Background
Brittain was born and raised in Naperville, Illinois.
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Education
He graduated from Naperville North High School in 1995. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he majored in finance and Spanish, graduating in 2000.
Career
He is a veteran performer at the iO Theater in Chicago where he trained with SNL castmate Vanessa Bayer and performed as a member with numerous improv and sketch groups. He has appeared on Sports Action Team. Brittain is the nephew of actor Bob Newhart.
Brittain joined the cast of for the 36th season on September 25, 2010.
His most memorable recurring characters included Lord Cecil Wyndemere (a childlike, 48-year-old lord), Goran "Funky Boy" Bogdan (a Croatian stand-up comic who punctuates his jokes with "Oooh, funky boy!"), and "Sex Editor" Vincent (a low-rent sex counselor who holds seminars in shady hotels). Brittain"s popular celebrity impressions included Ron Paul, James Franco, and Johnny Depp.
Brittain exited SNL midway through his second season, making his final appearance on January 14, 2012. Recurring characters
Marius, one of French teens in "Les Jeunes de Paris"
Goran "Funky Boy" Bogdan, a Croatian stand-up comic
"Sex" Editor Vincent, a middle-aged "sex expert" who holds couples seminars
Lord Cecil Wyndemere, a foppish man-child who"s actually 48 years old
Celebrity impressions
Johnny Depp
James Franco
Vili Fualaau
Harry Reid
Dax Holt
Ron Paul
Michael Gelman
Osama bin Laden
Tom Felton (as Draco Malfoy).
