Greatest SNL Cast Member Semi-finals

[whoman69]

Tough choices need to be made now. We are down to the top 10 Not Ready for Primetime Players and will take that list down to 5 this round. There are no more winbacks. Please select 5

[DJJasonp]

TO THE SHIP!

[Baby Lee]

Sexist CP ;)

[whoman69]

Give a little bio on each performer
Dan Aykroyd 1975-1979
Characters include:
Beldar Conehead
Elwood Blues
Leonard Pinth-Garnell
Yortuk Fenstruck (Wild and crazy guy)
George (cook at the Olympia cafe, chee burger, chee burger, no coke, pepsi)

Impressions include:
Julia Child
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Tom Snyder
Rod Serling

[whoman69]

Sexist CP ;)

You can really only point to two time periods in the show where the women stood their own.

[mlyonsd]

Holy crap that's a tough round.

[whoman69]

SNL Biography for John Belushi:
Cast 1975-1979
Characters include:
Captain Ned (Miles Copperthwait)
Jake Blues
Larry Farber
Samauri Futaba (my favorite)

Impressions:
Henry Kissinger
Fred Silverman
Elizabeth Taylor
Marlin Brando
Joe Cocker

[whoman69]

SNL Bio for Dana Carvey
Cast 1986-1993
Characters included:
Garth Algar (Wayne's World)
Church Lady
Hans (Hans and Franz)
Buddy Precisely
Grumpy Old Man

Impressions include:
Casey Kasem
David Duke
George Bush
Johnny Carson
Ross Perot
Ted Koppel
John McLaughlin

[whoman69]

Chevy Chase SNL Bio
Cast 1975-1976

Characters Included:
Land Shark

Impressions included:
Gerald Ford
Spock
David Eisenhower

[whoman69]

Chris Farley SNL Bio:
Cast 1990-1995
Bennett Brauer
Matt Foley (motivational speaker)
Mark Strobel
Tedd O'Connor (Bill Swerski's Super Fans)

Impressions:
Carney Wilson
John Madden
John Kruk
Norman Schwarzkopf
Meat Loaf

[whoman69]

SNL Bio for Phil Hartman
Cast 1986-1994

Characters include:
Chick Hazard
Frankenstein
Johnny O'Connor
Keyrock (Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer)

Impressions include:
Jesus
Andy Rooney
Dame Edna
Ed McMahon
Phil Donahue
Saddam Hussein
Jimmy the Greek Snyder

[whoman69]

Will Ferrell SNL Bio
Cast 1995-2002

Characters Included:
Marty Culp
Gene Frenkle (Cowbell)
Craig Buchanan (Cheerleader)

Impressions:
George W. Bush
Alex Trebek
Dr. Phil
Harry Caray
James Lipton
Janet Reno
Robert Goulet

[whoman69]

Eddie Murphy SNL Bio
Cast 1980-1984

Characters included:
Buckwheat
Gumby
Mr. Robinson
Velvet Jones

Impressions include:
Bill Cosby
James Brown
Mr T
Stevie Wonder
Sammy Davis Jr.

[Mosbonian]

Give a little bio on each performer
Dan Aykroyd 1975-1979
Characters include:
Beldar Conehead
Elwood Blues
Leonard Pinth-Garnell
Yortuk Fenstruck (Wild and crazy guy)
George (cook at the Olympia cafe, chee burger, chee burger, no coke, pepsi)

Impressions include:
Julia Child
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Tom Snyder
Rod Serling

You forgot a couple of his other characters:

Fred Garvin-Male Prostitute
E. Buzz Miller
Irwin Mainway
First Co-host of Saturday Night Live news with Jane Curtin (he and Curtin did the classic "Point/CounterPoint")

[whoman69]

Bill Murray SNL Bio
Cast 1976-1980

Characters include:
Todd DiLaMuca (Nerd)
Honker
Cousin Niko (Olympia Cafe)
Francis Jocko Leary Jr.
Nick (Lounge Singer)

Impressions:
Richard Burton
Richard Dawson
Walter Cronkite
Eric Sevareid

[whoman69]

Mike Myers SNL Bio
Cast 1988-1995

Characters included:
Dieter (Sprockets)
Linda Richman (Coffee Talk)
Lothar
Pat Arnold (Bill Swerski's Super Fans)
Phillip (playground)
Stuart Rankin (All Things Scottish)
Wayne Campbell (Wayne's World)

Impressions:
Barbara Streisand
Carl Sagan
Lance Ito (Simpson Trial)
Mick Jagger
Queen Elizabeth
Ron Wood

[whoman69]

Early leaders are:
John Belushi
Dan Aykroyd
Eddie Murphy
Chris Farley
Phil Hartman

[burt]

Chevy Chase SNL Bio
Cast 1975-1976

Characters Included:
Land Shark

Impressions included:
Gerald Ford
Spock
David Eisenhower

no did the news like Chevy. no one,

[whoman69]

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[whoman69]

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[whoman69]

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[whoman69]

no did the news like Chevy. no one,

I'm Chevy Chase and you're not

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1413/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-with-chevy-chase

[whoman69]

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[Rain Man]

I went with Murphy, Carvey, and Hartman as my three obvious no-brainer picks.

Then Mike Myers as a solid fourth.

Fifth? Tough call between the chubby guys. Eventually went with Belushi over Farley.

[Rain Man]

Why isn't Dana Carvey challenging for the lead? He did all sorts of great things. He makes my humor meter go "Schwing!"

[whoman69]

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[whoman69]

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[whoman69]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4189/saturday-night-live-mr-robinsons-neighborhood

[whoman69]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4142/saturday-night-live-nerd-prom

[whoman69]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4118/saturday-night-live-coffee-talk

[whoman69]

There is no separation here. One vote separates the top 3. Two people are within 4 votes of getting in or staying on the outside. This is going to be going down to the wire. Just think how hard this will be tomorrow when we narrow it down to the champion.

[whoman69]

In related news, Adam Sandler just set a record for most "Razzie" nominations with 11 beating the old record by fellow former SNL alum Eddie Murphy, who had 5 for his dud Norbit. Sandler has the unique distinction of being nominated as both worst actor and worst actress for Jack and Jill.

[Mr_Tomahawk]

Chris Farley needs more love...

[whoman69]

Chris Farley needs more love...

IMO the record doesn't match that. He was never the biggest star on the show or even the top 3. He was crazy funny but not the driving force behind the show as many on this list were. He was on the show at the same time as Hartman, Myers, Carvey and Sandler who just missed a spot in the top 10. I'd be hard pressed to say that he made more of a contribution than any of those performers. He's Belushi part 2 for the younger crowd. Difference was Belushi had a larger creative role in the whole show on a weekly basis.

[Psyko Tek]

no did the news like Chevy. no one,

no honey, blow is just an expression

[RJ]

Chris Farley needs more love...


Chris Farley is ahead of Bill Murray and that just ain't right.

[Extra Point]

Chris Farley is ahead of Bill Murray and that just ain't right.

That could be the sign of a coming blow hole: Here, here, or possibly here.

[whoman69]

bump for the nite crew

[whoman69]

Passing on to the finals:

Belushi
Aykroyd
Farley
Murphy
Hartman

[Baby Lee]

Epiphany

Sophia Vergara = Charo 2.0

[lcarus]

I caught some of tonight's episode by accident. Just atrocious. So awful. Kristen Wiig SUCKS. That "Gilley" sketch...worst thing I've ever seen on that show, and I've seen a lot of bad ones. Just cancel it already.

[Captain Obvious]

I caught some of tonight's episode by accident. Just atrocious. So awful. Kristen Wiig SUCKS. That "Gilley" sketch...worst thing I've ever seen on that show, and I've seen a lot of bad ones. Just cancel it already.

There are two good reasons tonight. Oh, and Drunk Uncle on Weekend Update.

[lcarus]

Who in the blue holy fuck are these "musical" guests? This show should have been canned a long ass time ago.

[Simply Red]

I went with Murphy, Carvey, and Hartman as my three obvious no-brainer picks.

Then Mike Myers as a solid fourth.

Fifth? Tough call between the chubby guys. Eventually went with Belushi over Farley.

wow, we're way off, except on Hartman.

[lewdog]

Belushi was unreal and you don't even have to be old to know that.

[Chief Roundup]

Murphy, Murray, Akroyd, Belushi, Hartman

[Baby Lee]

Who in the blue holy fuck are these "musical" guests? This show should have been canned a long ass time ago.

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[listopencil]

Passing on to the finals:

Belushi
Aykroyd
Farley
Murphy
Hartman

Those are the five I voted for.

[Easy 6]

If Farley had a personal laugh off with Hartman, it would cancel any comedies worth for the next 25 years... a Tunguska Event of human understanding.

[rico]

Dana Carvey 3rd to last? That's......wrong. Nobody on that show has been better than him.

[Baby Lee]

Phytomorphogenesis . . .

Rayfreegeratoar.

No, no, no. .

Phyto . . .

fighto

Morpho . . .

morrrrrfoh

genesis . . .

. . . Jaiff Breedges.

ROFL ROFL

[JD10367]

Epiphany

Sophia Vergara = Charo 2.0

Vergara's way hotter than Charo was.

Her monologue was better than expected. (I liked her comment about how if viewers overlook her accent she'll overlook everyone staring at her tits all night, LOL.) The rest, as usual, was totally not funny.

Here's what I don't get. Everyone knows how it's SUPPOSED to work. Opening skit: funniest. Monologue: pretty damn good. Right after the monologue: funny pretaped "commercial". Those are supposed to be the gimmes. So when your opening skit isn't funny, and your opening fake "commercial" isn't funny ("Almost Pizza"? WTF?), then you know the show is going to suck balls. Whatever those writers get paid is too much. They could fire all of them and randomly pick a dozen CPers and we could come up with funnier bits.