He has also won two Peabody Awards, one in 2008 as part of the "Saturday Night Live" political satire cast and one in 2011 for "Portlandia".
Mikey Day
Michael William Day (born March 20, 1980) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He was born in Orange, California. He is a current cast member on "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL").
Day began his career with the Groundlings, a Los Angeles-based improvisational theater group. Day was an original cast member on the Nick Cannon's improvisational comedy series "Wild 'n Out" on MTV.
Terry Sweeney
Terrance "Terry" Sweeney (born March 23, 1950) is an American writer, comedian and actor. He was a writer and cast member of "Saturday Night Live" in the 1980s. He co-wrote the 1989 movie "Shag", and has written for the television "series MADtv", "Hype", and "Tripping the Rift".
Sweeney is openly gay.
Chris Redd
Christopher Jerell Redd (born March 25, 1985) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but raised in Naperville, Illinois. He is known for being in the cast of "Saturday Night Live". He is known for his role as Hunter the Hungry in "".
Alex Moffat (comedian)
Alex Moffat (born March 25, 1982) is an American actor and comedian. He was born in Chicago. He is a cast member on "Saturday Night Live".
Moffat became a repertory cast member in 2018, beginning with Season 44. He is known for his impersonations of Anderson Cooper, Eric Trump, Chuck Schumer, Chuck Grassley, Al Franken, Billy Bush, Willem Dafoe and as Joe Scarborough.
Derwa
Derwa is a village in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is about away from Mirzapur.
Grampu
Grampu is a character from the TV show "Oobi". He is a talking hand puppet with eyes. He is the grandpa of the main character, Oobi. He was made by Josh Selig and first showed on TV in 2000. The person who played the role of Grampu was Tyler Bunch, an actor who works with puppets.
Grampu is an old man. He lives with his two grandkids, Oobi and Uma. Their parents and grandma are never seen or talked about, so Grampu is the only one who takes care of them. He likes to teach them about the world. He shows them how to do new things. As a running gag (repeated joke) in the show, Grampu is very unlucky and usually has to clean up messes that the kids make.
Grampu's favorite things to do are cooking and growing plants in his garden. When he is in the kitchen, he wears a big chef's hat and an apron. He is in love with Inka, an old woman from France who is Oobi's piano teacher. Grampu and Inka like to go on dates and eat fancy food.
Grampu has hazel eyes and doesn't wear any clothes. His hand is in a different position from the other characters. His fingers are curled in a fist instead of being extended, making him taller and giving him a toothless look.
Grampu was made by Josh Selig, the maker of the whole show. Josh Selig wanted to show a non-traditional family: a family that was different from most ones shown on TV. This is why he came up with the idea for Oobi and Uma to live with their single grandpa.
In the first episodes of "Oobi", which were short two-minute stories, Grampu was a secondary character who did not show up very much. When the show was turned into a longer half-hour program, Grampu got a bigger role. The show writers used him as a (a contrasting character) to the kids, or as someone to give them advice. Grampu appeared more than he used to, and he was part of almost every single episode.
The person who played the role of Grampu was Tyler Bunch. Bunch is a puppeteer (an actor who works with puppets) known from the show "Sesame Street". While he was playing the part of Grampu, Bunch had to never shave his arm, so that Grampu would look like an old, hairy man. This was different from the other actors, who all had to shave their arms because they played kid characters. Bunch had a manicurist who filed his nails every week during filming.
Grampu has gotten a good reception from viewers and critics. Many parents who watched "Oobi" with their kids thought he was the funniest part of the show. In an interview, Josh Selig said "many mothers seem to have developed a 'thing' for Grampu." , a writer of comedy books, called him "a hilarious character" in his book "Alternadad". He also wrote that Grampu seemed like a "children's TV character with whom we could spend an afternoon if [he] magically came to life."
The newspaper "St. Paul Pioneer Press" included Grampu as a good example of an unusual family unit in children's TV. In a satirical article that made fun of people wanting to keep gay and single parents out of media for kids, the newspaper called attention to Grampu being a single stay-home parent with a foreign girlfriend (Inka).
Grampu has appeared in media outside of the "Oobi" show. From 2006 to 2013, toy versions of Grampu's puppet eyes (made of the material acrylic) were sold on an online shopping site called OobiEyes.com. They were available in different sizes for kids' and adults' hands.
In 2007, Grampu appeared several times on a talk show called "" when it featured clips from "Oobi". They were shown in a part called "What the Kids Are Watching", when the host Joel McHale made comments about funny scenes from kids' shows. Grampu also appeared in a video by the YouTube star Shane Dawson in November 2009, when he imitated Oobi and Grampu with his own hands.
In "Oobi: Dasdasi", a spin-off of the original "Oobi" show made in 2012, Grampu was reimagined as "Grandpa", a new character with a similar role.
Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is a 4-lane steel bridge in Nanjing that crosses the Yangtze River. It has two levels. The top level is a road for cars, buses, and trucks. There is also a sidewalk for people on foot. That part is 4588 meters or 15,052 feet long. The bottom level is a railroad for trains. That part is 6772 meters or 22,218 feet long.
It is owned, paid for, and fixed by Nanjing's government and by the Shanghai Railway Bureau.
The Mandarin Chinese name of the bridge is "Nánjīng Chángjiāng Dàqiáo", which means "the Big Bridge across the Long River in the Southern Capital". ("Chángjiāng" or "Long River" is the Chinese name for the Yangtze River, and "Nanjing" means "Southern Capital".) It is written in the traditional characters used by Chinese people on Taiwan and in Hong Kong and in the simplified characters used by mainland China.
The Yangtze River is very big and very wide. During wars, people sometimes made pontoon bridges out of many boats. Most of the time, to go from one side to the other, people needed to use a ferry. This made things pretty slow and slowed the growth of China's economy.
The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was started in 1960. Both parts were finished and opened for use in late 1968. It was the 3rd bridge across the Yangtze River, after Wuhan's bridge and the Baishatuo Bridge near Chongqing. It is still important and a landmark in Nanjing because it was the first big bridge designed and built completely by Chinese people. It also has poems and sayings by Mao Zedong and art from the Cultural Revolution.
It is also infamous as the place with the most known suicides in the world. More than 2000 people have jumped off of the bridge since it was opened.
The road across the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is National Highway 104. The same road is also part of highways 205 and 312.
The railroad across the bridge is the Beijing–Shanghai Railway. (This is the railroad for slow trains. The high-speed trains between Beijing and Shanghai use a different bridge.) The same railroad is also part of the Nanjing–Xi'an and Nanjing–Qidong Railways. It is also used for the Shanghai–Chengdu High-Speed Railway, but those trains can't go very fast across the bridge.