Although he has never been as big as Will Ferrell or Jimi Falon, Chris Katan was a "live Saturday night" player since he signed. He was known for playing unusual characters, perhaps the most for the monkey Mr -Din Pipers. It is a character that is aggressive, strange and fueled by confidence. If Katan descended even for a moment here, if he showed even the strongest sign of self -doubt, the sketch would not work. Instead, she became one of the most famous SNL characters that came out of the 1990s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F06cepsgwry

But despite how popular Catan was in the late 1990s and early 00th, he rarely returns for SNL's SNL these days, nor seem to be in many TV shows or films lately. How can the boy behind Mango and Gay Hitler become such a subsequent history in the history of SNL? Officially, Chris Katan left SNL because it was time to keep going and do more. By May 2003, he was on the show for eight seasons, which was considered many in the days of Pre-Kenan Thompson. Like fun weekly reported At that time:

"All the great things have to end, and this seemed to be a great time to leave," Katan said. "You can't do seven seasons at college, and you always want to leave when you still love the show, not bitter." In addition, at the SNL, he did it all: "I had to spit on Apple in the face of Tom Hanks and engulfed J. Lo's butt.

But despite Catan's framing of SNL as a college, which means his real career has just begun, the SNL is still an undisputed Catan high -end comedy. The lack of impressive next phase of Katan's career was a source of confusion among many SNL fans, at least until his short appearance of "dancing with Starswells" in 2017 prompted him to explain what was going wrong.

As a "dancing with the stars" competitor, Katan was quickly eliminated and criticized by judges for his strange hard dance performance. Shortly after that episode was aired, Katan revealed he would break his neck during the 2001 SNL trick. The sketch, where Katan played an impressive child, who hurt himself, trying to shelter Betty White's image of "Golden Girls", has a moment when Katan falls and hits the head of the floor.

The clip is not on YouTube, but you can find it on the NBC "SNL" page. The fall does not look so serious, and Katan himself did not understand how serious it was at the moment. "I think when you break your neck, at least in my experience, you don't know how it feels because you have never broken your neck before," he Explained in an interview for 2019. "So, it's just exciting. Even Buster Keaton, he broke his neck and didn't even know it.

Since neck injuries can be complicated, doctors hardly thought it was wrong with the neck and exactly how to fix it. As he explained in his book "Baby, don't hurt me", he had to go through five neck surgeries before he felt even a little back to normal. The pain of experience also led to being addicted to painkillers, which contributed to the destruction of his first marriage.

And, even after all, he has not yet returned to his former self: even in 2017, the injury made it difficult for his dance skills. Some may claim that Katan is just trying to save his face by blaming his neck injury to his bad dancing, but let's be true: we saw Catan's vigorous and physical appearances on the SNL pre-day. There is no chance of dancing so badly in a world where he has never hurt his neck.

The neck injury damages Katan's career, not just because he cost him constant pain and lost a lot of time, but because they were expensive and that tightened his relationship with Ann -Bi. Of the five operations he had, Katan said that Ann -BI paid for two of them, and they later denied any official record that he was breaking his neck. "It wasn't something they wanted to make a deal," Katan explained. "And I'm also not surprised that they would say that it didn't happen, because it's a very little moment, somebody's hurt, injury to the cast. And for me, it's like 20 years of my life."

Katan was not too disturbed by the SNL and the NBC for this, however, because he also wanted to minimize the injury during his time in the show. As he explained:

"I didn't want to make a noise. They're family. You know." SNL "It's not just like a show for me.

In 2025, for the 50th anniversary of the show, Katan clearly clearly in An interview for fun tonight That he still sees the play favorable despite all the difficulties that come from. Asked what he thinks that the show's inheritance will be, he replied: "Heritage is only completely amazing talent and where they come from.

Chris Katan did not return to the SNL host, but he returned to the series on several special occasions. He made several items in the years immediately after leaving, followed by three more in 2006, 2011 and 2012. In those last performances, Katan remained in relatively immobile roles, and in some of them (as well as his revenge on the song "I wish you Christmas today", he definitely seemed stronger than he used to be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=892XPKB5-Ku

"Whenever I come back to visit it, everyone opens their hands and are so cute," Katan said in that variety interview. "It's a different energy than when you were in the cast. It's healthier. For some reason you will leave and come back to visit or return to the guest spot, Lorne (Michaels) and everyone, they miss a lot. And you miss the show. That's one of the healthiest relationships.

Katan also returned to the show 50th anniversary specialwhere he spoke positively For shower Lorne Michaels. He noted that there would be many sketch ideas during his not landing term, as he thought he would do it, but he would calm down in that he knew that "Lorn knows what he is doing." Asked if he could remember some good advice that Michaels gave, Katan replied, "No, he just said" a good thing ", that's the best thing he told me."

While Katan's neck injury threw a huge key in his post-SNL career, he still enjoyed some significant roles in comedy over the years. He was a regular character in the first three seasons of ABC -Sitom "Middle", Arrwar as a sweet but lonely associate of the main character Frankie. When Frankie lost his job in Season 4 and had to move his careers, the character of Katan quietly dropped out of the show. However, Bob is well remembered by the "middle" fans.

Around the same time, starred in the "middle", Katan He appeared in "How I met your mother." There, he played an actor in a movie about the main character Ted Mosby. The name of the character was Edad Mosley, and he was basically what would be Ted if he was total unusual. The joke is that although we know that Ted is not that bad, all the other characters act as an Edid is the perfect impression of him. The character was memorable enough that Himim returned four seasons later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad6RU2TGYTQ

Post-SNL of Catan could not be as impressive as his fans may have been hoping in 2003, but it certainly wasn't without his precious stones.