Valri Bromfield

Valri Bromfield (born February 10, 1949) is a Canadian comedian, actress, writer, and television producer who started her career as one half of a comedy team with Dan Aykroyd. Together, they joined the first Toronto company of The Second City where she was one of the original players. Career She formed a comedy team with Dan Aykroyd. Bromfield was a regular performer on the 1974 The Bobbie Gentry Show. She performed comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975. Between dress rehearsal and the live airing, Lorne Michaels told her she had to cut her monologue from five minutes to two. She also appeared on another SNL episode in 1978. In 1979 she played "Mary Mary" on the ABC series Angie. In 1980, she appeared as the character "Debbie Smith" on The David Letterman Show. She played "Laney Gibbs" in Best of the West in 1981 and appeared on six episodes of SCTV between 1983 and 1984. In 1984, she appeared on nine episodes of The New Show, another NBC sketch comedy show produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. In 1993, she appeared as herself on Friends of Gilda. As the character "Faith Burdette", Bromfield appeared on nineteen episodes of Grace Under Fire between 1993 and 1995. In 1995, she appeared on Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater.