回复：SNL40里提到的滚石杂志对所有cast的排名~

48. Tim Meadows
Era: 1991-2000
Whenever a former cast member came back to host, they'd make a joke about how Meadows was still around. Because he always was — he hung around for 10 seasons. Give the man credit: He waited out some lean years, took every crummy part in every crummy sketch he could get, and finally found his niche as the Ladies' Man: "I got my Courvoisier right here."

47. Jane Curtin
Era: 1975-1980
Curtin basically invented the role of the "disgruntled SNL player who makes no attempt to hide that she'd rather be anywhere else on the planet right now." There's always a few of those — hell, some seasons it's the entire cast. But for five years on SNL she had a thankless role — the token square surrounded by crazies — and her specialty was making it look really thankless.
一代卡司都棒棒哒！！Jane you ignorant slut哈哈哈哈哈

46. Kenan Thompson
Era: 2003-present
Twelve seasons and counting. True, he often might have seemed more at home on Nickelodeon, where he originated, but he killed as the "Alex Tre-Black" host of "Black Jeopardy!," with his verdict on Justin Bieber ("He ain't grow") and Robin Thicke ("Had that been me? I'd still be hittin' that").

43. Vanessa Bayer
Era: 2010-present
In a congested cast where faces get lost in the crowd — who can forget the game show "New Cast Member or Arcade Fire?" — Bayer always manages to stand out. Her ex-porn star commercials never get old: "With a watch, you'll never have to stop a stranger on the street to ask him, 'Are you my dad?'"

40. Molly Shannon
Era: 1995-2001
Docked a dozen or so notches for Mary Katherine Gallagher — the most dreaded recurring character since Julia Sweeney donned the Pat wig. But Shannon stood out in nearly everything else she did. She was a welcome sign of life, keeping the faith through some of SNL's most feeble seasons. Especially as the other half of "Delicious Dish" — there's something so sad in the way she confesses to spicing up her soda water with a little ice. "Actually, I don't know if you've noticed: There are many different kinds of ice." And something so disturbing in her Angelina Jolie impression: "I am so in love with you right now!"

39. Cecily Strong
Era: 2012-present
Bring her back to "Update," OK? Dropping her to keep Colin Jost was a lose-lose move. Her greatest hit: "One time I got banged in the Statue of Liberty's head. I felt like I was hearing all of America's thoughts. And America was thinking, 'More Manual Blondicks, si-vous-please!'"

38. Don Pardo
Era: 1975-1981; 1982-2014
Oh, Don Pardo — you beautiful, velvet-voiced, credits-announcing, "Weird Al" cameo-making, old-school showbiz-evoking bastard. We never saw your face, yet we loved every word you said. R.I.P.
报幕员爷爷RIP QAQ

37. Kate McKinnon
Era: 2012-present
The brightest light in recent years. Her cop show with Aidy Bryant, Dyke and Fats, needs a spinoff movie. It takes a sick enthusiasm to bring off her vicious portrayal of starving Russian peasant Olya Povlatsky: "Our only exports are homophobia and snow."

36. Jimmy Fallon
Era: 1998-2004
The Tonight Show is where Fallon was always meant to be — sketch comedy was never his métier, especially since he never shed his rookie habit of snickering on camera. But he killed with his lovingly detailed rock-star impersonations, from "The Barry Gibb Talk Show" to his Guinness-swilling Van Morrison.
肥伦模仿能力超强~确实sketch什么的不如talk show适合他

33. Ana Gasteyer
Era: 1996-2002
The host of NPR's "Delicious Dish" ("Schweddy Balls") carved out her own distinct niche — "Rob Schneider except taller and funnier and female" doesn't quite cover it — and she could get laughs with a nasty look. Her "Martha Stewart celebrates St. Patrick's Day" sketch is to die for, especially the way Stewart utters the words "You must be Irish, because my penis is Dublin."
Martha Stewart的角色很棒！和Molly的The delicious dish总觉得有一丝丝的百合气息她似乎在百老汇很厉害 从和Will的唱歌段子能看出唱歌一级棒

29-31. The Ringers: Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest
Era: 1984-1985
SNL took the Steinbrenner approach of bringing in these three free agents as hired guns — they walked in and took over the team for a year. Crystal finally became a superstar with his Fernando bit and is "I hate when that happens" routine with Guest. Short reprised some of his broader SCTV bits. It wasn't a career peak for any of them, but it kept a weak franchise ticking for one last season, before Michaels ended his five-year absence.
短爷爷总有一种说不出的喜感

28. Seth Meyers
Era: 2001-2014
The longest-serving "Update" host — and the most tactful at walking a fine line between wiseass and well-mannered. His trademark niceness was never a drawback — it served him well in terms of schmoozing with guest commentators, which Meyers did better than any "Update" guy ever. He unleashed his bitchy side in the "Really?!?" segments with Poehler, whether he was ranting about birth-control laws or the Keebler elves' drug habit.
一直不会描述花花的气质，我觉得这里说的太好了：walking a fine line between wiseass and well-mannered哈哈哈不能再准确

26. Jan Hooks
Era: 1986-1991
One of the virtuosos — Hooks could play 18th-century aristocrats (on "Tales of Ribaldry") or a truck-stop waitress canoodling with Willie Nelson. It was rare in the 1980s to see a Southern woman on TV played by an authentic Southern woman, which is only one of the reasons the world grieved when Hooks died last fall. One fondly remembered moment: her sincere wince of pain during the "good nights" when Christopher Walken announced Atlanta had just lost the 1992 World Series. Sing on, Candy Sweeney.
功力很强的女卡司，86黄金一代的。14年10月去世，RIP

25. Jason Sudeikis
Era: 2005-2013
The only devil who could rival Lovitz, mostly because Sudeikis turned the devil into such a regular guy. Sudeikis was the cornfed sports dude who seemed affable on the surface, playing lots of husbands and dads. But it didn't take much to unlock his freaky side — the metalhead in Jon Bovi, Mr. A-Hole, the dancer in the red tracksuit or his unhinged Joe Biden.
看了Jason的两部电影，觉得他好适合那种smartass的角色（无贬义）