My local morning radio station stikes again with their weekly Mt Rushmore of _____. I loved this weeks topic of The Mt. Rushmore of SNL Stars… here’s what I came up with…
Jim Belushi
Chris Farley
Will Farrell
Mike Meyers
I know I know Eddie Murphy… Adam Sandler… this is hard!
Dan Akroyd (very hard between him and Bill Murray…interchangable but I went with Dan because I think Bill’s movie career went further, so Dan is known more for SNL)
Phil Hartman (From the second golden age of SNL. I used Phil because he was primarily SNL, the others (Sandler, Myers, Carvey etc.) were movies as well.
It’s hard for me to limit it to 4, but I’d say Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Dana Carvey, and Eddie Murphy.
4 is just not enough, in my oppinion, because John Belushi should be in there too. I’m going with Murray and Akroyd as lynchpins of the original group (I know Murray came in a little later), and both Murphy and Cravey owned the show and its audience with every sketch they were in while they were there.
Meyers, Tina Fey, Farley are all right up there, too.
Chevy Chase can’t seriously be considered owing to the short time he was a cast member, in my view. I mean if he died in 1977, maybe I’d give him a break.
The two easy picks are Belushi and Hartman. The other two can definitely be debated.
Dan Aykroyd
Eddie Murphy
Phil Hartman
Will Ferrell
Sorry, no love for the Farley, Sandler, etc, crowd - they weren’t that funny to me. And when I think about it, none of the ladies were top-caliber to me either…