I was going to put up my list, but I’m afraid that Max Torque has already posted mine.
Robin Duke
Tony Rosato
Mary Gross
Terry Sweeney
Ann Risley
Brad Hall
Chris Kattan
Rob Schneider
Weekend Update anchor: Brian Doyle-Murray
- Joe Piscopo.
2-9. Clones of Joe Piscopo.
Chris Kattan
Will Ferrell
Cheri Oteri
Chris Farley
Chris Elliott
Actually, that’s all I can think of that I actually hate. If I rounded out the list with people who were fairly consistently annoying:
Kevin Nealon
Rob Schneider
Julia Sweeney, but only for the “It’s Pat” sketches. Jeebus, they were stupid.
Rachel Dratch
Huh. Somehow, I thought it would be way easier than that.
Nope, it was Charlie Rocket, around 1983.
I don’t get the Garrett Morris antipathy, either. He is a talented guy, studied at Julliard, and just didn’t get any good roles to play (aside from the “shotgun/whitey” song and “Garrett Morris, headmaster of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing.”).
Going for genuinely annoying instead of just so bland as to be forgettable: (emphasis added for those who get extra HAAATE)
- Adam Sandler
- Horatio Sanz
- Robin Duke
- Terry Sweeney
- David Spade
- Joe Piscopo
- Christine Ebersole
- Chris Kattan
- Charles Rocket
Weekend Update hosted by Colin Quinn and Dennis Miller.
Okay, so what did Norm McDonald do to get in the doghouse? Didn’t he get kicked off the show? I thought it was for swearing during a “Weekend Update” segment.
Whoa, I can’t believe I missed two from the OP: Gilbert Gottfried and Denny Dillon. They’d be featured players in constant rotation, yelling in the background of every sketch.
Jim Belushi would also be always present to provide bland yet annoying Tom Arnold-ness.
The musical guests wouldn’t change, but instead use Smashmouth as the house band. The Scissor Sisters would frequently drop in and jam.
1980 or 1981, as he was part of that cast. Charlene Tilton was hosting, and a running gag through the show was a “Who shot JR?” parody, “who shot Charles Rocket?” At the end of the show there was some time to fill so Tilton vamped a question to Rocket about how awful it must have been to be shot, to which Rocket replied, “yeah, and I’d like to know who the fuck did it.”
It wasn’t the first time “fuck” was said on the show. Paul Shaffer slipped up while playing a Cockney and said “fucking” but the Cockney accent was sufficient to mask it, and Prince as musical guest once might have sang it but it was again unclear.
I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy but he blew chunks on the show. He didn’t produce material for himself despite being hired initially as a writer, he wasn’t funny most of the time and the few times he was funny the bit was beaten into the ground (“Bese-boll…ha’ been berry berry good to me”…STFU!). He was hardly the only worthless cast member in the show’s history but he got there first and made a really bad impression.
IIRC, one of the suits at NBC was a friend of O.J’s and got tired of Norm constantly refering to him as a murderer.
Okay, I just got semi-independent verification from my wife, the lovely and talented Aries28, that Norm McDonald did indeed say “fuck” during a Weekend Update segment when he was the anchor. She was watching the show when he did it. He left the show shortly thereafter.
Man, I feel better. I thought I was going crazy, and that I’d somehow superimposed images from shows 20 years apart.
Ooh, this is fun:
- Adam Sandler is the devil
- Jan Hooks
- Nora Dunn
- Tim Meadows
- Colin Quinn
- Jim Breuer
- Brad Hall
- Molly Shannon
- Victoria Jackson
(I hope that’s not the 1980 cast - I just picked the ones I hated from memory)
Close calls:
Kevin Nealon gets off the hook because of Hans & Franz and the subliminal guy.
Joe Piscopo as well because IIRC he did a good Sinatra impression.
Chris Kattan was a very close call, but I did like his Antonio Banderas bit.
And Rob Schneider’s “Rob Schneider’s Girlfriend Theater” saved him from my list.
Jim Breuer
Colin Quinn
Chris Kattan
Molly Shannon
Cheri Oteri
Adam Sandler
Dennis Miller
Gilbert Gottfried
Mike Myers
These lists just go to show how much tastes vary. I think Will Ferrell is one of the best SNLers ever, and I’ve seen him on someone’s list. I also like Molly Shannon.
I never saw the original cast, or the one right after that, so I don’t know if Charles Rocket sucked or not.
Ah well, here’s mine
Tim Kazurinsky (He used to do this I Married a Monkey sketch that annoyed the bejeebus out of me)
Gary Kroeger
Brad Hall
Jim Belushi
Pamela Stephenson (English lady)
Robert Downey
Danitra Vance
Ellen Cleghorne
Jim Breuer (Will spend eternity in Hell for that Goat Boy sketch)
And doing the news: Kevin Nealon.
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Will Ferrell. Never before has a man so unfunny made so much money in comedy.
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Chris Kattan, The Monkey Man
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Joe Freakin’ Piscopo
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Molly Shannon - Die, die, die, you hideous twat
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Jim Breuer. Goat Boy. I need say no more.
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Colin Quinn. How did this big, stupid oaf ever get into the entertainment business?
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Cheri Oteri, for the stupid phony name as much as the total lack of funny
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Anthony Michael Hall. Having Anthony Michael Hall on the cast of SNL because he can tell a joke in a movie like “Sixteen Candles” is sort of like asking Jodie Foster to pitch Game 1 of the World Series because she could pitch in “Bad New Bears.”
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A. Whitney Brown. Just why the fuck was this dorkus malorkus on a comedy sketch show?
Ferrell’s not even in the top ten, and he’ll certainly never be number 1 as long as Jerry Lewis is still alive.
Sorry, if we’re going for annoying, the house band is still G.E. Smith and his Posse of Poseurs. Fuck, I hated that asshole, and I only had to see him at the bumpers.
I always hated G.E. Smith too! I don’t even know why, except I hated his playing and he looked like an asshole in his Gomez Addams suits (although I’d love suits like that, honestly). I like the current Lenny Pickett-led band much more.
Oh, geez, that’s that hammy guitar player who was always cheezing it up at the commercial breaks, right? How did he keep the job so long? Most annoying musician ever. They even did a parody of him on The Simpsons. And I remember one show where he played a tune with Eddie Van Halen, and he actually tried to upstage the guy. :eek:
Oh, and that sax player’s gotta go, too. Yeah, we get it - you can play high notes. What else ya got?
And while I’m on a roll, it wouldn’t kill 'em to write a new song every 20 years or so. They do the exact same tunes on the exact same breaks every week.