarded as one of America's foremost producers of new plays...

 and Laguna Playhouse. She also studied Theatre and Voice at Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. It is also known as Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, or simply IU, and is located in Bloomington, Indiana....

 and performed in an improv troupe called The Original Full Frontal Comedy. After college, Parker performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place in Scotland's capital during three weeks every August alongside several other arts and cultural festivals, collectively known as the...

, the Second City
The Second City
The Second City is a long-running improvisational comedy enterprise which originated in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.The Second City Theatre opened on December 16, 1959 and has since expanded its presence to several other cities, including Toronto and Los Angeles...

 in Chicago, Bloemendaal
Bloemendaal
Bloemendaal is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.-Population centres :The municipality of Bloemendaal consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Bennebroek, Bloemendaal, Aerdenhout, Bloemendaal aan Zee, Overveen, and...

, Unhinged Academy and Groningen
Groningen (city)
||-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |}Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. With a population of 185,000, it is by far the largest city in the north of the Netherlands....

. In addition, she and some college friends formed a theater company in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 called Waterwell Productions. Parker moved to Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...

 for two years, where she performed in the comedy show Boom Chicago
Boom Chicago
Boom Chicago is a creative group, based in Amsterdam, that writes and performs sketch and improvisational comedy at the Leidseplein Theater. They are the creative forces behind Comedy Central News , a high-rated show on the Dutch Comedy Central and make videos for the internet and mobile.The group...

 alongside MADtv alumni Ike Barinholtz
Ike Barinholtz
Isaac "Ike" Barinholtz is an American actor and comedian. Barinholtz is most notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv from 2002-2007.-Early life:...

 and Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele is a comic actor. Peele is most notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv.-MADtv:...

.

MADtv


Parker joined the cast of MADtv in 2003 as a featured performer for the ninth season. She was later promoted to cast member status the following season. Parker's most noteworthy characters include Inside Looking Out host Pat-Beth LaMontrose and the carefree yet naive Disney Girl.

She has a tremendous celebrity impressionist list, often in the form of imitating pop-music stars in parody music videos which makes her arguably the Queen of Music Parodies.

Parker left the show on the first week of November 2008, but appeared in pretaped sketches until MADtvs series finale in 2009.

Characters (as seen on MADtv)

  • Annetta Bussley (The Lillian Verner Game Show)
  • Beth (Sean the Floor Leader)
  • Candy Matsumoto (Hello Hollywood/Iraq, Hello!)
  • Charlene (Baby Joey)
  • Disney Girl
  • Pat-Beth LaMontrose (Inside Looking Out)
  • Tori McLachlan, a singer/songwriter who performs depressing songs
  • Toni Horse (Fashion Surprise)
  • Elisssa (Girlicous)
  • Amy Little (Nice White Lady)
  • Sharon (Teller Conference)

Memorable impersonations



  • Britney Spears
    Britney Spears
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  • Ellen DeGeneres
    Ellen DeGeneres
    Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and is also a judge on American Idol, having joined the show in its ninth season.She has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a...

  • Paula Abdul
    Paula Abdul
    Paula Julie Abdul is an American pop singer, record producer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality....

  • Kathy Griffin
    Kathy Griffin
    Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin is an American actress, stand-up comedian, media personality, and LGBT rights advocate. A self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity", Griffin first gained recognition for appearances on two episodes of Seinfeld, and then for her supporting role on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan...

  • Ashlee Simpson
    Ashlee Simpson
    Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is an American pop rock singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Simpson-Wentz, who is the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson, rose to prominence in mid-2004 through the success of her number-one debut album Autobiography and the accompanying reality series The Ashlee...

  • Jessica Simpson
    Jessica Simpson
    Jessica Ann Simpson is an American singer, actress, and television personality who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality...

  • Hillary Rodham Clinton
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  • Joy Behar
    Joy Behar
    Josephina Victoria "Joy" Behar is an American comedian, writer, actress, and a co-host of the talk show The View...

  • Kelly Clarkson
    Kelly Clarkson
    Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002....

  • Rachael Ray
    Rachael Ray
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  • Kim Kardashian
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  • Dina Lohan
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  • Ashley Tisdale
    Ashley Tisdale
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  • Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball
    Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy...

  • Celine Dion
    Celine Dion
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  • Cat Deeley
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  • Renee Zellweger
    Renée Zellweger
    Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire , and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary ...

  • Fergie
  • Sarah Palin
    Sarah Palin
    Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009 and was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States in 2008....

  • Nancy Grace
    Nancy Grace
    Nancy Ann Grace is an American legal commentator, television host, and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a victims' rights standpoint, with an outspoken style that has won her both praise and condemnation...

  • Lauren Conrad
    Lauren Conrad
    thumb|right|Lauren Conrad, 2008Lauren Katherine Conrad is an American television personality, actress, celebutante, author and fashion designer...

  • Norah Jones
    Norah Jones
    Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and actress of Anglo-American and Indian-Bengali descent. She is the daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Anoushka Shankar...

  • Jodie Foster
    Jodie Foster
    Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is an American actor, film director and producer.Foster began acting in commercials at 3 years old, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute, Iris, for which she received a nomination for the...

  • Kim Basinger
    Kim Basinger
    Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger is an American film actress and former fashion model.Following her role as a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again , Basinger received a Golden Globe nomination for her work in The Natural...

  • Sarah Jessica Parker
    Sarah Jessica Parker
    Sarah Jessica Parker is an American film, television and theatre actress and producer. She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City, for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Emmy Awards...

  • Jennifer Connelly
    Jennifer Connelly
    Jennifer Lynn Connelly is an American film actress and former child model. Although starring as early as a teenager in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Labyrinth and Career Opportunities, she gained critical acclaim following her work in the 2000 drama Requiem for a Dream, and the 2001...

  • Julie Andrews
    Julie Andrews
    Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is a British film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours...

  • Teri Hatcher
    Teri Hatcher
    Teri Lynn Hatcher is an American actress who is best known for her roles as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, as Susan Mayer in Desperate Housewives and as Paris Carver in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies...

  • Judy Garland
    Judy Garland
    Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy...

  • Katie Holmes
    Katie Holmes
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  • James Blunt
    James Blunt
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  • Amy Winehouse
    Amy Winehouse
    Amy Jade Winehouse is an English singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B, soul, jazz, rock & roll, and ska. Winehouse is best known for her soulful, powerful contralto vocals....

  • Nelly Furtado
    Nelly Furtado
    Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold over 18 million albums worldwide, and currently resides in Toronto...


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Broadway musical career


In 2004 Parker was Nominated for Jeff Award nomination for Best Actress in a Principal Role: Musical, for her performance in The People vs. Friar Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet.

From July 2006 to January 2007, Parker performed in
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me comedy musical.

In 2008 to protest the passage of Proposition 8, musical theatre
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 composer Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, arranger, and performer for films, television, and theatre.-Personal life:...

 wrote a satiric
Satire
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods,...

 mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical". The three-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com beginning on December 3, 2008. It was written and produced in just a few days. The cast includes Jack Black
Jack Black
Jack Black , is an American actor and musician, notably of Tenacious D.Jack Black may also refer to:* Jack Black , late 19th - early 20th Century author and hobo* Jack Black , drummer for 70s UK punk band The Boys...

, Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor. Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother and a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold & Kumar series...

, John C. Reilly
John C. Reilly
John Christopher Reilly is an American actor. Debuting in Casualties of War in 1989, he is one of several actors whose careers were launched by Brian De Palma. To date, he has appeared in more than fifty film productions, including three separate films in 2002, each of which were nominated for...

, Allison Janney
Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress, best known for her role as C. J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing.- Personal life :...

, Andy Richter
Andy Richter
Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter is an American actor, writer and comedian. He is best known for his sidekick role on Late Night with Conan O'Brien between 1993 and 2000...

, Maya Rudolph
Maya Rudolph
Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress and comedian, known as a former cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live. She is the daughter of late soul singer Minnie Riperton and song writer/music producer Richard Rudolph...

, Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho
Moran "Margaret" Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, gay icon, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race, sexuality, and sex...

, Rashida Jones
Rashida Jones
Rashida Leah Jones is an American actress, model, and musician, best-known for her portrayal of Louisa Fenn on Boston Public, Karen Filippelli on The Office and Zooey Rice in I Love You, Man...

, and Sarah Chalke
Sarah Chalke
Sarah Cassandra Chalke is a Canadian actress with dual American and Canadian citizenship, best known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC comedy Scrubs, Becky Conner Healy on Roseanne, and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.-Early life:Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario,...

. It was directed by Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman
Adam Michael Shankman is an American film director, producer, dancer, actor and choreographer. He has been a judge on the television program So You Think You Can Dance since Season 3. He began his professional career in musical theatre, and was a dancer in music videos for Paula Abdul and Janet...

. The video satirizes Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who Christians believe was the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the Son of God.The term "Christian" is also used adjectivally to...

 churches that selectively pick and choose
Cafeteria Christianity
"Cafeteria Christianity" is a derogatory term used by some Christians to accuse other Christian individuals or denominations of selecting which Christian doctrines they will follow, and which they will not....

 Christian doctrines to follow. Among other comic assertions in the video is a song alleging that gay marriage would save the economy, inspired by a UCLA study finding that legalization of gay marriage would provide $370M in additional revenue to California
California
California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

's economy. It received 1.2 million hits in its first day.

On January 16, 2009 Parker took over the role of Elphaba
Elphaba
Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, Wicked. In the original L. Frank Baum book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West is unnamed and we know little about...

 from Marcie Dodd
Marcie Dodd
- Early life and career :Dodd was born in Yuba City, California, the third of four children. Her father was an agricultural consultant and her mother was a piano teacher. She attended Bethany College in Santa Cruz County, California with a major in music from 1997 to 1999. In 1999, she...

 in the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...

 production of the musical Wicked
Wicked (musical)
Wicked is a Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End musical, with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L...

. She played her final performance on July 19, 2009 and was replaced by former Chicago Elphaba Dee Roscioli
Dee Roscioli
Dee Roscioli is an American actress. She graduated from Wilson Area High School in 1995 and DeSales University in 1999...

.

Theatre roles

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Fuenteovejuna Laurencia Musical (Regional)
2003 Stuck Director Improv Play (Regional)
2004 The Magic Flute Pamina Musical (Regional)
2004 Romeo and Juliet Musical: The People vs. Friar Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet Juliet Musical (Regional)
2006 - 2007 Martin Short
Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short, CM is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live.-Early life:...

: Fame Becomes Me
Various Characters Comedy Musical (Broadway)
2007 - 2008 Suitcase Full of Lies Jillane Jenkins Comedy Musical (Regional)
2008 Proposition 8: The Musical California Gays and The People That Love Them Comedy Musical
2009 Wicked
Wicked (musical)
Wicked is a Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End musical, with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L...

Elphaba Musical (Broadway)

Television roles

Year Title Role Notes Episode Count
2003-2009 MADtv
MADtv
MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series. It licenses the name and logo of Mad, but otherwise has no connection with the humor magazine outside of animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts and images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s. Its first TV...

Various Characters Sketch Comedy 113 Episodes
2005 Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List is a reality show starring Kathy Griffin and airing on Bravo. The show made its debut in August 2005. The show follows the struggle of self-proclaimed "D-list" celebrity Kathy Griffin to climb the Hollywood ladder. This often includes scheming for publicity with...

Herself Comedy/Reality 1 Episode


Film roles

Year Title Role Notes Box Office Performance
2007 Four Years as Stacy Short Film Comedy Movie
2008
2008 in film
The year 2008 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...

Meet the Spartans
Meet the Spartans
Meet The Spartans is a parody film directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Similar to past movies, such as Scary Movie and Date Movie, it directs parodies at various films...

as Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to...

, Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul is an American pop singer, record producer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality....

, Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American socialite, heiress, media personality, model, singer, author, fashion designer and actress....

 and Ellen Degeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and is also a judge on American Idol, having joined the show in its ninth season.She has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a...

Parody Movie $84,021,565.
2008 Disaster Movie
Disaster Movie
Disaster Movie is a 2008 parody film. It is written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, and stars Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, Matt Lanter, Nicole Parker, Crista Flanagan, Vanessa Minnillo, and Ike Barinholtz...

as Enchanted Princess, Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson is an American singer, actress, and television personality who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality...

, Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse is an English singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B, soul, jazz, rock & roll, and ska. Winehouse is best known for her soulful, powerful contralto vocals....

Parody Movie $31,683,375
2009
2009 in film
The year 2009 has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top-grossing films:...

Weathered as Weather Wellington Short Film Drama Movie
2009 Funny People
Funny People
Funny People is an American comedy-drama film, written, co-produced, and directed by Judd Apatow, and starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen as stand-up comedians. The film was released on July 31, 2009 in North America, and on August 28, 2009 in the United Kingdom. Funny People implements more...

as Dawn Comedy-Drama Movie $50,200,497

Award wins and nominations

Year Result Award Category Nominated Work
2004 Nominated Jeff Award Best Actress in a Principal Role Musical, The People vs. Friar Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet
2006 Won Emmy Award
Emmy Award
The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics MADtv
MADtv
MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series. It licenses the name and logo of Mad, but otherwise has no connection with the humor magazine outside of animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts and images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s. Its first TV...

 For the song "A Wonderfully Normal Day" For episode Episode 1111.
2007 Nominated Emmy Award Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics MADtv
MADtv
MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series. It licenses the name and logo of Mad, but otherwise has no connection with the humor magazine outside of animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts and images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s. Its first TV...

 For the song "Merry Ex-Mas" For episode #1209
2009 Won GLAAD Media Awards
GLAAD Media Awards
The GLAAD Media Awards were created in 1990 by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives."-Davidson/Valentini...

Special Recognition Prop 8: The Musical
2009 Won Damah Film Festival Best Actress (Audience Award) Short Film, Weathered