- 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. - Chris Rock
Christopher Julius Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was described by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time. - 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". - Andy Samberg
David Andrew J. Samberg (born August 18, 1978 in Berkeley, California), better known as Andy Samberg or Andy, is a stand-up comic and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. Samberg attended Berkeley High School, New York University (NYU) film school, and UC Santa Cruz. He is currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Premium Blend and "Arrested Development", … - 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", … - 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". - Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan (born November 10 1968 in Bronx, New York) is an American actor perhaps best known as a member of the cast of "Saturday Night Live" from 1996 to 2003. He now stars in the 2006-2007 NBC sitcom "30 Rock", a sitcom based on a fictional sketch comedy show. Tracy Morgan was discovered in 1984 while doing stand-up at The Apollo. Martin Lawrence's ex-wife, Patricia Martin, was in the audience and is said to have introduced Morgan to Lawrence. - Chris Kattan
Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American comedian, perhaps best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live". - 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". - Bill Hader
Bill Hader (born June 7, 1978) is a comedian and repertory player on "Saturday Night Live". Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hader's comedic skills eventually led him to the Los Angeles chapter of the famed Second City, a comedy troupe that has been a training ground for many "SNL" cast members since the 1970s. - Will Forte
Orville Willis "Will" Forte IV (born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, writer, and comedian best known for appearing on the television show "Saturday Night Live", where he has been a cast member since 2002. Forte was born in Alameda County, California and raised in Lafayette, California. He graduated from Acalanes High School and UCLA with a B.A. in History. Before joining "SNL", Forte was a member of The Groundlings. - 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, … - 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). - Kristen Wiig
Kristen Carroll Wiig (born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, and impressionist. She is a member of The Groundlings whose most visible work is as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL"). Wiig also appeared in the first season of Spike TV's "The Joe Schmo Show". - Cheri Oteri
Cheri Oteri (born Cheryl Ann O'Teari on September 19, 1962) is an American actress and comedian known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live. - Rob Riggle
Rob Riggle , who joined The Daily Show's "News" bureau in 2006, has been performing sketch and improv comedy in New York and Los Angeles for the last 9 years as part of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He is also a United States Marine Corps officer. Rob Riggle served in Liberia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has over 19 medals and ribbons as a result of his service, to include the Combat Action Ribbon. Rob Riggle is currently a Major in the Marine Corps Reserves. - Don Pardo
Now known best as the Voice of Saturday Night Live, Don Pardo was the longtime staff announcer at WNBC-TV in New York. This also meant that he did plenty of voice overs for the network. His name and distinct voice became synonymous with the faceless announcer. But he was a really approachable really famous guy. Before his semi-retirement, you could call NBC in New York, as for Don Pardo . , and he'd answer his phone and talk to you until he had to go to work. - Garrett Morris
Garrett Morris (b. February 1, 1937) is an American comedian and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. Morris was a church-choir singer from his youth, trained at the Juilliard School of Music, and soloed early in his career with the Harry Belafonte singers. He performed in a number of Broadway musicals, including "Hallelujah, Baby!" and "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death". - Joe Piscopo
Joseph Charles John "Joe" Piscopo (born June 17, 1951) is a CableACE Award-winning American comedian known for his work on "Saturday Night Live". Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Piscopo planned to study acting but went into stand-up comedy in the late 1970s. In the summer of 1980 he was hired as a contract player for "S.N.L.". The show had gone through major upheaval, as all the writers, major producers and cast members had left that spring. - Ana Gasteyer
Ana Kristina Gasteyer (born May 4, 1967) is an American actress and comedian. She is perhaps best known as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL") in the 1990s and early 2000s. Born in Washington, D.C., Gasteyer graduated from Sidwell Friends School and Northwestern University. She got her role on "SNL" due to her experience with the famed Los Angeles improv-sketch comedy group called The Groundlings. - Jan Hooks
Jan Hooks (born April 23, 1957) is an American actress and comedian best known for her work on NBC's "Saturday Night Live", on which she appeared from 1986 to 1991. She was born in Decatur, Georgia, near Atlanta. Hooks began her career as a member of the Los Angeles-based comedy troupe The Groundlings. She appeared in Bill Tush's show on Ted Turner's first television station, later TBN. - Nora Dunn
Nora Dunn (born April 29, 1952) is an American actress and comedian known for her work on NBC's "Saturday Night Live". - Jerry Minor
Jerry C. Minor (b. October 4, 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American comedian who was a featured player on "Saturday Night Live" for one season. Minor was born in Memphis but grew up in Flint, Michigan. He started doing stand-up and writing/performing with sketch groups in Detroit before joining the Second City Detroit mainstage. - Tim Kazurinsky
Tim Kazurinsky is a comedian best known for performances on the NBC show "Saturday Night Live". Typically his characters were mousey, sheepish types. Kazurinsky started out in St. Louis, Missouri as a copywriter for a department store chain. He was a veteran of The Second City comedy troupe, and was a friend and something of a protegé of John Belushi, whose influence helped Kazurinsky get a spot on "SNL". Kazurinsky was a fairly versatile player on the show, … - Ellen Cleghorne
Ellen Cleghorne (born November 29, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African-American actress and comedian best known for her roles on "Saturday Night Live". Ellen, a native New Yorker, first established her talents in New York City comedy clubs. In 1991, she landed minor roles in Season 2, Episodes 22 and 24 of In Living Color before being approached by the producers of "Saturday Night Live", for what was to become a four-year stint on "SNL". - Dean Edwards
Dean Edwards (born July 30, 1970) is a stand-up comedian and actor. Born in The Bronx, New York, he is a veteran of the United States National Guard. He developed a reputation for working clean and taught classes in stand-up comedy technique. In 2001, Edwards joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" as a featured performer. He developed several impressions, including Michael Jackson, Wayne Brady, Chris Tucker, Don Cheadle, Colin Powell, Grace Jones, Randy Jackson, … - Brad Hall
Brad Hall (born March 21, 1958, Santa Barbara, California) is an American writer and actor, best known as a "Saturday Night Live" news anchor on "Saturday Night News". He was also the creator of the TV series "The Single Guy" and "Watching Ellie". He is married to actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("Seinfeld", "Saturday Night Live" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine"), … - Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit (born in June 10, 1974 in Circle Pines, Minnesota) is an American writer, actor and improviser. He is currently appearing in "30 Rock" on NBC and "Moral Orel" on Adult Swim. In 1994, he joined the mainstage cast of The Second City in Chicago, where he appeared in several Jeff award-winning revues, including "Pinata Full of Bees" and "Paradigm Lost". A sketch he performed with future "SNL" head writer Adam McKay, "Gump", … - Anne Beatts
Anne Beatts is an American comedy writer. - Melanie Hutsell
Melanie Hutsell is a comedic actress best known for her tenure on "Saturday Night Live". She began her career starring in a Chicago stage production, "The Real Live Brady Bunch" in 1990. The theatre shows consisted of eight actual episodes of the cult classic TV show "The Brady Bunch", with Hutsell cast as Jan Brady. The company toured to New York City, where Hutsell was chosen for the seventeenth season of "SNL". - Ann Risley
Ann Risley (born Anna Marie Risley in Madison, Wisconsin on September 30,1949) was a cast member of the tv series "Saturday Night Live" for the 12 episodes of the 1980-1981 season. These 12 broadcasts were the first episodes after producer Lorne Michaels left the show. Risley was cast by Jean Doumanian, who had previously been the show's guest-booker, then associate producer. After the 1980-1981 season, she was one of five cast members (including Gilbert Gottfried, … - Joel Hodgson
Joel Gordon Hodgson (born February 20, 1960) is an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating "Mystery Science Theater 3000" ("MST3K") and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. - John Lutz
John Lutz (born April 23, 1973 in Pipestone, Minnesota) is an American television writer and actor. Since 2004, he has served as a writer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live". During this time, he has also appeared in small roles on "SNL". Lutz is currently playing the recurring role of J.D. Lutz on the new series "30 Rock". His character is a sketch comedy writer for the show-within-a-show. - Denny Dillon
Denny Dillon (born May 18, 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comedian and former cast member of "Saturday Night Live". At 4'11" (150 cm), Dillon is also the shortest cast member in the show's history. After a short stay on "SNL" during the troubled tenure of Jean Doumanian, Dillon eventually found more success as Toby Pedalbee, the abusive yet loyal assistant on the HBO sitcom "Dream On". - Sam Baron
Sam Baron, (born 8 June 1988) is a knob semi-professional British director, with one feature film, two documentaries and over 100 short films to his credit, all under the banner of his indie film company, Illimms Productions. Baron, who was born in London, has dabbled in a number of different media, and even within his film-making he has experimented with everything from live action to CGI to various forms of animation. - Seamus O'Regan
Seamus O'Regan (born January 18 1971, St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian broadcast journalist and co-host of "Canada AM", CTV's national morning show. At the age of 10, O'Regan became a regional correspondent for CBC Radio's "Anybody Home?", producing stories that celebrated the unique accomplishments of local residents - a professor hunting for giant squid to one woman's fight against leukemia. Seamus studied politics at St. - Nick Andrews
Nick Andrews is an amateur filmmaker who lives in Helena, Montana. A senior at Capital High School, Nick formed a production company called "Nandrews Productions". He features his work on YouTube, and one of his films has garnered national attention, called "My Hands Are Bananas". Reminicent of the playful MTV music videos from the 80's and an SNL "Sprokets" skit, the film is a collage of seemingly unrelated nonsensical sequences, … - Garrett A. Morgan
Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr., (1877-1963) was an African American inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks), invented a hair-straightening preparation, and patented a type of traffic signal. He is renowned for a heroic rescue in which he used his hood to save workers trapped in a tunnel system filled with fumes. - Jeff Doiron
Graduated from East Lyme High School in East Lyme, Connecticut. [June 2004] Graduated from Vancouver Film School. [October 2005] - Katherine Busler
I can't wait till he's gone but until then have a laugh....or two or three.
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