Board 8 > The Mount Rushmore of: SNL Cast Members

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Rules

1. You may vote up to 4 entries that fit the prompt.
2. No alts.
3. No deleting or editing posts; though, editing posts shortly after you post is fine.
4. If you change your vote, clearly indicate that you are changing a previous vote. Same for adding or subtracting picks.
5. In general, if there are two picks that can be considered the same product (i.e. Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle), I will combine them.
6. If a vote is vague, I will pick the first available choice that best matches the vote (i.e. "Mario" for Wii Games becomes Super Mario Galaxy).
7. I will post the parameters of each Rushmore topic. Other than that, feel free to vote however you like and based on any criteria that best fits the "Mount Rushmore" of that topic.
8. If a vote doesn't fit the topic, it will count as a blank vote.
9. You may nominate as much as you want and have an unlimited amount of seconds for established nominations.
10. Every Sunday, I'll post the schedule for next week. I will pick based on the number of nominations. Any ties will be determined by RNG.

Spreadsheet & Nominations

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aatA25pW6OsDn2RlAAGP1_GOGCMNvLLumAKckHOhtFk/edit?gid=1117984190#gid=1117984190

Last Topics Results

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/587b9a98.png

It's been a while since we got a 100% ratio on a choice. Congrats to The Joker. Other than that, Lex gets a respectable 2nd and the Marvel villains joust for 3rd.

Last 5 Rushmores

Game Show Hosts: Alex Trebek / Bob Barker / Steve Harvey / Pat Sajak
Movie Scores: Star Wars Episode IV / The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly / LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring / The Wizard of Oz
Board Games (Post-Catan): Pandemic / Ticket to Ride / Codenames / Wingspan
Burger Toppings: Cheese / Ketchup / Lettuce / Onions
Comic Book Villains: The Joker / Lex Luthor / Magneto / Doctor Doom

This Week's Rushmores

Monday: Movie Musicals
Tuesday: US Vice Presidents
Wednesday: Cartoon Villains
Thursday: American Movie Directors
Friday: Video Game First Stages
Saturday: Video Game Fire Stages
Sunday: Video Game Underwater Stages
(next Monday): Video Game Cities
(next Tuesday): Video Game Cavernous Stages
(next Wednesday): Video Game Aerial Stages
(next Thursday): Video Game Secret Areas

Themed Week will start early and continue until August 21, as I'll be taking August 22 - 25 off.

Today's Parameters

You must pick cast members of Saturday Night Live.

Guest stars do not count as cast members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saturday_Night_Live_cast_members
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls088485319/
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls054308825/
https://parade.com/tv/richest-snl-cast-members
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2XsvyzLUmM

Eddie Murphy
Will Ferrell
Tina Fey
Dana Carvey

Will Ferrell
Chris Farley
Phil Hartman
Tina Fey

Eddie Murphy
John Belushi
Kenan Thompson
Tina Fey

Gilda Radner
John Belushi
Kenan Thompson
Phil Hartman

Hartman is sort of a placeholder for now and I may change it pending who else shows up and gains traction.

With Kenan it feels weird including a current cast member, but it would feel even weirder not including by far the longest-running cast member.

I went with people who are best-known for their SNL stints and tried to avoid people whose other projects have far eclipsed their SNL fame at this point.

Belushi
Murphy
Fey
Ferrell

John Belushi
Eddie Murphy
Tina Fey
Kenan Thompson

Eddie Murphy
Will Ferrell
John Belushi
Phil Hartman

feel like all four are important in some way to the show and culturally so yeah gotta include them

Fey would actually be third for females imo

Dan Akroyd
Kenan Thompson
Tina Fey
Adam Sandler

Chevy Chase
Eddie Murphy
Will Ferrell
Tina Fey

Eddie Murphy
Kenan Thompson
Tina Fey
Will Ferrell

Phil Hartman
John Belushi
Eddie Murphy
Kenan Thompson

I can't really answer, since I've never watched SNL live and have only started paying attention since they started regularly posting sketches on YouTube. All I really know is stuff from the past 10-15 years. Not sure if I've ever even seen a Phil Hartman sketch.

But I will toss a vote to Kenan, lol.

Eddie Murphy
Kenan Thompson
Tina Fey
Chevy Chase

Eddie Murphy
Will Ferrell
Tina Fey
Kenan Thompson

Dan Akroyd
Will Ferrell
Tina Fey
Kenan Thompson

Chevy Chase
Will Ferrell
Dan Akroyd
Adam Sandler

Sorry, made a quick change.

Eddie Murphy
John Belushi
Will Ferrell
Tina Fey

Phil Hartman
Norm MacDonald
John Belushi
Dan Akroyd

Will Ferrell
Tina Fey
Eddie Murphy
Dan Akroyd

Kenan Thompson
Phil Hartman
Will Ferrell
Chris Farley

Dan Aykroyd
John Belushi
Eddie Murphy
Kenan Thompson

Chris Farley
Gilda Radner
Tina Fey
Phil Hartman

Bit of a late edit to remove Molly Shannon and replace with Kenan, but then removing him and replacing with Gilda instead.

Bill Murray
Will Ferrell
Phil Hartman
Tina Fey

Will Ferrell
Chris Farley
Adam Sandler
Tina Fey

I've been thinking about this one for a couple days and it's pretty hard to lower it to just four.

John Belushi
Will Ferrell
Norm Macdonald
Tina Fey

I had to include one OG, one who became a superstar after SNL, at least one woman, and a personal favorite. Honorable mentions would be Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Amy Poehler, Bill Murray, and Dan Aykroyd.

I chose to exclude Sandler and Farley because, while they were great, they also almost got the show canceled, and that led to the 1995 exodus.

Will Ferrell
Chris Farley
Dan Aykroyd
Gilda Radner

About 100 decent answers here

Kenan Thompson
John Belushi
Gilda Radner
Eddie Murphy

Underleveled posted...

With Kenan it feels weird including a current cast member, but it would feel even weirder not including by far the longest-running cast member.

Its a mount rushmore, not a hall of fame!

Kenan Thompson
Kate Mckinnon
Kristen Wiig