Saturday Night Live: Recurring writers



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James Anderson

James Anderson is an American television writer and actor. Since 2000, he has served as a writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live. Anderson recently played himself on an episode of the network's new series 30 Rock.

Dave Attell

Dave Attell (born January 18, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and the host of Comedy Central's Insomniac with Dave Attell and The Gong Show with Dave Attell. Born in Queens, New York, he grew up in Rockville Centre, New York and now lives in...

Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an...

Anne Beatts

Anne Beatts is an American comedy writer. Born to parents Beatts describes as "beatniks", Beatts grew to have what has been called a "aggressive, dark sensibility" which she later put to use in the world of comedy. Growing up in Somers, New York...

James Belushi

James Adam "Jim" Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, comedian and musician. He is the younger brother of John Belushi. He had a leading role in the sitcom According to Jim. Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Agnes (née...

John Belushi

John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was a comedian, actor, and musician notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Blues Brothers. He was the older brother of James Belushi. Belushi was...

Andy Breckman

Andy Breckman (b. March 3, 1955) is a television and film writer and a radio personality. He is the co-creator (with David Hoberman) and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning television series Monk on the USA Network, and is co-host of WFMU...

Max Brooks

Maximillian Michael "Max" Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American author and screenwriter. From 2001 to 2003, Brooks was a member of the writing team at Saturday Night Live. Brooks is the author of The Zombie Survival Guide, a book published in...

Robert Carlock

Robert Carlock is an American television producer and screenwriter who has worked on many successful television shows. He attended Harvard University where he was an editor for the Harvard Lampoon. He works as a writer and show runner, with series...

Chevy Chase

Cornelius Crane “Chevy” Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase worked as a professional musician as well as other jobs before moving towards...

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (pronounced /koʊlˈbɛər/; born /ˈkoʊlbərt/ on May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert...

Billy Crystal

William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, film director, and baseball player. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film...

Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. Daniels said he became interested in comedy by watching Monty Python's Flying Circus as a child, as well as by reading books by humorist S. J. Perelman at age 11. Daniels...

Larry David

Lawrence Gene "Larry" David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, comedian, producer, and film director. David is the co-creator and producer of two successful television comedies, Seinfeld (1989-1998) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000...

Tom Davis

Tom Davis (born 13 August 1952) is a comedy writer and performer. He is an Emmy Award winner, and is best known working with partner Al Franken, as half of the comedy duo "Franken & Davis". Davis attended The Blake School, where he built up a...

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,...

Rachel Dratch

Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress and comedienne, perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006. Dratch was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elaine, a transportation...

Robin Duke

Robin Duke (born March 13, 1954 in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress and comedian. Duke is most famous for her work on the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live although in recent years her latest venture, Women Fully Clothed, a...

Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards....

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, which affiliates with the Democratic Party. Franken first became famous as a writer and...

Mary Gross

Mary Gross (born March 25, 1953) is an American comedian and actress, perhaps best known for her four-year stint on Saturday Night Live from 1981 to 1985. Her credits also include minor roles on Animaniacs and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Gross's...

Christopher Guest

Nigel Tufnel (1948-) is the fictional lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap featured in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. He is played by actor Christopher Guest. Nigel's hobbies include collecting guitars; particularly noteworthy...

Brad Hall

William 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....

Rich Hall

Rich Hall (born 10 June 1954 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American comedian and writer. He was a writer and performer on the sketch comedy TV series Fridays, Not Necessarily the News, and Saturday Night Live. He has appeared several times on the...

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. Although many people assume otherwise...

Phil Hartman

Phil Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family immigrated to the United States when he was ten. After graduating from...

Steve Koren

Steven Wayne Koren is an American screenwriter. He was one of the writers for the movies Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Click, Superstar, and A Night at the Roxbury, and wrote for Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld. Koren grew up in Queens, New York...

Jon Lovitz

Jonathan "Jon" Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor, comedian and singer. He is best known for serving as a cast member of Saturday Night Live between 1985 to 1990 and voicing Jay Sherman on The Critic. Lovitz was born in Los Angeles,...

John Lutz

John Lutz (born April 23, 1973 in Pipestone, Minnesota) is an American actor, writer and comedian. The son of a Lutheran minister, Lutz grew up in suburban Chicago and Detroit. He attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he was a...

Norm MacDonald

Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald (born October 17, 1963) is a Canadian comedian, actor and professional poker player. He is known for his three years anchoring Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. He performs as a stand up comedian in comedy clubs...

Patricia Marx

Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer. Born in Abingdon, Pennsylvania, she earned her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. Her writing has appeared in the The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and The Atlantic Monthly. Marx is a...

Ian Maxtone-Graham

Ian Maxtone-Graham (born on July 3, 1959 in New York City) is an American television writer and producer. He has written for Saturday Night Live (1992-1995) and The Simpsons (1995-present), and has also served as a co-executive producer and...

Bruce McCulloch

Bruce Ian McCulloch (born May 12, 1961) is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live....

Adam McKay

Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American writer, director and comedian. McKay was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 1986, and attended Penn State and Temple universities....

Mark McKinney

Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for his work in the long-running sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Following the run of their television series (1989 to 1995) and feature film ...

Tim Meadows

Tim Meadows (born February 5, 1961) is an American actor and comedian who performed on the TV show Saturday Night Live. Meadows was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the son of Mardell, a nurse's assistant, and Lathon Meadows, a janitor. Meadows's...

George Meyer

George A. Meyer (born 1956) is an American producer and writer. Raised in Tucson, Arizona in a Roman Catholic family, Meyer attended Harvard University. There, after becoming president of the Harvard Lampoon, he graduated in 1978 with a degree in...

Seth Meyers

Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American actor and comedian, currently serving as head writer for Saturday Night Live (SNL) and anchoring its weekly news sketch Weekend Update. Meyers was born and raised in Bedford, New Hampshire,...

Jerry Minor

Jerry C. Minor (born October 4, 1969) is an American actor, writer and comedian known for his roles in numerous comedy programs such as Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, Carpoolers and Lucky Louie. Minor was born in Memphis, Tennessee but grew up in...

Jay Mohr

Jay Mohr (born August 23, 1970) is an American actor, impressionist and stand-up comedian. Mohr was born Jon Ferguson Mohr in Verona, New Jersey to Jean, a nurse, and Jon Mohr, a marketing executive. He has two sisters, Julia and Virginia. He also...

Paul Mooney

Paul Mooney (born August 4, 1941) is an American comedian, writer, television and film actor. Mooney was born in Louisiana, and later grew up in Oakland, California. Mooney became a ringmaster with the Gatti-Charles Circus. During his stint as...

Garrett Morris

Garrett Gonzalez Morris (born February 1, 1937) is an American comedian and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was part of the original cast of the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, appearing from 1975 to 1980. Morris was a church-choir...

Lewis Morton

Lewis Morton is an American television writer. He has written for several shows, including Saturday Night Live (from 1993-1995), NewsRadio and Futurama. He worked as a producer for Undeclared, but never authored any episodes. He also executive...

Eddie Murphy

Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, comedian and singer. He is the second-highest grossing actor in motion picture history. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live...

Bill Murray

William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films including...

Mike Myers

Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film producer. He was a long-time cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and starred as the title...

Kevin Nealon

Kevin Nealon (born November 18, 1953) is an American comedian and actor best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1995, and his role as Doug Wilson on the series Weeds. Nealon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of...

Pamela Norris

Pamela Norris in an American screenwriter and producer.

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 ...

Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host and comedian. He is the host of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC. Before The Tonight Show, O'Brien was...

Bob Odenkirk

Robert "Bob" Odenkirk (born October 22, 1962) is an American comedian, actor, writer, director and producer. Odenkirk is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show. He was born in Naperville, Illinois and began...

Michael O'Donoghue

Michael O'Donoghue (January 5, 1940 - November 8, 1994) was a 20th century American writer and performer. He was known for his dark and destructive style of comedy and humor, was a major contributor to National Lampoon magazine, and was the first...

Joe Piscopo

Joseph Charles John "Joe" Piscopo (born June 17, 1951) is an American comedian and actor best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Piscopo attended West Essex High School and was a member of the drama club "the...

Colin Quinn

Colin Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an Irish-American stand-up comedian and writer, best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, as the sidekick/announcer of MTV's wildly popular late-1980s gameshow Remote Control and as host of...

Gilda Radner

Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award. Radner's death...