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Taran Killam Praises Amanda Bynes For Giving Him “My First Job”: “Truly One Of The Best”

From 'The Amanda Show' to 'Saturday Night Live', Taran Killam is reflecting on the sketch comedy pipeline that paved the way for his current career.

The actor and comedian recently praised Amanda Bynes as “one of the most talented people I’ve ever met,” expressing his gratitude for her helping launch his “grown-up acting career” when she cast him on her Nickelodeon variety show, which ran for three seasons from 1999 to 2002. After coming up as a child actor on her own show and Nickelodeon’s All That, Bynes led a number of successful teen movies, before making her final onscreen performance in Easy A(2010). Although All That and Amanda Show producer Dan Schneider came under fire over claims made in Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set, which he has denied in a defamation suit, neither Bynes nor Killam appeared in the docuseries.

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