This isn’t a list of your favorite cast. Instead it’s who was the cast from your teen years?
Mine was the 1982 cast of Robin Duke, Mary Gross, Brad Hall, Tim Kazurinsky, Gary Kroeger, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo. I liked the Gumby skits but could go the rest of my life w/o hearing from Doug and Wendy Whiner and their diverticulitis.
How about you?
The original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. I was born in 1962.
I thought the OP was gonna be favorite, so I was ready to say “Denny Dillon, Gail Mathius, Gilbert Gottfried…” 
Mine were also the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players.
Originals but I started watching regularly right after Bill Murray arrived, so like NRFPTP v 1.5.
When I watched it, it was the Mike Myers/Dana Carvey/whoever it was that played Pat/that guy who’s a Senator now crowd.
It was not around when I was a teenager, but I started watching it when it first came on, so the original cast.
I was born in 1967, so I’m pretty sure I wasn’t actually watching it those first few years, but “my cast” is still the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players (plus Bill Murray).
Yup, original cast for me too. I remember when it first came on, my mother HATED it, so she would go to bed, and me, my cousin & Dad would order a pizza and watch, laughing our asses off. Every now and them Mom would yell at us to keep it down, but we just couldn’t! We had never seen anything like it and couldn’t believe what they got away with.
sigh Wonderful memories…
I was 35 when SNL debuted. For me, the first and second casts (with Chevy Chase, then Bill Murray) were never bettered.
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Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Dana Carvey, Norm Macdonald, Kevin Nealon, David Spade. I started watching around '92 or '93. I stopped watching obsessively once they brought on the Will Ferrell cast. (Nothing against Will Ferrell, it was more the other people who were horrible. But that cheerleader sketch was the opposite of funny.) And I stopped watching entirely once they fired Norm Macdonald.
The original cast, and I was in my 20s when SNL debuted. They’ve been going downhill ever since.
Teen years? It probably doesn’t speak well of my upbringing, but I started watching Saturday Night Live in 1977, with my teens still five years away. So, from Bill Murray, and regularly for about ten or eleven years. I stopped watching when Phil Hartman stopped being enough of a draw to sit through the rest of it, sometime in the early nineties. (Which is no slight against Phil; he never stopped being awesome.)
The cast during my teen years was Carvey/Hartman/Nealon/Lovitz et al., although I started watching when I was just a little kid, so I got to see some of the first cast.
Ditto.
I started watching SNL around the time Chevy Chase left and Bill Murray came in, and stopped in 1980. I’ve only ever seen a handful of shows featuring the later cast members.
Mike Meyers, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, David Spade, Kevin Nealon, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler…
Some greats (Meyers, Hartman), some who…didn’t do well after SNL (Carvey, Sandler*)…overall a good period for the show, even if there were rough spots (Schneider).
The originals, I was born in 1960.
I’ve seen an episode or two every now and then but it’s never the same.
The original NRFPT Players for me too.
I was in 6th grade when SNL started…old enough to stay up late and watch TV on my own, but certainly not old enough to be out with friends. Over the years, I’ve probably seen more than I’ve missed.
(I finally got to see a show in-person in Dec. 2008 with Hugh Laurie and Kanye West.)
During middle and high school, it was mostly wretched, but in about my junior year, the cast of the early 1990s (Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, et al…) started to coalesce.
I tend to not think about SNL during my teen years, because it was so bad. Elementary school and college however were pretty good.
Another boomer checking in for original cast + Bill Murray.