It wasn’t really an exhaustive list.
Norm was the best weekend update guy there ever was. He had a bizarre sense of humor but it was good shit on and off SNL. Jim Bruer, Chris Kattan, Tim Meadows, and several more greats deserve a mention. That decade had phenomenal talent.
Do you remember the show Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn? I didn’t miss an episode of that show ever, they had some of the best standup comedians on there regularly, but it was a political show, I loved it. That was back at the height of standup comedy too, so every one on there was a riot with their banter back and forth.
Eddie Murphy had a some good skits, but until the latter half of the 80’s, there really wasn’t numerous cast members that were hilarious, so in the early half of the 80’x the episode had to be loaded with Eddie or else it wasn’t that great. I love Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, awesome in old movies, but there wasn’t much I saw out of the 70’s SNL that cracked me up. If I was born in the early 60’s I’d probably feel different about that, but I wasn’t, they were before my time so those reruns always bored me.
Chevy Chase and Bill Murray in the 70s and Eddie Murphy in the early 80s?
Eddie Murphy was arguably the best cast member of all time.
He named SNL cast members and didn't mention Norm.
It wasn’t really an exhaustive list. Norm was the best weekend update guy there ever was. He had a bizarre sense of humor but it was good shit on and off SNL. Jim Bruer, Chris Kattan, Tim Meadows, and several more greats deserve a mention. That decade had phenomenal talent.
Colin Quinn turned out to be a darkhorse for me.
Do you remember the show Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn? I didn’t miss an episode of that show ever, they had some of the best standup comedians on there regularly, but it was a political show, I loved it. That was back at the height of standup comedy too, so every one on there was a riot with their banter back and forth.
Eddie Murphy had a some good skits, but until the latter half of the 80’s, there really wasn’t numerous cast members that were hilarious, so in the early half of the 80’x the episode had to be loaded with Eddie or else it wasn’t that great. I love Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, awesome in old movies, but there wasn’t much I saw out of the 70’s SNL that cracked me up. If I was born in the early 60’s I’d probably feel different about that, but I wasn’t, they were before my time so those reruns always bored me.