Nora Dunn, Danitra Vance, Randy Quaid, Robert Downey, Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, Terry Sweeney, Joan Cusack, Jon Lovitz
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I had no idea Randy Quaid or Joan Cusack were on SNL
Anthony Michael Hall was only 17 back then.
This is the cast that is considered the worst all time.
Most of them were 1st year people and most of them didn’t come back after that.
I didn’t know Terry Sweeney was on SNL, no fucking way. He’s never been bad in anything
Jon Lovitz survived, he sole briefly of this cast in his Interview with Howard Stern earlier this year
Worst Cast Ever! (Except Jon Lovitz)
RDJ and AMH were great in Weird Science the same year
Hairspray or mousse overload.
In the final season they did a parody of many season finales at that time – where there’s some kind of fire or disaster and audiences are left to guess who will survive.
In the scene Lovitz and Dunn are told of an escape route but everyone else perishes. They were the only ones to be survive to the next season that brought on board Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey, Mike Meyers and others that completely revitalized the show.
RIP Danitra Vance
If you can find a copy of Live From New York: An Uncensored History of SNL by Tome Shales and James Andrew Miller, it digs into the casting of this season.
This looks like the alternate version for Saved by the Bell.
Good cast. Bad writing.
best nancy reagan ever!
I would have loved to see an 80s movie with this cast though, maybe directed by Robert Altman
Is my timeline wrong or did many of them already have at least partial movie careers? I wonder why they all joined SNL since that’s a major time commitment.
wasn’t dennis miller in this season too? i don’t see him here.
This is the absolute forgotten cast
Missing from photo: Al Franken, Dennis Miller and A. Whitney Brown.
I stopped watching that when Garrett Morris left
Trying to look as cool as possible without ever considering if they were funny. Except Michael Hall, who looked so uncool he needed to eat steroids for the next 10 years…and Joan Cusak, who looked uncool, but was funny.
Just realized Joan Cusack was the girl in the orthodontic headset in Sixteen Candles!
Why don’t I remember this? Were they that bad?
What is up with orange jackets hair?
A couple of years ago, I was working in an office and we had those reoccurring cyber training videos(forget what they were called) where they would present scenarios with cartoons and try to make them entertaining. They occasionally had no name actors that I usually had never heard of do guest roles. One day, out of know where, Jon Lovitz was the guest star for one of these videos. It made me feel sad, because there’s no way in hell that gig paid well. Hope he’s doing okay, dude was pretty funny back in the day.
This is when SNL took a deep dive in ratings.
Two academy award winners!
I remember sneaking into the living room to watch SNL when Eddie Murphy was on it. Then one night I snuck down the stairs to find this cast and I never snuck down again.
I met Joan a few years ago right before Covid. I was working in a bar and told her I had just rewatched Shameless S1. She asked me, “Was I hot?” and I said, “Baby, you are a smoke show”. She then pulled me in and hugged me. We took a couple shots together, shared some laughs, and a few pictures and I went back to work.
This didn’t happen in my reality.
Jon Lovitz is a goat.
That blond dude in the front did a hilarious Nancy Reagan.
I remember being such a big AMH fan but on snl he was just horrible most of the time, seemed like he was having a bit too much uhh fun during the shows…
Didn’t even know Joan Cusack and Anthony Michael Hall had been on SNL!
Dennis Miller was there too and his WU was the only thing worth watching every week.
I looked up Terry Sweeney’s history on Wikipedia and was shocked, but not the least bit surprised, when I read that when Chevy Chase was hosting, he openly engaged in homosexual taunting and Sweeney described him as a monster. Chase is a total asshole.
That’s the ticket
The scariest thing is that I could name them all by only looking at the picture before reading the post.
This is a wild lineup wtf?? Hahah I’ve never seen SNL but this just looks so mismatched
Lovitz looks like he’s the substitute summer school teacher to a bunch of breakfast club misfits.
TIL Robert Downey Jr was on SNL
Is that the kid from weird science?
10 frames? That’s for quakers..
I see u Randy Quaid
Who is Terry Sweeney?
1985-1987 were dorky years.
I was in college, and everything from music to fashion was was kind of blah.
I have good memories from those days, but the “pop culture” was boring.
It stinks.
I… did not know about this cast. At all. How did I just now, today, this moment, learn about this cast?!
Aaaaaand now I’m watching clips on YouTube. It’s not great.