“Saturday Night Live” fans across North Texas saw Jeremy Culhane do bits and skits in the show’s recently wrapped 51st season. But many didn’t know the comedian honed his comic chops at Fort Worth’s Texas Christian University.
Culhane, a graduate of TCU’s AddRan College of Liberal Arts, pursued a double major in philosophy and economics and took further honors at TCU’s John V. Roach Honors College. But when he wasn’t cracking books, he was cracking jokes in the student comedy group Senseless Acts of Comedy and collaborating on improv and sketches with the Student Film Association.
“[Senseless Acts of Comedy, the Student Film Association] and the Roach Honors College were pretty much my entire college experience,” Culhane said in a statement via a TCU news post. “I found a way that wasn’t a fraternity lifestyle to still feel really actively involved in the school, and it was awesome.”
At TCU, Culhane brainstormed video sketch ideas and worked on student films with his roommate Grant Moore. Along with Tori Twomey and other TCU grads in their circle, they later moved to Los Angeles and founded the sketch comedy troupe Safety Patrol.
“After college, our TCU group continued making short comedy videos for almost a decade,” Moore said. “It’s almost a comfort making stuff with the people you have such a shorthand with. I’m sure the collaborations will continue long into the future.”
Moore and Twomey would go on to get married, and while Culhane hit it big this past year with his first season at “SNL,”, his old TCU circle still continues to circle back to each other.
“They’re still some of my best friends,” Culhane said. “We see each other on Christmas, we try to see each other like once every two months. We’re all over different parts of L.A. now, kind of doing our own little adventures, but it’s sweet to see each other and hang out.”
Culhane’s advice on finding creative success?
“I see a lot of people who are just starting up that are like, ‘Oh, I need to get it right,’ and that’s wonderful, you should hold on to that, but don’t let that stop you from making things,” the comedian said. “Don’t worry if the first one or if the first 100 aren’t right. Because even now, I’m on ‘SNL,’ and I still feel that pressure to make it right. And it’s never right. It’s never exactly what you think it’s going to be, but that only makes it better.”
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