13 Stars Who Were Saturday Night Live Regulars

Turns out, being an SNL regular was almost a celeb rite of passage.
13 Stars Who Were Saturday Night Live Regulars

Saturday Night Live is one of the most fascinating institutions in comedy. Perpetually under harsh comedic attack with nearly every cast being cast being derided as a decline from the ‘legends’ they replaced, it remains one of the most simultaneously loved and criticized shows ever. Beyond that, it's not only got an incredibly unique format, it has also obviously served as the platform and launch pad for massive comedic talent. In fact, Saturday Night Live has played a pivotal role in the careers of so many talented people, there's plenty of them who get lost in the shuffle.

The fact is, SNL has been running for over 40 years, and they've had a ton of people in the cast in that time ... some of whom went on to become major stars, and their SNL tenure got totally forgotten.

Want to learn about some famous celebrities you probably didn't even realize were on SNL? Scroll down for more!

Catherine O’Hara

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CATHERINE O'HARA WAS AN SNL CAST MEMBER (BUT ONLY TECHNICALLY). She never appeared in an episode - she joined SNL after she was done shooting SCTV, a show that was supposed to end with that season. But it got renewed, so she quit SNL and went back to SCTV.

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ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL WAS AN SNL CAST MEMBER IN THE MID-'80S. It didn't really work out for him, and he later said: I think the people that found the most success came from a stand-up background where they had their own material and they had that competitive nature.

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And has hosted only once: Nov 16, 1996

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IRON MAN HIMSELF, AKA RDJ, WAS A SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CAST MEMBER. Не joined in 1985 - he had two recurring characters, and did a bunch of celeb impressions. That was pretty much it since, in the next season, he got fired by Lorne Michaels along with a bunch of his castmates.

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Nobody wore a neck brace like Joan Cusack

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM FROM 1985 TO 1986, JOAN CUSACK WAS A CAST MEMBER ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. She did celeb impressions including Queen Elizabeth, Jane Fonda, and Brooke Shields - but, like most of the castmates she'd worked with, she didn't get asked to come back in 1986.

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This was long before Gilbert Gottfried's career voicing animated animals

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BETWEEN 1980 AND 1981, GILBERT GOTTFRIED WAS AN SNL REGULAR. I was there right after the original cast left, and so back then it was like 'How dare they continue Saturday Night Live without the original cast of people? he said.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BEFORE SHE JOINED THE CAST OF SEINFELD, JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS WAS ON SNL. She was on the show for three seasons in the early '80s, and she described it this way: Everybody was doing a lot of coke and smoking dope. Everybody would stay up late.

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