“I turned down Second City, which is again a pretty stupid thing to do, but on the other hand, I was on MADtv for three seasons and wound up staying on in L.A. for two years after that. Enjoyed you on Getting Doug last week as well! It wasn’t much of a surprise that the National Theatre School accepted Pederson as a student, but it is jarring to learn he turned it down to do a play directed by Ron Jenkins, who is mounting Pith! Years on Madtv 6 (4 guest starring years) Occupation Actor, Comedian Years Active 1990-present William Christopher Sasso (born May 24, 1975) was a Canadian-American cast member from Season 3-Season 7. Over the next eight years he performed weekly on the soap, worked with notable guest stars Mark McKinney, Mike Myers and Joe Flaherty, and completed the Die-Nasty Annual 53-Hour Soap-A-Thon. In 1995, at the invitation of Dana Andersen, Pederson joined the cast of the live improvised soap opera Die-Nasty. At 16, in fact, he found himself nominated for the city’s prestigious Sterling Award opposite Carver in his still-buzzed-about performance as Cyrano De Bergerac. Ron Pederson is an award winning Canadian actor, improviser, theatre producer, and director. [7] The nomination was unprecedented as Pederson was the first nominee in the category to have entirely improvised his performance. over something petty, then does something even more petty like pour a drink on a woman's head and call her a cunt. Then he had another fateful meeting, this one with Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus, genius improvisers who were searching for a vessel to hold their talents. “Even though I was pretty young, I had lost my sense of fun about the theatre and this brought it back totally.”. The title sequence begins with the Mad TV logo appearing above the Los Angeles skyline. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The next year, when Pederson was only 14, Robin Phillips, former head of the Stratford Festival and then in charge of The Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, initially cast him in a production of Oliver!, but then kept him on to act in the same company with people like Stephen Ouimette and Brent Carver, also appearing as the wayward Tommy Djilas in The Music Man opposite none other than Albert Schultz. After seeing their comedic chemistry and ability to generate hilarious celebrity impressions and original characters, FOX decided to keep Key and Peele on the show); Melissa Paull, and Gillian Vigman. He is an eight-time Sterling Award nominee. [17] More recently he has had a recurring role on The Next Step and a guest role on Private Eyes. It was a heady but draining time, with non-stop travel around the world, lots of honours and, of course, constant improvisational creation of spontaneous theatre scripts based on audience ideas, or one-page beginnings from famous authors. In October 2008, Pederson became a founding member and Co-Artistic Director – with Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus – of the three-time Canadian Comedy Award-winning improv theatre company The National Theatre of the World. (2014) at Theatre Passe Muraille, for which he was nominated for a Dora Award in 2014. This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. Following his departure from MADtv, Pederson wrote and performed sketches on CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for one season before returning to theatre in Canada. Ronald Pederson (born January 8, 1977) is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for his starring role on the comedy sketch show MADtv, which he was a part from 2002 until 2005. Actor, Comedian I saw the box they were trying to put me in and I didn’t like it.”. Will Sasso "[4] Their first production was Stewart Lemoine's The Exquisite Hour (2012) at the Factory Theatre starring Ted Dykstra, with Pederson in his directorial debut. Other guests this season include Jessica Alba, Tommy Davidson, Fred Willard, Gregory Helms, Trish Stratus, Tony Hawk, Jeff Probst, Cedric the Entertainer, Frankie Muniz, Tom Bergeron, and Jennifer Coolidge. He appeared at the Citadel Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre, playwright Stewart Lemoine's Teatro La Quindicina and the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. No spoiler alert needed,” quips Pederson. 1990-present Similar to its rival show, Saturday Night Live, this season saw a considerable shake-up in the cast and lots of hiring and promotion to fill the void. “Joe brought me down to L.A. and before I know it, I was auditioning for MADtv.”. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta. In the audience one day was Antoni Cimolino from the Stratford Festival and he invited Pederson to join the company, playing the comedic role of Launcelot Gobbo in his production of The Merchant of Venice. edit Career edit MADtv Pederson joined the cast of MADtv in season 8 (2002 … The guy who hit on Natasha Leggero was Ron Pederson, another cast member of MADtv. However, several sketches culled from this season appear on a compilation DVD called Mad TV: The Best of Seasons 8, 9, and 10 (first released on October 25, 2005). A place for stand-up comedy videos, news, discussion and a treehouse for undiagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders. In 2005 Ron was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for his work on Madtv's tenth season. Pederson was offered an ongoing role in the show, but he was soon faced with a tough decision, because TheSecond City offered him a spot in their mainstage Toronto company, purely on the recommendation of SCTV alums who had seen him improvise in Edmonton. 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