Wednesday, May 08, 2019

 

SNL in the 1980's


I remember watching Saturday Night Live in the 1970's, when the original cast (John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Lorraine Newman) were just creating something that people loved. It was a cultural phenomenon. 

Then, in 1980, they all left. For a lot of people, that ushered in a dark period for the show, where the product did not live up to expectations set by that original cast. Looking back at it, though, it is pretty remarkable who appeared as cast members during that period, some of them for only one season before getting booted. Check out this partial list of cast member from 1980-87:

Billy Crystal
Joan Cusack
Robert Downey, Jr.
Christine Ebersole
Gilbert Gottfried
Christopher Guest
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
Jon Lovitz
Laurie Metcalf
Anthony Michael Hall
Dennis Miller
Eddie Murphy
Joe Piscapo
Randy Quaid
Harry Shearer
Martin Short
Daman Wayans


# posted by Mark Osler @ 12:00 AM
Comments:
also Nora Dunn and Terry Sweeney, two of talented SNL alumni IMO. both joined in the mid-80s
# posted by Blogger Jill Scoggins : 12:42 PM
 
But they stayed for a while!
# posted by Blogger Mark Osler : 5:42 PM
 
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