The Muppets have been around since the 1950s. In what sense are you trying to say they “started” on SNL? They were on SNL for one season, but those characters have never been used anywhere else.
SNL wasn’t even the Muppets’ first national exposure. That was in 1963 when Jim Henson provided the voice of Rolf on “The Jimmy Dean Show”.
There can be no serious dispute (I hope) that of the movies listed in this thread, Wayne’s World is by far the best.
What?! It’s okay, I guess, but the Blues Brothers is the only SNL movie that’s evolved into a true classic. Even if the sequel was absolutely atrocious.
The sequel wasn’t atrocious. All you have to do is cut out all the scenes between the musical numbers. Those alone are worth the price of admission.
I think it should be noted that The Blues Brothers does not follow the traditional pattern of SNL Sketch to Major Motion Picture like most of the others on this list. While Belushi and Aykroyd performed on the show as The Blues Brothers, it was as the musical guest, not part of a sketch.
So, while I agree that The Blues Brothers is a terrific movie, I hereby move to have stricken from this thread.
And let’s all thank god G.E. Smith never made it to the big screen!
MaxTheVool, I offer serious dispute. The Blues Brothers is far superior to Wayne’s World, and I write that as someone who liked Wayne’s World very much.
And it counts, Pashnish Ewing, because Aykroyd and Belushi were playing characters on the show, even as musical guests, and the movie was based around those same characters.
Woah…arn’t we all forgetting a recent Corky Romano?
It doesn’t count if we follow the title of the thread which is SNL skits that became movies, not SNLmusical guests who later made movies based on their appearence on SNL.
Therefore, Blues Brothers is right out.
End of discussion.
I wish they would make a movie out of Goth Talk.
But it would probably suck too.
The Blues Brothers started out as a comedy sketch with Dan and John dressed up as Killer Bees singing the blues. This was basically an early stage of the Jake & Elwood character-development, but it was definitely Jake and Elwood.
And two men singing the blues dressed up as bees is intended to be comedy. A skit.
Besides a “skit” doesn’t have to be funny. Basically, it’s any short piece with a person or people acting something out. Since Dan and John weren’t really Jake and Elwood, they were acting this out. A skit.
Therefore, Blues Brothers definitely should be included in the list as defined under the terms of the OP and thread title.
And FWIW, I’d like to see a buddy flick with George Bush Sr. (Dana Carvey), Bill Clinton (Darrell Hammond) and George W. (Will Farrell), where they go cross-country in a VW bus raising hell. 
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I liked Stuart more than Wayne’s World. But maybe that’s because I thought it was a documentary.
I’m waiting for Tom Hanks to make a movie on his SNL skit
“Mr. Short-Term Memory”.
They did do that, Enola Straight, only they replaced Tom Hanks with Guy Pearce and changed the title.
Office Space is by far the best SNL movie, though I agree that it is borderline about being a skit-based movie.
Scores, if not hundreds, of skits from the later years of SNL bear this out!
I’m not sure Gilda Live counts either. Gilda Radner did a live, one-woman show in which she recreated a series of her sketches, like Candy Slice and The Judy Miller Show. That’s not the same as taking one sketch/character and stretching the premise into a feature.
Little Bird, was that a typo? Henson and Oz were still in school in the fifties.