Top 10 SNL Performers of all time

[Guest Vern Gagne]

1. Dana Carvey

2. Phil Hartman

 

The rest in no order

Billy Crystal

Eddie Murphy

Bill Muarry

Chris Farrely

Norm McDonold

Martin Short

John Belushi

Will Ferrell

[Guest JangoFett4Hire]

Carvey

Hartman

Hooks

Nealon

Miller

Myers

John Belushi

Akroyd

Note to self: Include Norm McDonald on the list...

GE Smith (it says performer, and he was a staple of the late 80's/early 90's band)

 

Special mention: Charles Rocket

 

Worst ever: Colin 'Remote Control' Quinn

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Dennis Miller

Mike Myers

Phil Hartman

Dana Carvey

Will Ferrell

Chevy Chase

Adam Sandler

Dan Akroyd

Bill Murray

Chris Farley

[Guest notJames]

Laraine Newman

Brian Doyle Murray

Brad Hall

Robin Duke

Tim Kazurinsky

Anthony Michael Hall

Christopher Guest

A. Whitney Brown

Terry Sweeney

Siobahn Fallon

 

Honourable Mention: Father Guido Sarducci

[Guest starvenger]

Note: I'm not real familiar with the original cast...

- Phil Hartman

- Dan Ackroyd

- Eddie Murphy

- Will Ferrell

- Dana Carvey

- Mike Myers

- Jan Hooks

- Ana Gasteyer

- Dennis Miller

- Kevin Nealon

 

I feel bad for not having more women on here...

 

Honourable mentions:

- Alec Baldwin and John Goodman, because even though they're not cast members they might as well be.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

I think it's impossible to make the list without Will Ferrell.

[Guest Eagan469]

My 10 (no particular order):

 

Phil Hartman

John Belushi

Chevy Chase

Gilda Radner

Kevin Nealon

Chris Farley

Mike Myers

Eddie Murphy

Molly Shannon

Will Ferrell

[Guest godthedog]

phil hartman

hohn belushi

mike myers

dana carvey

eddie murphy

chris farley

bill murray

gilda radner

dan akroyd

harry shearer

joe piscopo

 

*note: i really don't find any of the current cast members funny enough to make the top 10.

 

*note: although the early 90s cast and the 70s cast got the same amount of entries, the 70s SNL was better overall (mostly thanks to the writing).

[Guest starvenger]

*note: although the early 90s cast and the 70s cast got the same amount of entries, the 70s SNL was better overall (mostly thanks to the writing).

Hey, don't discount the amazing properties of whatever drugs the cast was using as well...

[Guest godthedog]

this is true. those 70s kids were pretty manic.

[Guest LooseCannon]

Phil Hartman

John Belushi

Chevy Chase

Gilda Radner

Kevin Nealon

Chris Farley

Molly Shannon

Will Ferrell

Norm Macdonald

Tim Meadows

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Here's my list pretty much in order.

 

1) Dan Aykroyd

2) Phil Hartman

3) John Belushi

4) Eddie Murphy

5) Bill Murray

6) Dana Carvey

7) Dennis Miller

8) Gilda Radner

9) Will Ferrel

10) Joe Piscopo

 

And my ten worst

 

1) Melanie Hutsell

2) Ellen Cleighorn

3) Robert Downey, Jr.

4) Cheri Oteri

5) David Spade

6) Rachel Dratch

7) Molly Shannon

8) Anthony Michael Hall

9) Christopher MacDonald

10) Brad Hall

[Guest LooseCannon]

Seeing Dana Carvey on everyone's list reminds me just how much I hate that unfunny little feminine man.

[Guest bob_barron]

I HAVE to respond don't I?

 

1)Norm Macdonald.

 

It's Macdonald not McDonald FYI

 

2)Phil Hartman

 

3)Dan Aykroyd

 

4)Dana Carvey

 

5)John Belushi

 

6)Will Ferrell

 

7)Mike Myers

 

8)Bill Murray

 

9)Eddie Murphy

 

10)Tim Meadows

[Guest MDH257]

1.) Phil Hartman

2.) Eddie Murphy

3.) Dan Aykroyd

4.) Gilda Radner

5.) John Belushi

6.) Bill Murray

7.) Will Ferrell

8.) Dana Carvey

9.) Dennis Miller

10.) Mike Myers

[Guest Youth N Asia]

In no order.

 

Chevey Chase

Phil Hartman

Daryl Hammond...everything the guy does is funny

Dana Carvey

Dan Aykroyd

Eddie Murphy

Mike Myers

Will Ferrell

 

I only found 8 I marked out big for.

 

Hate to sound like an ass...but people give way too much credit to the dead, and the first cast, sorry, just the way I feel.

 

And the least funny? Jimmy Fallon

[Guest bob_barron]

Which deceased cast members dont you like YNA?

 

I've always been a Phil Hartman fan- the guy helped carry the show and was great in almost every role he did

[Guest teke184]

1. Phil Hartman

2. John Belushi

3. Mike Myers

4. Eddie Murphy

5. Bill Murray

6. Dana Carvey

7. Norm MacDonald

8. Dennis Miller

9. Will Ferrell

10. Jon Lovitz

 

Honorable mention to that Wild and Crazy Guy Steve Martin, who's hosted more shows than some cast members have appeared on.

 

 

This is a rough order.

[Guest bob_barron]

Steve has hosted 13 times- John Goodman has 12 but I think Goodman has more overall appearances.

[Guest razazteca]

Phil Hartman - did everything well but Frankenstein and the cook stand out as great recurring characters

 

Mike Myers - Wayne World and Sprockets

 

Dana Carvey - Garth and President Bush

 

Dan Aykroyd - the toy sales man and the weekend news

 

Norm McDonald his Bob Dole and the Weekend News were always funny and as Burt Reyolds in Celebrity Jeoparody.

 

Eddie Murphy - Gumby Damn It, Mr Rogers, Stevie Wonder

 

Darrell Hammond - the Presidental Debates

 

Will Ferral - cheerleader and politicians and Celebrity Jeoparody.

 

Chris Farely - as the guy who lives in a van DOWN by THE River! and general fat guy funny material.

 

Jane Curtain - the work with Dan Aykroyd on the weekend news and as a reporter opposite Dan's halloween costume/toy sales man were classic.

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I had to pick Dennis Miller simply because he encouraged education.

 

*Dennis Miller tells a joke*

 

"...I know that's funny ... I just don't know why ... I have to go read 5 books to understand the pun."

[Guest bob_barron]

Macdonald NOT McDonald

[Guest razazteca]

and on his farm Norm had a news update E I E I O

 

Im not good with names sorry.

[Guest bob_barron]

No problem- it's just my biggest pet peeve like ever.

[Guest BifEverchad]

No problem- it's just my biggest pet peeve like ever.

whatever, bob baron

 

[Guest hardyz1]

People like Molly Shannon? Yikes.

[Guest GeneMean]

Gilda Radner

Dan Aykroyd

John Belushi

Bill Murray

Eddie Murphy

Dana Carvey

Phil Hartman

Mike Myers

Will Ferrell

[Guest razazteca]

Molly Shannon is average at best, yet all of her characters resembled that middle aged woman who likes to scratch walk and kick. Not 10 ten material but between Garfalfo (good) and Calghorn (bad).

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

I had Molly Shannon on my worst list. I despise her. If murder was made legal tomorrow she would be on my list somewhere between X-Pac and Richie Sexon of the Milwaukee Brewers. I never find her funny and agree with Raz that just about everyone of her characters comes across as the same "crazy lady." She mistakes acting like a retarded dumbass for being funny. On the flipside, Kattan makes the same mistake.

[Guest bob_barron]

I agree with Deacon but on a lesser extent.

 

She was good till 1998 and then just lost all semblance of professionalism.

 

And Janeane Garafalo was jusr awful on SNL. What a cunt bitch