Can we all agree this was peak SNL?
>>214921508>no Victoria Jackson>too many black peopleYou're a year or two off
>>214921508When Phil Hartman join to when Tina fey left was pretty solid
Mike Myers?
>>214921508tina fey ruled snl
>>214921508No hwites?
The Original Gangsters reign supreme.
>>214921847fat druggy
>>21492150890's through early 00's is peak. Like mostly everything.
>>214921508Yes. Those were my years. Weird that Myers isn't in the pic as he was there for that cast.
>>214921508Nope.Hartman is #1, Murphy is #2.Norm is way up there, but having watched every season except for the last few, the best era is probably late 2000s before Jim Downey left.
SNL has never been funny
>>214921508Seems like the will ferrel days should get an honorable mention. It was still funny, sometimes even more so, but some of the skits were just terrible. Like the high and low points got more extreme
>>214922124What's the verdict, transplant or not?
>>214922133Based sausage enthusiast
>>214922262It's hard for you Pakistanis to understand American humor.
this cast was peak. armisen and hader are too OP
>>214921508peak unc jokes>https://youtu.be/K0HpP8BA1DQ?si=R1tgyjEtajmQ_D4h
>>214921508>peak SNL >niggers Hello fellow redditor
>kinoBen Stiller 1989Eddie Murphy 1980 1984Bill Murray 1977 1980Mike Myers 1989 1995Jon Lovitz 1985 1990Norm Macdonald 1993 1998Dan Aykroyd 1975 1979John Belushi 1975 1979Robert Downey Jr. 1985 1986Will Ferrell 1995 2002>honorable mentionRandy Quaid 1985 1986Dana Carvey 1986 1993Billy Crystal 1984 1985Chevy Chase 1975 1976David Spade 1990 1996Chris Farley 1990 1995Chris Rock 1990 1993Gilbert Gottfried 1980 1981Rich Hall 1984 1985Julia Louis-Dreyfus 1982 1985Chris Kattan 1996 2003>cringe but famousAdam Sandler 1991 1995Kenan Thompson 2003 presentRob Schneider 1990 1994Sarah Silverman 1993 1994Pete Davidson 2014 2022Chris Kattan 1996 2003https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-Yw0c7cF0
>>214921508not peak SNL, but the last really good cast for sure
>>214922965Damn, didn’t know Dana started so early. He really stuck it out through the garbage years.
The stars came close to aligning at various points, tough call1979: Aykroyd, Belushi, Bill Murray1980: Eddie Murphy, Gilbert Gottfried, Bill Murray1985: Jon Lovitz, Robert Downey Jr., Randy Quaid, Rich Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal1989: Jon Lovitz, Mike Myers, Ben Stiller, Dana Carvey1995: Mike Myers, Norm Macdonald, Will Ferrell, Chris Farley
im crying as ai post i love eddie murphy the most
>>214922965>Robert Downey Jr. 1985 1986He really sucked on SNL
>>214924273so did gilbert gottfied, crazy how they can waste talented people
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>>214921508everyone views this era through rose tinted glasses. sure, there WERE some funny sketches. but go back and watch like 2 full episodes from this era. it's a SLOG to get through. so many unfunny sketches. so much le heckin randumb humor. sketches go on for SEVEN FUCKING MINUTES. to the point, where they started making jokes about how long all the sketches run on for with no purpose.
>>214922965I have so many issues with this “list”. KYS
>>214925017Millennials view this era like boomers view the OG cast. For a lot of us, it was the last time SNL was relevant to us. The show was never that good in general, but in the mid-90's it really became a theater kid production.
>>214925017That is literally all sketch shows since monty python
>>214925017You're a fucking retard.I have seen SNL episodes from this cast all the way through multiple, multiple times. They ran reruns of this era on Comedy Central constantly in the 90s.It's clearly the best era, you're retarded.
for me its the falconer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARDv77wqsck
>muh best castyeah thats all good but the real question is who is best girl? think nasim pedrad is super cute, i want to kiss her middle eastern nose
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>>214922965>no mention of Joe Piscopo anywhere Nice trolling. You’re clearly not a fan of comedy.
>>214925307prime victoria jackson
>>214922965This nigga is smokin’ crack. Having Pete Davidson, Sara Silverman, Ben Stiller, Rich Hall, Kennan Thompson and Julia Louis Dreyfus on any “Best of SNL” list is fucking clown shoes.
>>214925386>>214921524Please just fucking stop.Just because you think she's based doesn't mean she's suddenly funny or even hot.If you're not white(easily impressed by a basic blond woman) and you happened to see her tenure on SNL back in the day, while you were like 12 years old(you were young an impressionable when you saw this basic blond woman), fine, then it's understandable, but if not this can unironically not be anything other than virtue signaling.
>>214925488It's surely an AI post, just look at the structure
>>214925157Those episodes were edited down to like 35-40 minutes you turd. Your reruns were missing 4-5 sketches and one or sometimes BOTH of the musical guests. YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT
>>214925508that's a LOTTA words to tell us you're a faggot
>>214925544One sentence to confirm you're indian
>>214925534Wrong, they were an hour long, you dumb and you smell like stinky poopoo.>oh no they cut out the musical guestWe're talking about which cast was funniest retard
>tell me the year you graduated high school, and i'll tell you your favorite snl cast
>>214925307>>214925337>Retires from SNL.>Gets a nosejob plus further bogging.>Loses weight and her massive bunda in the process (it's still there, but it's a shadow of what it was).>Fights tooth and nail to produce and star in a show where she creepily plays a male teenager and both actors and audience have to pretend she is an underage cis boy.>No twist, no reveal, no nothing. She just wanted to dress and act like a weird schoolboy nerd that gets bullied around.What the fuck did she mean by this?Anyway, for me, peak SNL qtpie would be Gilda Radner, with Noël Wells a close second and Vanessa Bayer on third place.
>>214925628Jesus
>>214925676Plastic surgeons should all be arrested
>>214925628I read the script for Chad before it went into production and I imagined her doing the character like the one from this sketch and thought it was hilarious. Then I saw the show and was disappointed
>>214925628>>214925676Why couldn't she get the same plastic surgeon who did so well with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig?
>>214922024The whole cast were doing coke.
>>214925800but they weren't all fat
>>214922792That's the stupidest thing I've seen and I saw that silly walking skit from monty python and the holy grail
>>214921508Looks solid. SNL went through a really bad patch in the mid 90s - MadTV came out of nowhere and damn near took over.
>>214921508I completely forgot that Chris rock was on SNL
>>214925508Man why the VJ hate? She wasn't mid, she was hot.
>>214921508The absolute peak was 1990.
>>214921508Schneider really brings this one down.
>>214923394It’s too bad they never used Gilbert and he never really cared . He actually does decent impressions besides his screeching Jew voice
>>214928955Sounds like you weren’t MAKING COPIES Hahahahahaa
>>214922294Definitely
>>214922733Kristen is so damn hot
>>214921524You’re right, season before it (91-92) was better! Lol actually it’s basically the same cast only they had more women, 6 at the time which was considered crazy for those days, until the 2010s SNL usually only had 3 women at a time and onlyone black guy before DEI WOKENESS!!!!!!! ruined everything!! Thanks a lot Sleepy Joe!
>>214922733The chick from happy endings was on snl?
>>214923242Dana Phil Nealon Miller Jan Hooks Lovitz etc all started in 86 they were the people that saved SNL when it was on the verge of cancellation. Then most of that late 80s cast stayed on in the early 90s so it was a mix of thek and the new cast members from early 90s like Sandler Farley and Spade
>>214928642She’s a reCHUDlican!!! I don’t watch comedy from fascist MAGAt nazis!!!!
>>214922733Late SNL to Parks and Rec, and Andy Richter's little sister/UCB to early SNL Amy poehler are like 2 completely different people.
>>214922965>no Dennis Miller Brainlet opinion disregarded
>>214921508OP and this pic were my casts, I’m a boomernial so the old saying of the SNL from when you were like in like middle school (the Ferrell and Oteri cast for me, paired with the Farley/Sandler reruns on Comedy Central at the time which weren’t all that old of reruns then) will always be your favorite
>>214929637Yeah UCB and Andy’s sister Amy >>>>>>>>>> the more famous SNL and Parks and Rec / Tina & Amy verison of PoehlerHer sketch and character work on the UCB was so much funnier and smarter, it always felt like she had to dumb down her comedy for the normies on SNL
>>214929689Todd Packer and Steve Carell’s wife were great on SNL, dunno how they only lasted the one season. Dave Koechner being replaced by the super unfunny and annoying Chris Kattan the following season was especially a crime
>>214929788Poor Mark McKinney, after being brilliant on Kids in the Hall and then being reduced to SNL for a few years where they rarely have him anything funny to do, why would he even take that shitty SNL job?
>>214929728Bucket of Truth right here.
>>214921508Whatever to Julia Sweeney and Melanie Hutsell? The girls were pretty overshadows during the Sandler years where SNL was a show for the bros and the audiences didn’t want no women centered skits. Guessing Julia Sweeney probably banished from showbiz for Its Pat lol I thought Hutsel played Jan Brady in the Brady Bunch movies but it turns out that was a different chick just ripping off her SNL Jan Brady
>>214929827I liked him and Koechner as the two fancy lad gay dandys
>>214922965Rating Mike Myers above Dana Carvey is abominable. Not rating Phil Hartman at all is insane and just troll tier.
>>214929955Come on anon, look at the post, at the formattingwho the fuck would write tiers like that and post the years after, especially with no dashesyou're replying to AI nonsense>"In my kino tier I put">"Tina Fey ninteen ninetynine two thousand six"no one would write it like that
>>214929728Upright Citizens Brigade on Comedy Central doesn’t get enough credit for being the funniest sketch show of all time (yes even better than Mr. Show which the internet often says is the best. Hell I’d place both ucb and Kids in the Hall above Mr. Show, hell probably The State too. For me it’s more all the Mr. Show guys were all funnier on other shows so it seems like Mr. Show is funnier just based on the cast
>>214929928Lmao I forgot about these fucking characters, weren’t they originally written as the presidents of Norms fan clubhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21IXiqoBKsAnd yea for me it was the era where Norm was the weekend update guy when I started watching as a middle schooler so that’ll always be my favorite period of the show
>>214921508Best cast right here, randy Quaid RDJ And the gay guy Chevy Chase said should star in a sketch where he has AIDS kek
>>214921508It ended with him.
>>214922109Mike Myers was absent for the first half of that season (92-93 I believe, Dana’s final season year there) because he was filming So I Married an Axe Murderer.
It's very hard to pick a best era, season or cast.When it comes to specific people returning, as hosts or cameos and whatever, even people who were great earlier, usually aren't really able to pull it off when they come back decades later.I feel like Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy are two very notable exceptions to this, like even in recent years having great bits and performances.I love his tierlist from the 50th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rXBddwSWCg
No GE Smith led band, me no watch
>>214930880Goddamn they had the best band in the world for like 15 years at SNLtruly great
