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Saturday Night Live cast members [a] Performer Time on SNL No. of seasons Repertory player Featured player Middle group "Weekend Update" anchor Hosted Best of... Writer; Fred Armisen: 2002–2013: 11 Aristotle Athari: 2021–2022: 1 Dan Aykroyd: 1975–1979: 4 Peter Aykroyd † 1980: 1 Morwenna Banks: 1995: 1 Vanessa Bayer: 2010–2017: 7 Jim ...
Kenan Thompson (/ k iː n ə n /; born May 10, 1978) [2] is an American actor and comedian. He has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history. [3]
Lenny Pickett also took over for G.E. Smith as leader of the Saturday Night Live Band, [150] and Jim Downey was removed as head writer. [151] Of the cast members held over from the previous season, only Meadows and Spade were actual veterans. The other three were still newcomers to the show.
Chris Elliott, now 64, had a short-lived career on "SNL" in the '90s, creating characters like D. Josh Levine. ... Johnson is only the second Black gay cast member in "SNL" history, after Danitra ...
Belushi, played by Matt Wood in the movie, appeared on SNL throughout the 1970s, winning a 1977 Emmy for writing. He was Aykroyd’s right-hand man in the Blues Brothers sketches, which turned ...
Saturday Night Live Samurai: December 13, 1975 John Belushi: John Belushi plays a samurai warrior, who speaks only (mock) Japanese, and wields a katana. He is seen in various occupations ranging from a hotel desk clerk to a tailor. Mel's Char Palace December 20, 1975 Dan Aykroyd: A steakhouse commercial parody featuring Dan Aykroyd. At Mel's ...
For three seasons, Radner and the original cast members of "SNL" were known as the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players." In 1978, Radner won an Emmy for her work on the show. In 1978, Radner won an ...
Her casting alongside Terry Sweeney (the show's first openly gay male cast member) was also the first time that Saturday Night Live had two gay cast members. [2] Vance joined the SNL cast during a time of great transition and turbulence for the show, and she became frustrated over repeatedly having characters stereotypical of young Black women ...