Favorite SNL featured player never to become a cast member*?
by yrnej | created - 27 Nov 2013 | updated - 05 Sep 2014 | PublicSome faded back into obscurity, some became stars, one even became a US senator...
*excluding the new members added starting the 2013-2014 season
Discuss the list here
1. Peter Aykroyd
Writer | Nothing But Trouble
Peter Aykroyd was born on November 19, 1955 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was a writer and producer, known for Nothing But Trouble (1991), Spies Like Us (1985) and My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988). He died on November 6, 2021 in Spokane, Washington, USA.
2. Paul Brittain
Actor | Saturday Night Live
Originally from Chicago, where he got his start in improv and sketch comedy, Paul Brittain is an actor, writer, and comedian living in Los Angeles. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2010 - 2012 where he performed such characters and impressions as "Sex" Ed Vincent, Lord Cecil ...
3. A. Whitney Brown
Writer | Saturday Night Live
A. Whitney Brown was born on July 8, 1952 in Charlotte, Michigan, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Tales from the Crypt (1989) and Exit 57 (1995). He has been married to Carolyn Wonderland since March 4, 2011. He was previously married to Cynthia Swanson.
4. Beth Cahill
Actress | Saturday Night Live
Beth Cahill is known for Saturday Night Live (1975), It's Now... or Never! (1995) and Fatty Drives the Bus (1999). She is married to Michael Coleman.
5. Tom Davis
Writer | Saturday Night Live
Tom Davis was born on August 13, 1952 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Trading Places (1983) and Evolution (2001). He was married to Mimi Raleigh. He died on July 19, 2012 in Hudson, New York, USA.
6. James Downey
Writer | Saturday Night Live
James Downey was born on October 6, 1952. He is a writer and producer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Billy Madison (1995) and Dirty Work (1998).
7. Dean Edwards
Actor | Spider-Man 3
Dean Edwards was born on July 30, 1970 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Spider-Man 3 (2007), Top Five (2014) and Goyband (2008).
8. Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Actress | Rushed
Siobhan Fallon Hogan has been seen in several blockbusters over the past twenty five years. Her many film and television credits include "Men In Black," "Forrest Gump," "SNL," "Seinfeld, "Holes", "Eileen," "New In Town," and "Wayward Pines." She has done several foreign films including three with ...
9. Al Franken
Writer | Saturday Night Live
Al Franken is best known for nearly two decades of work on Saturday Night Live (1975). During that time he wrote, performed in and produced hundreds of sketches, including "Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley" and "The Final Days," a piece about the last days of Richard Nixon's presidency. A ...
11. Laura Kightlinger
Actress | Curb Your Enthusiasm
Laura Kightlinger is a writer, stand-up comic, and actor. Her comedic roles include self-obsessed mom Deb Taylor in "PEN15" on Hulu, and Nurse Shelia in "Will & Grace". She's been a consulting producer on "Will & Grace" since its inception. Laura created and starred in her own critically acclaimed ...
12. Matthew Laurance
Actor | Eddie and the Cruisers
Matthew Laurance was born on March 2, 1950 in Queens, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), St. Elmo's Fire (1985) and The Outer Limits (1995). He has been married to Shannon Leigh Criscillis since May 4, 2003. They have two children.
13. Laurie Metcalf
Actress | Lady Bird
Laurie Metcalf was born June 16, 1955 in Carbondale, Illinois, the oldest of three children of Libby (Mars), a librarian, and James Metcalf, a budget director. She was raised in Edwardsville, Illinois. Laurie attended Illinois State University, where she obtained her bachelor of arts in theater in ...
14. Jerry Minor
Actor | Drillbit Taylor
Jerry Minor was born on October 4, 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Drillbit Taylor (2008), Saturday Night Live (1975) and Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003).
15. Jay Mohr
Actor | Go
Jay Mohr, born in Verona, New Jersey, USA, wanted to be a comedian all of his life. He performed stand-up comedy at colleges, comedy clubs, and such television forums as An Evening at the Improv (1981) and Two Drink Minimum (1994). He first gained national attention while a cast member on Saturday ...
16. Don Novello
Actor | Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Don Novello was born on January 1, 1943 in Lorain, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), The Godfather Part III (1990) and Casper (1995).
17. Emily Prager
Actress | Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
National Lampoon alumni. Graduated from Barnard College and has a Masters Degree in Education. Ms. Prager has been a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph, Penthouse and The Guardian. She has authored the books In The Missionary Position, A Visit From The ...
18. Rob Riggle
Actor | The Daily Show
Comedian, actor and United States Marine Corps Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Robert Allen Riggle, Jr. was born April 21, 1970 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Sandra (Shrout) and Robert Allen Riggle, who worked in insurance. Riggle has amassed notable television credits and has also earned roles in many ...
19. Tim Robinson
Actor | I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Tim Robinson is known for I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019), Saturday Night Live (1975) and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022). He is married to Heather Robinson.
20. Tom Schiller
Writer | Saturday Night Live
Tom Schiller was born on April 12, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Nothing Lasts Forever (1984) and Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special (2015). He is married to Jacque Rochelle Lynn.
21. Paul Shaffer
Actor | Hercules
Paul Shaffer was born on November 28, 1949 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and composer, known for Hercules (1997), This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and Blues Brothers 2000 (1998). He has been married to Catherine Maria Vasapoli since August 19, 1990. They have two children.
22. Sarah Silverman
Actress | Wreck-It Ralph
Sarah Silverman was most recently the host of the two-time Emmy-nominated weekly topical series, I Love You America, which streamed on Hulu and also received a Writers Guild Awards nomination.
Silverman is currently working on a musical adaptation of her 2010 memoir and New York Times Bestseller ...
23. Jenny Slate
Actress | Obvious Child
Jenny Sarah Slate is an American actress, comedian, and author. Born and raised in Milton, Massachusetts, Slate was educated at Milton Academy and studied literature at Columbia University, where she became involved in the improvise and comedy scene. She lent voice performances to the animated ...
24. Robert Smigel
Writer | Saturday Night Live
Robert Smigel is an American actor, humorist, comedian, writer and director known for his Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog.
Smigel's most famous creation, however, would be the foul-mouthed puppet Triumph, the Insult...
25. Ben Stiller
Producer | Tropic Thunder
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (she converted to Judaism).
His parents made no real...
26. Dan Vitale
Actor | Saturday Night Live
Dan Vitale was an actor, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), 1,000 Times More Brutal (2012) and The New Show (1984). He died on May 6, 2023 in New York, New York, USA.
27. Michaela Watkins
Actress | Wanderlust
Michaela is currently a main company member of The Groundlings in Los Angeles.
Before moving to Los Angeles, Michaela pursued a life in regional theater.
She received her BFA from Boston University School For the Arts.
Her father is a math professor at Syracuse University, and her mother teaches Latin...
28. Damon Wayans
Writer | My Wife and Kids
A tall (6'2"), sly, cueball-domed comedian of film and television satire, Damon Wayans hit outrageous 90's TV stardom playing various wise guys and streetwise slick characters on older brother Keenen Ivory Wayans' landmark, black-oriented TV sketch comedy In Living Color (1990). The show was pretty...
29. Patrick Weathers
Actor | The Campaign
Patrick Weathers was born on January 22, 1954 in Hattieburg, Mississippi, USA. He is an actor, known for The Campaign (2012), Wall Street (1987) and Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013).
30. Casey Wilson
Actress | Gone Girl
Casey Wilson was born on October 24, 1980 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Gone Girl (2014), Ass Backwards (2013) and Bride Wars (2009). She has been married to David Caspe since May 25, 2014. They have three children.
31. Fred Wolf
Writer | Grown Ups
Fred began work as a stand-up comedian in the early days of the "comic boom" in Los Angeles, and after more than 100 TV appearances and a two year stint co-hosting the popular Comedy Central show "Comics Only" with Paul Provenza, Fred began submitting jokes to Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers, and many ...
32. Alan Zweibel
Writer | It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Alan Zweibel was born on May 20, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for It's Garry Shandling's Show. (1986), Saturday Night Live (1975) and North (1994). He has been married to Robin Blankman since November 24, 1979. They have three children.
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