- Al Franken
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken is an Emmy Award–winning American comedian, actor, author, screenwriter, political commentator, radio host and, recently, politician. He is noted for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and his liberal political views. On February 14, 2007, Franken entered the race for the United States Senate seat from Minnesota currently held by the Republican Norm Coleman, and formerly held by Franken's friend Paul Wellstone. - Tina Fey
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American writer, comedian and actress. Fey currently co-produces, writes and stars in the television program "30 Rock", a sitcom loosely based on her experiences at "Saturday Night Live". - Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBC's late-night talk/variety show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". NBC has announced that O'Brien will take over for Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" in 2009. - Alan Zweibel
Alan Zweibel (born 1950) is a producer and writer on such productions as "Saturday Night Live", PBS' "Great Performances", and "It's Garry Shandling's Show". Born in Brooklyn, Alan Zweibel grew up in Wantagh and Woodmere, New York and graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1968 and The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1972. He co-wrote the movie "Dragnet" and articles for magazines such as "Mad", … - Adam Richard Sandler
Adam Sandler was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He has seven brothers. He was always the class clown in school. When Adam Sandler turned 17 years old, at the advice of his brother he tried out for a comedy club. That's how he came to recognize his true talent as a comedian. He started acting in the Cosby Show and then wen on to movies. - Bob Odenkirk
Robert "Bob" Odenkirk (born October 22, 1962, in Naperville, Illinois) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. Odenkirk is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the HBO sketch comedy series, "Mr. Show". - Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, satirist, actor and writer, known for his ironic style (particularly in his portrayal of uninformed opinion leaders), and for his deadpan comedic delivery. - Adam McKay
Adam McKay is an Emmy-nominated American writer and film director. He was born in Denver, Colorado in 1968, graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, PA, in 1986, and attended Penn State and Temple universities. He is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy group and a former performer at Chicago's ImprovOlympic theater. While a member of the mainstage cast at Second City, he wrote and performed in that company's landmark revue, … - Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray (b. September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor. He is perhaps most famous for his work in "Saturday Night Live", as well as for his comedic roles in films such as "Stripes", "Groundhog Day", "Caddyshack", "Ghostbusters" and "Rushmore", among many others. He has gained further acclaim for recent dramatic roles, … - Tim Meadows
Tim Meadows (born February 5 1961 in Highland Park, Michigan) is an American actor and comedian. Meadows' start in show business was as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future star Chris Farley. In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on "Saturday Night Live" and would go on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on the program until 2000. (This was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005). - Max Brooks
Max Brooks (born Maximillian Brooks on May 22, 1972 in New York City) is an author and screenwriter. - Robert Smigel
Robert Smigel (born February 7 1960) is an American humorist and performer best known for his "Saturday Night Live" "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. Smigel was once a member of the Chicago comedy troupe All You Can Eat. - Larry David
Larry David, born July 2, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director. David was co-creator, head writer and executive producer (as well as the voice of New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner) for the television series "Seinfeld". He also created and stars in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm". - Eddie Murphy
Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has also enjoyed a minor singing career. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in "Beverly Hills Cop", … - Mike Myers
Michael John Myers (born May 25, 1963, in Scarborough, Ontario) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-British comedian, actor, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his comedy work in "Saturday Night Live" and film roles including the title characters of "Wayne's World", the "Austin Powers" series, and "Shrek". - Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 or 1948) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC dramedy, "Soap", and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes "When Harry Met Sally..." and "City Slickers". - John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (January 24 1949 - March 5 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and musician, notable for his work on "Saturday Night Live", "National Lampoon's Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers". - Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. He was an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live", an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. - David Spade
David Wayne Spade (born July 22 1964) is an Emmy-Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian, television personality who gained fame in the 1990s as a castmember on "Saturday Night Live". He currently stars as single man Russell on CBS's sitcom, "Rules of Engagement" and is also hosting the third season of his entertainment parody show, "The Showbiz Show with David Spade" on Comedy Central. - Gilda Radner
Gilda Susan Radner (28 June, 1946 - 20 May, 1989) was an American comedian and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series "Saturday Night Live". Radner, who died at 42 of ovarian cancer, became an icon for public awareness of both detection and treatment of the disease. - Anne Beatts
Anne Beatts is an American comedy writer. - Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase (born October 8 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase became a sensation as a cast member in the inaugural season of "Saturday Night Live". He also hosted the Academy Awards twice(1987 and 1988) and briefly had his own late-night talk show. - Patricia Marx
Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer. Her writing has appeared in the "The New York Times", "The New Yorker", "Vogue", and "The Atlantic Monthly". Marx is a former writer for "Saturday Night Live" and "Rugrats", and one of the first two women elected to the "Harvard Lampoon". She is the author of the 2007 novel, "Him Her Him Again The End of Him", … - Michael O'Donoghue
Michael O'Donoghue (January 5, 1940 - November 8, 1994) was a 20th century writer and performer noted for his dark and destructive style of comedy, and as the first head writer of the highly influential American television program "Saturday Night Live". He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 54, after a long history of chronic migraine headaches. - Rob Schneider
Robert Michael Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series "Saturday Night Live", Schneider went on to a career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedies "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" and "The Hot Chick". - Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman (born as Philip Edward Hartmann) (September 24, 1948 - May 28, 1998) was a Canadian/American actor, voice artist, comedian, graphic artist and writer. He first came to widespread attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his roles on the sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live", afterwards going on to motion pictures, frequent roles on the animated "The Simpsons", … - Colin Quinn
Colin Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an American comedian, best known for his five years in the cast of "Saturday Night Live". - Tom Davis
Tom Davis (born 13 August 1952) is a prolific comedy writer and performer. He is most easily recognized as half of the comedy duo "Franken & Davis". Franken and Davis have appeared as a team on "Saturday Night Live" and in the films "All You Need Is Cash", "Trading Places" and "One More Saturday Night". Recently Davis has been a frequent guest on The Al Franken Show, … - Jack Handey
Jack Handey (born 25 February 1949) is an American humorist. He is best known for his Deep Thoughts, a large body of surrealistic one-liner jokes, as well as his "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel" shorts. Many people have the false impression that Jack Handey is not an actual person, but a character created by "Saturday Night Live" or a pen name used by "National Lampoon". - Seth Meyers
Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973 in Bedford, New Hampshire) is an American actor and comedian best known as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL"). Before "SNL", Meyers was a cast member of Boom Chicago, an English language improv troupe based in Amsterdam. He was also a member of the Northwestern University improv sketch group Mee-Ow, outside Chicago. Meyers joined "SNL" in 2001. In 2005, he was promoted to writing supervisor, … - Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian/American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live". He has been nominated for an Emmy Award. - Jon Lovitz
Jonathan M. Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" and for his show "The Critic". - Christopher Guest
Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5 1948), is a British/American comedian, actor, writer, director, composer, and musician known as Christopher Guest. He is known for having written, directed and starred in several "mockumentary" films (most recently "For Your Consideration"), although it should be noted that Guest himself resents and finds inappropriate the "mockumentary" descriptor, … - Greg Daniels
Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. He began his career as a writer on HBO's satirical news show "Not Necessarily the News" before moving to "Saturday Night Live". He spent three seasons at SNL, winning an Emmy Award in the process. Greg then joined "The Simpsons", writing and producing some of the most popular episodes in the history of the series (including "22 Short Films About Springfield", "Homer and Apu", … - Tom Schiller
Tom Schiller is an American Emmy Award winning writer best known for his eleven-year stint writing and directing short films for Saturday Night Live. (following the shows original short film makers Albert Brooks and Gary Weis) His films, often featuring members of the original SNL cast, aired on the program under the name "Schiller's Reel". Schiller was part of the original 1975 writing team when Saturday Night Live debuted on NBC. - T. Sean Shannon
T. Sean Shannon is a comedy writer originally from Houston, Texas. As a writer for "Saturday Night Live" he won an Emmy Award in 2002 (nominated in 2001 & 2003) and a WGA Award in 2001 (nominated in 2001, 2002 and 2003). He is the writer and creator of the sketch "Bear City", which deals with a city completely inhabited by anthropomorphic bears due to a meteor crash. He was also the subject of controversy and political unrest at SNL, … - Harry Shearer
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American comedic actor and writer. - Akiva Schaffer
Akiva Schaffer (born December 1, 1977) is a current writer for "Saturday Night Live" and a member of The Lonely Island, a sketch comedy group originating on the Internet that includes SNL featured player Andy Samberg and SNL writer Jorma Taccone. He majored in film at UCSC. Akiva was the director for the "Lazy Sunday" digital short on SNL. Along with Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg, Akiva writes and directs the majority of the current SNL Digital Shorts. - Norm MacDonald
Norman Gene Macdonald (born October 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is known for his biting sarcasm, distinct muttering, slurred delivery (which may be accentual, due to his French-Canadian upbringing), and prevalent use of the word "crackwhore" which became well known during his three years anchoring "Saturday Night Live's" "Weekend Update". He performed as a stand up comedian in comedy clubs across Canada before moving to Los Angeles, … - Jim Downey
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