The fat funny guy is an SNL staple, but the women tend to be positively waifish. But I’m not that familiar with early seasons. Has there ever been an overweight woman on the cast?
I can’t think of any, but wasn’t Julia Sweeney a tiny bit heavy? I am sure there were no farley sized women, though.
Victoria Jackson was rounded out, but not fat. Whenever they need a fat girl on SNL, they just get the current fat guy to go in drag…
I know, like thats automatically supposed to be funny.
Very little on SNL is funny.
Fat guys are funny and crazy, fat gals are sad. Or that seems to be the thinking.
Sometimes it is. John Goodman made a funnier Linda Tripp than any woman could have.
Tell that to Roseanne Barr (Arnold)
She’d give me several options about what I could do with it. 
Or Margaret Cho.
She’s never been Chris Farley fat, but she’s had her round times, and I don’t recall her getting any less funny. One thing that’ll suck the funny right out of you, though – agreeing to be an SNL cast member.
Mark fecking McKinney spent two years being slightly less funny than ass cancer. How do they do it?
Melanie Hutsell was kind of chubby. It didn’t make her funny, though.
Denny Dillon was kinda on the chubby side. But I wouldn’t call her fat.
VCNJ~
SNL has almost always had many more men than women in the cast. Since the women need to be available to imitate celebrities, a truly fat woman would limit their ability to do skits. They can get away with a fat man in the cast as a) there are so many more men and b) there are so many more fat male celebrities.
But I still think the real reason is the prejudice against fat women on the part of everybody, both on the production side and especially on the audience side.
Rosie O’ Donnell used to be a sort of uncredited “frequent guest” in the early 90s (she played Liza Minelli in a Frank Sinatra sketch, for instance). She wasn’t huge back then, more like a size 10, but certainly no waif.
There’s a writer on the show–I don’t know her name–who often plays a “woman in audience” character. She’s pretty large. So was Tina Fey a couple of years before she took over “Update.”
As for regular female cast members on the order of Horatio or Farley–no, not yet. Denny Dillon was about as close as they ever got, one more example of Jean Doumanian being more of a trailblazer than she’s ever gotten credit for.
I don’t think Denny Dillon was particularly heavy when she was on the show. She gained weight later. She wasn’t skinny, but I wouldn’t have called her fat by any stretch of the imagination.
The mere fact that people are offering Victoria Jackson and Denny Dillon as answers to Chris Farley pretty much answers why you’re never going to see a fat woman in the cast.
Victoria Jackson is to comedy what Melanie Griffin is to drama - slow witted blonde with a halfway decent body and little else.
Denny Dillon is to comedy what Denny Dillon is to drama. Nothing.
Tina Fey was large?
Mr Blue Sky
I think you meant Melanie Griffith:
Only to someone who thought the Auschwitz survivors could stand to lose a few.
Tina Fey large? No. She was maybe 140 and NBC made he lose probably 15 in order to host WU.
I think this is also the case with Victoria Jackson.
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