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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] / [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Did you know that [[Gilbert Gottfried]] was a cast member? How about Anthony Michael Hall (''SNL'''s youngest cast member at 17 years old), [[The Simpsons|Harry Shearer]], Randy Quaid, Robert Downey Jr., Joan Cusack, [[Sarah Silverman]], [[
** ''[[Mad TV]]'' fans might be surprised to discover that Jeff Richards and Taran Killam (two feature players who only spent one year on ''MADtv'' before leaving) were/are on this show. Jeff Richards was on ''[[Mad TV]]'' from 2000-01 before crossing over to ''SNL'', where he stayed from 2001 to the early half of 2004. Taran Killam also appeared on ''MADtv'' in 2001 (becoming the youngest cast member on that show at age 19) and was let go a year later. Nine years after appearing on ''MADtv'', he became one of four new feature players for ''SNL''.
*** Killam had started in sketch comedy even before that, appearing as Spalding in the [[The Amanda Show]] sketch ''Moody's Point''.
** [[Ka Blam!|Noah Segan]] (Henry from ''[[Ka Blam!]]'') was on a few episodes in the 1990s episodes when the sketch called for a real child and not a [[Dawson Casting|20- or 30-something cast member dressed as a kid]].
** Maraka, the ''[[
** [[Stephen Colbert]] ([[The Colbert Report
** Yes, 1980s-1990s kids' show lovers. The Kenan Thompson who is on ''SNL'' is the same Kenan Thompson who was on Nickelodeon's ''[[All That]]'' and ''[[Kenan and Kel]]''.
** New featured player Kate McKinnon, much like Erica Ash on ''[[Mad TV]]'', used to be a cast member on Logo's ''The Big Gay Sketch Show''.
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**** Rob Huebel: Auditioned for Season 30 (2004-05) along with comedy partner [[The Daily Show|Rob Riggle]]; Huebel lost to Riggle, who lasted just that one season.
**** Donald Glover: Auditioned for Season 33 (2007-08) when Lorne was looking for a cast member to play Barack Obama.
**** ''[[Mad TV]]'''s Jordan Peele (known for his dead-on impersonations of Ja Rule, [[Morgan Freeman]], [[Sesame Street
**** Mindy Kaling: Auditioned for Season 32 (2006-07) and was offered a job as a writer, but wasn't allowed to break her contract at ''[[The Office]]'' to take it.
** Also, ''Saturday Night Live'' was originally supposed to have one person act as a permanent host (Albert Brooks was chosen), but NBC and Lorne Michaels thought the show would be better if it were a little less like ''Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'' (which Lorne wrote for before creating ''SNL'') and had a celebrity host every week.
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