Top 10 SNL Cast Members of All Time
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SNL has produced some of the funniest people on the planet. Each decade has their favorite cast members; but this video looks at the greatest of all time! This late-night sketch comedy show has ebbed and flowed in its popularity; but many of its performers have proved timeless
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Since we first published this list in 2014, there have been a few castmembers who've made their mark cough Kate McKinnon *cough*, but this is still a good representation of the history of SNL!
Phil Hartman should have been higher on the list and Will Ferrell should have been an honourable mention at best. Hartman was multi-talented while everything Ferrell does is all the same.
Can't argue with Will Farrell as number one as the only person who should contend is Phil Hartman whose criminally listed number 6 and I'm sorry Kristen Wig is ahead of him and on the list over Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Julia Sweeney, Molly Shannon all being well funnier and entertaining than Wig.
Eddie Murphy not no. 1! Preposterous!
What about Amy Polher the greatest off all, kenan, Seth meyer, maya rudolph etc etc
Carvey should’ve been higher up…
Why was Alec Baldwin not mentioned
Will Ferrell was the reigning king on SNL!!
John Belushi, Chris Farley, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and Dana Carvey are all legends. Will Ferrell is funny but doesn't deserve # 1 above all of them.
Um… Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poelher, and um… TINA FEY!!!
Nope. Don't care for Will Ferrel. …With rare exceptions like the Spartan cheerleaders.
Good list but Eddie should be #1
No Tina Fey? How the fuck is this list made without her even being an honorable mention?
This list is completely wrong
Hey AM, please do another Top 10 SNL Cast Members of AT next:
10. Kate McKinnon
9. Cecily Strong
8. Andy Samberg
7. Chevy Chase
6. Leslie Jones
5. Bobby Moynihan
4. Andy Bryant
3. Shannon Moore
2. Jimmy Fallon
Few HMs: Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Amy Phoeler, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Horatio Sanz, and Fred Armisen
1. Keenan Thompson
Kate McKinnon?
Darrell Hammond should have been in the Top 3 list at least
I think the main reason that Eddie Murphy was my favorite as a kid was that he was on the show during a really rough period. I liked Joe Piscopo, and him and Eddie did some funny stuff together during those years but Eddie Murphy wasn't just good and funny, he was outrageous. He was the main part of Saturday Night Live that I looked forward to watching because his sketches and humor were so over the top at a time when that show really needed it. No one else on the show came close at that time even though I don't think anyone sucked. Eddie Murphy was the best. The other cast members on this list were on the show with some pretty top notch talent. Besides Joe Piscopo, who did Eddie Murphy have with him on the show really.
They're seriously just re-uploading old videos lmao
There has never been a more overrated SNL cast member than Eddie Murphy
Yo where the hell was Kate McKinnon?!?!
And their all dead! All of them.
Uh, Where is Steve Martin.
Chris Farley should have been first
I think McKinnon is much funnier then Wigg but neither belong in the top 10 list.
Don't forget about Steve Martin
What? No Charles Rocket?
…no Steve Martin? BOO-URNS. BOO-URNS I SAY.
Sandler is trying so hard not to crack up in the skit with farley… slap stick king
I’m bouta start this vid and if Eddie Murphy ain’t number one I stg
Seth Macfarlane still my favorite, though I can understand why he wouldn't be above people like John Belushi and Eddie Murphy.
I dno about this list
next, top 10 sketches turned in2 films!
I accept Will Ferrell as the #1 spot but Bill Hader should have gotten more than an honorable mention.
Eddie Murphy should have been #1.
WHY ARE KATE MCKINNON AND LESLIE JONES NOT ON THIS LIST?!????!???!?!?!?
Eddie Murphy should have been #1
freds got slacks, the infinate frontier'. hauy cary.W' farrell does belong at the top totally agree!
One of SNL’s greatest problems is how sorely they undervalue the contributions of women. This video perpetuates that mistake. Being narrated by a woman doesn’t help, nor does referring to Wiig as a “female performer” rather than a “performer”. There are only two women on your list, including the honorable mentions. Both Gilda Radner and Kristen Wiig earn their place here, but every male cast member who rose to great heights of fame did so on the backs of often much more talented women (many of whom you never saw again after their SNL days ended). So here’s to Jane Curtin, Mary Gross, Nora Dunn, Victoria Jackson, Jan Hooks, Cheri Oteri, Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Vanessa Bayer, Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon. I’d see any of them before Will Ferrell.