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Post by wildojinx on Feb 13, 2012 15:49:17 GMT -5
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Feb 13, 2012 15:55:55 GMT -5
Eddie Murphy is great, but i wouldn't rank him as #1
AND NO F*****G WAY IN HELL IS AMY POEHLER THE 7TH GREATEST SNL CAST MEMBER OF ALL TIME! SHE IS A LARGE PART OF SHOW'S DECLINE AND WHY IT HAS SUCKED SINCE 2004!
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Post by chazraps on Feb 13, 2012 15:59:18 GMT -5
Not putting Mowenna Banks closer to the bottom for her 4 episode run is puzzling, and the Colin Quinn ranking seems to unfairly fall solely on his tenure as Weekend Update anchor. He had plenty of great characters and sketches. Stopped reading after they ranked Horatio Sanz lower than Jimmy Fallon for "too much giggling" despite Fallon suffering far worse from it.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 13, 2012 16:03:26 GMT -5
Eddie Murphy is great, but i wouldn't rank him as #1 AND NO F*****G WAY IN HELL IS AMY POEHLER THE 7TH GREATEST SNL CAST MEMBER OF ALL TIME! SHE IS A LARGE PART OF SHOW'S DECLINE AND WHY IT HAS SUCKED SINCE 2004! I skipped ahead to the last page and saw Tina Fey ranked #10, which is absurd. This list seems to be based on rating the cast members' wikipedia pages as opposed to how funny they actually were. |
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Post by Cela on Feb 13, 2012 16:08:58 GMT -5
Written like a true douche being pressured to write it a certain way by his wife.
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Post by mizerable on Feb 13, 2012 16:09:54 GMT -5
Fey and Poehler are both very unfunny. The fact that they are both in the top 10 is beyond ridiculous to me. Outside of the original cast, the Eddie Murphy years, the 1989-1994 years and the 1996-2000 years, SNL has almost always sucked.
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on Feb 13, 2012 16:12:32 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of Jason Sudeikis, so it's cool to see him listed as high as this.
But, yeah, I'm starting to notice...Saturday Night Live is usually not nearly as funny as its tenure indicates.
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Post by mizerable on Feb 13, 2012 16:18:00 GMT -5
My personal top 10...just for the hell of it;
10. Dana Carvey
9. Darrell Hammond
8. Bill Murray
7. Dan Aykroyd
6. Eddie Murphy
5. David Spade
4. Adam Sandler
3. Jim Breuer
1. Chris Farley/Norm MacDonald
My last was based on each person's number of unique characters as well as ability to make me laugh. Sandler wasn't exactly a great performer, but he did enough to make me laugh on there. Norm had very few roles outside of Update, but he consistently made me laugh and his departure led to the decline for me.
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Post by Ron Woodsman aka Shempaholic on Feb 13, 2012 16:29:29 GMT -5
Kristen Wiig should be 92 on the list. I'd be more likely to watch the show if the entire cast was made up of clones of Victoria Jackson than to have Wiig on it.
IMO, no one from the last 10 years or so of the show should be anywhere near the top 20. That's not entirely the cast's fault, as the writing has been atrocious for years.
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Post by Viva on Feb 13, 2012 16:32:26 GMT -5
Eddie Murphy is great, but i wouldn't rank him as #1 AND NO F*****G WAY IN HELL IS AMY POEHLER THE 7TH GREATEST SNL CAST MEMBER OF ALL TIME! SHE IS A LARGE PART OF SHOW'S DECLINE AND WHY IT HAS SUCKED SINCE 2004! No she isn't. Seth Meyers is. |
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Post by Dave the Dave on Feb 13, 2012 16:37:05 GMT -5
Kenan Thompson was hilarious as a kid. I never knew he pretty much went straight from Nick to this. The guy has been going straight for like 18 years already.
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Post by Yami Daimao on Feb 13, 2012 16:44:52 GMT -5
Personally, I'd put Phil Hartman as #1, but I have no problem with Eddie Murphy taking that spot.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Feb 13, 2012 17:00:18 GMT -5
If Norm McDonald isn't dead last, I'm not going to bother reading it.
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Feb 13, 2012 17:04:21 GMT -5
I think switch #1 and #2, because the show was in a serious suck rut before Ferrell came along, and pretty well carried it back to being actually funny. Eddie Murphy kind of did the same thing, but for a shorter period of time.
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Post by VenomFang on Feb 13, 2012 17:07:25 GMT -5
They put Victoria Jackson last because of things that had nothing to do with her work on the show. No way is she worst of all time when you have people like Gilbert Gottfried and Anthony Michael Hall.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Feb 13, 2012 17:08:48 GMT -5
Eddie Murphy is great, but i wouldn't rank him as #1 AND NO F*****G WAY IN HELL IS AMY POEHLER THE 7TH GREATEST SNL CAST MEMBER OF ALL TIME! SHE IS A LARGE PART OF SHOW'S DECLINE AND WHY IT HAS SUCKED SINCE 2004! No she isn't. Seth Meyers is. he's another large part of it. after Fallon left, it pretty much went from being SNL to The Amy & Seth Show |
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Post by Insomniac on Feb 13, 2012 17:11:27 GMT -5
I can't argue with that Top 6. Eddie at #1 was a no-doubter IMO. He carried that show all by himself for 4-5 years.
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Post by Mac on Feb 13, 2012 17:12:02 GMT -5
Eddie Murphy deserves to be #1 for eternity/ If there was no Eddie Murphy then SNL wouldn't have made it out of the mid 80s, period.
I'd do the top ten like this
1. Eddie Murphy
2. Phil Hartman
3. Will Ferrell
4. Mike Myers
5. Chevy Chase
6. Bill Murray
7. Chris Farley
8. Norm Macdonald
9. Adam Sandler
10. Dan Akroyd
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Post by wildojinx on Feb 13, 2012 17:21:35 GMT -5
They put Victoria Jackson last because of things that had nothing to do with her work on the show. No way is she worst of all time when you have people like Gilbert Gottfried and Anthony Michael Hall. Plus VJ had that great dark humored sketch where she played a pregnant woman doing all kinds of dangerous stuff snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91tpregnant.phtml not to mention the best Roseanne Barr impersonation ive ever seen. |
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Post by mizerable on Feb 13, 2012 17:33:27 GMT -5
While Will Ferrell was a part of a lot of good sketches, I don't consider him great because his impressions were atrocious. Not only that, it was pretty obvious they were trying to force him on us from the very beginning. I'd include him in my top 20, but almost every character he played was one of two personas; weird middle aged guy...or weirded out middle aged guy. I think we should give credit to the entire 1996 cast, since they did turn the show around bigtime. Both 1994 and 1995 were pretty bad...but I wouldn't say it was on it's way out or anything, and I would watch the hell out of those seasons over anything they do now.
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