One For The Road: Happy Birthday, Nancy Walls

By Samantha Abernethy in Arts & Entertainment on Jul 19, 2012 10:30PM

Today is former Second City cast-member Nancy Walls' birthday. You may remember the underrated funnywoman from her more recent work as a correspondent on The Daily Show, and damnit, we miss her impression of an incompetent news reporter on there. She's also a former Saturday Night Live cast-member. Comedy blog Splitsider writes features on each SNL cast-member past and present, and here is their account of her career on the show. Here are a few of her most gut-busting bits.

From The Daily Show

From SNL

When Walls' husband Steve Carrell won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in 2006, he gave one of the funniest acceptance speeches of all time, which either his wife wrote or he wrote from her perspective. Watch it below.

And here's another Daily Show appearance.