Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (often shortened to just SNL) was an immensely popular sketch-comedy show starting in 1975 on NBC, but as it became more politically correct it predictably became less funny in the past decade. SNL's lame attempt to spoof Sarah Palin was widely promoted by the remainder of the liberal media. SNL also does make fun of liberals like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, but still attacks conservative views. SNL continues to run weekly despite its lack of influence and increase in politicization.

In the past, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, the show turned some of its minor players into feature film actors including:

• Dan Akroyd (The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters)
• Eddie Murphy (Coming to America, Trading Places and The Nutty Professor)
• Mike Myers (Wayne's World, Austin Powers, and Shrek)
• Julia Louis Dreyfuss (Seinfeld)
• Adam Sandler (50 First Dates and Happy Gilmore)
• Harry Shearer (The Simpsons and This is Spinal Tap)

Current Cast

Repertory players

• Vanessa Bayer (Joined 2010)
• Beck Bennett (Joined 2013)
• Aidy Bryant (Joined 2012)
• Michael Che (Joined 2014)
• Pete Davidson (Joined 2014)
• Leslie Jones (Joined 2014)
• Colin Jost (Joined 2014)
• Kate McKinnon (Joined 2012)
• Kyle Mooney (Joined 2013)
• Bobby Moynihan (Joined 2008)
• Cecily Strong (Joined 2012)
• Kenan Thompson (Joined 2003)
• Sasheer Zamata (Joined 2014)

Featured Players

• Mikey Day (Joined 2016)
• Alex Moffat (Joined 2016)
• Melissa Villaseñor (Joined 2016)

Bold denotes Weekend Update anchor.