Gail Matthius

Gail Matthius

Gail Matthius is an American actress, voice actress and comedian. She was a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live during its critical and ratings low point at the time (the 1980–1981 season headed by Jean Doumanian), and co-anchored the Weekend Update segment with Charles Rocket in 1981. Matthius had worked as a comedian in Los Angeles appearing at The Comedy Store before successfully auditioning for Doumanian's cast. In 2015, the magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gail Matthius at, out of 141 cast members, the 74th best of Saturday Night Live, calling her, "A flicker of hope in the Saturday Night Live 1980 debacle, with a sharp valley girl mall-chick character named Vickie. Matthius and Vickie both deserved better." Matthius played the following recurring characters on SNL: Vicki, a valley girl who, along with her friend, Debbie (played by Denny Dillon) annoyed people with their persistent questions and shallow statements. Roweena, a Midwestern-accented hairdresser who often has a neurotic, middle-aged woman named Nadine (played by Denny Dillon) as a frequent customer. Francis Lively, wife to Charles Rocket's Phil Lively, a fellow game show host who lives life at home as if it were just another game show. Her celebrity impersonations included: Brooke Shields, in a parody of the racy Calvin Klein TV ads that featured her, Irene Cara, Nancy Reagan and Mary Cunningham. Following her stint on SNL, Matthius appeared in the short-lived British/American sketch show Assaulted Nuts and the syndicated sketch comedy series Laugh Trax (where she revived her valley girl Vicki character from SNL). She did a good deal of voice acting for animated shows from the late 1980s into the 1990s, including Bobby's World (with Laugh Trax co-star Howie Mandel), Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Bump in the Night and The Tick, often using the voice of her valley girl and Roweena characters from Saturday Night Live (in characters such as Martha, who sounds like Roweena, and Shirley the Loon from Tiny Toon Adventures). She also is a member of the Spolin Players Improv comedy troupe and acts as a drama and theater coach and teacher in Pacific Palisades, CA for various acting studios including Theatre Palisades. She continues to perform as an improv and drama theater actress. In 2016, Matthius appeared in the play For Piano and Harpo by Dan Castellaneta. (Source: Wikipedia)

  • Title: Gail Matthius
  • Popularity: 3.621
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1953-12-14
  • Place of Birth: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
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Gail Matthius Movies

  • 1985
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    The Pound Puppies

    The Pound Puppies

    2 1985 HD

    A female dog from a wealthy family named Violet Vanderfeller is picked up and taken to the city pound, where she meets the gang and discovers their...

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  • 2018
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    Surviving Theater 9

    Surviving Theater 9

    1 2018 HD

    From the survivors of the Aurora Colorado Batman Movie Theater and Columbine mass shootings, a powerful and inspirational movie about the events and...

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  • 1992
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    Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

    Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

    6.6 1992 HD

    Term-time ends at Acme Looniversity and the Tiny Toon characters look forward to a summer filled with fun. Buster and Babs Bunny turn a water fight...

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  • 1994
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    Tiny Toon Spring Break

    Tiny Toon Spring Break

    6.5 1994 HD

    Buster, Babs and the entire 'Tiny Toons' gang decided to take a trip to Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Break. Meanwhile, Elmrya believes that Buster is...

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  • 1995
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    'Twas the Night Before Bumpy

    'Twas the Night Before Bumpy

    6.9 1995 HD

    The following trio of lovable characters has emerged from every child's imagination and landed under the bed of a young boy: Mr. Bumpy, the zany...

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  • 1995
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    Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

    Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

    6.5 1995 HD

    In this Halloween Special, Babs Bunny plays the part of host as she and the Tiny Toons gang spoof various popular horror movies and TV shows. Among...

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  • 1994
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    Spider-Man

    Spider-Man

    8.282 1994 HD

    Bitten by a neogenetic spider, Peter Parker develops spider-like superpowers. He uses these to fight crime while trying to balance it with the...

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  • 1984
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    Challenge of the GoBots

    Challenge of the GoBots

    6.4 1984 HD

    Challenge of the GoBots is an American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, based on the Gobots toy-line released from Tonka. The show...

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  • 1990
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    Tiny Toon Adventures

    Tiny Toon Adventures

    7.8 1990 HD

    Follow the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend the Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of characters from the...

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  • 1995
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    Pinky and the Brain

    Pinky and the Brain

    7.7 1995 HD

    Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility. Brain is self-centered and...

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  • 1981
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    Simon & Simon

    Simon & Simon

    6.7 1981 HD

    Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on...

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  • 1984
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    Snorks

    Snorks

    6.3 1984 HD

    The Snorks is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera which ran on NBC from September 15, 1984, to May 13, 1989. Although not as...

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  • 1989
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    Camp Candy

    Camp Candy

    5 1989 HD

    Camp Candy is a 1989-1992 animated television series produced by DIC Entertainment, with comedian John Candy providing the voice for an animated...

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  • 1994
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    Bump in the Night

    Bump in the Night

    6.8 1994 HD

    Bump in the Night is an animated series by Danger Productions that was filmed using stop-motion animation and aired on ABC from 1994 to 1995. It was...

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  • 1988
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    Fantastic Max

    Fantastic Max

    7.6 1988 HD

    A diaper-wearing toddler with a mohawk named Maxwell "Fantastic Max" Young has adventures in outer space with two of his toys: FX, a pull string...

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  • 1995
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    The Adventures of Hyperman

    The Adventures of Hyperman

    1 1995 HD

    The Adventures of Hyperman is an American animated series that aired from October 14, 1995 to August 10, 1996 on CBS.

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  • 1975
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    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

    6.934 1975 HD

    A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture...

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  • 1991
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    The Ren & Stimpy Show

    The Ren & Stimpy Show

    7.6 1991 HD

    Ren and Stimpy are a mismatch made in animation heaven with nothing in common but a life-long friendship and an incredible knack for getting into...

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  • 1995
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    The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

    The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

    6.4 1995 HD

    Sylvester and Tweety help out when Granny opens a detective agency.

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  • 1997
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    I Am Weasel

    I Am Weasel

    7.177 1997 HD

    The adventures of the noble, generous, intelligent and good-at-everything I.M. Weasel, who must compete once again with his arch-enemy, the bumbling,...

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  • 1995
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    The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

    The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

    6.4 1995 HD

    Sylvester and Tweety help out when Granny opens a detective agency.

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  • 1990
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    Bobby's World

    Bobby's World

    6.872 1990 HD

    Bobby Generic lives in a typical suburban neighborhood and uses his overactive imagination to discover a world of daring adventure, incredible wonder...

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  • 1993
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    Animaniacs

    Animaniacs

    7.965 1993 HD

    The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly) created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy...

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  • 2019
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    Wu Assassins

    Wu Assassins

    6.8 2019 HD

    The last in a line of Chosen Ones, a wannabe chef teams up with a homicide detective to unravel an ancient mystery and take down supernatural...

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  • 1996
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    Men Behaving Badly

    Men Behaving Badly

    5.5 1996 HD

    Men Behaving Badly is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1996 to 1997. It is based on the earlier British sitcom of the same name.

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