Ellen Cleghorne Puns

I was doing a little research in my boredom, specifically about Ellen Cleghorn, and I realized a few things.

In four seasons on the show, she carved out 3 characters and 21 impressions. For comparison, Beck Bennett has 3 characters after 3 years, and Vanessa Bayer has 21 impressions after six years.

Not only is her work funny on the old episodes, but her hiring came at a point before people were really pushing SNL to be diverse. She came, did her time, and left quietly. She attempted to start her own show ("Cleghorne!"), which flopped. She retired (basically) from acting and got a real job. She popped into Grown Ups 2, but other than that, she's off the acting planet.

I just thought it was interesting that such a utility player is rarely mentioned in SNL discussion, and even more interesting that she never moved on to bigger things.

Also worth discussing: is Sasheer Zamata a good fit for SNL? After learning a bit more about Cleghorne, I'd say no. I've seen Zamata in stuff outside of SNL and thought it was amazing, but nothing of hers on SNL really gets me excited. Perhaps the writers are reluctant, but with two female African-American writers on the staff one would argue that racism is not limiting her opportunity. Maybe Sasheer will go on to star in a great sitcom, and SNL will pick up and different utility player. One could say the same about Leslie Jones, though she is more of an "Update as herself, impression when needed" player, a la Silverman. I don't think SNL brought her on to do characters and impressions, where as that would seem to be important for Zamata.

What do you think on the whole thing? Is Cleghorne denied credit that she deserves? Does Sasheer have what it takes to be the everyman that SNL needs out of one of five people of color on the show?

Hi, does anyone have the links to:

1. That Ellen Cleghorne bit, which I think oddly enough aired during Weekend Update, where she was one of OJ Simpsons exes singing You have to hide in the Refrigerator, but it was a spoof of D'esree's You've Gotta Be?

2. Does anyone have that sketch where Rob Schneider is a new employee at a company, but he doesn't speak English very well and his co-workers start giving him bad translations, and he winds up saying, I am very sad because my wife lost her volleyball (baby) this weekend?

Build your dream SNL all-star cast!! BUT -- you can only pick one person (or pair, where applicable) from each of the following groups:

Group A: Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Will Ferrell, or Kenan Thompson

Group B: Gilda Radner, Jan Hooks, Molly Shannon, Kristen Wiig, or Kate McKinnon

Group C: Dan Aykroyd, Joe Piscopo, Phil Hartman, Darrell Hammond, or Jason Sudeikis

Group D: Jane Curtin, Nora Dunn, Janeane Garofalo, Tina Fey, or Cecily Strong

Group E: Garrett Morris, Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey, Bill Hader, or Mikey Day

Group F: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Sweeney, Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler, or Aidy Bryant

Group G: John Belushi, Chris Farley, Tracy Morgan, Horatio Sanz, or Leslie Jones

Group H: Laraine Newman, Victoria Jackson, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, or Ego Nwodim

Group I: Robert Downey, Jr., Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon, Andy Samberg, or Pete Davidson

Group J: Martin Short, Terry Sweeney, Jon Lovitz, Chris Kattan, or Fred Armisen

Group K: Mary Gross, Ellen Cleghorne, Rachel Dratch, Vanessa Bayer, or Heidi Gardner

Group L: Al Franken, Kevin Nealon, Chris Parnell, Bobby Moynihan, or Alex Moffat

Group M: Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Tim Meadows, or Jay Mohr

Group N: Laurie Metcalf, Joan Cusack, Damon Wayans, Ben Stiller, or Sarah Silverman

Group Z: Andy Kaufman, Chris Elliott, Will Forte, or Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett

Featuring... (Give 'Em One More Chance!): Jenny Slate, Paul Brittain, John Milhiser, Luke Null, or Lauren Holt

Weekend Update: Chevy Chase, Dennis Miller, Norm MacDonald, Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, or Colin Jost and Michael Che

Special Segment: The Land of Gorch, Penn and Teller, Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, Saturday TV Funhouse, or An SNL Digital Short

Head Writer: Michael O'Donoghue, Jim Downey, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, or the current head writers (Anna Drezen, Colin Jost, Michael Che, and Kent Sublette)

Host for Premiere Episode: Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Justin Timberlake, Melissa McCarthy, or John Mulaney

those hired in the middle of a season that started in one decade and ended in another will be counted in the decade they were hired (ie. Maya Rudolph will count towards 2000s)

1970s - 15 people

1980s - 50 people

1990s - 37 people

2000s - 22 people

2010s - 29 people

2020s - 6 people

1970s

1. Dan Aykroyd
2. John Belushi
3. Chevy Chase
4. George Coe
5. Jane Curtin
6. Garrett Morris
7. Laraine Newman
8. Michael O’Donoghue
9. Gilda Radner
10. Bill Murray
11. Tom Davis
12. Al Franken
13. Don Novello
14. Harry Shearer
15. Paul Shaffer

1980s

1. Peter Aykroyd
2. Jim Downey
3. Brian Doyle-Murray
4. Tom Schiller
5. Alan Zweibel
6. Denny Dillon
7. Gilbert Gottfried
8. Gail Matthius
9. Joe Piscopo
10. Ann Risley
11. Charles Rocket
12. Eddie Murphy
13. Matthew Laurance
14. Patrick Weathers
15. Yvonne Hudson
16. Robin Duke
17. Tim Kazurinsky
18. Tony Rosato
19. Laurie Metcalf
20. Emily Prager
21. Christine Ebersole
22. Mary Gross
23. Brad Hall
24. Gary Kroeger
25. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
26. Jim Belushi
27. Billy Crystal
28. Christopher Guest
29. Rich Hall
30. Martin Short
31. Pamela Stephenson
32. Joan Cusack
33. Robert Downey
34. Nora Dunn
35. Anthony Michael Hall
36. Jon Lovitz
37. Dennis Miller
38. Randy Quaid
39. Terry Sweeney
40. Danitra Vance
41. Damon Wayans
42. Dan Vitale
43. A. Whitney Brown
44. Dana Carvey
45. Phil Hartman
46. Jan Hooks
47. Victoria Jackson
48. Kevin Nealon
49. Mike Myers
50. Ben Stiller

1990s

1. Chris Farley
2. Chris Rock
3. Rob Schneider
4. Julia Sweeney
5. David Spade
6. Tim Meadows
7. Adam Sandler
8. Ellen Cleghorne
9. Siobhan Fallon
10. Robert Smigel
11. Beth Cahill
12. Melanie Hutsell
13. Norm Macdonald
14. Jay Mohr
15. Sarah Silverman
16. Michael McKean
17. Chris Elliott
18. Janeane Garofalo
19. Laura Kightlinger
20. Mark McKinney
21. Molly Shannon
22. Morwenna Banks
23. Jim Breuer
24. Will Ferrell
25. Darrell Hammond
26. David Koechner
27. Cheri Oteri
28. Nancy Walls
29. Chris Kattan
30. Colin Quinn
31. Fred Wolf
32. Ana Gasteyer
33. Tracy Morgan
34. Jimmy Fallon
35. Chris Parnell
36. Horatio Sanz
37. Rachel Dratch

2000s

1. Maya Rudolph
2. Tina Fey
3. Jerry Minor
4. Dean Edwards
5. Seth Meyers
6. Amy Poehler
7. Jeff Richards
8. Fred Armisen
9. Will Forte
10. Finesse Mitchell
11. Kenan Thompson
12. Rob Riggle
13. Jason Sudeikis
14. Bill Hader
15. Andy Samberg

I tallied up all the votes from the retards in the thread about a week ago and this sub's official MRoC features:

NORM (67 votes)

DAVE CHAPPELLE (29 votes)

LOUIS C.K. (27 votes)

GEORGE CARLIN (14 votes)

Other vote-getters:

Bill Burr 13

Rodney 12

Hedberg 11

Pat Oneal 9

Pryor 8

Rickles 8

Conan 4

Stanhope 4

Attell 4

Farley 4

Chris Rock 4

Bill Hicks 4

Kaufmann 4

Eddie Murphy 4

Kinison 3

Amy Schumer 3

Steve Martin 3

Ladies 3

Groucho 3

Brian Regan 2

Colin Quinn 2

Sinbad 2

Gottfried 2

Woody Allen 2

Seinfeld 2

Schandling 2

The following recieved 1 vote:

Kenny Powers

Larry David

My Dad

Turd Furgeson

Fake Tarantino

Fake Letterman

John Cleese

Bill Murray

Phil Hartman

Ellen Cleghorne

Carole Lombarde

Gervais

Ron White

Foxworthy

Byron Allen

Cosby

Gene Wilder

Madeline Kahn

Mel Brooks

Yvon Deschamps

Vince Champ

Tim Dillon

Dan Harmon

Seth Macfarlane

Frank Stallone

Harland Williams

Dice Clay

Jim Carrey

Robin Williams

Mark Normand

Toon Hermans

Joey Diaz

Greg Giraldo

Martin Short

Kattan

Roman Polanski

Hannah Gadsby

Lenny Bruce

Chaplin

Cosby the man (not comedian)

Kathy Griffin

Tig Notaro

Kerri Lendo

Nanette

Fred Stoller

Locke

Nick Dipaolo

Carrolla

David Letterman

Carrot Top

Seth Meyers

Pre-2000 Dennis Miller

Newhart

Red Buttons

Carl Reiner

Jack Benny

Milton Berle

Lasser

Jay Mohr impersonating Norm

Conan's driver

Jame Polk

Carson

Red Foxx

As mentioned, a slowed pace of life incited by the pandemic allowed me the opportunity to casually whiz through a hundred or so vintage episodes in early 2021, and goodness gracious, what a journey.

I'd always wanted to go back through these seasons - I was a young kid during the '90s and this is without doubt the era of the show I've romanticized the most. It was the first truly gigantic cast, and in hindsight, having such a large ensemble was utterly justified considering how stacked with talent it was.

To be clear from the outset, watching these seasons was a total blast, but I did have some thoughts, many of which are critical, and some of which involve misconceptions I think a lot of people have about the era, mainly due to nostalgia or just false memory.

1. Recurring original character sketches used to be more prevalent, and I miss it. - I want to start by saying that while I appreciate biting political satire as much as the next man, I think contemporary SNL relies on it a bit too heavily. Seasons 16-20 certainly had their share of this, but what was obviously the most valuable weapon in their arsenal were their powerhouse use of original characters, with seemingly every player in the cast having at least one that recurred regularly. These days, there are still recurring characters, but none of what we get now seems to compare to the likes of Dieter, or Matt Foley, or Nat X, or Operaman, or The Church Lady. I open with this point only because it's a broad-but-obvious one; recurring original characters are the element of the show's DNA that has allowed it to endure, and recent casts are emphasizing this subset of comedy far too little.
2. The musical guest line-up throughout this era was mind-blowingly strong. - Never mind all the legacy performers like Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Aerosmith, and Neil Young. There were, and still are, a great abundance of these. The freshman acts in this era included the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cranberries, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, Stone Temple Pilots, Counting Crows, Garth Brooks, TLC, Snoop Doggy Dogg (as he was called in '94), Green Day, Beastie Boys, the Dave Matthews Band, Mariah Carey.... the list goes on. I was impressed by how many musical acts I was not only familiar with, but have endured in our culture through the decades since. I don't think SNL gets enough credit for the historical documentation element of the incredible musical p

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I’ve been watching The Real World homecoming centering around the original New York cast. It made me think of the SNL skit from that time and I can’t find it anywhere. For anyone who watched the old Real Worlds the only thing I remember was Ellen Cleghorne played a Tami Roman type character and Mike Myers played someone like Dominic and all he said was, “I’m from Dublin”.

Anybody know where I can find this skit. All I’ve found regarding Real World is one from 1996 and that’s not it.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Several years ago I decided to just randomly keep track of the episode count of each cast member. This is only a count of the number of eps where they are credited as a part of the cast. It does not take into account if they appeared in no sketches, if they were filming a movie, or on maternity leave, or whatever, nor does it count hosting/cameos. Just if their name appears in the credits.

Here's where we stand with the 2020-2021 crew.

Kenan had surpassed Darrell Hammond as the longest-tenured some time ago, and he extends his streak to 364 episodes (Hammond has 272).

At 190, Kate is now #7 of all time - although I count Al Franken at 206, but he was only a featured player and I have no idea if he was credited in every episode or only the ones in which he appeared (for purposes of this count, I just tallied them up for every episode in the season). That might drop his number a bit. I believe in the 70s at least, he and Tom Davis were only occasionally credited. Anyways, Kate is just 3 eps behind Bobby Moynihan.

Cecily and Aidy are at 185, just a few behind Tim Meadows.

Beck and Kyle are at 164, just one ahead of Sudeikis. Colin is at 151, between Hartman and Bayer, while Che and Pete at 143 are between Kattan and Poehler.

Mikey, Alex, and Melissa hit triple digits at 101, one place above Farley, and seemingly tied with A. Whitney Brown, but again he was just featured and may have only made occasional appearances.

Heidi and Chris hit 80, tied with Ellen Cleghorne. Ego is at 59, tied with Finesse Mitchell.

Bowen and Chloe are at 38, tied with Jay Mohr and Don Novello, who, yet again, may have only been credited in a fraction of those.

Finally, Andrew, Lauren, and Punkie have notched 20 episodes, with a slew of other "wait, they were on this show?" types, the most recent of which is Rob Riggle.

Anybody else watching Che’s new show? I thought the first episode was very clever. Loved seeing Cecily Strong and Ellen Cleghorne in it as well.