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x Adult Students  
The Adult Students (Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch, Tracy Morgan, and Horatio Sanz) were recurring characters in sketches on Saturday Night Live. They are socially awkward individuals who enroll in night school classes such as dance class (taught by...
x The Ambiguously Gay Duo The Ambiguously Gay Duo flying together
The Ambiguously Gay Duo is an American animated comedy sketch that debuted on The Dana Carvey Show before moving to its permanent home on Saturday Night Live. It is created and produced by Robert Smigel and J. J. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday...
x Saturday Night Live animal sketches  
This list includes write-ups for animal-themed recurring sketches that appeared on Saturday Night Live. The sketches are listed chronologically. Character lists: Alphabetical and Chronological Character articles: The Killer Bees were the first...
x Barry Gibb Talk Show barrygibbtalkshow.png
The Barry Gibb Talk Show is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live about a talk show starring Barry Gibb, lead singer for the Bee Gees, and his brother, Robin Gibb (late brother Maurice Gibb is not featured). It features Jimmy Fallon as Barry...
x Bill Brasky Bill Brasky stares down at the gang in the skit, Holiday Inn
Bill Brasky was the subject of a series of sketches on the television sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live between 1996 and 1998. The sketches were written by cast member Will Ferrell and writer Adam McKay. The format of the sketches resembles...
x The Bloder Brothers bloderbrothers.png
The Bloder Brothers are recurring characters from the American late night sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live played by Jimmy Fallon and Chris Parnell. The two brothers, Kip (Fallon) and Wayne (Parnell), make obnoxious jokes, no...
x The Boston Teens bostonteens.png
The Boston Teens are characters featured in a large number of sketches in the American television show Saturday Night Live. Denise "Zazu" McDonough (Rachel Dratch) and Pat Sullivan or "Sully" (Jimmy Fallon) are a pair of Lexington, Massachusetts...
x Canteen Boy canteenboy.png
Canteen Boy is a recurring Saturday Night Live character played by Adam Sandler. Canteen Boy is a naive, childlike assistant scoutmaster with an acute attention to detail. He is always seen with a full scout's uniform and a canteen around his neck....
x Carol! carol.png
Carol! was a segment on Saturday Night Live, in which Horatio Sanz played the title character. The theme song for the Carol sketches is a parody of the theme song from the TV show Maude. There is some controvesry as to who created the character, as...
x Celebrity Jeopardy! Will Ferrell (as Alex Trebek) and Darrell Hammond (as Sean Connery)
Celebrity Jeopardy! was a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live between 1996 and 2002, the years when Will Ferrell was a cast member. It parodies the Celebrity Jeopardy! edition of the television game show Jeopardy! where celebrities compete and...
x The Chris Farley Show chrisfarleyshow.png
The Chris Farley Show was a sketch from the American comedy TV series Saturday Night Live, which involved comic actor Chris Farley, as a parody of himself, interviewing various celebrities. Rather than ask his guest questions that had any popular...
x The Church Lady Dana Carvey as The Church Lady
The Church Lady was a recurring character in a series of sketches on the American television show Saturday Night Live, circa 1986–1992. Created and played by Dana Carvey, The Church Lady is an elderly woman named “Enid Strict”, who is the uptight,...
x Coffee Talk coffeetalk.png
Coffee Talk with Linda Richman was a sketch performed by Mike Myers on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. It ran from October 12, 1991, until October 15, 1994, although Myers (who had since left the show) reprised the role once more on...
x Coneheads coneheads.png
The Coneheads was originally a sketch on Saturday Night Live which originated on the January 15, 1977 episode, and starred Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, and Laraine Newman as daughter Connie. The Coneheads were an...
x The Continental The Continental
"The Continental" is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live featuring Christopher Walken. It is a parody of Renzo Cesana, who starred in a 1952-1953 CBS series, The Continental. The series used a subjective camera, and Cesana spoke directly to...
x The Cork Soakers  
The Cork Soakers was a comedic bit appearing in an episode of Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Jimmy Fallon, Horatio Sanz, and the guest-host of that night's show, Janet Jackson. It first aired live on April 10, 2004. The basis of the sketch is...
x Debbie Downer Debbie Downer
Debbie Downer is a name of a fictional Saturday Night Live character who is played by Rachel Dratch. The character debuted in 2004 on a skit and soon became popular. The character's name is connected to slang phrase which refers to someone who...
x Decabet  
The Decabet was a Saturday Night Live sketch in which Mr. Joseph Franklin (played by Dan Aykroyd) of the U.S. Council of Standards and Measures introduces the new "metric alphabet"-the "Decabet". It originally aired on April 24, 1976 (season 1,...
x Delicious Dish deliciousdish.png
Delicious Dish was a recurring comedy sketch from the Saturday Night Live television comedy series. A parody of public radio shows, the skit features Margaret-Jo McCullen (Ana Gasteyer) and Teri Rialto (Molly Shannon) as bland radio personalities...
x Dick in a Box Junkinabox.jpg
"Dick in a Box" is a Saturday Night Live digital short featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg that aired on December 16, 2006. Following its debut on network television, the sketch became an example of viral video after massive exposure on...
x Matt Foley Matt Foley portrayed by Chris Farley
Matt Foley is a fictional motivational speaker from the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live performed by Chris Farley. The character was created by Bob Odenkirk, although Farley had performed the character in other comedy groups before being a...
x Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead Hitler and Franco
"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" is a catch phrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of Saturday Night Live. It became one of the first catch phrases from SNL to enter the general lexicon. The death of Spanish dictator...
x Goth Talk Opening Title Screen
Goth Talk was a recurring sketch on the American television series Saturday Night Live from the late 1990s. The sketch was about a late-night Tampa Bay cable access show recorded in the home of Azrael Abyss, Prince of Sorrows (Chris Kattan), a goth...
x Hans and Franz  
Hans and Franz were characters in a recurring sketch called "Pumping Up with Hans & Franz" on the television sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Hans and Franz themselves were played by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon, respectively. In the sketch,...
x Happy Fun Ball Just one of Happy Fun Ball's numerous warnings.
The "Happy Fun Ball" was the subject of a parody advertisement on Saturday Night Live. It originally aired February 16, 1991 on NBC and was brought back for several repeats. The topic of the skit is a Nerf toy that is accompanied by a long series of...
x Hollywood Minute  
"Hollywood Minute" was a semi-regular sketch on Saturday Night Live in the early and mid 1990s in which David Spade lampooned celebrities. The "Hollywood Minute" was originally a section of "Weekend Update" but, in the 1996 season, Spade received a...
x Iraq 2003  
Iraq 2003 is an X-Presidents episode on Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse. It originally aired March 18, 2003. Tom Kenny guest starred as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants and Jeff Bergman voiced Bugs Bunny. In the headquarters of the X-Presidents,...
x Pat Julia Sweeney as Pat
Pat was an androgynous fictional character created and performed by Julia Sweeney for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and later featured in the film It's Pat. The central aspect of sketches featuring Pat was the inability of...
x Judy Grimes  
Judy Grimes is a recurring character on Saturday Night Live portrayed by Kristen Wiig. First appearing on April 12, 2008, Judy is Weekend Update's Travel Expert, who is called on to discuss travel related issues in the news. As a result of her...
x The Kitchen Boys  
The Kitchen Boys is a recurring sketch on the comedy television show Saturday Night Live. It features two workers in an unnamed Italian restaurant, they are Marco and Carlo, portrayed by Dana Carvey and Adam Sandler, respectively. It is presumed...
x La Revista Di La Television Con Vinny Vedecci vinnyvedecci.png
La Rivista Della Televisione Con Vinny Vedecci is a recurring sketch in the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live about an Italian talk show featuring the host Vinny Vedecci, stunt coordinator Gino and the technical director of the show,...
x Landshark  
The Land Shark (also land shark, landshark, LandShark) was a recurring character from the sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live. The character first appeared in the fall of 1975, in part as a response to the release of the shark movie...
x Larry the Lobster  
Larry The Lobster was the subject of an April 10, 1982 comedy routine by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live. In an early example of interactive television, Murphy held Larry, a live lobster, aloft and declared that the show's audience would...
x Lazy Sunday A screencap of Lazy Sunday from Saturday Night Live. Samberg is on the left and Parnell is on the right
"Lazy Sunday", the second SNL Digital Short, aired on the December 17, 2005 episode of Saturday Night Live. It features cast members Chris Parnell, an eight-year veteran of SNL, and Andy Samberg a first-year featured player with little previous...
x Leon Phelps ladiesman.png
Leon Phelps (the "Ladies Man") was a Saturday Night Live character played by Tim Meadows during the 1990s. The sketch was that of a broadcast program in which Phelps, a young, suave black man, would give dubious romantic advice and lovemaking tips....
x Lovers  
The Lovers, or The Lov-ahs, was a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live which featured Rachel Dratch and Will Ferrell. Dratch and Ferrell play Virginia and Roger Clarvin, a married, middle-aged couple of professors who are madly in love. Usually...
x Mango Mango
Mango was a character performed by Chris Kattan on the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. The character was co-created and developed by Kattan and SNL writer Scott Wainio along with initial creative contributions by Roy Jenkins. Mango...
x Merv the Perv Merv the Perv
Merv the Perv, real name Mervin Watson, was a recurring sketch character on Saturday Night Live. He was a perverted man played by Chris Parnell. Merv usually shows up at places where there are likely to be a lot of women, like a Victoria's Secret...
x The Michael Jackson Show  
The Michael Jackson Show is an animated segment that appeared on the sketch comedy television series, Saturday Night Live, as part of Robert Smigel's recurring TV Funhouse segment. It is a spoof on the classic Hanna-Barbara 1960s cartoons, and...
x The Molecular Man Moleculo, The Molecular Man
The Molecular Man is a comedy skit from an episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL) which aired in 2001. The skit starred SNL host Conan O'Brien as a superhero named Moleculo: The Molecular Man, a parody of Superman. On hearing his name, "Moleculo",...
x More Cowbell More Cowbell
"More cowbell" is an American pop culture catchphrase originally derived from an April 8, 2000, Saturday Night Live comedy sketch fictionalizing the recording of the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult. The sketch featured guest host...
x The Muppets /wikipedia/images/en_id/4159934
The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson. Individually, a Muppet is one of the puppets made by Jim Henson or his company's workshop. Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive...
x The Needlers  
"The Needlers: The Couple That Should Be Divorced" is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live. Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler portray Dan and Sally Needler, a couple who spends every waking second arguing (needling each other). Why they will not get...
x Nick The Lounge Singer nicktheloungesinger.png
Nick The Lounge Singer was Bill Murray's most popular recurring character during his tenure on Saturday Night Live. The character was a typical 1970s lounge singer who sang current songs in a drawn-out, schmaltzy manner, and was typically...
x Office Space  
Milton was a series of animated shorts created by Mike Judge in 1991. They aired on Saturday Night Live in the mid 1990s. The 1999 film Office Space was loosely based upon the cartoons, and featured actor Stephen Root in the role of Milton Waddams....
x Olympia Cafe  
The Olympia Cafe was a fictional diner or greasy spoon featured in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch. The staff, led by the late John Belushi as Pete Dionasopolis, were Greeks. As various guest stars discovered, only three items on the long...
x Rialto Grande rialtogrande.png
Rialto Grande is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live featuring the character of Buddy Mills, played by Chris Kattan. Mills was an elderly comedian reminiscent of the vaudeville days. His sidekick drummer, Mackey, was played by Fred Armisen....
x Roseanne Roseannadanna Roseanne Roseannadanna
"Roseanne Roseannadanna" was one of two recurring characters created by Gilda Radner (the other being Emily Litella) who appeared in the Weekend Update segments of the early seasons of the NBC comedy television show, Saturday Night Live. Like...
x SNL Digital Shorts The opening title used for each short
An SNL Digital Short is a short comedic or musical video segment created for airing on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Most Digital Shorts are produced by The Lonely Island and written by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg in collaboration...
x Saturday Night Live Samurai  
In the early years of Saturday Night Live, John Belushi portrayed a samurai -- he had a dedicated concept of honor, spoke only (mock) Japanese, and wielded a katana. Each sketch had him located in a different place and time that was typically...
x The Schoeners Fred Armisen (left) and Maya Rudolph as the Schoeners
The Schoeners, also known as the Art Dealers, is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live. It features Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph as Nuni and Nooni Schoener, respectively. It also features Chris Parnell as Tato, their very strange "maid", and...
x Song Memories  
Song Memories is a recurring sketch on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Each sketch starts off with four guys (Will Forte, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, and another man played by the show's host) either sitting down at a restaurant, or, in...
x The Spartan Cheerleaders spartancheerleaders.png
The Spartan Cheerleaders, often referred to as simply "The Spartans", were recurring characters on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live during the 1990s. They consisted of students Arianna (Cheri Oteri) and Craig (Will Ferrell), a pair of...
x Sprockets Karl-Heinz (Kyle McLachlan) and Dieter (Mike Myers)
Sprockets was a recurring fictional West German television talk show sketch created by actor, writer and comedian Mike Myers with Canadian actor Dana Andersen for Second City Theatre. He later ported the character to television for the American...
x Stuart Smalley Al Franken as Stuart Smalley (right) with "Muggsy B." and "Charles B."
Stuart Smalley is a fictional character invented and performed by satirist and later Senator Al Franken. The character originated on the television show Saturday Night Live, in a mock self-help show called "Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley."...
x TV Funhouse TV Funhouse
Saturday TV Funhouse is the title of a recurring skit on NBC's Saturday Night Live featuring cartoons created by longtime SNL writer Robert Smigel and J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, as well as a short-lived spinoff series TV Funhouse that ran on...
x Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber  
Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber was a recurring comedy sketch on the American television show Saturday Night Live during the late 1970s. The title character was a barber surgeon played by comedian Steve Martin, a frequent host of the show. The...
x Two A-Holes twoaholes.png
"The Two A-Holes..." is a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live. Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig portray the nameless male and female "a-holes," a preppy self-absorbed couple who love chewing gum, pop culture references, and completely ignoring the...
x Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Phil Hartman as Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Cirroc — known as the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer — was a recurring character created by Jack Handey and played by Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live from 1991 through 1996. He was a caveman with the beetling brows of a neanderthal who had fallen into...
x Velvet Jones Velvet Jones
For the mid-1990s British indie-rock group see Naked Records Also see Canadian Professional Wrestler, Velvet Jones (wrestler) Velvet Jones was an ongoing character played by Eddie Murphy on the American sketch comedy Saturday Night Live in its...
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