It was during her tenure on SNL that she met writer Larry David, who would later co-create Seinfeld.

He also was a writer for Jean Doumanian's sixth season from 1980 to 1981, making him one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL ( Lorne Michaels, Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol ).

He was discovered by Saturday Night Live and joined SNL as a writer and cast member in 1981.

Weekend Update was created by original anchor Chevy Chase and SNL writer Herb Sargent, and appeared on the first SNL broadcast on October 11, 1975.

Also, Wendt is the uncle of current SNL writer and cast member Jason Sudeikis.

The appearance was seen by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, who then recruited Attell to be a writer, and occasional performer, on SNL.

Smigel acted alongside fellow SNL writer Bob Odenkirk in Wayne's World 2 as a nerd backstage at an Aerosmith concert.

The character was co-created and developed by Kattan and SNL writer Scott Wainio along with initial creative contributions by Roy Jenkins.

Julia Sweeney was a writer for the SNL film It's Pat, in which she played the title character.

Orville Willis Forte IV, better known as Will Forte ( born June 17, 1970 ), is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and writer best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2002 – 2010 and for starring in the SNL spin-off film MacGruber, as well as for the role of Paul L ' Astnamé, Jenna Maroney's cross-dressing boyfriend, on NBC's 30 Rock.

Before joining SNL, Forte was a member of The Groundlings and a comedy writer on television series.

Downey had been a writer and bit player since Season 2 would continue to write for SNL on and off for the next 25 years.

* Almost every writer and cast member on the show, including Lorne Michaels, left SNL at the end of the season.

Sweeney is also the second of two SNL writers from Jean Doumanian's 1980-1981 season to be hired as a cast member in a later season ( Brian Doyle-Murray was a Doumanian writer who became a Dick Ebersol cast member ).

" Saturday TV Funhouse " is the title of a recurring skit on NBC's Saturday Night Live featuring cartoons created by longtime SNL writer Robert Smigel as well as a short-lived spinoff series TV Funhouse that ran on Comedy Central.

The syndicated version of the episode replaces the offending section of the monologue with a graphic ( read by an off-screen announcer, SNL writer Jim Downey ) describing in vague terms what Lawrence had said and noting that it had

In the early 1980s, Burns became a writer, announcer and sometimes-performer for the ABC sketch show Fridays ( which was modeled heavily after SNL in format ).

Sweeney, who is not related to fellow SNL alumna Julia Sweeney, had also been a writer of sketches for SNL during the early 1980s under producer Jean Doumanian prior to being hired as a member of the cast.

Terry Sweeney's partner is Lanier Laney, a comedy writer who also wrote for SNL in the 1985 – 1986 season.

Comedienne Brett Butler of Grace Under Fire fame and SNL longtime writer T. Sean Shannon honed their skills as members of the CW competitive dysfunction.

During her time on SNL she appeared alongside several actors who would later rise to prominence, such as Eddie Murphy, Jim Belushi, Billy Crystal and Martin Short.

David Amram resided in Putnam Valley for many decades, as did Jim Steinman, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Barbara Bel Geddes, Roy Scheider, and for a short-time SNL creator Lorne Michaels.

O ' Halloran and Anderson both auditioned for the role of Dante Hicks ( as Anderson's part of Randal Graves from the film had already been filled by future SNL performer Jim Breuer ).

O ' Donoghue, in his refusal to write for Jim Henson's Muppet characters which appeared in the early years of SNL, quipped, " I won't write for felt.

During his time on SNL, McKinney had six recurring characters ( some of note include Ian Daglers from " Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly ", Melanie, a Catholic schoolgirl, and Lucien Callow, a fop often paired with David Koechner's fop character Fagan ) and twenty-seven celebrity impersonations ( some of note include Mel Gibson, Barney Frank, Al Gore, Paul Shaffer, Jim Carrey, Lance Ito, Tim Robbins, Steve Forbes, Wolf Blitzer, Bill Gates, and Ellen DeGeneres.

In 1985, at age 20, Downey joined the cast of the weekly television comedy show Saturday Night Live ( SNL ), but was fired in 1986 following a cast overhaul that was done in order to save the show from cancelation due to low Nielsen ratings and critics panning the show for its mediocre cast at the time.

Odenkirk has credited SNL with teaching him many lessons about sketch writing, from senior writers like James Downey and Al Franken, as well as his friends Smigel and O ' Brien.

Vance ultimately chose to leave SNL at the end of the season ( along with many other cast members from that season who were fired, including Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Randy Quaid, Terry Sweeney -- another homosexual cast member who was hired for the 1985-1986 cast, and the show's only gay male to be hired as of 2012 — and Anthony Michael Hall ).

Alan Zweibel, who co-created the Roseanne Roseannadanna character and co-wrote all of Roseanne's dialogue, recalled that Radner, one of three original SNL cast members who stayed away from cocaine, chastised him for using it.

In his memoir Gasping for Airtime, Jay Mohr recalled a moment involving Farley and his SNL colleague Phil Hartman.

She made numerous appearances on SNL ; Nora Dunn recalled that " everybody loved that character and was pressured to do it so, so often ", and The Church Lady reappeared even after Carvey's departure from the show as a regular cast member.

Dana Carvey recalls that he was prompted by executive producer Lorne Michaels to introduce the character ( when it was still in SNL rehearsals ) at a Neil Young concert at Madison Square Garden, which Church Lady interrupted, fussing and fuming: " What are we doing here?

Grimley's fellow cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus ( voiced by Jonathan Winters ), Leo's wife Deidre ( Andrea Martin ), his ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone ( voiced by Catherine O ' Hara ; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical guest Tina Turner ), and her little brother, Wendell.

Merchant did extensive touring for the album and made numerous television appearances, including performances on SNL, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and all late-night talk shows.

And just like one of its warnings in the SNL sketch, it did accelerate to dangerous speeds, enough to crush the armored car.

The Grimley character became more popular on SNL than it did on SCTV.

" Piscopo left SNL in 1984, but unlike Eddie Murphy he did not find major success.

Though McKay was never an actual SNL cast member, he did make several on-camera appearances over the years and had a recurring role as an obnoxious audience member named " Keith " who would often shout insults at the celebrity hosts during their opening monologue.

Perhaps due to his recurring news parody sketch " Weekend Update " ( which survives to this day, albeit with new anchors ), Chevy Chase was the first breakout star of SNL, garnering magazine covers, in-depth interviews, and even some speculation that he would succeed Johnny Carson if Carson ever left The Tonight Show ( eventually, Chase did host his own talk show, but it failed miserably and was cancelled after five weeks ).

Myers remained on SNL for 6 years, as an increasingly popular attraction, while Stiller left the show in the spring of 1989, and did not become a big draw until the late 1990s.

This effectively made him the only SNL performer to have been fired twice by Lorne Michaels, though Parnell did say in a 2008 interview with The Sound of Young America podcast that he was okay with being let go this time, because he was considering leaving after that season anyway, but added that he probably would have stayed one last season if he was asked back.

* Not only did Meadows leave the show as the longest-serving African-American cast member, he surpassed Kevin Nealon as the longest-serving cast member in SNL history.

According to the book Live From New York, this was unrehearsed, and condemned by Michaels and the SNL crew, who refused to light the applause sign after O ' Connor's performance ; likewise, guest host Tim Robbins, who was raised Catholic, did not thank O ' Connor during the closing.

" After the pilot aired, which did not feature Salisbury in a spoof of the infamous SNL skit Dick in a Box the show was retooled as a more serious Inside Sports Unleashed, which began taping on May 12, 2011.

Her former SNL costar Jay Mohr's book Gasping for Airtime notes that Cleghorne did not get along well with some of the other cast members during her time on the show.