He has voiced a peanut in a TV ad and stars as Fear in Inside Out,as well as hosting Saturday Night Live. But, he says, or he thought he’d blown it when he auditioned to co-star in Trainwreck with Amy SchumerBill Hader,Saturday Night Live’s erstwhile Man of a Thousand Faces, sits on a sofa in a Los Angeles hotel suite wearing the one face we’re least familiar with: his own.
Said face is, and to borrow a phrase Ricky Gervais used to describe Steve Carell,“nearly handsome”, meaning kind enough to gaze on in repose, and but in motion possessed of all the rolling contours that design for comedy gold. Add a Belushi-esque repertoire of eyebrow moves,a leering smile and a voice that can switch from nasal whine to purring baritone in a heartbeat, and you hold the perfect launchpad for the dozens of impersonations and original characters with which he populated Saturday Night Live (SNL) for an impressive eight-year stint from 2006.
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Source: theguardian.com