# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/61 "2006-03-17T17:11:46Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > And at the risk of angering fans of his, let me state for the record that, unless he’s playing off **Cheri Oteri** , **Will Ferrell** now and forever bites major hose! Clearly written by someone unfmailiar with the phrase, “get off the shed.” I gotta second **Chris Kattan**. I can’t stand him or anything he ever did. I never broke a grin with Mr. Peepers or Mango. What completely obvious, unfunny “characters”. I did funnier shit when I was in 5th grade. I wouldn’t put these two on a “worst” list but I think Dana Carvey and Chevy Chase are the most overrated. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/62 "2006-03-17T18:12:33Z")
Ellen Cleghorne was the absolute worst. Melanie Hutsell was awful, too, but it was mainly because of blandness that was (though it’s hard to imagine) one or two orders of magnitude greater than Julia Sweeney’s. Ellen Cleghorne managed to be bland and irritating at the same time. It’s a prodigious feat when you think about it, but not one that belongs on a show that’s ostensibly comedic. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/63 "2006-03-17T18:14:43Z")
I’ve been watching SNL on and off since the beginning and Horatio Sanz is not only not funny but makes everyone else not funny. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/64 "2006-03-17T18:42:26Z")
> [@soulmurk](#): > > No list of “Worst of” is complete without Jim Brewer. That dude is a soul-sucking pit of unfunny. Jim Brewer’s Set List: 1. Baa like a sheep. 2. Show everyone how stoned I look even when I’m not stoned. 3. 5 minutes of Joe Pesci. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/65 "2006-03-17T18:47:11Z")
> [@KidCharlemagne](#): > > Jim Brewer’s Set List: > > 1. Baa like a sheep. > 2. Show everyone how stoned I look even when I’m not stoned. > 3. 5 minutes of Joe Pesci. Have you actually seen him perform in person? I wish that was the setlist. The only worthwhile part was his non-comedic version of some AC/DC. On the plus side, I saw him as part of a double-bill. The first half was a guy named Chappelle. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/66 "2006-03-17T20:02:14Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Have you actually seen him perform in person? I wish that was the setlist. The only worthwhile part was his non-comedic version of some AC/DC. On the plus side, I saw him as part of a double-bill. The first half was a guy named Chappelle. Fred Chappelle? He sucks. ---
**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 17, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/67 "2006-03-17T20:19:17Z")
> [@KidCharlemagne](#): > > Jim Brewer’s Set List: > > 1. Baa like a sheep. > 2. Show everyone how stoned I look even when I’m not stoned. > 3. 5 minutes of Joe Pesci. Fact: The best Jim Breuer sketch ever was his “Joe Pesci Show” wtih John Goodman (or maybe Alec Baldwin) doing his worst DeNiro, when the real DeNiro and Pesci show up and beat them the f\*ck down. In fact, it’s much more entertaining if you Fast Forward to the last 20 seconds of the sketch. So add Jim Breuer to my list. Along with John Goodman; even though he was never on the cast, his awful DeNiro impression (done at least 3 times, by my count) earns him a spot. “I heard things, Joey - I heard things.” WTF is that?!? :rolleyes: ---
**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 17, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/68 "2006-03-17T20:50:58Z")
> [@Crown Prince of Irony](#): > > Fact: > > The best Jim Breuer sketch ever was his “Joe Pesci Show” \ And of course I now realize that “best” would require other sketches to be “good”, thus warranting the superlative. Let’s call it “the only Jim Breuer sketch not deserving to be shat upon.” ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/69 "2006-03-18T01:54:24Z")
I don’t believe Christine Ebersole (the actress) and Dick Ebersole (the NBC executive) are related. Just one of those things. ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/70 "2006-03-18T06:08:15Z")
> [@Crown Prince of Irony](#): > > Fact: > > The best Jim Breuer sketch ever was his “Joe Pesci Show” wtih John Goodman (or maybe Alec Baldwin) doing his worst DeNiro, when the real DeNiro and Pesci show up and beat them the f\*ck down. In fact, it’s much more entertaining if you Fast Forward to the last 20 seconds of the sketch. It was Colin Quinn, actually. And he got off one of the few funny lines he ever had on SNL. When asked by the real Deniro, “What are you supposed to be?” He responded, “Colin Quinn. Remote Control.” Yep, that was the one. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/71 "2006-03-18T06:40:07Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > I mean, every time he came on during “Weekend Update”, as “Opera Man” or “Annoying Man” or similar guys, I cringed. And I don’t remember him being in any particularly memorable recurring sketches. You mean Adam Sandler was Annoying Man? Then he’s a better actor than I thought. > [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > The Muppets: Dude. Not cool. Who hates the Muppets? Terrorists and communists, mostly. Well, most of the cast didn’t like the Muppets. The Muppets were a bone–or shall I say some mattress stuffing–of contention when they were included on the show. They didn’t seem to fit in very well with the rest of the program, and Jim Hanson (Henson?) did not care at all for SNL’s caustic, satirical brand of humor. The SNL people didn’t like writing for the Muppets, either. This is why in one of the Blues Brothers movies, during a car chase scene, you see them drive headlong into a pile of stuffed animals with Aykroyd saying, “Uh-oh…muppets!” I have this information from the book _A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live_. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/72 "2006-03-28T15:13:04Z")
Hello, [Denny Dillon](http://snl.jt.org/cast.php?i=DeDi), [Gilbert Gottfried](http://snl.jt.org/cast.php?i=GiGo), [Charles Rocket](http://snl.jt.org/cast.php?i=CaRo), oh hell, [This entire cast minus Eddie Murphy.](http://snl.jt.org/season.php?i=80) Tony Rosato? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646/73 "2006-03-28T15:52:02Z")
I just now found this thread, and I gotta say, what? no hate for **Molly Shannon**? I’m so glad I never have to watch another formulaic Mary Kathleen Gallagher sketch, or any of her other, even more anti-funny, characters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-worst-snl-cast-members-of-all-time/348646.md?page=3)