I know the show has been on for ages....but since it is still going on...I decided to put this topic in the 2000's section.



So....who are your favorite Saturday Night Live cast member(s)?




Mine are as follows:


Chris Kattan
Molly Shannon
Will Ferrell
Ana Gasteyer
Tina Fey




Erin :)

Chris Kattan and Will Ferrel were two of my favourites.  That Butabi brothers bit they did was excellent.  Remember the one where Sly Stallone as his Rocky character went clubbing with the Butabi's  ;D

Chris Kattan and Will Ferrel were two of my favourites.  That Butabi brothers bit they did was excellent.  Remember the one where Sly Stallone as his Rocky character went clubbing with the Butabi's  ;D



yes, I remember that one! Have you seen, "Night at the Roxbury"?? That movie is funny!



Erin :)

yes, I remember that one! Have you seen, "Night at the Roxbury"?? That movie is funny!



Erin :)


I loved Night at the Roxbury.  "EMILIO!  EMILIO!"  ;D

I loved Night at the Roxbury.  "EMILIO!  EMILIO!"  ;D





those two work SO well off of each other....they are hilarious!! ;D




Erin :)

Of the recent SNL cast members:

Will Ferrell anytime he was in a skit with Cheri Oteri
Molly Shannon
Jimmy Fallon


Of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players (I'm dating myself I know)
Gilda Radner
Bill Murray
and of course Belushi!!

Two of the most talented "cast" members of early SNL were not "cast" members at all.
Steve Martin and Bill Murray were frequent guests, but not full time cast members.
Chevy Chase was only on the cast for about three seasons, but I seem to recall he showed up quite a bit thereafter.

Don't forget the talent introduced by '80s SNL:

Martin Short
Billy Crystal
Dana Carvey
John Lovitz
Mike Myers
Mary Gross
Christopher Guest
Julia Louis Dreyfuss
The Halls, Brad and Rich
Victoria Jackson
(and I hate to mention)
Dennis Miller

For me, John Belushi (God rest his doped-out soul) will always epitomize what was great about SNL.  Belushi is almost synonymous with SNL.  So I'd say he's my all-time favorite.
For most talented cast member overall, it's still Billy Crystal.

SNL has had some solid talent over the past ten years, but I think it "jumped the shark" in 1990.

I like everyone that's ever been on that show....EXCEPT Colin Quinn :P

Most of the original cast (except Laraine Newman), Eddie Murphy (When he was actually funny), Joe Piscopo (ditto), and Cheri Oteri.

I like everyone that's ever been on that show....EXCEPT Colin Quinn :P

There's a bunch I haven't liked, and Colin Quinn is definitely one of them!
I'm glad Comedy Central at least had the sense to cancel "Tough Crowd."  More like 'tard crowd!


Most of the original cast (except Laraine Newman), Eddie Murphy (When he was actually funny), Joe Piscopo (ditto), and Cheri Oteri.

I liked Laraine Newman.  I thought she was hot!  I didn't see her as part of the Talent, just a good character for sketches.  Sort of like the way Carol Cleveland was on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
I agree about Eddie Murphy, when he was funny, he had me in stitches.  When he went out and started making mean-spirited AIDS jokes, he lost me.  Joe Piscopo was funny at times, but he was a lightweight (until he started lifting weights). 

A guy I cannot stand is Jim Breuer.  He's a big no-talent macho-trip comic who had a really gross routine about his wife going into labor.  Plus he tried to fuse stand-up with rock 'n' roll-style stage performing.  A total dud!

I really enjoy the two kids they had doing Weekend Update lately.  Jimmy Fallon is one, and I can't remember that woman's name.  Anyway, they have great rapport.  It's an improvement over Norm McDonald for sure!

I liked Kevin Nealon as the host of Weekend Update.  His catch phrase "I'm Kevin Nealon and that's news to me" somehow always made me laugh  ;D

I never really took to Colin Quinn.  He was OK, but he's no Norm MacDonald LOL

My favorite:  Will Ferrel

My least favorite:  Jimmy Fallon

I really enjoy the two kids they had doing Weekend Update lately.  Jimmy Fallon is one, and I can't remember that woman's name.  Anyway, they have great rapport.  It's an improvement over Norm McDonald for sure!




That would be Tina Fey....she's actually a writer for the show, as well as an actress.  I think the two of them together are great as well.




Erin :)

There's a bunch I haven't liked, and Colin Quinn is definitely one of them!

;)

I liked Kevin Nealon as the host of Weekend Update.  His catch phrase "I'm Kevin Nealon and that's news to me" somehow always made me laugh  ;D

I never really took to Colin Quinn.  He was OK, but he's no Norm MacDonald LOL

Kevin Nealon was hilarious on the news.  Nealon was sort of a quieter, more subtle version of Chevy.

Don't forget Phil Hartmann (R.I.P.), he did the BEST Clinton ever!  Too bad his wife had to go psycho on his azz!
:\'(

Kevin Nealon was hilarious on the news.  Nealon was sort of a quieter, more subtle version of Chevy.

Don't forget Phil Hartmann (R.I.P.), he did the BEST Clinton ever!  Too bad his wife had to go psycho on his azz!
:\'(


Hartman's Clinton impression was flawless.  He also did a great Ed McMahon.  I really miss him  :\'(

Even though Gilda Radner may be a bit of a common choice, I liked her a lot. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey (who could forget the Church Lady, his George Bush impersonations, and of course being Wayne's sidekick as Garth) have also been favorites of mine - and one who hasn't been admittedly selected as a member, but I think is in that  8 timer club, - Christopher Walken. Justin Timberlake gets an honorable mention for being a guest star, but really tackling each skit with great comic skill. No one would ever think he'd pull it off!

I remember Weekend Update was my least favorite part of SNL, when Fallon was around.  Looking into the camera and laughing...that bastard.

All of the orginal Not Ready for Prime Time Players: Dan, John, Jane, Chevy, Bill (even though he was not one of the orginals), Garrett, Lorraine, and Gilda.  I also like Dana Carvey, Eddie Murphy, and Martin Short. Other frequent guest-Steve Martin, Al Frankin, and Tom Davis.



Cat

Eddie Murphy
Billy Crystal
Phil Hartman
Dana Carvey
Martin Short
Sherrie O'Terri

Am I the only one who found(finds) SNL pretty tired?  I kept expecting to laugh.  Every once in a while I
tune in, but usually not for too long.

SNL officially died when Will Ferrel left.

Even though Gilda Radner may be a bit of a common choice, I liked her a lot. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey (who could forget the Church Lady, his George Bush impersonations, and of course being Wayne's sidekick as Garth) have also been favorites of mine - and one who hasn't been admittedly selected as a member, but I think is in that  8 timer club, - Christopher Walken. Justin Timberlake gets an honorable mention for being a guest star, but really tackling each skit with great comic skill. No one would ever think he'd pull it off!

Gilda was awesome!  Who could forget Roseanne Roseannadanna?  I still think of that character when it comes to a certain type of loud, obnoxious ladies with big hair!
;)

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Then there was her signature hit, "Let's Talk Dirty to the Animals," which the FCC said the radio stations couldn't play, but they played it anyway!
http://home.rochester.rr.com/dietch/lyrics/letstalk.txt
To give credit where credit is due, it was written by SNL writer Michael O'Donoghue, but it was Gilda who breathed life into it.  The lyrics alone don't do the song justice...it's about delivery!

If Radner hadn't been misdiagnosed in the early stages of her ovarian cancer she might still be with us today.
:\'(

Myers and Carvey were the dynamic duo of SNL for several years.  "Waynes World" was one of the best recurring SNL sketches ever.  Wayne and Garth were a pair of bumpkins to rival Bob and Doug McKenzie!  Like the McKenzie Brothers,* Wayne and Garth introduced their own pop culture lexicon.  If you said, "Party time, excellent!!," or "Hey, sphincter boy" in  1992 people knew exactly where you were coming from, as much as if you said, "Take off, hoser!" or "Where's my beer, eh?" in 1982.  As with the McKenzies, where you had a meta-phenomenon of Americans saying "hoser" and "eh" in the Canadian accent, you had kids everywhere in the early '90s saying "No way! Way! No way! Way!..." and "Very funny--NOT!!"
The "Waynes World" movies tooootallly played the Wayne and Garth characters to death, and I thought they got too cleaned up and "family values" safe on the big screen.  But Myers and Carvey still made the movies worth watching because their great rapport and comic genius.

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*I may be wrong, but I think the McKenzie Brothers sketch, with Rick Moranis as Bob McKenzie and Dave Thomas as Doug McKenzie, only appeared on Second City Television for about two years (1980, 1981).  American audiences got to know them second hand.  There was the xmas novelty hit, the McKenzie Brothers' version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," which Dr. Demento started playing in the fall of '82, and the movie "The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie" which, I think, was released in early '83.  Still, I seem to remember the McKenzie lingo going around by the mid 1982, even though American audiences would have had limited exposure to Bob and Doug at that point.
Anyway...