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October 31, 2024

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40

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. — Source

39

Ben Affleck

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON DIRECTED BEN AFFLECK 2000 CRACKED.COM POST-BOOGIE NIGHTS, SNL FAN PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON WROTE A FEW SKETCHES FOR THE SHOW. НЕ ALSO DIRECTED 'FANATIC,' WITH AFFLECK STARRING AS ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S BIGGEST, BRACES-WEARING FAN. RUMOR HAS IT НЕ MET WIFE MAYA RUDOLPH DURING HIS SNL TENURE. — Source

38

Nude Beach Sketch

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SNL'S NUDE BEACH SKETCH HAD MATTHEW BRODERICK SAY PENIS OVER 40 TIMES. And that made people really, really angry, apparently- the SNL team thought it'd piss people off, and they were proven right. — Source

37

Nora Dunn

NORA DUNN CRACKED.COM SNL is a traumatic experience. It's something you have to survive. — Source

36

SNL Mexico

SNL around the world SATRDAI NIGHT MÉXICO Kickstarted in 2013, Saturday Night Live México was consulted on by American SNL alum Horatio Sanz. It was officially canceled in 2017. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Johnny Knoxville

CRACKED W Madison JOHNNY KNOXVILLE TURNED DOWN SNL. Knoxville decided not to take a job on Saturday Night Live and instead focus on his own show, Jackass. Just think of what might have been. — Paramount Pictures, MTV Films
Johnny Knoxville Was Offered ’Saturday Night Live’ But Chose ’Jackass’ Instead

34

On-Air F Bombs

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first F-bomb on SNL Letterman's bandleader Paul Schaffer was an SNL cast member in 1980, and is credited with the show's first F-bomb. During the show's 100th episode, he was meant to say the word flogging, but well, you know... — NBC
The Wrap

33

Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray owes his life to John Belushi. In a 1982 episode of SNL, Murray said that Belushi put him up when he first moved to NY, and was hit by a ten-ton truck while pushing Murray COLLEGE out of the truck's path. Belushi was unscathed. CRACKED — Saturday Night Live/YouTube,
Universal Pictures
Saturday Night Live/YouTube

32

Emily Litella

THE EVOLUTION OF EMILY LITELLA GILDA RADNER CRACKED.COM THE OH, THAT'S VERY DIFFERENT. NEVER MIND ENDING WAS CUTE FOR ABOUT A YEAR, SAYS WRITER ALAN ZWEIBEL. BUT НЕ AND GILDA WANTED TO TRY SOMETHING NEW. ON LITELLA'S NEXT APPEARANCE, JANE CURTIN ATTACKED, CALLING HER AN INSULT TO THE INTEGRITY OF JOURNALISM. EMILY LITELLA'S ONE-WORD REPLY: BITCH. — Source: 13 More Behind-the-Scenes Beginnings of Iconic SNL Characters

31

Dolly Parton

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THERE'S A REJECTED SNL SKETCH INVOLVING A CHARACTER CALLED DONNIE PARTON. That's where you're the boy version of Dolly Parton but you have huge balls, explained SNL writer Tim Robinson. — Source

30

Chevy Chase

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CHEVY CHASE WAS SUPPOSED TO STAR IN HITTING THE WALL, AN SNL-BASED MOVIE. It would be written by SNL writer Tom Davis, and would be about a former SNL writer having a midlife crisis, all done with SNL-style sketches. — Source

29

Wayne’s World

WAYNE CAMPBELL MIKE MYERS CRACKED.COM Myers based Wayne on friends he grew up with in the suburbs of Toronto, believing there was a certain homogenous suburban adolescent heavy metal experience that most could relate to. Myers' buddies cruised around in the Red Rocket, not the Mirthmobile. — CBC/YouTube

28

Pete Davidson

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM PETE DAVIDSON VS LOUIS СК SNL While Louis СК was hosting SNL he saw Davidson smoking Marijuana in the SNL dressing room. Louis apparently told Lorne and attempted to get him fired, although Lorne did not take the complaint seriously. This has to be in the top 2 worst things Louis СК has ever done. — Source: Screen Rant

27

Hannibal Buress

HANNIBAL BURESS ALMOST GOT ON WEEKEND UPDATE 2010 CRACKED.COR I WASN'T GETTING ANY SKETCHES ON THE AIR... SO I PITCHED SOMETHING TO SETH MEYERS. IMAGINE GOING TO YOUR BOSS AND SAYING, 'HEY, I KNOW I HAVEN'T BEEN DOING MY JOB VERY WELL BUT HOW ABOUT I DO THIS OTHER JOB.' — Uproxx

26

SNL Italy

SNL around the world Italy got Saturday Night Live from Milano between 2006 and 2011. Then they moved on to other things. CRACKED.COM — Saturday Night Live From Milano
The Interrobang
Clip on YouTube

25

The Church Lady

CHURCH LADY DANA CARVEY Carvey developed the Church Lady as a way to deal with demonic hecklers during his 1980s stand-up comic days. He'd shut them d — Rare

24

Arianna Grande

ARIANNA GRANDE MARCH 12, 2016 Grande flubbed a line during her monologue and punctuated the goof with an unscripted Oh sh--! Or was that when she re — Variety

23

Donald Trump

DONALD TRUMP NOV 7, 2015 SNL caught a lot of flack for featuring Trump in this run-up to the 2016 election. It was rough, says Taran Killam. It was — Deadline

22

Worst Hosts

JUSTIN BIEBER FEBRUARY 9, 2013 Bill Hader had no trouble naming SNL'S worst-behaved! host. It was Bieber. He was in a bad place. Maybe he's in a bett — Huffington Post

21

Paul Reubens

PAUL REUBENS CRACKED COM After losing a spot on SNL to Gilbert Gottfried, Reubens borrowed five grand from his parents to develop his own stage show. — Source: UPROXX

20

Lisa Kudrow

LISA KUDROW The thing about my characters that I did at The Groundlings is they weren't the big crowdpleasers, said Kudrow. She was passed over for — Source: Showbiz Cheat Sheet

19

The Lorne Michaels Impression

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18

Nirvana

NIRVANA JANUARY 11, 1992 During good-nights, the members of Nirvana started making out to piss off the rednecks and homophobes. The French kissing i — Far Out

17

Donald Glover

COMEDY NERD Donald Glover auditioned for SNL twice, and he failed both times. When he hosted SNL in 2018, he said, It truly is an honor to be hosting SNL instead of just auditioning for it, which I did, twice. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

It’s Pat

In the mid-90s, Quentin Tarantino rewrote what turned out to be one of SNL's worst movies. Hers His It's Pat was a comedy based on an SNL sketch about a character whose gender was uncertain - and they got Tarantino, of all people, to rewrite the script. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Interesting Facts To Impress Others With

15

Coffee Talk

COFFEE TALK WAS NOT A MOVIE, DISCUSS UNPRODUCED CRACKED.COM BUT IT WAS A SCREENPLAY AT ONE POINT. MIKE MYERS (WHO MUST HAVE BEEN WORKING ON A DOZEN OF 'EM) WAS DEVELOPING A SCRIPT, BUT THE PROJECT WAS AXED AFTER THE JOYLESS FAILURE OF OTHER MID-90S SNL FILMS. NO BIG WHOOP. — New York Magazine

14

Tom Hanks

CRACKED Tom Hanks on SNL. His fifth appearance as host in 1990 was the moment that spawned the Five-Timers Club. With his comedy chops in '80s movies, he could've really helped the show thrive in that decade. He's since hosted 10 times in total. — Goldderby / EW

13

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. — Source

12

Ron Nessen

RONNESSEN FORD PRESS SECRETARY SRTURDI NiGh AL FRANKEN INVITED NESSEN TO HOST AFTER CHEVY CHASE DID HIS PART TO PAINT PRESIDENT FORD AS A CLUMSY BOZO. THE PRESS SECRETARY TOOK HIM UP ON THE OFFER, DELIVERING A WOODEN PERFORMANCE MANY TOLD HIM WAS AGROSS ERROR OF JUDGEMENT. — Time

11

Elvis Costello

ELVIS COSTELLO DECEMBER 17, 1977 Filling in for the Sex Pistols, Costello ditched his planned number and launched into 'Radio Radio' instead. Lorne Mi — Ultimate Classic Rock

10

Target Lady

TARGET LADY WAS BASED ON AN ACTUAL... TARGET LADY KRISTEN WIIG Fan Fan OZ OX CRACKED.COM WIIG CREATED THE CHARACTER FOR THE GROUNDLINGS. SHE DIDN'T LEAVE WHILE SHE WAS CHECKING ME OUT BUT IT WAS JUST HER VOICE, SAYS WIIG. THERE WAS JUST SOMETHING EGGY ABOUT IT. LIKE SHE HAD EGGS IN HER THROAT. NO WORD ON WHETHER SHE ATE HALF AN ALMOND FOR ENERGY. — Source: Behind-The-Scenes Beginnings Of 14 Iconic SNL Characters

9

Kristen Wiig

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM KRISTEN WIIG WROTE AN SNL SKETCH ABOUTTONY AND JOAN HAWAII, PI. And Lorne Michaels rejected them - Tony was kind of an Italian womanizer, and Joan Hawaii PI was, well, a Hawaiian Private Eye who, as Wiig said, kayaks everywhere. — Source

8

SNL Quebec

SNL around the world SNL Québec entertained French Canadians in 2014 and 2015. It was canceled due to studio budget cutbacks, though. CRACKED.COM — Source

7

SNL Polska

SNL around the world Poland's version, SNL Polska lasted from 2017 to 2018. It did its best to replicate the classic SNL studio set-up. CRACKED.COM — SNL Polska
The A.V. Club
Clip on YouTube

6

Canteen Boy

CANTEEN BOY ADAM SANDLER Sandler specialized in characters that were losers. Canteen Boy's having a rough day today. I feel like people will respond — LA Times

5

Tim Herlihy

COLLEGE ROOMIE CO-WRITER 25 CRACKED.COM Writer Tim Herlihy met Adam Sandler at NYU in 1984, and when Sandler landed SNL, he got Herlihy on as a writer. They went on to write Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and many more together, mostly forgetting exactly whose joke was whose, but Herlihy takes credit for, I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast. — Source: esquire

4

Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN THE '90S, SNL AIRED A SKETCHTHAT KIND OF SHADED INTO BODY SHAMING. It was a Chippendales audition sketch that starred Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley, both shirtless, and Farley getting called fat and disgusting at the end - apparently, that sketch really fed into his insecurities. — Source

3

Adam Sandler’s Tribute to Chris Farley

Adam Sandler's Chris Farley Song. Sandler said he couldn't even get through the first few performances, and he even gets choked up while performing it on his Netflix special 100% Fresh, and a 2019 SNL episode. CRACKED — Saturday Night Live/YouTube,
Paramount Pictures
CNN

2

Bill Murray

Unreleased movies Bill Murray NOTHING LASTS FOREVER Murray starred in this 1984 sci-fi comedy directed by SNL alum Tom Schiller, which was never released. It had clips from other movies in it, kind of like an early version of YouTube. CRACKED — MGM
Slate

1

Chase v Murray

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BILL MURRAY VS CHEVY CHASE SNL VENKMAN While this slide could be named Chevy Chase Vs Everyone He's Ever Come in Contact With, we'll focus on Bill Murray. Bill replaced Chevy on the show and when Chevy returned to host in the 3rd season, what Murray describes as an oedipal fueled Hollywood fight broke out and the two had to be separated by Murray's brother. — Source: Digital Spy

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