Jeff Richards joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a Featured Player in September 2001. Originally from the Bay area, Jeff moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to pursue comedy as a career. He soon became a regular at the world famous Laugh Factory and the Comedy Store and appeared in several local and nationwide commercials. He then began touring comedy clubs across the country. In 2000 Jeff briefly joined the cast of Fox¹s MADtv, appearing most memorably as David Letterman. In 2001, Jeff performed on CBS' Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn and NBC¹s Late Friday. His performance on Late Friday caught the attention of Saturday Night Live, who invited him to audition and then to become a featured player for the 27th season of the show.

Jeff¹s high-energy stand-up is a mix of his growing arsenal of impressions (including Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, Louie Anderson, Kevin Spacey, Gary Shandling, Charlie Rose, Don Imus, Dustin Hoffman and Ozzy Osborne) and outrageous original characters (including the "knife guy", the "drunk girlfriend," her "jealous boyfriend" and the "jock/meathead" from every 80¹s teen movie).