13 Stars Who Were Saturday Night Live Regulars

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13 Stars Who Were Saturday Night Live Regulars

Saturday Night Live is one of the most fascinating institutions in comedy. Perpetually under harsh comedic attack with nearly every cast being cast being derided as a decline from the ‘legends’ they replaced, it remains one of the most simultaneously loved and criticized shows ever. Beyond that, it's not only got an incredibly unique format, it has also obviously served as the platform and launch pad for massive comedic talent. In fact, Saturday Night Live has played a pivotal role in the careers of so many talented people, there's plenty of them who get lost in the shuffle.

The fact is, SNL has been running for over 40 years, and they've had a ton of people in the cast in that time ... some of whom went on to become major stars, and their SNL tenure got totally forgotten.

Want to learn about some famous celebrities you probably didn't even realize were on SNL? Scroll down for more!

DAMON WAYANS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DAMON WAYANS WAS ON SNL FROM '85 TO '86, AND IT DID NOT WORK OUT FOR HIM. They had me in scenes where I would just hold a spear. I'm like, 'I'm not doing that. My mother's going to watch this show.' No lines! Just holding the spear in a thong. I'm like, 'I can't do this, he recounted.

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ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL WAS AN SNL CAST MEMBER IN THE MID-'80S. It didn't really work out for him, and he later said: I think the people that found the most success came from a stand-up background where they had their own material and they had that competitive nature.

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JOAN CUSACK

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM FROM 1985 TO 1986, JOAN CUSACK WAS A CAST MEMBER ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. She did celeb impressions including Queen Elizabeth, Jane Fonda, and Brooke Shields - but, like most of the castmates she'd worked with, she didn't get asked to come back in 1986.

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BEN STILLER

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BEN STILLER JOINED THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CAST IN 1989. Не did a bunch of celebrity impersonations, including Mandy Patinkin and Bruce Springsteen, but left pretty quickly - he didn't make it until the end of the year.

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RANDY QUAID

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BETWEEN 1985 AND 1986, RANDY QUAID WAS A REGULAR ON SNL. Не had two recurring characters - flashy salesman Rudy Randolph Jr. and the Floating Head, which he played in The Limits of The Imagination sketches - plus a bunch of celebrity impersonations.

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MICHAEL MCKEAN

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MICHAEL MCKEAN DID A STINT ON SNL BETWEEN 1994 AND 1995. Amid the crabbiness, I had fun with everybody. I was pretty crabby myself sometimes. But I think it was kind of just wandering: It didn't know where it was going, is how he described the experience.

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JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BEFORE SHE JOINED THE CAST OF SEINFELD, JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS WAS ON SNL. She was on the show for three seasons in the early '80s, and she described it this way: Everybody was doing a lot of coke and smoking dope. Everybody would stay up late.

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BILLY CRYSTAL

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BILLY CRYSTAL WAS A REGULAR CAST MEMBER FOR A YEAR IN THE MID-1980S. This is how he thought about it: I think when I came to the show I was sort of a pinata of ideas and thoughts and characters, and all kinds of things happened.

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