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"Featured" players are people who were brought on to SNL on a trial basis, but never got picked up as regular cast members. There are definitely some relative unknowns here, but also a lot of people who went on to great fame and fortune.
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Al Franken
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21, 1951) is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, that state's affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Franken first became famous as a writer...
Don Novello
Don Novello (born January 1, 1943) is an American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer, and comedian. Novello is best known for his work on NBC's Saturday Night Live, from 1977 until 1980, and then 1985 until 1986, often as the character ...
Jim Downey
James Downey (born 1952 or 1953) is an American comedy writer and occasional actor. Downey is best known as a long-time writer for Saturday Night Live.
Downey attended Harvard University, graduating in 1974 with a degree in Russian. While at Harvard...
Paul Shaffer
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer. Currently, he is the bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman. His memoir, We'll Be Here For the...
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...
Alan Zweibel
Alan Zweibel (born May 20, 1950) is a producer and writer on such productions as Saturday Night Live, PBS' Great Performances, and It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Zweibel grew up in the New York City suburbs of...
Brian Doyle-Murray
Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American comedian, screenwriter, actor and voice artist. An alumnus of Saturday Night Live, he is the older brother of actor/comedian Bill Murray and has acted together with him in several films,...
Laurie Metcalf
Lauren Elizabeth "Laurie" Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as "Jackie Harris" on Roseanne. She is also a major force in Chicago theater, probably best known for her performance in the 1983...
Damon Wayans
Damon Kyle Wayans (pronounced /ˈdeɪmən ˈweɪ.ənz/; born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor, known as one of the popular Wayans brothers.
Wayans was born in New York City, New York, the son of Elvira, a homemaker and...
A. Whitney Brown
Alan Whitney Brown (born July 8, 1952) is an Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian probably best known for his recurring appearances on Saturday Night Live in the 1980s in a Weekend Update segment called "The Big Picture". He was one of the...
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller (Benjamin Edward Stiller) was born in November 30, 1965 in New York, NY. Son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Ben has followed his parents footsteps. He always had interest both in acting and directing since he was a kid. Ben...
Beth Cahill
Beth Cahill (September 15, 1963) is an American television actress who is best known for having been a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live during the 1991-1992 season. She was also a writer for some episodes. During her time on the show,...
Robert Smigel
Robert Smigel (born February 7, 1960) is an American humorist, comedian and writer known for his Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. Smigel was once a member of the...
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is a Jewish American comedienne, writer, actress, singer, and musician. Although usually credited as Sarah Silverman, she is sometimes credited by her nickname, Big S. Her satirical comedy addresses...
Jerry Minor
Jerry C. Minor (born 4 October 1969) is an American comedian and film actor.
Minor was born in Memphis, Tennessee but grew up in Flint, Michigan. He started doing stand-up and writing/performing with sketch groups in Detroit before joining the...
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...
Rob Riggle
Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. "Rob" Riggle, Jr., USMCR (born April 21, 1970) is an American Marine Corps officer, actor and comedian best known for his time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, his supporting roles in films such as The Hangover...
Peter Aykroyd
Peter Hugh Aykroyd was born to Lorraine and Peter Aykroyd in Canada. He is the younger brother of comedian Dan Aykroyd. Along with his older brother he was in the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto, Ontario. The two were also on the popular NBC...
Yvonne Hudson
Yvonne Hudson (born November 26, 1954) is an American television actress who is best known for being the first African-American female cast member on Saturday Night Live. She joined the cast as a featured player in the show's 1980-1981 season. (The...
