Top Ten Worst SNL Cast Members Of All Time

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Poll question: Top Ten Worst SNL Cast Members Of All Time

NOTE: These choices are from an article posted on "The Phat Phree" Web Site. If you need to refresh your memory, the article has a photo and paragraph on each person on the list:

http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=2246&SectionID=3&LayoutType=1

[dorkulon]

1. You forgot...

Tim Meadows, Joe Piscopo, Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jr, and Jim Belushi.

:puke:

[NoGOP]

2. Also forgot

Dennis Miller

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Yes how can that one be forgotten?

:puke:

Welcome to DU :hi:

[NoGOP]

30. Thanks for the welcome!

[dorkulon]

7. Miller was pretty funny while he was on SNL

It was all downhill after that.

Hey, whatever happened to A. Whitney Brown? :shrug:

[no name no slogan]

13. He became THE Whitney Brown

[terrya]

14. I agree with you about Miller

Granted, he only did Weekend Update, but he was pretty funny. One of the best "Weekend Update" hosts.

But then he crawled into George W. Bush's asshole and took up residence. And then he becamse loathsome.

[DS1]

18. He was better than Norm MacDonald.

Hell, anyone is better than him, even Colin Quinn

[LostinVA]

27. I actually liked Norm on WU

[DS1]

29. I've hated him in everything he's ever done

:shrug:

[blondeatlast]

3. Abstain; Colin Quinn and Victoria Jackson split my vote.

I honestly can't come up with a "winner" on this one.

[Squeech]

5. Chris Farley

Aggressively unfunny. Anti-funny. The wit and wisdom of a turd in a punchbowl.

I'm mystified as to why Jimmy Fallon gets dissed. Granted sketch comedy is not his long suit, but his Weekend Update stuff was nearly of Jon Stewart caliber-- Tina Fay didn't have to carry him.

[SaveElmer]

6. Yeah I would not include some on that list...

Jimmy Fallon, Hoartio Sanz, and Tracy Morgan are all good....

I guess I would vote for Colin Quinn...

[dorkulon]

8. Fallon & Sans have to stop...

...laughing at their own jokes. It's just not good if the comedians are cracking themselves up more than the audience. And I saw Tracy Morgan live last year, and it was god-awful. The entire show--no exaggeration, about an hour or so--was about jacking off to internet porn. I don't know, I guess it's all he's been doing lately, but it got old really, really fast.

[SaveElmer]

10. Well I haven't seen Tracy Morgan...

Other than on SNL...where I thought he was funny...

SOmetimes it is funny when they crack up at their own bits...but it can go too far

[dorkulon]

11. I agree, it's funny when

comedians lose it in the middle of a sketch--and it's genuine--but if they do it every time, it just seems kind of stupid.

[begin_within]

15. In the first "Debbie Downer" skit, where they were all supposed to be

depressed by everything Debbie says, was a laugh riot, because they couldn't keep a straight face. They were all trying to not laugh but each time Debbie said something awful, they all cracked up again. It was roll-on-the-floor funny because of that, one of the great moments of SNL. Every "Debbie Downer" skit since then has been dull by comparison, because they are all able to stay in character and not laugh.

[NoPasaran]

9. I know a lot of people dislike Colin Quinn because he's such a jerk

But Charles Rocket really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really sucked!

[Generic Brad]

38. Agreed

And although we should not speak ill of the dead, I did not appreciate Charles Rocket one iota.

[terrya]

12. Joe Piscopo

He had one character...his gushy, fawning tribute to Sinatra. And...that's it. His apparent complete lack of any kind of humor was interesting in a comedy show.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

21. Phil Hartman's Sinatra had chunks of guys like Piscopo...

...well, SNL fans can finish that line.

:evilgrin:

:toast:

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Gail Matthaius

But since she's not on the list, I'm marking Charles Rocket.

[DS1]

17. Invalid Poll

Adam Sandler wasn't in there. Horatio Sans is better than him. What the fuck?

Opera Man! Something Man! It would've been much funnier to see this fucker get dragged outside and thrown into to the gutter by security.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

20. True, but that's why I put a disclaimer on it...

Those wouldn't have been my ten choices. The purpose of the poll was to get a reaction to the Web Site's ten choices, and I agree...a few of the choices are bogus. Colin Quinn belongs on there, yes...Julia Sweeney, HELL yes...but I've always thought that Horatio has had some funny moments. Also, the woman who did "Jan Brady"...forgot her name and I'm too lazy to look it up...she was a MASTER at the "Cinnamon Girl Solo"...ONE NOTE, over and over and over and over again.

:toast:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. I don't remember Colin Quinn every doing/saying anything funny. EVER.

But then again, the Billy Crystal era of SNL is probably the last time I ever watched with any regularity.

I will full concede that as much of a loathsome toady as Dennis Miller is now, he used to be funny, with his very limited, "I'm smarter than you" shtick. But that's all over.

[Reverend_Smitty]

22. I don't know why they ever gave Quinn the Weekend Update job...

he was too busy tripping over his words to get a joke out...hey Lorne get a guy that is actually literate to read the fake news! Argh he sucked big balls!

[LostinVA]

28. Quinn sucked -- always

[jane_pippin]

32. If Colin could understand the concepts of "timing and delivery" he might

have a shot at being halfway-decent, but apparently that's too much to ask. Oh, and not being an uninformed sack of rocks might be helpful to his career as a "smart-ass critic of pop-culture" comic as well.

Loved you on Remote Control though, Colin. :thumbsup:

[THUNDER HANDS]

23. I think Tracy Morgan was SNL's version of affirmative action

I don't know why he was ever on the show.

[terrya]

24. That Brian Fellows thing was sort of funny.

But hell, even that got old after a while.

[Reverend_Smitty]

26. The only Tracy Morgan skit that ever really cracked me up was...

Uncle Jemima's Pure Mash Liquor ad...don't know why but I crack up every time I watch it

[speedoo]

25. Totally invalid poll.

There must be 30 worse SNL people than are listed. Where are the current castmembers, other than Fallon? Jeez, this show sucks so bad now.

Plus, on principle, Dennis Miller has to be a choice. What a sellout scumbag.

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

31. anthony michael hall?

he was terrible on the show.

[maveric]

33. I like Randy Quaid but he sucked on SNL.

As did Robert Downey Jr.

[TroubleMan]

34. C'mon people....Tracy Morgan was hilarious on Martin

as Hustle Man. His stand up routines before SNL were funny, too.

[bertha katzenengel]

35. Ellen Cleghorne?! She was fabulous!

Besides, whatever happened to respecting the dead? Assholes.

[RoyGBiv]

36. There's just so many ...

That whole season with Robert Downy Jr, et al just needs to be stripped from the historical record. I didn't even know what I was watching.

Of those on your list, I always loathed Victoria Jackson. I could stand hearing her voice. Her characters weren't funny; they were obnoxious. But, I'd have to go with Colin Quinn as worst of all time. Even the bad cast members always had this look about him when he was in a skit that seemed to ask, "Who the fuck let this guy in here?"

I blame MTV for him. I'd never heard of the idiot before he showed up in the early days of MTV's non-musical original programming on _Remote Control_, and then suddenly he was everywhere. Kari was the only good thing that came out of that mess.

[eyepaddle]

37. There wa some stiff competition, but I had to go with Quinn

I don't think I laughed at anything he said, ever. Even before he made it known he was choad. The guy just isn't funny.

[lpbk2713]

39. David Spade

Sucked then, sucks now.