The 25 best Saturday Night Live cast members of this century
Live from New York, it’s our countdown of the show's brightest stars since 2000
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Each era of Saturday Night Live has its mega-stars, the ones whose sketch-comedy contributions linger long after those weekly, wistful goodbye segments and that final saxophone blow. There are, of course, those legendary 1975 originals, the Not Ready For Prime-Time Players like John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, and Gilda Radner. There’s the eighties domination of Eddie Murphy—a bright spot in a turbulent time for the show, which saw both the exit and return of creator Lorne Michaels—as well as ’90s greats like Chris Farley, Mike Meyers, and Adam Sandler, who revitalized the long-running NBC program as it stretched to the millennium’s end.
In comparison, the show’s post-2000 period initially feels too recent to be retrospective about, but, impossibly, Saturday Night Live’s aughts age actually occupies half of the franchise’s five-decade history. In that near quarter century, SNL has ushered in the dawn of the digital short, has boldly commented on historic events from 9/11 to COVID, and has launched the careers of many transcendentally funny cast members.
From long-running Studio 8H-ers like Kenan Thompson and Fred Armisen to impression impresarios like Darrell Hammond and Bill Hader to the formidable performers who upended the traditionally male-dominated show (Poehler! Fey! Rudolph!), the twenty-first century has witnessed some truly fantastic players. Behold: The A.V. Club’s countdown of the 25 best SNL cast members since 2000.
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No Mr Peepers!?!?!?!?
Jesus. Thanks for the reminder.Did anyone have worse recurring characters than that guy??
Trade out Samberg and Fallon for Bennett and Mooney and you got yourself a list. Hader at the top is a bold, yet defensible choice. Bravo!
Agree on Fallon but Samberg deserves his spot. I never thought Kyle Mooney was funny. I remember posting on one of the reviews years ago that I just don’t get him or his comedy. I never laughed at him. Agree on Hader.
The authors are right about Samberg’s impact on how audiences interacted with SNL, and the Lonely Island digital shorts are all so delightfully unhinged that they stand up to some of the show’s all-time best filmed work. He wasn’t great in sketches but that’s not what he was really there for.
I think Hader’s post-SNL career has really bumped him up. I was expecting to see Kristin Wiig or Fred Armisen at the top, but I have to agree that he belongs there.
Samberg definitely deserves a spot. Mooney always seemed to be on the wrong show, making the same awkward self-deprecating joke.
It is criminal to not put Chris Kattan on this list.
Bobby Moynihan and Kenan Thompson are two that just have never once cracked me up. I realize humor is subjective but Kenan just always feels to me like he’s mugging for the camera and playing it like he’s reading his lines for the first time. Moynihan just seems to only have one register and that’s loud and bug-eyed.
Thompson certainly has his own style. To me, his frequent ‘woodeness’ is almost a form of protest, a sort of resignation to the situation he’s in because his talent is being tragically wasted: “Here I am. The token Black guy and I’m going to do this Lorne.” I find it hilarious.
I don’t know about tragically wasted. He’s had a steady, high-profile, well-paying (as far as I know) television comedy gig for over two decades, which is more than a lot of comedians can say.
Well, I guess he’s content in that role, as he’s chosen to stay and have his talent “tragically wasted” for 20 years on SNL now.
I guess so.
Right, he’s had a steady, high-profile, well-paying (as far as I know) television comedy gig for over two decades, which is more than a lot of comedians can say. Definitely a “tragic waste.” lol
Yeah, he’s been doing sketch comedy since he was a kid. Clearly he just likes it…
Wooden? It’s his looseness that always makes me laugh even in dumb skits he’s in.
Wooden, loose, it’s all good. I can tell when he’s taking the piss at the show though and that’s what it needs.
I hate to complain about the inclusion of one of the very few POCs on the list, but I kinda of agree about Kenan. He’s like Jerry Seinfeld: never in character, always at least kinda smiling because he can’t act, and really only plays one character. He’s really not versatile and, yes, like Moynihan, has one register. He can be charming and he’s not quite unwelome, so maybe it’s a matter of taste since I prefer the likes of Hader/Hartman/Shannon/Forte who can act.
That’s how I feel about Keenan too. I do feel just a little bit bad for him that he’s been there so long and there really hasn’t been any major oppertunity for him that he can leave for (his sitcom didn’t look interesting, and he’s starring in the likes of Good Burger 2). Whereas Wiig, Hader, Seth, etc. have found success.
Kenan always makes me laugh. I especially enjoy his game show host characters.
Hosts of various stripes are obviously his niche at this point but yeah he slays me every time. The character is often the audience surrogate so his little asides feel conspiratorial.
Also, not a gameshow host but: Reese De’WHAT. How can anyone not giggle at that.
Kenan has maybe three or four “voices” or “characters” that he uses over and over. This might have been less annoying to me if he was on SNL for four years but after 20 it’s ridiculous.
Exactly. He does either his ‘barking-thug’ or ‘clipped-voice’ thing, and both his trademark go-to moves of ‘head-jerk-for-emphasis’ and ‘bugged-eyes’ were rendered outdated and condescending by Murphy *decades* ago. All this time knowing he couldn’t make it anywhere else, staying where it’s safe, bullying all the prior joining black cast members (until his behavior got publicized), and he’s still only got some blasé game-show hosts (& one host whose sole joke is the delivery of his name) in his recurring-character quiver. I will never understand the acclaim this load gets. He’s friendly, sure – but never funny.
Moynihan and Kenan were pretty much interchangeable.There was never any reason to have both of them, and Kenan is less annoying.Moynihan almost ruined that mayor show with Ted Danson for me.
Agreed on Moynihan, I don’t get the love. He was good at… playing kids, I guess? He had that loud WOWIE-ZOWIE WOMP WOMP *SLIDE WHISTLE* energy that was more fitting for a Disney Channel show or something
On the contrary. I like Keenan. He is as the most senior member on SNL to date clearly adept with his strongest style. Being that glue guy, the straight arrow that bemused, or tired of everyone’s shit. It actually help a lot of sketch hit the right spot. For example, the recent Beavis & Butthead skit. Without Keenan straight shooter character, that skit wouldn’t work. He definitely able to up the character antics a notch when the sketch demand it. Like in The Californians, What’s Up With That or his long running Celebrity Feud show.
Will Forte should be higher and I’d fit Beck Bennett in there somewhere – I feel like in the last decade or so of SNL, he was the most underrated cast member. Get Moynihan outta there, maybe. Otherwise, pretty agreeable/predictable list.
I too would put Beck Bennett. Probably over Jimmy Fallon or yeah maybe over Moynihan. For a conventionally handsome guy, Beck really committed to the ridiculousness when he could have gotten by on his looks.
Agree on switching Bennett for Moynihan. The latter has never felt like more than a place filler.
If you wanna hear Bobby Moynihan being one of the funniest people alive, listen to him on Comedy Bang Bang. As usual SNL strips all of the funny out of a comic.
Maybe, but the list is of top cast members. I expect most of these people are hilarious in other environments.
I thought he was the MVP of Mr. Mayor, which was pretty impressive since, while I’d never disliked him, I’d never thought of him in his TV appearances as someone who truly stood out or elevated the material.
Beck Bennett was the glue guy, in the same mold that had previously been filled by Jason Sudeikis and now seems to be coalescing around either James Austin Johnson or maybe Andrew Dismukes. Sometimes the loony one in the skit, but most often the straight man reacting to what the christ is going on around him.
Dismukes seems to really be staking his claim to the glue-guy role during this most recent season.
He came up real fast. Even in his rookie season he was featured frequently.
Dismukes is quickly becoming my favorite member of the current SNL cast. And his comic sensibility reminds me the most of Bennett, if comparing to past SNL players.
Bennett getting picked up from a dinner party by the Feds for his role in Jan 6, first having to go grab his Shaman hat, was priceless. Definitely another guy who could hold it together when the rest of the cast was losing it.
Plus he’s the voice of the Buffalo Wild Wings buffalo
I did not know that!
Or just boot Molly Shannon out completely since most of her SNL impact came in the 90s rather than the two seasons at the tail end of her run. Then there’s room for Bennett and Moynihan.
If you’re putting Beck on there, you gotta have Kyle Mooney. Those guys were a real oasis in the desert of the post-Hader SNL.
I guess Beck Bennett was such a good glue they forgot about him. Definitely better than Fallon, who everyone hated while he was on the show.
Double-replying to mention that I saw an interview with one of Forte’s fellow cast members (Poehler, maybe) and she said everyone was both excited and concerned to come to work with him every week because you knew he was going to bring some true insanity to the goings-on. Apparently he’s a pretty odd duck.
I rewatched the MacGruber movie a few weeks ago and realized that you really gotta be on Forte’s wavelength sometimes to fully appreciate what he’s doing. (I’m not really describing that right, maybe more like you need to be in the right mood.) Luckily, that time I was.
Yeah you have to kind of meet him where he lives. No question that Tim Calhoun was one of the weirdest recurring SNL characters ever.
Kenan Thompson can walk onto the set and I’m already happy. His entire body is like an orchestra of funny; he doesn’t have to say a word.
2nded.
He even does the laughing *for* you!
Che and Jost (possibly in a shared spot) should be on the list just for the shear fact that they are the main reason a lot of people watch any portion of SNL these days.
People complain about them a lot but I’ve rarely been disappointed in an Update segment of theirs.
I watch the sketches based on whether I’m interested in the the host that week. I’m way past being interested in the musical acts, for the most part. But I’ll always watch Weekend Update.
Their annual Christmas joke swap is all-time for WE. It’s fun to watch comedians get to cut loose more than the confines of the show will usually allow. I’d love to see a full-R, don’t-give-a-fuck episode of SNL.
Christmas Joke Swaps are easily the best thing to happen to Update in years, or at least since Hader (and John Mulaney) brought us Stefon. My favorite one was the one a couple years back when Che made Jost go back to a joke about a black Superman 3 different times.
Damn, somehow missed that they were left off completely. Agreed they have to go onto the list, but have to be a pair.
They’ve for sure been consistently the best at that role for a long time now. Miller, Nealon, Fey, Pohler and Meyers were all excellent as well but were more complete cast members. People are obviously more divided on Macdonald, you either loved or hated his schtick.
I promise there’s someone left off this list who was funnier than Jimmy Fallon.
Ooh, I missed seeing Fallon included on here. I mentioned Beck Bennett earlier – yeah, I got way more laughs out of Bennett than I ever did from Fallon’s SNL days.
Beck Bennett, Alex Moffat and Kyle Mooney were all solid yet underrated cast members when they were on. And Beck Bennett should be included just for his portion of the Eddie Murphy monologue alone.
I loved Bennett’s baby man, at least the first time.But Fallon deserves to be on here. He and Tina were the anchor combo we needed in the early 2000s.
He is the textbook example of failing upward.
I don’t know that failing upward is the right description for his general success. He’s the golden retriever of comedy, good-natured, energetic, eager to please and not challenging to guests or viewers. It’s not surprising he’s popular with the broader public.
This. Exactly this. This is why I hate Jimmy Fallon with an almost pathological loathing. He is so anodyne and bland that there is literally nothing there. He was never actually funny as a performer (I honestly don’t know how his colleagues at SNL didn’t just punch him in the face all day every day) and is also a shit interviewer which is, you know, his actual job now!
There are several. Hell, I’d take Mikey Day and his role 90% of the time is just playing straight man to wacky antics going on near him.
While I was working in New York, my daughters came to stay and wanted to go to a taping of a late night show. We managed to get into the Tonight Show, but being a Brit I didn’t get the significance of one of his guests being Horatio Sanz. Reading articles like this now makes me realise why that was the worst guest booking I could have wished for.On the plus side Fallon high-fived me on his way round the audience at the end which was kind of cool, but the TV show faded to black a split second earlier.
Did they just sit there and laugh at each other for 10 minutes?
Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Nasim Pedrad, Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah, Vanessa Bayer, Ego Nwodim, Chloe Fineman, Tim Robinson, Sasheer Zamata, Rob Riggle, Abby Elliott, Heidi Gardner…
The thing is, *all* of those people are also a hell of a lot more talented than Kenan, too. Guy has always had 3 moves and zero range.
Credit where credit is due: Fallon was terrific in Almost Famous.I haven’t liked anything else I’ve seen him do, but that performance made me realize what someone saw in him.
you don’t have to promise, we all know… we all have that one friend who tells a joke and laughs at their own joke much too hard and much too often, and much too often not funny themselves or the jokes…
Another good reason for Tina Fey to run SNL: she loves NYC, never once left for LA.
I have seen that suggested a ton of times but I often wonder if Tina would even want the job. Because even though she probably sees herself as a writer, she seems to like performing (and is also pretty good at it). Being boss of SNL is probably a full time job which probably wouldn’t leave a lot of time to do any acting.
There’s a reason Lorne was the inspiration for Dr. Evil. You have to be a tyrant to put a 90-minute sketch show together week-in and week-out. Not 100% sure Fey has that gear.
Dr. Evil *and* Don Roritor from Brain Candy.
More like 67 minutes, tops, but you have a point.
As a big Tina Fey fan – I will give anything that she is associated with a go – I actually wouldn’t want her to take over as showrunner for SNL. It feels like it would be such a massive job that she’d not have time to do anything else and then we all lose. It’s not like she’d be writing the show.
She’s already had the job in a meta sorta way on 30 rock.
Kind of but I am not sure. On 30 Rock the TGS writers room was set up more like a sitcom where Liz Lemon was the creator/head writer/show runner. But at SNL Lorne is the boss but there is also a separate head writer/writers. But if you are talking about actual 30 Rock then Tina ran the show along with Robert Carlock.
Maya Rudolph is the most overrated cast member of all time. Vanessa Bayer should be in the top 5, easily.
To each their own, but I would have Molly Shannon, Amy Poehler, and Maya Rudolph all ahead of Kristen Wiig
I get the praise for wiig but i felt like she had two modes on snl: loud-mouth midwestener and damaged, detatched old hollywood-style actress
Kristen Wiig was fine but I think Poehler, Rudolph, and especially Shannon were funnier and more versatile
The problem with Wiig’s sketches is that while she’s funny and versatile, they almost always boiled down to “hey, do this one silly thing over and over and over for five excruciating minutes.”
Yeah, Wiig sketches always seem to go on just a little too long and stretch jokes past their breaking point. I feel like if you chopped 30 seconds – 1 minute off a lot of her bits they’d be much better.
“hey, do this one silly thing over and over and over for five excruciating minutes”Yeah but that’s an SNL staple dating back to ‘75. No need to flame Wiig for that.
That’s why I said “Wiig’s sketches.”
Ok.
Yeah but that’s an SNL staple dating back to ‘75. No need to flame Wiig’s sketches for that.
Better?
Sure, but since we’re talking in this subdiscussion specifically about Kristen Wiig and whether or not she deserves a spot in this top 25 list from this century, going back to ‘75 is unnecessary and not actually relevant or worth multiple posts.
Disagree. When the criteria for her exclusion is one that has beset the show (and all of its performers) for its entire run, it’s cromulent.
If it’s applicable equally to every performer they’ve ever had, that actually makes it utterly irrelevant, since it would be of no use to differentiate.
Which then begs the question as to why you used it as your sole example.
She seemed to suffer a lot from the show’s inability to conclude a sketch. Either the joke was beaten to death or the bit just kind of ended with no punchline.
This is the thing that has been haunting SNL for decades – the inability to actually END a sketch with any kind of payoff. Their writers can often identify a potentially funny idea, but then don’t know what to do with it for a payoff other than “wasn’t that a funny idea”? That said, in the recent Wiig-hosted episode, the “Jumanji” sketch actually landed. A rarity worth celebrating.
I don’t understand why we need a payoff at the end of a sketch. It’s so old-fashioned. Just move on to the next thing.Mr Show and Python dispensed with them decades ago, why bring em back?
Those shows – especially Python as the first – were perverting the norms of comedy deliberately (much like Steve Martin’s deconstruction of what stand-up comedy was like at the time). SNL isn’t pushing any comedy boundaries or challenging any cliches — they lean into them pretty hard to be fair. Idon’t mean that there has to be some great big punchline to round out the sketch but there does have to be an ending. They don’t know where to go with their sketches which means they don’t know how to end them. When that happened to Python, they made an abrupt and absurd cut to something (ahem) completely different as part of the comedy itself. SNL just drags things out until they fade off like an old prog song fading out before the next over-long idea gets bogged down in its meandering.
But she gives them all different names!
Agreed, although Shannon’s SNL run was from 1995-2001, so she barely made it into the 21st century so I get why she wouldn’t be included. But I think she and Poehler were funnier than Rudolph and Wiig ever were.
I find Wiig to be a funny person but her characters are so painfully unfunny.
Hard disagree. I love Maya (even better together, Super Showcase Spokesmodels is legendary) but Wiig is unmatched in creativity and range, with the exception of Bill Hader.
25? You’d probably have a shorter article listing any cast members not on the list.
Everyone gets an award!
Everyone gets extra ad revenue from clicking through dozens of slideshow pages! lol
Pretty crazy that 14 of the 25 cast members listed here were part of the 2005 cast and 4 of those 14 (Hader, Wiig, Samberg, and Sudekis) premiered on the show that year.
Not that crazy, considering that cast is up there with the original and 86-93.
Cecily Strong’s Jeanine Pirro bit on WE where she drills Jost full in the face with a glass of wine over the shoulder from 10 feet away may be my favorite moment of the last 10 years. It was already so delightfully absurd but that stroke of luck (I bet she couldn’t do that again in 20 tries) put it over the top.
I would put both Strong and Morgan in the top 10 ahead of Samberg and Armisen. Parnell would’ve been higher, too.
You say that but she has form for that kind of thing. There’s one where she’s in period dress, supposedly fainting and manages to kick the butler’s tray out of his hand with staggering precision. I’d have had Cecily higher.
As I was reading, I kept looking for Bill Hader. He definitely deserves top spot. I’ve been rewatching a lot of clips and he nails it every time.
I know this isn’t SNL but my god was he outstanding in Adventureland. “You don’t know what I’m capable of!”
Cecily Strong should have been WAY higher. I’d put her in the top three myself, likely even #1.
I’ll also be that guy and say that she is just SO freaking hot.
You’re not wrong. Not wrong at all.
I came prepared to come here and shit on Kate McKinnon because I do not care for her character work; I realize this is perhaps a bit of a hot take as a lot of people seem to love it (especially Lorne Michaels seeing how much she appeared/starred in sketches as her tenure continued), but Jesus Christ why in the hell is Jimmy Fallon onto this list? I’d put some hosts above him on the “funny on the show” scale. He’s not even good at making breaking funny, which is normally a thing I find pretty humorous (on a case-by-case basis)!I suppose at the least this list is smart enough to both acknowledge that Hader rules by putting him at #1.
It may simply be based on when I was the prime target audience for SNL, but I always felt it started heading downhill fast when Dana Carvey and then Mike Myers turned it into “let’s just do the same characters week after week” — that those characters were popular due to their familiarity and catch-phrases is what sent SNL down the road of actively looking for those exact things. That and somewhat lazy writing that consisted of “what if [impression of famous person] was in [some situation in which you wouldn’t expect them]?”
Eh, SNL’s always been pretty big on the strategy of “establish a character and milk it for all its worth”. I think it’s easy to pin it on Carvey/Myers (especially since Carvey was the go-to impression guy), but the 90s were the peak of “let’s make an awful movie out of this one-note gag” and plenty of cast members besides those two fell into that trap.
In comparison, the show’s post-2000 period initially feels too recent to be retrospective aboutFound the elder millennial.
No Phil Hartman , your list has no credibilaty !
I dunno, in my opinion he was corpsing a bit too much in the 2000s.
He’s really corpsing now!
*rimshot*
…that was already the joke; Hartman passed away in 1998.
I know. I was being sarcastic because their joke was lame.
On the other hand, the linear flow of time.
Melissa Villasenor is one of the stone cold best impressionists to ever grace the show, too bad she got sidelined so Kate McKinnon could mug at the camera…
I think “Al Pacino checks his bank balance” is when I fell in love with Bill Hader as a comedian.
“I’m gonna sleep like an astronaut tonight! Hoo yeah! Walkin’!”
SLIDE SHOW BABY!!!!!
Huge crush on Cecily Strong ever since seeing her as “Drunk Girl at a Party You Wish You Hadn’t Started Talking” To on Weekend Update. I hope she goes on to bigger, better things than her post-SNL life has given us so far, although I haven’t seen Shmigadoon yet.
My favorite of her characters, though I think she isn’t drunk- the bit is she’s just like that.
I stand corrected, I think I was conflating her with Drunk Uncle, who often appeared with her
They never appeared together afaik (and I’ve just googled to be sure!)
I don’t mean together-together, I just mean in the same segment (Weekend Update)
In terms of a couple of the specific traits mentioned about these cast members— I can recommend I Love That For You if you want to see Vanessa Bayer’s awkwardly masking smile put to fantastic effect, and Digman! if you can’t get enough of Samberg’s Nicolas Cage. Both very funny shows.
Definitely went as Brian Fellows for Halloween one year — great excuse to yell “That’s crazy!!!” at people all night. And a D**k in a Box boy a couple years later. The trick is filling the box with full size candy bars.
Thank fucking God that Mikey Day isn’t on here. He’s a one-man explaining machine who Wikipedias every sketch premise into a run-on sentence. Data from Star Trek could do his job.
Dude, Jon Lovitz is the greatest SNL cast member of all time. Dude!
Yeah, but not as a cast member “this century” which is the literal purpose of this list.
How about a list of the SNL performers who never broke?
Cecily Strong is a top 5 in this list for me, easy. Kate McKinnon is… fine. I always felt like she got laughs because people decided “Kate McKinnon is funny and whatever she does, we laugh”. I’m definitely in the minority though, so what do I know. I think Bobby should be way higher, but I’m just grateful he’s on the list. I’d definitely find a spot for Beckett and Mooney. Kyle and Cecily battled for my favorite cast member the entire time they were part of the show.Seth Meyers is a weird addition to this list. Obviously he’s funny… but… idk.
Also, he’s not the longest serving Update anchor, Jost has been in the chair for a full decade.
Kate McKinnon is… fine. I always felt like she got laughs because people decided “Kate McKinnon is funny and whatever she does, we laugh”.
Thought she was good at first, but got far less interesting the longer she stayed on the show, especially as SNL has a knack for over-exposing its fan favorites. She seems like someone that would be much bigger if she had left the show after 3 or 4 years.
Kate McKinnon is… fine. I always felt like she got laughs because people decided “Kate McKinnon is funny and whatever she does, we laugh”.I was happy to see I’m not the only one who feels this way. I honest-to-goodness never got the hype. This site would use terms like ‘sublime’ and ‘brilliant’ to describe anything she would do, and I’m always like .. it’s the same character. Every. Time. A lot of people don’t see it that way, though, I guess, and power to them? (Though if I really wanted to get the ire of the internet, I’d confess that I feel sort of similar about Leslie Jones. Cover me!)
Molly Shannon and Darrel Hammond should be higher but I can’t argue with your top 5
his “What Up With That?” running man Vance has a name, dammit! Jason Sudeikis has said that this was his favorite recurring character.
I could nitpick but overall a fair list. My one gripe is that Vanessa Bayer and Rachel Dratch should be flipped. Vanessa should be WAY higher!
This is supposed to be the best cast members of the 2000s, but 9 of them started in the 90s, including 3 who barely appeared in the 2000s at all? That makes sense. I always say Futurama is my favorite show from the 90s because it premiered on Dec 31, 1999 /sGet rid of the ones who should be ineligible and add Abby Elliott, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Sasheer Zamata, Pete Davidson, Mikey Day, Ego Nwodim (how she didn’t make the list in the first place is a total mystery to me), Heidi Gardner, and Sarah Sherman.
Isn’t 25 practically all of them?
Amongst many thoughts, here are a few of mine:1. Are we only counting work in the 2000s? I love SNL-era Will Ferrell (before he beat the same man-child character to death for the next 20 years in movies), but I have no idea how much of his output was post-2000. And for that matter, separating the post-2000 work from how I felt about his time on SNL in general.2. I know there were some decent names to come out of the period and my own views are biased given my age (out of college, single and going out weekly, pre-family, etc.) but I just recall the 2010s as being fallow. Like, a number of solid SNL cast members as evidenced by this list, some classic sketches, but overall just a lost period that will likely be looked upon the same way the mid-80s period was.3. HOT TAEK: I have mentioned this before, but I do not, for the life of me, understand the Kristen Wiig love. Her time on SNL ranged the entire gamut from “excruciating” to “forgettable”. Every other woman on this list was funnier than Wiig and I would add that Ego Nwodim is funnier than Wiig (if we count 2 years of Ferrell, surely she counts) and assuming she was still there in 2000, Cheri Oteri. Wiig was great in Bridesmaids and I am one of the few people who thought Ghostbusters 2016 was perfectly ok (not the world’s greatest movie, but neither the childhood-destroying trauma event that some made it out to be), but the amount of adoration she gets, you’d think that she was an all-time great. And she’s not. And I have no idea why she is treated as such.
I feel like Bayer should be higher up. She has a few stand-out sketches but even when she’s not the focus she does some terrific stuff. There’s a skit where she and Kevin Hart are both auditioning for a voiceover for Dove bars or something, and the joke is he’s being very shouty and OTT, but she does an absolute pitch-perfect parody of the way the voiceover usually sounds in those kinds of commercials.
Kenan about 17 spots too high.
Maya about 25 spots too high.