Heard this ? on Howard Stern Interview with Carvey and Spade. Top 5 SNL Actors

[Connorpozlee]

For me, it’s Will Ferrell by a great distance followed by many others.

 

[LafayetteBear]

Give me Murphy, Ferrell, Farley, Carvey and Mike Myers.

This ^^^^ is as solid an SNL Top 5 as you're gonna find, IMHO. I might have put Bill Murry in there over Eddie Murphy. Radnor and McKinnon deserve mention as well.

 

[CVLion]

His droll weekend update was great, but his constant slaying of OJ got him fired.

Yep, unfortunately. OJ still had influence high up at NBC.

 

[NittanyBuff]

In no particular order here are mine:

1. Dan Ackroyd
2. Kirsten Wiig
3. Will Ferrell
4. Kate McKinnon
5. Phil Hartman

**If I had to take six it would be a tie with Eddie Murphy and Bill Hader.

If Murphy stayed longer he would have been in my top five because he did my favorite sketches. James Brown Hot tub and Mr. Robinson's neighborhood.

Anyone Agree?

Shalom

Chevy, Murray, Belushi, Akroyd, Farley

 

[Midnighter]

I think the three all-timers are Hammond, Hartman, and McKinnon. Not really known for one or two characters, but fully invested in everything they do. Myers and Carvey are sort of in that camp too, but they relied a lot on established, recurring characters (Wayne's World, Church Lady, Massive Headwound Harry, Sprockets, All Things Scottish, George Bush, Effemenite Heterosexual, etc.). You don't see that as much with the current writers (Colin Jost, Michael Che). I miss stuff like The Californians, Donatella Versace, Prince, Stefon, The Porn Stars selling stuff, etc.. Every now and then you will get a host who has kind of a recurring chracter which can be fun (Johansson with the chandeliers, Stone with the swimsuit model, Timberlake with the wrappingville, Hanks with David Pumpkins, etc.).

 

[Nitt1300]

No one ever equaled John Belushi

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Too 5:
Murray
Murphy
Hartman
Carvey
Myers

Honorable mention:
Radnor
Ferrell
Rock
Hader
Short

Also rans (weren’t on long enough or were just frequent guests):
Crystal
Guest
Martin

 

[Grant Green]

Best SNL cast member has the makings for a good bracket poll. Hasn't @Midnighter done these before?

For consideration
1 Fred Armisen

2 Dan Aykroyd

3 Jim Belushi

4 John Belushi

5 Jim Breuer

6 A. Whitney Brown

7 Aidy Bryant

8 Dana Carvey

9 Chevy Chase

10 Michael Che

11 Billy Crystal

12 Jane Curtin

13 Pete Davidson

14 Rachel Dratch

15 Nora Dunn

16 Jimmy Fallon

17 Chris Farley

18 Will Ferrell

19 Tina Fey

20 Will Forte

21 Al Franken

22 Ana Gasteyer

23 Bill Hader

24 Brad Hall

25 Darrell Hammond

26 Phil Hartman

27 Jan Hooks

28 Victoria Jackson

29 Colin Jost

30 Chris Kattan

31 Tim Kazurinsky

32 Julia Louis-Dreyfus

33 Jon Lovitz

34 Norm Macdonald

35 Kate McKinnon

36 Tim Meadows

37 Seth Meyers

38 Dennis Miller

39 Tracy Morgan

40 Garrett Morris

41 Bobby Moynihan

42 Eddie Murphy

43 Bill Murray

44 Mike Myers

45 Kevin Nealon

46 Cheri Oteri

47 Chris Parnell

48 Joe Piscopo

49 Amy Poehler

50 Colin Quinn

51 Gilda Radner

52 Chris Rock

53 Maya Rudolph

54 Andy Samberg

55 Adam Sandler

56 Horatio Sanz

57 Rob Schneider

58 Molly Shannon

59 Martin Short

60 David Spade

61 Cecily Strong

62 Jason Sudeikis

63 Kenan Thompson

64 Kristen Wiig