It's 11:30 – do you know where your children are?

October 6, 2014 11:32 PM

Saturday Night's Children: "Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 39 years. In our [2011-2014] column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure."
posted by not_on_display (14 comments total)

I like the idea, but what is up with the shitty copy editing? Jason Sudekis in "Main Justice"? One paragraph in the Tom Davis page calling Al Franken a state Senator and coming up with the phrase "Not soon before [Davis] died," possibly (I don't know) trying to mean "not long"...

It's three AM. I'm making arm gestures I can't translate into typing. Bluh.
posted by Guy Smiley at 3:11 AM on October 7, 2014 [1 favorite]

(It's a good series of stories, though, and a good post. I don't want to minimize that.)
posted by Guy Smiley at 3:18 AM on October 7, 2014

That was a huge blast from the past. RIP to the comedians who are no longer with us.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 3:40 AM on October 7, 2014

Franken's own page on the site doesn't even include the information that he's a Senator of any kind; it mentions that he's a politician. Kind of a failure for a site that claims to be laying out the players' histories. Do they mention that Belushi is dead?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:56 AM on October 7, 2014

It does... "the majority of his more recent professional endeavors has been his political work as a US Senator for Minnesota since 2009"
posted by transient at 4:49 AM on October 7, 2014

So Rich "Sniglets" Hall got a second career in Britain and the UK playing a country singer named Otis Lee Crenshaw? Huh. Good for him.
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:32 AM on October 7, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKv1wgcuLk
posted by Flunkie at 5:35 AM on October 7, 2014

My children are being babysat by The Herlihy Boy
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 7:28 AM on October 7, 2014

And we have a winner for this year's timesuck award.
posted by Melismata at 7:40 AM on October 7, 2014

I didn't realize Darrell Hammond was on the show that long (and that he's such an interesting basketcase). Tim Meadows hung on forever despite not being funny or doing anything memorable. Tenures got much longer starting in the 1990s, and many of the longest cast tenures were post 2000. 1980s SNL was a nearly uniform suckpit of mediocrity, and barely had any cast tenure. I'm glad I wasn't around for that era, but it's cool that they survived it.
posted by dgaicun at 8:47 AM on October 7, 2014

It does...

I don't know how I missed that.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 10:11 AM on October 7, 2014

@dgaicun: "Tim Meadows hung on forever despite not being funny or doing anything memorable." I think he's hilarious as the straight man in the Census Taker sketch.
posted by koavf at 10:23 AM on October 7, 2014 [1 favorite]

Meadows killed for me as Leon Phelps, as Ike Turner, and as the everyman in the "spray-on shirt" ad. Among others.

Incidentally, the census taker link above is no-go for me in Texas. This link seems to work though.
posted by uberchet at 11:21 AM on October 7, 2014

This article definitely does Tim Meadows a disservice. Guy's probably one of the greatest living practitioners of deadpan comedy.
posted by MrBadExample at 8:25 PM on October 7, 2014 [1 favorite]