I went with Farley. I just think the way he acted on the show blows away the others on the list. I think it's the funniest of them all, in a strictly SNL setting. I think Ferrell is absolutely hilarious. Outside of SNL, I think that him being the architect in the spoof of The Matrix on the sketch for the MTV awards show is possibly the funniest I have seen him and also the best thing MTV ever did.

Hartman. He was good. But, his wife killed him. That's lame. He didn't go out on an O.D. like Farley. Tough shit, Hartman. You win some, you lose some.

Bill Murray was and has only been really funny to me outside of SNL stuff. But, I think that man is the funniest actor around these days.

I mean, I still laugh these days to the time when Farley was "El Nino" on Weekend Update. "I am the great El Nino. For those of you who don't know, El Nino is spanish for [short pause] THE NINO!"

Went with Chevy Chase. Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, and Norm Macdonald round out my top 5.

If you count Newsradio, Phil is by far my favorite though.

The current cast is terrible. Molly Shannon is funnier than all the women on the show now. Why does everyone hate her, anyway?

Mad TV has been a lot funnier and had a better cast than SNL for a while now.

"I figured, I could have worn a condom with that prostitute, but then I asked myself, when am I going to be in Haiti again..."

thank god no one wrote in jimmy fallon. horrific.

I like (best first):

Phil Hartman
John Belushi
Bill Murray
Eddie Murphy
Dan Aykroyd
Jon Lovitz
Gilda Radner
Al Franken
Dana Carvey
Harry Shearer
Christopher Guest
Jan Hooks
Norm MacDonald
Will Ferrell
Mike Myers
Chris Farley
Joe Piscopo
Billy Crystal
Nora Dunn
Dennis Miller
Kevin Nealon
Darrell Hammond
Tim Meadows
Tracy Morgan
Chevy Chase
Jane Curtin
Victoria Jackson
Brad Hall
Garrett Morris
Molly Shannon
Chris Parnell
Adam Sandler
Don Novello
Tina Fey
Amy Poehler
Laraine Newman
Fred Armison
Keenan Thompson
Seth Myers
Will Forte

People I really like outside of the show who were badly utilized on the show: Mark McKinney, Sarah Silverman, Laura Kightlinger, Jay Mohr, Janeane Garofolo, Colin Quinn, Anthony Michael Hall, Julia-Louis Dreyfuss, Martin Short

currently being wasted: Keenan Thompson

So pretty much you like everyone who's ever been on the show.

No, there were at least 75-80 other people on the show. It's been on 30 years, you might have noticed.

There are people I left off because they sucked.

It's pretty muc Hartman and then everyone else. thing is, dude could actually become a character. his Sinatra IS Sinatra. To Luther Campbell: "Can't understand a word!!"

Eddie was tight too, now. I think the originals get a little overrated because of how new this shit really was, but I think the late 80s-early 90s was the true peak.

I will give McDonald and Ferrel credit, in that their impressions are not even losely based on the original person, but really just how absurd being that person would be. Hence Turd Ferguson. hilarious? yes. good impression? NO.[/i]

In retrospect, I feel bad for not giving props to Chris Elliott. Yeah, he wasn't very good on SNL, but during his stint on NBC-era Letterman, he was the single funniest person on television.

Hartman just always seemed like a professional among amatures to me on SNL. I didn't think of it consciously until now, but he was just so perfect at what he did... he never cracked up during skits, his impersonations were freakishly good, and he had a knack for making any bit they gave him as funny as it could possibly be. Others were good, but not on the same level. It's like he was the ringer on a corporate baseball team.

I think this was one of the funniest sketches in years....


I have a crush on Amy Poehler.
I like alot of the new cast members. Dave Parnell is great. Seth Myers. Horatio still! Fred Armison is good.