re: Your 5 favorite SNL regulars

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Pick any 5 of the original cast members.

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Yep. Seeing some of the names on people's lists tells me many of them have never seen, or barely seen any of the early SNL stuff.

Gilda Radner was great with her characters.

John Belushi vaulted his career in acting off his SNL appearances, as did Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Garret Morris and Laraine Newman.

Kate McKinnon, just with the Alien Abduction and Paranormal skits is right up there with the greats in my book.

Hartman
Hader
Hammond
Ferrell
Murray

Darrell Hammond
Phil Hartman
Kevin Nealon
Chris Farley
Will Ferrell

Ever? Wow...

Bill Murray
Phil Hartman
Eddie Murphy
Will Ferrell
Gilda Radner

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News of Radner's death broke as Steve Martin was rehearsing for his guest-host role on that night's season finale of Saturday Night Live. The show's performers and crew, including Lorne Michaels, Phil Hartman, and Mike Myers (who had, in his own words, "fallen in love" with Radner after playing her son in a BC Hydro commercial on Canadian television and considered her the reason he wanted to be on SNL),[33] had not known how grave her situation was. Martin's planned opening monologue was scrapped; in its place a visibly upset Martin introduced a video clip of a 1978 sketch in which he and Radner had parodied Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in a well-known dance routine from The Band Wagon (1953).[34] After the clip, Martin said it reminded him of "how great she was and of how young I looked. Gilda, we miss you." G. E. Smith, Radner's former husband, who was Saturday Night Live’s bandleader, wore a black armband throughout the episode.

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Late 80's - early 90's were f'n awesome