This accidentally got started in another thread so I thought I would start this. Who are your favorite all-time SNL cast. This show has had some deep ebbs and flows over the years, but you cannot deny that they have had some really funny cast members. My top 10 on the show - not counting after show success (in no particular order):

- John Belushi
- Bill Murray
- Eddie Murphy
- Will Ferrell
- Chris Farley
- Kristin Wiig
- Jason Sudekis
- David Spade
- Molly Shannon
- Phil Hartman

Honorable mention:
- Norm Macdonald
- Jan Hooks
- Bill Hader
- Ana Gasteyer
- Dan Aykroyd
- Dana Carvey
- Mike Myers

There are a few others that were good but this would be my HOF.

Jane Curtin and Gilda Radner would be in my HOF.

Chevy Chase, even though he was only there a short time.

(12-17-2020 11:54 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Jane Curtin and Gilda Radner would be in my HOF.

Those were the exact two I noticed being absent.

Totally concur.

None of them were funny on the show.

Several of them were great elsewhere:
Chevy Chase
John Belushi
Bill Murray
Dan Akroyd
Eddie Murphy
David Spade
Mike Myers

Pretty sure Kenan Thompson has been a cast member longer than anyone in the history of the show. He's been there since 2003.

I think you have to include him for that fact alone.

My HOF would be

- John Belushi
- Bill Murray
- Eddie Murphy
- Jane Curtin
- Gilda Radner
- Garret Morris (beisbol been bery bery good to me)
- Will Ferrell
- Chris Farley
- Molly Shannon
- Phil Hartman
- Norm Macdonald
- Dan Aykroyd
- Dana Carvey
- Mike Myers

What were some of your favorite skits, especially recurring skits?

(Belushi) Samauri Baker, and all its' iterations
Killer Bees
The Loud Family
Ackroyd - Christmas 'toys'
News Update - Gilda Radner as Emily Littella ("never mind")

There were so many it's hard to remember them all.

One of my all time favorites...and topical!

My top 10, in no particular order. (I didn't watch SNL during the Chevy Chase days.)

Will Ferrell - (Best of all-time, in my opinion.)
Adam Sandler
Chris Farley
David Spade
Molly Shannon
Chris Kattan
Darrell Hammond
Tim Meadows
Cheri Oteri
Phil Hartman

James Brown Celebrity Hot Tub. Jump Back,,, Ki-myself!

Piscopo was totally underrated

Chevy Chase
John Belushi
Dan Akroyd
Eddie Murphy
Phil Hartman
Will Ferrell
Adam Sandler
Christine Wig
Dana Carvey
Mike Myers

(12-17-2020 11:54 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Jane Curtin and Gilda Radner would be in my HOF.

Agree.

I'm thinking mine would be:

Belushi
Murray
Murphy
Chevy Chase
Aykroyd
Curtin
Radner
Garrett (Chico Escuela) Morris ("not rubber, rubber breaks")

Belushi
Radner
Curtain
Ackroyd
Murphy
Morris

Are my all time favorites:

Lorraine Newman was great a setting up the others.
Brad Hall was a good writer who married Julia Louis Dreyfus.

But my other shout outs go to some of the guests host regulars who were hilarious:

Buck Henry
Steve Martin

And a special shout out to an Auburn girl Victoria Jackson.

For the record I watched SNL faithfully throughout the changeovers until about 2008 when it became too political to even be funny. So while I remember many of the people the ones I mentioned stand out to me because I remember them as not being consistently humorless. And to be fair Eddie Murphy and John Belushi are about on the same plane of greatness IMO. It would have been a hoot to have seen those two together.

I will almost go 100% with JR's list, but I have to put Bill Murray in there (even though he wasn't really a NRFPTP, and more of a guest host)... except I have to put Farley and Spade in any top membership list, as the two guys who knew how to take their shortcomings and turn it into comedic genius every time, and Hartmann (who doesn't get the credit his comedic genius deserves) and guest host regulars , my favorite will always be Steve Martin.

Myers probably "Just" misses my top 10 list.




I never found Chevy to be funny, so he wouldn't even be near the middle of my list.