It was in alphabetical order. Just like the show does it. Even though I feel it should be in order of tenure. Kenan should always be first since he became the longest tenured cast member in his 7th year.
In retrospect, that 1985 cast was legendary: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Rich Hall, Harry Shearer, Mary Gross and Christopher Guest. We didn't know how good we had it.
I thought we did. Wasn’t that the season where they got desperate and hired established names. I don’t remember that season being very good other than the whole “you look marvelous” stuff from Crystal.
As in December 2024, there are 6 Oscar acting nominees...Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Laurie Metcalf, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, and Randy Quaid. And Oscar acting winner... Robert Downey, Jr.
R.I.P. to all of the cast members shown in this video who have passed. Peter Aykroyd - 1955-2021 John Belushi - 1949-1982 Tom Davis - 1952-2012 Chris Farley - 1964-1997 Gilbert Gottfried - 1955-2022 Phil Hartman - 1948-1998 Jan Hooks - 1957-2014 Norm Macdonald - 1959-2021 Michael O’Donoghue - 1940-1994 Gilda Radner - 1946-1989 Charles Rocket - 1949-2005 Tony Rosato - 1954-2017 Danitra Vance - 1954-1994 Dan Vitale - 1956-2022
Farley & Hartman dying in a 6 month timeframe… just brutal… Farley because his demons consumed him (have “The Chris Farley Show” in audiobooks) Hartman… he was living his best life as described in the biography about him “You Might Remember Me”
This montage really shows how the cast "glowed up" over the years. They went from a not-ready-for-prime-time cast full of awkward, gawky 70s hipsters with little to no makeup to a "so ready for their close-up in a big budget feature" cast full of Hollywood beautiful leading men & ladies.
Notice Christine Ebersole was not announced by either Don Pardo or Darrell Hammond because during her one season on "SNL", Mel Brandt was the announcer (Tony Rosato debuted the previous season on that one show when Pardo was still on it).
@@BallparkHunter It was supervising producer Michael O'Donoghue's idea and he wanted to do it on air but executive producer Dick Ebersol vetoed that! He also votoed firing director Dave Wilson which was also Mr. Mike's idea. After O'Donohue was fired mid-season, Pardo was hired back the following season. As for why Mr. Mike wanted them fired, there was some views of the then-rookie staff of the original shows that both Wilson and Pardo were "too professional" for their jobs and may have wanted amateurs like themselves...
You missed one - maybe because the names weren't announced in the first season, but George Coe WAS one of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. There were eight names on the first title cards, and he didn't even get mentioned in the movie. But he WAS there, from the beginning.
If my memory is correct, Coe was listed as a Not Ready For Prime Time Player only for the first episode, although he did appear in sketches throughout the first season. The intro for the first episode didn't have images of the performers, so there is no image of Coe's face for this video. But then, the lack of a face shot from the intro didn't stop this video from including Michael O'Donoghue. 😊
@@zanti4132 I just looked up some early episodes on Peacock - he was not listed as a NRFPTP in the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore episode, even though he's in the cold open and appears later in the "Prison Audition" sketch that gave us "Gonna Get Me A Shotgun," but in episode 4, with Candace Bergen, they even forgot to show the card with the first four names, and O'Donoghue is actually listed on the second one. Justice for George Coe!
At least a photo of him and the name would have been good enough. And maybe his name is said somewhere else, or someone could have called his name for this video. 😉
I was born in '76 but my parents didn't let me start watching til I was 12 years old in 1988. As such, my favorite cast is STILL Carvey/Hartman/Hooks/Dunn/Lovitz/Nealon/Jackson/Miller/Myers. There was just something magical about that group of people from 88 to 90. Three short years but they were the next best cast after the original 1975 cast.
The M's are by far the most stacked. MacDonald, McKinnon, Meadows, Metcalf, Moffat, Mooney, Morgan, Moynihan, Murray, Myers, and Murphy, monarch of them all.
G E Smith, bandleader & co-musical director of SNL from 1985-95 was another one. During his tenure on the show, Smith (alongside bandmate T-Bone Wolk) became well-known to television audiences for his emotive performances during "band shots," brief snippets of the band playing before SNL went to commercial break. That was back then but still not well-known except mostly to his inner circle today.
Well, roughly 165 cast members and I’ve met seven…. Thank you for the memories of meeting you… Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Laurie Metcalf, Randy Quaid, Andy Samberg, and Chris Parnell.❤
And, interestingly enough, those three cast members were on the show for four consecutive seasons. 1975-82: zero Halls 1982-86: Hallapalooza 1986-present: Hall-less
@@GaryDodgerfanThe best part is that they were on for four consecutive seasons, but never at the same time. We had Brad Hall from 82-84, Rich Hall from 84-85, and Anthony Michael Hall from 85-86. And no, none of them are related.
Youngest SNL cast member: Anthony Michael Hall (17 when he joined the cast) Oldest SNL cast member: Leslie Jones (47 when she joined the cast) Longest run on SNL: Kenan Thompson (22 years) Shortest run on SNL: Laurie Metcalf ( 1 episode)
I thought George Coe, who was born in 1929, would've been the oldest, even though he wasn't shown or listed (and wasn't even announced but for one time in the credits back in 1975), but he was 46 during his one season on the show.
That was amazingly well done, assuming you did it from off air -- remarkably good work not getting the music to fight with one another too badly, though I was watching it on a cell phone which probably helps your cause. ;-)
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No other list compares...Greatest comedy show ever.
As a lifelong SNL fan, I still like to believe that Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher, & Steve Martin were actual cast members -- I also like to pretend that Richard Pryor & George Carlin hosted more times than they actually did
@AntiYourFacePhD it makes absolutely no sense to me why they wouldn't hire both Kenan and Kel. They were like the modern day Abbott and Costello. They already had a undeniable track record in sketch comedy. They had already proven to the world that they work well together. They were a proven comedy duo. All of the best sketches on All That were with Kenan and Kel. They already had a hit sitcom together. They starred in movies together. It's clear that they work well together, and make magic when performing together. It would only make sense to hire both of them, since they both auditioned. And it's sad that only now, 20 years later, are we seeing them work together again. And they've still got it. Good Burger 2 was incredible. Just imagine the gold we could've gotten from Kenan and Kel. Imagine if they brought over Good Burger, like they did on the Jimmy Fallon show. Could you imagine if SNL existed back in the day, and you had both Laurel and Hardy audition. And they only hired Laurel, and not Hardy. When Tracy Morgan and Dean Edwards left (Edwards I believe was fired), they were specifically looking for a black cast member to fill the void. Every black comic auditioned, including now famous comics like Kevin Hart. They ultimately hired Kenan and Finesse Mitchell. And no disrespect to Finesse, he seems like a lovely upright citizen. But he's largely forgotten about. Kenan and Kel would've made magic we'd still be talking about today.
I will never adapt to Darrell Hammond’s wimpy voice intros, after having known the powerful Don Pardo voice for so many years. What is odd is that Darrell Hammond can imitate Don’s voice, and filled in as announcer as Don when he was sick.
According to Saturday Night Live Wiki: Laurie Metcalf is an American actress, who was a featured player on the April 11, 1981 episode. This makes her the shortest-tenured actor to appear in the SNL cast, except for Emily Prager, who was also credited for that episode but did not appear at all. Metcalf's only appearance was a pre-taped piece for Weekend Update.
@@carp68 The 1980-81 season was a disaster. Lorne had left the show and wouldn't return for five years. The cast had been completely overhauled, and I believe many of them, along with the new producer, were fired late in the season. Metcalf was probably one of those brought in late to replace cast members, but it didn't work out. The one bright side of the 80=81 season was the introduction of Eddie Murphy to the SNL cast.
This was the best cast, hands down 😉
Farley, Ferrell, and Fey in a row is perfect
Miller in the convertible was a1
The transition from Andy Samberg to Adam Sandler just feels so, so right.
That's My Boy.... The movie they did together with Blair from Gossip Girl.
I mean, That is his boy!
SANDY SANDBIRDS
SANDLY AMBURG
ANGIE SANDERS
Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Mike Myers and Kevin Nealon showing up in sequence tell everything you need to know about how packed the history of SNL is.
It was in alphabetical order. Just like the show does it. Even though I feel it should be in order of tenure. Kenan should always be first since he became the longest tenured cast member in his 7th year.
Daaamn, that sounds like one hell of an episode
Great to choose Steve Martin as the host!
Came here to say the same, it's just perfect.
In retrospect, that 1985 cast was legendary: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Rich Hall, Harry Shearer, Mary Gross and Christopher Guest. We didn't know how good we had it.
Martin Short was just talking about this on the Tonight Show
I thought we did. Wasn’t that the season where they got desperate and hired established names. I don’t remember that season being very good other than the whole “you look marvelous” stuff from Crystal.
As in December 2024, there are 6 Oscar acting nominees...Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Laurie Metcalf, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, and Randy Quaid. And Oscar acting winner... Robert Downey, Jr.
And also Kristen Wiig nominated for a script, Michael McKean for an original song and George Coe for a short subject.
The oscars don't respect comedy. So that stat is invalid and doesn't matter.
SNL doesn't respect comedy either, so...
What about Albert Brooks?
If you got Anthony Michael Hall, Brad Hall and Rich Hall and put Mark McKinney in the middle it would make him a Kid in the Halls.
What?
Good point. Lol.
@@joeybaseball7352 IF YOU GOT ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL, BRAD HALL AND RICH HALL AND PUT MARK MCKINNEY IN THE MIDDLE IT WOULD MAKE HIM A KID IN THE HALLS.
Brilliant. Good one.
😂👍🎉
R.I.P. to all of the cast members shown in this video who have passed.
Peter Aykroyd - 1955-2021
John Belushi - 1949-1982
Tom Davis - 1952-2012
Chris Farley - 1964-1997
Gilbert Gottfried - 1955-2022
Phil Hartman - 1948-1998
Jan Hooks - 1957-2014
Norm Macdonald - 1959-2021
Michael O’Donoghue - 1940-1994
Gilda Radner - 1946-1989
Charles Rocket - 1949-2005
Tony Rosato - 1954-2017
Danitra Vance - 1954-1994
Dan Vitale - 1956-2022
And the missing one - George Coe, 1929-2015.
@@SMSverrisson Thought about adding Mr. Coe, but since he wasn't announced or pictured, I didn't. Thanks for mentioning him!
I didn’t know peter died!
Farley & Hartman dying in a 6 month timeframe… just brutal…
Farley because his demons consumed him (have “The Chris Farley Show” in audiobooks)
Hartman… he was living his best life as described in the biography about him “You Might Remember Me”
🕊️
Fantastic edit and a great way to celebrate fifty years!
With musical guest, Paul Simon!
This would be an absolutely perfect way to start the 50th anniversary special in 2025.
Fred going first just feels right
Pretty surprising nobody has a name that comes before A-R
This montage really shows how the cast "glowed up" over the years. They went from a not-ready-for-prime-time cast full of awkward, gawky 70s hipsters with little to no makeup to a "so ready for their close-up in a big budget feature" cast full of Hollywood beautiful leading men & ladies.
Now I want an SNL episode with every cast member, although they probably need a few archived sketches for those that have since passed away.
the best intro was the 80s one where they were all king kong
How many hours you have free to watch this?
Notice Christine Ebersole was not announced by either Don Pardo or Darrell Hammond because during her one season on "SNL", Mel Brandt was the announcer (Tony Rosato debuted the previous season on that one show when Pardo was still on it).
Why did they fire Pardo?
@@BallparkHunter It was supervising producer Michael O'Donoghue's idea and he wanted to do it on air but executive producer Dick Ebersol vetoed that! He also votoed firing director Dave Wilson which was also Mr. Mike's idea. After O'Donohue was fired mid-season, Pardo was hired back the following season. As for why Mr. Mike wanted them fired, there was some views of the then-rookie staff of the original shows that both Wilson and Pardo were "too professional" for their jobs and may have wanted amateurs like themselves...
Wow impressive editing job!!! 👏
You missed one - maybe because the names weren't announced in the first season, but George Coe WAS one of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. There were eight names on the first title cards, and he didn't even get mentioned in the movie. But he WAS there, from the beginning.
If my memory is correct, Coe was listed as a Not Ready For Prime Time Player only for the first episode, although he did appear in sketches throughout the first season. The intro for the first episode didn't have images of the performers, so there is no image of Coe's face for this video. But then, the lack of a face shot from the intro didn't stop this video from including Michael O'Donoghue. 😊
@@zanti4132 I just looked up some early episodes on Peacock - he was not listed as a NRFPTP in the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore episode, even though he's in the cold open and appears later in the "Prison Audition" sketch that gave us "Gonna Get Me A Shotgun," but in episode 4, with Candace Bergen, they even forgot to show the card with the first four names, and O'Donoghue is actually listed on the second one. Justice for George Coe!
@@daviddean1326 Release the Coe Cut!
At least a photo of him and the name would have been good enough. And maybe his name is said somewhere else, or someone could have called his name for this video. 😉
He was under
Contract the entire
Season and was there in all the writers
Rooms and everything
I LOVE this. Thank you for making it! Extra fun to cheer when your favorite player comes up in this version, lol
I was born in '76 but my parents didn't let me start watching til I was 12 years old in 1988. As such, my favorite cast is STILL Carvey/Hartman/Hooks/Dunn/Lovitz/Nealon/Jackson/Miller/Myers. There was just something magical about that group of people from 88 to 90. Three short years but they were the next best cast after the original 1975 cast.
r u me. I have same birth year, and started watching regularly year
The M's are by far the most stacked. MacDonald, McKinnon, Meadows, Metcalf, Moffat, Mooney, Morgan, Moynihan, Murray, Myers, and Murphy, monarch of them all.
And the W's, funny enough, are the least stacked. Loads of names but I didn't recognize any except Wayans and Wiig.
McKean
There were SO many that I was surprised to see on this list. It makes me wanna dig in the archives for some sketches...
Good job. Id forgotten some of those people even existed.....I mean were on the show.
Amazing job putting all this together.
"Too many cooks"
This is absolutely LEGENDARY!!! 😊
Amazing how many talented people have passed through those doors at 30 Rock. Some became huge stars and some just faded into IMDB history.
G E Smith, bandleader & co-musical director of SNL from 1985-95 was another one. During his tenure on the show, Smith (alongside bandmate T-Bone Wolk) became well-known to television audiences for his emotive performances during "band shots," brief snippets of the band playing before SNL went to commercial break. That was back then but still not well-known except mostly to his inner circle today.
@@johnmassung Plus in all the 80's Hall and Oates music videos.
Now THOSE were the best years & THIS was the best cast, without question
This is An Golden Era for sure.
Super smash bros ultimate debut trailer be like:
Well, roughly 165 cast members and I’ve met seven…. Thank you for the memories of meeting you… Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Laurie Metcalf, Randy Quaid, Andy Samberg, and Chris Parnell.❤
I hope for some 50th anniversary special they essentially do this
4:50 GOAT!
Last name that is most represented in SNL cast member history? Hall, with three cast members (Anthony Michael, Brad, and Rich)
It’s the equivalent of US Presidents named James.
And, interestingly enough, those three cast members were on the show for four consecutive seasons.
1975-82: zero Halls
1982-86: Hallapalooza
1986-present: Hall-less
And yet, none of them were Kids in the Hall.
@@mjsicinskiMark McKinney was.
"I'm squishing your head!"
@@GaryDodgerfanThe best part is that they were on for four consecutive seasons, but never at the same time. We had Brad Hall from 82-84, Rich Hall from 84-85, and Anthony Michael Hall from 85-86. And no, none of them are related.
Beautiful!!! Thanks for this.
Youngest SNL cast member: Anthony Michael Hall (17 when he joined the cast)
Oldest SNL cast member: Leslie Jones (47 when she joined the cast)
Longest run on SNL: Kenan Thompson (22 years)
Shortest run on SNL: Laurie Metcalf ( 1 episode)
I thought George Coe, who was born in 1929, would've been the oldest, even though he wasn't shown or listed (and wasn't even announced but for one time in the credits back in 1975), but he was 46 during his one season on the show.
A great compilation! Enjoyed this a lot!
Utter brilliance. Well done!
That was amazingly well done, assuming you did it from off air -- remarkably good work not getting the music to fight with one another too badly, though I was watching it on a cell phone which probably helps your cause. ;-)
No other list compares...Greatest comedy show ever.
As a lifelong SNL fan, I still like to believe that Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher, & Steve Martin were actual cast members -- I also like to pretend that Richard Pryor & George Carlin hosted more times than they actually did
Exactly.
Props to the announcer, Don Pardo. 🙏🙏 He's a SNL cast member.
Impressive to get them all and in alphabetical order as well..
Alphabetically, Michael Longfellow should have come before Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
This is the only way everyone gets camera time on the 50th Anniversary Special
Not quite a "every Love Boat guest star" reel, but close!
“And the rest of the Bay High Rockets! One Two Three Four!”
Guys he’s at 2:36.
It took me many years to realize they were announced in alphabetical order.
They insert him saying “G.E Smith and The Saturday Night Live Band” every 10 cast members or so
I might have to do that myself 😂
So many great talents. Props to all the comedy legends
It feels like attendance in school!
Alan Zweibl has an amazing book about Gilda Radner.
Wow, there really was a "dark ages" for a while in the mid to late 80's.
The Jean Doumanien season in the Early 80s was much, much, much worse.
My vote for host would have been for Buck Henry.
You could tell the vibe was different during those weird seasons in the 80s.
great mashup
This is damned impressive.
G**d*mn do I love Bill Hader!!!
4:15 considering what has come out about him, I don't think you should accept that drink
I almost got into a fist fight with him at a bar once
Mark McKinney the only member of both SNL and KITH 😊
Bruce McCullough wasn't a cast member on SNL, but he appeared in small roles in several episodes.
This Should Be The Intro For The Next Season
This is phenomenal!!!!
SNL: Endgame.
Excellent job!
So many siblings were cast the show together, but they couldn't cast both Kenan and Kel?
My understanding is that Kel auditioned, but had some personal issues preventing him from getting cast.
@AntiYourFacePhD it makes absolutely no sense to me why they wouldn't hire both Kenan and Kel. They were like the modern day Abbott and Costello. They already had a undeniable track record in sketch comedy. They had already proven to the world that they work well together. They were a proven comedy duo. All of the best sketches on All That were with Kenan and Kel. They already had a hit sitcom together. They starred in movies together. It's clear that they work well together, and make magic when performing together. It would only make sense to hire both of them, since they both auditioned. And it's sad that only now, 20 years later, are we seeing them work together again. And they've still got it. Good Burger 2 was incredible. Just imagine the gold we could've gotten from Kenan and Kel. Imagine if they brought over Good Burger, like they did on the Jimmy Fallon show. Could you imagine if SNL existed back in the day, and you had both Laurel and Hardy audition. And they only hired Laurel, and not Hardy.
When Tracy Morgan and Dean Edwards left (Edwards I believe was fired), they were specifically looking for a black cast member to fill the void. Every black comic auditioned, including now famous comics like Kevin Hart. They ultimately hired Kenan and Finesse Mitchell. And no disrespect to Finesse, he seems like a lovely upright citizen. But he's largely forgotten about. Kenan and Kel would've made magic we'd still be talking about today.
@@joeybaseball7352 Yes. Along with the rest of the Nickelodeon cast members (Lori Beth Denberg, Jamie Lynn Spears, Amanda Bynes, etc).
This is awesome, but I’d love to see them announced in order by the season they debuted.
Michael O'Donoghue being the only one not to have a cast photo seems exactly like him.
Nicely done
this made me realize how much i miss the late great Don Pardo
I didn't even know so many of them where even in SNL.
Legend after legend!!
That's commitment
It's a tremendous gig to get, but it turns out the ratio of somebody:nobody is about 1:5 🤔
SNL 50 cast Sounds perfect 😜
Misspelled George Coe's name.
No pic for Michael O'Donoghue (As you did with Laurie Metcalf)?
Impressive. Very nice. Now set it to the All That theme song.
Omg he should totally do this same video concept with all the All That cast members!
Gilbert Gottfried?!?! I didn’t know, it would’ve been great to have him this past year.
Also Martin Short looked so different 😂
Tremendous!
They should do something like this for the snl 50 special
superb!
Interesting that 0 people in the shows history with a Smith or Williams Surname and only 1 Jones
True...but GE Smith led the band for a really long time so the surname Smith may have been announced more than any other.
FABULOUS!!!!!!
I will never adapt to Darrell Hammond’s wimpy voice intros, after having known the powerful Don Pardo voice for so many years. What is odd is that Darrell Hammond can imitate Don’s voice, and filled in as announcer as Don when he was sick.
He was told to not do a Pardo impression and make it his own by Lorne himself.
I must have missed this one.
Who was the musical guest?
Wow I swear I’m a SNL nerd and I was only surprised by Laurie Metcalf! When was that?
According to Saturday Night Live Wiki: Laurie Metcalf is an American actress, who was a featured player on the April 11, 1981 episode. This makes her the shortest-tenured actor to appear in the SNL cast, except for Emily Prager, who was also credited for that episode but did not appear at all. Metcalf's only appearance was a pre-taped piece for Weekend Update.
@@carp68 The 1980-81 season was a disaster. Lorne had left the show and wouldn't return for five years. The cast had been completely overhauled, and I believe many of them, along with the new producer, were fired late in the season. Metcalf was probably one of those brought in late to replace cast members, but it didn't work out. The one bright side of the 80=81 season was the introduction of Eddie Murphy to the SNL cast.
@@RobertShubitowski Yes, quite the upheaval at the time. And I agree about Metcalf, it makes perfect sense.
@@carp68 Correct. Metcalf also voiced Mrs. Davis in Toy Story 1, 2 and 3.
2:36 I miss him
Fantastic!
Anyone knows how much are they ?
They should this for the 50th anniversary special.
At some point it sounds like a fighting game selection screen
SNL The Best! SNL LEGENDS!!!!
How do I just know Christine Ebersole was a cast member???
A. Woodhouse was set up for failure.
B. The mugshot season must have been a real wild party.
Wow, Gary Kroger WAS on the show. Then again, if you live in his hometown, you never stop hearing about it. 🙄
1:30 That’s senator Franken to you
It’s like that bit from People’s Joker
Why does Janeane Garofalo's picture look like it was taken with a Gameboy camera?
With musical guest... a lot of people...
How long would it take to list every musical guest ever? From Billy Preston to Shaboozey...
I didn't know Laurie Metcalf was on the show.