# 10 Worst SNL Cast Members of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646 "2006-03-16T20:20:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/21 "2006-03-16T21:07:38Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > [ > The Muppets: Dude. Not cool. Who hates the Muppets? Terrorists and communists, mostly. I agree 100%. The “[Land of Gorch](http://www.toughpigs.com/anthgorcha00.htm)” skits on SNL were highlights of the first season. It was the first time the Muppets were portrayed for an adult audience (complete with hot Muppet sex). I’m willing to bet that the person making up the list has never actually seen any of these (they’ve all been cut from the syndicated version, other than Lily Tomlin’s charming duet with Scred). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/22 "2006-03-16T21:10:39Z")
> [@Crown Prince of Irony](#): > > …snip… > Hell, Brad Hall’s wife,\*\* Julia Louis-Dreyfus\*\*, could be put on this list. Sure she was good in Sienfeld, but she didn’t have any memorable characters, and pretty much played the straight person in most skits…snip… I think the writers decided she was just a pretty set decoration/straight person. I have a vague memory about her complaining about it and moving on. I barely even remember Sarah being there, she rarely got into skits. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/23 "2006-03-16T21:22:52Z")
Goat Boy actually works really really well… in hind sight. He’s a man goat mutant HOSTING a 80s nostaglia show. Now that Vh-1 has become essentially a nostaglia channel doing the same shit they did in the Goat Boy sketches from 5 or 6 years prior. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/24 "2006-03-16T21:26:01Z")
As for recurring sketches, Sandler was in Canteen Boy a couple times with Alec Baldwin. I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t laugh when they see those skits. He was also Cajun Man, and Old Grumpy Guy admittedly, not as funny as Dana Carvey’s “and we liked it!” Grumpy Old Man. And I thought Lunch Lady Land was hilarious, as well as the Turkey Song and the Hanukah Song. “You don’t need to Desk the Halls, or Jingle Bell Rock Because you can spin the Dreidel With Captain Kirk and Mister Spock” ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/25 "2006-03-16T21:32:58Z")
This is not a knock on their talents. But Damon Wayans, Keenan Thompson, Finesse Mitchell and Chris Rock are/were next to useless while they are/were appearing on SNL. Finesse is the worst of the lot. Ellen Cleghorne was simply a competent journeyman comedianne, not a star, nor the worst player. Tim Meadows does not belong on a ‘10 worst of all time’ list by any means. Horatio Sanz still makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/26 "2006-03-16T21:34:21Z")
> [@Crown Prince of Irony](#): > > \*\*Tim Kazurinsky \*\* anyone? In one of the books about the show Kazurinsky said he auditioned to be a writer and was absolutely stunned when they cast him as an actor. He’d never appeared on stage before or had any great desire to do so, but having grown up in a welfare family in the slums of Philadelphia he simply couldn’t turn down the double salary of actor/writer. Still and all, he had some shining moments. My favorite was his sketch as “The Iguana”, a totally ubernerd on vacation with his wife (Mary Gross) in the tropics, where it turns out he’s had a double life as a crime lord/lover extraordinaire/man of mystery. Chris Rock is (at his best) brilliant as a stand-up, but aside from Nate X (a one joke sketch that wasn’t particularly funny the first time) he was (by his own admission if I’m not mistaken) pretty lame on SNL. Gary Kroeger was very cute but had all the comic timing of Trent Lott. He sank far and fast when he left. (He was a trio with Brad Hall & Julia L.D.- they had a nightclub act.) [nitpick]Brad & Anthony Michael Hall are not related.[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/27 "2006-03-16T21:38:39Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > This is not a knock on their talents. But Damon Wayans, Keenan Thompson, Finesse Mitchell and Chris Rock are/were next to useless while they are/were appearing on SNL. Finesse is the worst of the lot. Per the book _Live from New York_: Wayans hated the show with a passion, particularly since he could never get a sketch on, but he knew that if he quite Lorne would sue him for breach of contract. Instead he sabotaged a _Miami Vice_ sketch whose big punchline was Jon Lovitz as Mr. Monopoly (with his “Get Out of Jail Free” cards- a one joke sketch and the joke was lame). Wayans, who was originally given dialogue as a tough cop, was cut back due to time to just an entrance and a single line (something like “Here he is, Chief”). He came on dressed in way too tight pants, a shirt tied to expose his midriff, and delivered his line in the gayest voice heard on the show since Terry Sweeney left. The First Commandment of the Show is _NEVER SABOTAGE A SKETCH… EVER! FOR ANY REASON!_ and he was fired that night (which got him out of his contract). ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/28 "2006-03-16T21:41:55Z")
> [@Crown Prince of Irony](#): > > \*\*Tim Kazurinsky \*\* anyone? Yeah, I’ll defend him. I think he was one of the best parts of his cast - better than Joe Piscopo; of course he was no Eddie Murphy. I liked his shticks playing the nerdy guy commentator on the news (“Man discovered orgasms in prehistoric times. Women discovered them in 1968”, followed by a slew of new coined words based on ‘orgasm’), and I think he was versatile and competent in sketches. I recall Eddie Murphy in an interview saying Tim Kazurinsky and Joe Piscopo were the only people he liked on the casts he was on - the only ones he thought were funny. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/29 "2006-03-16T21:47:05Z")
Tim Kazurinsky and Mary Gross have to be on that list. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/30 "2006-03-16T21:47:51Z")
That’s as close as I’ve ever come to agreeing with any list that I didn’t write myself. 😉 That said, however, I’m a younger guy who wouldn’t know many of the quickly-forgotten nobodies in SNL history. Except for Jackson and sometimes Meadows, all of the names I recognize on that list were actively, terribly unfunny. Chris Farley and Chris Kattan also didn’t make me laugh. Sandler, who I really loathe in the movies, was better on SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/31 "2006-03-16T21:48:57Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > [nitpick]Brad & Anthony Michael Hall are not related.[/nitpick] (Googles furiously) Whaddaya know. . . I always thought they were related; I stand corrected. All this time I thought the only reason they hired AMH was that his brother had left the previous year. Now I realize that they actually hired him for his (cough) talent. My point about nepotism is slightly diluted, but due to the superlative mediocrity of Messrs. Belushi and Aykroyd the lesser, still stands. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/32 "2006-03-16T21:55:22Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I think Garrett Morris had a lot more talent than he’s given credit for Bah. I never liked him, except for the thing he did where he yelled instead of doing ASL. And I forget exactly why, but I really like Victoria Jackson. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/33 "2006-03-16T21:57:45Z")
> [@meow meow](#): > > Whoops…\ I wrote something \ and deleted it, as I realized it wasn’t that funny. It never stopped an SNL writer before. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/34 "2006-03-16T21:57:52Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > In one of the books about the show Kazurinsky said he auditioned to be a writer and was absolutely stunned when they cast him as an actor. He’d never appeared on stage before or had any great desire to do so, but having grown up in a welfare family in the slums of Philadelphia he simply couldn’t turn down the double salary of actor/writer. And now I feel guilty for putting him on my list. Don’t I look like a schmuck now. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/35 "2006-03-16T22:10:22Z")
**Crown Prince of Irony.** We all assumed you were living up to your Doper name. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/36 "2006-03-16T22:10:31Z")
Chris Kattan! I blocked him out, I hated the guy so much. Definitely the least funny and most obnoxious of all recent cast members, far more punch-in-the-face-worthy than Horatio Sanz at his giggly worst. I have no love for the Roxbury dancers, Mango, or Mr. Peepers – I was relieved when he finally left. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/37 "2006-03-16T22:13:29Z")
Mango was funny the first three times I saw the character. After that… ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/38 "2006-03-16T22:16:33Z")
…Tim Kazurinsky was a Second City Chicago guy if memory serves so any story about him not being on stage before SNL is bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/39 "2006-03-16T22:19:10Z")
I give Tim Kazurinsky a pass because of one joke he did: he was playing a scientist (I think based on an actual person) who was arguing against the exsistence of the female orgasm. Part of the evidence he offered: “I have personally slept with dozens of women, and I can assure you, not one of them enjoyed it!” I’d definetly put Terry Sweeney on that list. I couldn’t remember his name, though, until I read: > [@](#): > > [Wayans] delivered his line in the gayest voice heard on the show since Terry Sweeney left. The name still didn’t ring a bell, but really, who else could that be? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/40 "2006-03-16T22:23:59Z")
Am I insane, or has no one mentioned Rob Schneider yet? Melanie Hutsell is the fucking nadir. I also agree that Chris Rock, while I like his act since the show, was absolutely horrible on SNL. And how anyone could stand up for Colin Quinn as a performer, on the show or anywhere else, baffles me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646.md?page=3)