Emmy-winning comic actor Mike Myers seemed destined by fate to link up with Saturday Night Live; when he made his TV debut as a commercial actor at age eight, his costar (playing his mother) was pre-SNL Gilda Radner. Working steadily in his native Canada, Myers was a member of Toronto's Second City troupe, the star of his own TV series Mullarkey and Myers at age twenty, and the "veejay" of an all-night Canadian music video show in 1987. In all of these career stepping stones, Myers continued testing out the comic characterizations that would win him fame in his SNL days. His most popular character (which he'd been doing at parties since high school) was spacey teenage coach potato Wayne Campbell, who with equally airheaded best friend Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) hosted the Aurora, Illinois, cable-access series Wayne's World. This SNL skit begat a popular like-titled film in 1992, and a less popular 1993 sequel. Despite the tepid response to Wayne's World II, it would seem that Mike Myers as Wayne is more readily acceptable to film fans than Mike Myers as Anyone Else, if the disappointing 1993 comedy So I Married an Axe Murderer is any indication.