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Ranking the Top 50 Saturday Night Live Cast Members of All-Time

Ranking the Top 50 Saturday Night Live Cast Members of All-Time

After seeing the response from our analysts’ ranking of the top 30 television characters of all-time, we decided to focus next on one of the most beloved TV shows in history – Saturday Night Live.

We asked Mike Tagliere, Kyle Yates, Bobby Sylvester and Dan Harris to provide their top-50 rankings; we then combined those results (Expert Consensus Rankings-style) to provide you, the reader, with a master rankings list.

So, without further delay, here is our top-50 list in all its SNL-style hilarity:

RANK CAST MEMBER TAGS BOBBY DAN YATES AVG.
1 Eddie Murphy 2 1 1 2 1.5
2 John Belushi 3 5 2 3 3.3
3 Chris Farley 1 2 11 1 3.8
4 Will Ferrell 4 3 6 6 4.8
5 Dan Aykroyd 5 12 4 5 6.5
6 Bill Murray 9 6 5 13 8.3
7 Kristen Wiig 11 10 7 7 8.8
8 Phil Hartman 8 19 3 12 10.5
9 Adam Sandler 14 4 18 10 11.5
T10 Bill Hader 13 9 13 15 12.5
T10 Dana Carvey 15 11 10 14 12.5
12 Mike Myers 10 7 12 22 12.8
T13 Tina Fey 7 24 15 9 13.8
T13 Andy Samberg 18 13 20 4 13.8
15 Amy Poehler 6 28 14 8 14.0
16 David Spade 16 8 17 20 15.3
17 Gilda Radner 12 22 8 27 17.3
18 Chevy Chase 17 14 16 23 17.5
19 Kenan Thompson 21 15 25 11 18.0
20 Kate McKinnon 27 16 9 21 18.3
21 Jimmy Fallon 32 18 19 16 21.3
22 Maya Rudolph 19 38 21 24 25.5
23 Chris Rock 20 17 NR 18 26.5
24 Billy Crystal 30 33 30 19 28.0
T25 Rachel Dratch 25 30 36 28 29.8
T25 Jan Hooks 29 23 23 44 29.8
27 Fred Armisen 24 37 33 26 30.0
T28 Jason Sudeikis 22 44 26 29 30.3
T28 Seth Meyers 33 34 37 17 30.3
30 Jon Lovitz 23 35 28 40 31.5
31 Darrell Hammond 48 25 24 34 32.8 
32 Martin Short 28 NR 31 31 35.3 
33 Jane Curtin 34 NR 27 30 35.5 
34 Chris Kattan NR 21 41 35 37.0 
T35 Ana Gasteyer 41 45 22 41 37.3 
T35 Chris Parnell 42 32 39 36 37.3 
T37 Tracy Morgan 38 20 50 42 37.5 
T37 Will Forte 49 41 35 25 37.5 
39 Dennis Miller 36 39 29 49 38.3 
40 Laraine Newman 35 27 44 50 39.0 
41 Al Franken 37 29 43 NR 40.0 
42 Rob Schneider 39 31 42 NR 40.8 
T43 Cecily Strong 43 42 34 46 41.3 
T43 Tim Meadows 44 43 45 33 41.3 
45 Taran Killam 45 NR 38 32 41.5 
46 Molly Shannon 26 NR 40 NR 42.0 
47 Tim Kazurinksky 47 26 NR 45 42.3 
48 Norm MacDonald 31 47 48 48 43.5 
49 Julia Louis-Dreyfus 40 36 NR NR 44.5 
50 Christopher Guest 46 40 NR NR 47.0 

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