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Saturday Night Live was a comedy institution for almost 50 years, first year in 1975 asSaturday NBC night. More than 150 distribution members have come, became and have stayed, interpreting live sketch comedy with a series of celebrity guest guests. But while some stars - likeKenan Thompson, who has the file to be the longest-executorSNLCaste a stick member for a long time, others found that the show was not for them or let pass sooner than they thought. Read on to learn more about 15SNLCast members who have survived a season on the series - you can be surprised by who has already worked in Studio 8h.

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In 1985, five years beforeLiving in colorFirst,Damon Wayanswas launched on another famous comedy show. But it was not a success successfully, and he said it's because the producerLorne Michaelsdid not want the public to think it was only a substitute forEddie Murphy, who had recently left the show. Because of this fear, he claims that Wayans ended up discoloring. Stand out, it has made the choice to play a copy of the cop using gay stereotypes on the top (which have not been written in the bit) in a sketch called "monopoly man". For that, he was dismissed that night after finishing only 12 episodes of the season.

"I was angry. That's why it was not funny, because I'm doing a flamboyant funny character. It was not funny because I was angry"Wayans saidWeekend In 2015. "They did not let me do what I wanted to do onSNL ... I went against the script. It was my frustration. "

It would have much better luck co-creates his own sketch show with brotherKeenen Ivory Wayans.Living in colorchanged the game itself.

CornJim Downey (Who may also remember the host of the quizBilly Madison) is better known as aSNLWriter, he was a player credited in the show for a season. But in 1998, HE and Weekend Update HostNorm MacDonald were both drawn, would have to write too many jokes onO.J. Simpsonwho arrived at a friend of NBC ExecutiveDon Ohlmeyer.

"I do not know that the norm appreciated the cooking experience as much as me, but for me it was exciting. It was certainly the best press I've ever received"Downy told Vulture in 2014.

DOWNY returned to the show as a writer in 2000, so it seems that there are no hard feelings.

Standup Comedian and actorJananea Garifalo has made roles inRomy & Michele High School Meeting andThe truth about cats and dogs, then you may not have understood that she was once anSNL Cast Member-, although the one who had a brief Sint. After joining the show in 1994,She left mid-season Because the "comedy was just not what it should have been".

"I was only very briefly, but there were really big hosts, of course. I do not know if the comedy being made this year was so big, but it was a thrill of being there for the brief Time I was here, "she told Broadway World in 2012.

Relaxed andThe lossStarMichaela Watkins had itSNLMoment as a featured player in 2008. But at the end of the season, Michaels gave him the ax-ironically because he thought she was too good for the show. The actor stated that his choice let her shock.

"The only explanation I had from him - and he is not known to say things for people to feel better - was he felt at the merits of having my own show"she saidWeekly entertainment In 2009. "And I accepted.SNL Was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I do not have regrets. "AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Ben Stiller is a movie star and a large director, with hits likeZoolanderandMeet parentsunder his belt. But in 1989, he was trying to make a name for himself in sketch comedy. He was onSNL For four episodes before choosing to resign.

"At this point, I just wanted to make short films," stunned in 2018interview withHoward Stern. "I knew I was not good to live because I would be nervous."

A year later, his own series of sketches,Ben Stiller show, would be first on MTV and became a critical blow. The show was not made in front of a studio audience.

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Yvonne Hudson makes history like the first black woman to be a featured player onSNL When she joined the show in 1980, but unfortunately, her mandate did not last long. After season 6, which is widelyconsidered one of the worst showsHudson has been relegated to an uncredited supplement for the next four years and has not acted since.

Rob riggle Appeared onSNL In season that started in 2004 and only in this season. While he called his casting a "the dream becomes reality, "He also said he" would not say [the whole thing is not dysfunctional. "

"It's the first showBiz concert I've ever got, so it's overwhelming to start. It's an incredible rhythm and pressure and I arrived at a point where I did not even know what was fun 'Here the end of the season, "he said the podcast of the daily beastThe last laugh In 2019.

Do not hurt his comedy career, however; Riggle has a long list of credits in television and movies, includingOfficeandThe hangover.

Today,Crystal Billy is a comedy legend and even in 1985, which is when his SNL season was broadcast, it was still far from being unknown. But he signed a contract for a single season, and that seemed to be everything he needed.

"I have never put time for how long I would be there or what would it give me or give me," he says inthe bookLive in New York. "I felt personally as an interpreter and as a creative person, I had to give him my shot."

Before appearing on struck comedy shows, includingBig mouth andParks and leisureand in the moviesObvious childandI want you to come back,Jenny Slate was a featured player for only 22SNLepisodes. And although it was the rumor she was dismissed in 2010 because she left an explaining escape during a sketch, the slate cleared the air inAn interview with 2019 withIn the style.

"I just do not belong there," she says. "I did not do a good job, I did not clicked. I have no idea what Lorne [Michaels] felt from me. All I know, it did not work for me, And I was drawn. "

NANCY WALLS Hucked a great year in 1995. She married her comics companionSteve CarellAnd she joined the casting ofSNL. One of these two commitments has not ended up working. Fortunately for Carell, it was the first. Apparently, the walls have left the sketch show because it has never been able to become more thanA background player, although it became known for its representation of CNN anchoringBOBBIE BATTISTA.

Paul ShafferIt's time toSNL started with him playing in the band of the house, although he later became a star played in season 5. TheMusician saysCloser weekly In 2018, it was his decision to leave, and that finally led him to hit him withDavid Letterman and become the musical director for his end-of-night discussion show.

"I did the first five years of SNL and everyone in the original group left, so I decided to see what else was there," he explained.

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Before coming to fame play JackieRoseanne,Laurie Metcalf had a short timeSNL Sterre of herself. It only appeared on the show once-like a journalist from the weekend update in 1981. The show was then focused on hiatus due to a writer strike and when the production has taken over ,She was not invited to come back, Vulture reports.

Comedian and actor of character Gilbert Gottfried landed onSNLJust in time for the sixth season criticized largely criticized, that he saidJoe Rogan in 2021was "horrible" for him. He felt like him and the other new performers were "sacrificial lamb [S]" as replacement of the original distribution. Gottfried was pulled after 12 episodes.

"I did not like writers and writers hated me," he says. "Once, to prove how much they hated me, they wrote a funerary sketch where I was the dead body. So I just had to throw away in the coffin."

Shameless andA hard worker StarJoan Cusackwas unlucky enough to land on another unpopular season of the season of spectacles 11, which was created in 1985. At the end of it,Michaels fired almost all members of the distribution, including it. Hey, at least she scored two Oscar's nominations!

In 1993, actressSarah Silverman joins the casting ofSNL, only to be drawn later this season. Fortunately, she returns to her time there, even with the end of her arrival.

"Looking back, it was a good experience. It was really like the training camp for so many things. And it was almost like New York itself,SNL Because it's like you can do it, all that does not seem so hard, do you know? " She told the collider in 2022 .

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