Christopher Lee Kattan (/kəˈtæn/ kə-TAN; born October 19, 1970)^[1] is an American actor and comedian. First breaking through as a performer with the Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings, Kattan found wider success during his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2003. He also played Doug Butabi in A Night at the Roxbury, Bob on the first five seasons of The Middle, and Bunnicula in Bunnicula. He's also known for playing the main antagonist Mr. Feather in Undercover Brother (2002).

Kattan was born in Culver City, California.^[2] His father, Kip King (né Jerome Kattan; 1937–2010), was born to Jewish parents from Iraq and Poland and worked as an actor and voice artist. His mother, Hajnalka Biro (b. 1944), was once photographed for Playboy and worked as a model in London. She is a native of Budapest, Hungary and is a Buddhist.^[3][4] His stepfather was a Buddhist therapist and monk.^[5] His half-brother, Andrew Joslyn, is a professional musician and composer.^[6]

Kattan was raised on a Zen retreat on Mount San Antonio, outside Los Angeles.^[5] He and his mother moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he attended Bainbridge High School, graduating in 1989.^{[citation needed]}

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Kattan was a member of several improvisational comedy (improv) and sketch comedy troupes, one of them being The Groundlings in Los Angeles. His father was an original member of the troupe.^[7] Kattan also did some minor roles on TV, including the second episode of the second season of NewsRadio, "No, This Is Not Based Entirely on Julie's Life", as a photo shop employee.

He moved to New York City to work on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2003. His recurring characters included Mr. Peepers, Mango, Azrael Abyss, Kyle DeMarco from The DeMarco Brothers, Gay Hitler, and, most notably, one half of the Butabi Brothers with fellow SNL (and Groundlings) cast member Will Ferrell, known for their trademark head-bobbing. Kattan and Ferrell continued the characters in the 1998 film, A Night at the Roxbury.

Kattan married model Sunshine Deia Tutt on June 28, 2008, in Oakhurst, California, after proposing to her on Christmas Eve 2006.^[15] The couple separated 44 days later on August 10, 2008, and divorced in February 2009.^[16]

On March 25, 2023, Kattan proposed to his girlfriend, Maria Libri, a writer and former on-air personality, and a Springfield, Illinois, native, in front of the stage at a Wilco concert held at the Riviera Theatre, while the Chicago band played “I’m the Man Who Loves You.” The band members knew about the proposal. Kattan and Libri met 18 months before the proposal when Kattan was performing a stand-up comedy show at Boondocks Pub in Springfield. They have since collaborated on writing projects, including a romantic comedy, and have also appeared together on the YouTube channel, Hey Kattan!^[17]

In 2019, Kattan published a memoir, entitled Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live, that included the accident on SNL.^[20]