# Most successful SNL alum? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-successful-snl-alum/593247 "2011-08-18T23:38:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-successful-snl-alum/593247/61 "2013-03-14T22:58:50Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > But I think the **most** successful has to be Jon Lovitz. He’s worth 50—no, 500—no, 5 billion—yeah, that’s the ticket: 5 billion dollars. And he has his picture on the cover of _Newsweek_, every day. And he’s married to Morgan Fairchild. That’s the ticket! _golf clap_ This was obviously the correct answer all along. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-successful-snl-alum/593247/62 "2013-03-15T07:48:27Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > … > But I think the **most** successful has to be Jon Lovitz. He’s worth 50—no, 500—no, 5 billion—yeah, that’s the ticket: 5 billion dollars. And he has his picture on the cover of _Newsweek_, every day. And he’s married to Morgan Fairchild. That’s the ticket! He’s married not just to Morgan Fairchild, but also to Cindy Crawford AND Kathy Ireland. And he was offered the job of King of England, but turned it down. John Goodman took that gig for a while but ended up quitting. ---
**Author:** ![jsterr1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@jsterr1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsterr1)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-successful-snl-alum/593247/63 "2013-07-12T07:49:59Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I don’t doubt that he’s worth a ton; since he comes across as a schmuck in most of his films I figure that’s how he gets laid. I’d just forgotten that he was once on Saturday Night Live. no matter how he chooses to portray himself in his movies, it has nothing to do with how successful he is. will farrell plays a moron exclusively and is wildly successful. the point you seem to miss the point that he owns his own movie production company, so after hes done paying the actors (which are almost always spots filled by his friends) and whatever crew and budget, all the rest of that profit goes in his pocket. Just because he plays a “schmuck” in his movies doesnt meant that’s how he really is. I know quite a few people that have met him and said he was really cool and down to earth, even though hes filthy rich. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-successful-snl-alum/593247/64 "2013-07-12T11:58:12Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > The OP asks for the most successful SNL “alum.” To me, that includes writers, and Conan O’Brien at least deserves a mention. According to The Internet (which is never wrong), he has a net worth of $75 million. > But I think the **most** successful has to be Jon Lovitz. He’s worth 50—no, 500—no, 5 billion—yeah, that’s the ticket: 5 billion dollars. And he has his picture on the cover of _Newsweek_, every day. And he’s married to Morgan Fairchild. That’s the ticket! And to think, when he started out he didn’t have a dime to his name. He didn’t even HAVE a name! He couldn’t afford it! ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-successful-snl-alum/593247/65 "2013-07-12T20:54:30Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Robert Downey,Jr played a character that won an oscar! [QUOTE=bup] Yeah, but even that Oscar was one of those ‘sorry we screwed you’ pity Oscars. [/QUOTE] Uh, excuse me. I assume you’re talking about his role as Charlie Chaplin, but Robert Downey Jr. _also_ portrayed the greatest actor of all time, that being five-time Academy Award winner Kirk Lazarus. Perhaps you remember Kirk from his starring role oppposite MTV Movie Awards Best Kiss winner Tobey Maguire in the film that took home the Beijing Film Festival’s coveted Crying Monkey Award, _Satan’s Alley_? _Five_ Academy Awards. No one has ever pretended to be a more successful actor than that! ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-successful-snl-alum/593247/66 "2013-07-12T21:07:07Z")
Dan Aykroyd seems to be more successful as an investor and businessman than as a highly paid actor. [http://blogs.marketwatch.com/encore/2012/12/04/aykroyds-new-sequel-an-encore-career/](http://blogs.marketwatch.com/encore/2012/12/04/aykroyds-new-sequel-an-encore-career/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-successful-snl-alum/593247.md?page=3)