Farley
Ferrell
Sandler
Norm
Spade
Myers
Hammond
Meadows
Carvey
Morgan


That's my top 10. Never cared much for Phil Hartman.

12/1/2009 12:11:31 AM

Has everyone forgotten about Chevy Chase or

12/1/2009 12:16:51 AM

Or Bill Murray

12/1/2009 12:17:55 AM

or steve martin or dan akroyd or

12/1/2009 12:18:34 AM

Steve Martin was never a cast member.

12/1/2009 12:20:01 AM

might as well have been, for the number of times he guest hosted. the man is in his element at SNL.

12/1/2009 12:20:57 AM

Steve Martin was not an SNL cast member.

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 12:23 AM. Reason : yeah, that]

12/1/2009 12:21:06 AM

i... i just never really found steve martin funny i love him but "The Jerk" straight up ruined him for me

omg has anyone mentioned Jon Belushi yet? freaking samurai delicatessen

12/1/2009 12:21:31 AM

Also, Chevy Chase was only on for one season, so he really doesn't deserve to be on this list.

12/1/2009 12:22:30 AM

and cheeburger cheeburger

12/1/2009 12:22:38 AM

Quote :

"might as well have been, for the number of times he guest hosted. the man is in his element at SNL."

this. i guess it's a pretty common misconception that he wasn't. i just remembered him being in a bunch of pretty funny skits and kind of assumed he was on one of the early casts.

12/1/2009 12:23:59 AM

Quote :

"Also, Chevy Chase was only on for one season, so he really doesn't deserve to be on this list."

what

12/1/2009 12:24:10 AM

TOONCES? PERHAPS?

WHERE DO ZACKTU AND MONDO FIT IN HERE

12/1/2009 12:25:56 AM

With available choices like Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Jon Belushi, Jane Curtin, Lovitz and Hartman how the fuck can you people even begin to mention Chris Farley, Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell or for Christ's sake Chris-if-he's-so-funny-where-is-he-now-Kattan. What the hell is wrong with you.

You guys need to watch some old SNL and see what it was like when it was actually funny.

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 12:26 AM. Reason : ffs]

12/1/2009 12:25:56 AM

Did someone seriously mention Chris Kattan

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 12:29 AM. Reason : seriously]

12/1/2009 12:26:56 AM

Quote :

"i... i just never really found steve martin funny i love him but "The Jerk" straight up ruined him for me"

i've never found him to be terribly funny in many of his movies, but some of his stand up material is pretty great. he's always pretty funny whenever he's on letterman too. guys like dana carvey and martin short are sort of the same way. they perform far better when they're out on their own doing stand up or during an interview than they do on film. they're kind of comedians' comedians.

12/1/2009 12:27:38 AM

Wasn't jane curtain also on SCTV? I just always put her with john candy and ect


^yeah. The Three Amigos could be considered a highpoint for all of their careers. And I dont care but Bow Finger freaking kicks ass

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 12:30 AM. Reason : asdf]

12/1/2009 12:29:00 AM

What criteria is everyone using?

12/1/2009 12:29:20 AM

^^^^ Someone said he was funny as that monkey guy that ate apples all the time. I don't think anyone seriously considered him the best.

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 12:30 AM. Reason : ]

12/1/2009 12:29:40 AM

I don't know, but apparently tenure is involved

12/1/2009 12:29:41 AM

I feel longevity is important. Would you consider J.J. Hickson to be one of the greatest NC State players?

12/1/2009 12:31:17 AM

Well if thats the case then Duane "The Rock" did a better mister peepers anyway

12/1/2009 12:32:00 AM

That's a fucking silly comparison

Chevy Chase owned SNL

OWNED IT

JJ Hickson had a good season

He did not do to NC State basketball what Chevy Chase did to SNL

He actually did the exact opposite

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 12:33 AM. Reason : great work]

12/1/2009 12:32:17 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdqMEfV-r9A

not relevant but jeepers thats just painful

12/1/2009 12:34:16 AM

Your rebuttal is valid. I would still like to hear a standardized list of qualities on which everyone is creating their list.

12/1/2009 12:34:16 AM

Quote :

"Wasn't jane curtain also on SCTV? I just always put her with john candy and ect"

no. the only ones who have been members of both are martin short, robin duke and tony rosato apparently.

12/1/2009 12:34:41 AM

Quote :

"Your rebuttal is valid. I would still like to hear a standardized list of qualities on which everyone is creating their list."

1. WHICH ONE DID YOU LIKE THE MOST

2. POST HIS NAME

12/1/2009 12:35:07 AM

That seems rather arbitrary and subjective.

12/1/2009 12:35:37 AM

You're a fucking dolt

Quote :

"Chase actually never did guest host the Tonight Show during his early peak years of success, and in fact did not even appear on the program until 1978, when he was promoting a prime time special for NBC. Carson later said of Chase after guest-hosting the Tonight Show; "He couldn't ad lib a fart at a baked bean dinner"."

12/1/2009 12:36:23 AM

i bet if you graphed everybody's year of birth versus the median year of the cast member(s) they've named, you'd have a nice correlation

11/30/2009 10:12:41 PM

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I like Farley, Hartman, Norm, Kevin Nealon, etc but also appreciate cats like Chevy Chase, John Belushi, etc

whoops, double MADAM I'M ADAM post

[Edited on November 30, 2009 at 10:14 PM. Reason : .]

12/1/2009 12:36:41 AM

I think he took umbrage at that

12/1/2009 12:37:03 AM

Quote :

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdqMEfV-r9A"

it's so bad that it seriously makes me wonder if he did it on purpose

12/1/2009 12:38:41 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_cast#List_of_cast_members

Chevy Chase: 1975-1976. That would be one season. If you really liked SNL and/or Chevy Chase, you would know that he stated leaving SNL was "the greatest career mistake [he] ever made".

12/1/2009 12:38:45 AM

I don't see how that's at all relevant to the comedic mastery he displayed while a cast member

Look dude, I know you used to be UberComedian, but you're clowning yourself here

12/1/2009 12:43:48 AM

i was asked earlier by Rat Soup if i liked this phil hartman skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isFf3t_4Zbk

annnnddd.....[NO]

not funny. just not my cup of tea.

i'm holding true to my vote for farley and ferrell.

and, i'm not going to give a reason why i think those two are funnier than hartman, because its all personal opinion. that could be the reason that snl was so popular, they combined chunks of comedy. some chunks i like, some chunks you like---

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 1:07 AM. Reason : n]

12/1/2009 1:07:31 AM

I'M CHEVY CHASE

AND YOU'RE NOT.

MOTHERFUCKERS.

12/1/2009 1:30:19 AM

you will be living in a van down by the river

/thread

12/1/2009 1:31:15 AM

Nobody partied like Belushi.

12/1/2009 3:28:10 AM

im loving bill hader more and more this season, the espn sport show skit where he's an alien gets me every time

12/1/2009 5:45:14 AM

hader is pretty funny. he's always pretty good on tim and eric awesome show great job too.

12/1/2009 1:56:41 PM

Dan

12/1/2009 2:15:36 PM

what'd you end up watching?

12/1/2009 2:16:42 PM

Chris Farley

12/1/2009 2:16:57 PM

I've seen a few skits with Dan Aykroyd that cracked me up

I want to see more

I also need to watch more of Eddie Murphy's stuff on SNL

12/1/2009 2:44:07 PM

I can't decide between:

Phil Hartman
Dana Carvey
Mike Myers
Chris Farley
Dan Akroyd
Steve Martin

:\

12/1/2009 2:45:06 PM

Dana Carvey is a Lutheran.

12/1/2009 2:45:43 PM

Quote :

"Chris Farley"

good choice

12/1/2009 2:47:12 PM

I would put Dana Carvey and Mike Myers above Chris Farley. But those would be my top 3

Tracy Morgan and Phil Hartman would round out my top 5

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 2:51 PM. Reason : a]

12/1/2009 2:50:08 PM

dana carvey had some stand up show from like 15 years ago that was awesome. about a year ago i saw another one that he did recently, and it started out really shitty and not funny. a few minutes into it it was like someone flipped a switch, and he immediately became hysterical.

12/1/2009 2:50:20 PM

Wasn't there a chick named Gilda Radner or something like that? I remember her being hysterical, too


idk, whenever I think SNL I think of:

SPROCKETS (and the kid Mike Myers played)
church lady
Chippendale's
We are 2 wild and craaaaaaaaazy guys!!

and then various parts that I remember Phil Hartman doing.. love him

12/1/2009 2:59:03 PM