Editing Chris Elliott (section)

==Personal life==
Elliott has been married to Paula Niedert since 1986. Niedert worked as a talent coordinator on ''[[Late Night with David Letterman]]'' when they met. They have two daughters: [[Abby Elliott|Abby]] and [[Bridey Elliott|Bridey]]. Abby was a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2008 until 2012, making her the first ''SNL'' cast member to be the child of a previous cast member. His father [[Bob Elliott (comedian)|Bob Elliott]], of the comedy duo [[Bob & Ray]], co-starred on an ''SNL'' Christmas episode in the [[Saturday Night Live season 4|1978–1979]] season.<ref>{{Cite news |author=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=November 12, 2008 |title='SNL' taps Abby Elliott, Michaela Watkins |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=A Professionally Funny Family|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29Elliott-t.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 24, 2009|author=Zuckerman, Ed}}</ref>