List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches by cast member

See also: Saturday Night Live TV show sketches, listed alphabetically, listed chronologically.

The following are the most frequent recurring characters and celebrity impressions on Saturday Night Live listed by cast member.

A

Fred Armisen

  • Barack Obama
  • Billiam, from Gays in Space (2005–06)
  • Billy Smith (2003–04)
  • David Paterson
  • Fericito, often featured in ¡Show Biz Grande Explosion! (2002–05)
  • Frondi, a man who says whatever is on his mind
  • Gabe Fisher, a member of the Adult Students (2003)
  • Garth, of holiday singing duo "Garth & Kat" (2009–15)
  • Gunther Kelly, one of The Kelly Brothers (2003–06)
  • Henry Quincy Lundford of The Lundford Twins Feel Good Variety Hour (2005)
  • Leonard, co-host of Club Traxx (2003-04)
  • Mackey, the elderly drummer from Rialto Grande (2003)
  • Nicholas Fehn, a political comedian who never has a point (2007–12)
  • Nuni Schoener (2005–07)
  • One of the "Two Gay Guys from..." (2006–12)
  • Prince (2004–12)
  • Roger Brush, a women's advice talk show producer who often fills in for the female host and ends up giving bad advice (2009–12)
  • Steve Jobs
  • Willie Tater from Appalachian Emergency Room (2004)
  • Randy Newman
  • Stuart from The Californians

Dan Aykroyd

B

Vanessa Bayer

Jim Belushi

John Belushi

Beck Bennett

Jim Breuer

Paul Brittain

A. Whitney Brown

Aidy Bryant

C

Beth Cahill

Dana Carvey

Chevy Chase

Ellen Cleghorne

Billy Crystal

Jane Curtin

Joan Cusack

D

Pete Davidson

Tom Davis

Mikey Day

Denny Dillon

Robert Downey Jr.

Rachel Dratch

Robin Duke

Nora Dunn

E

Dean Edwards

Abby Elliott

Chris Elliott

F

Jimmy Fallon

Siobhan Fallon

Chris Farley

Will Ferrell

Tina Fey

Will Forte

Al Franken

G

Heidi Gardner

Janeane Garofalo

Ana Gasteyer

Gilbert Gottfried

Mary Gross

Christopher Guest

H

Bill Hader

Anthony Michael Hall

  • Craig Sundberg, Idiot Savant, a 15-year-old genius who was mentally retarded
  • Fed Jones, one half of The Jones Brothers (the other brother named Ned Jones was played by Damon Wayans), two criminals who sell stolen items such as radios, bikes, purses, computers, and cable TV installation

Rich Hall

Darrell Hammond

Phil Hartman

Jan Hooks

Melanie Hutsell

J

Victoria Jackson

Colin Jost

K

Chris Kattan

Tim Kazurinsky

Laura Kightlinger

Taran Killam

David Koechner

Gary Kroeger

L

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Jon Lovitz

M

Norm Macdonald

Gail Matthius

  • Valley Girl Vickie, an air-headed teenager who bothers others with her vacuous questions and statements

Michael McKean

Mark McKinney

Kate McKinnon

Tim Meadows

Seth Meyers

Dennis Miller

Jerry Minor

Finesse Mitchell

Alex Moffat

Jay Mohr

Kyle Mooney

Tracy Morgan

Garrett Morris

  • Chico Esquella, Latin Baseball Player
  • Head master of the New York School for the hard of hearing on Weekend Update. Morris would just repeat what Chevy Chase said, but in a much louder voice.

Bobby Moynihan

Eddie Murphy

Bill Murray

Mike Myers

N

Kevin Nealon

Laraine Newman

Don Novello

Ego Nwodim

O

Michael O'Donoghue

Cheri Oteri

P

Chris Parnell

Nasim Pedrad

Jay Pharoah

Joe Piscopo

Amy Poehler

Q

Randy Quaid

  • Rudy Randolph, Jr.: a Texas pitchman selling off famous dictators' worldly possessions. Has a son named Rudy Randolph III (played by Robert Downey Jr.)
  • Ronald Reagan (1985–86)

Colin Quinn

R

Gilda Radner

Chris Redd

Jeff Richards

Rob Riggle

Ann Risley

Chris Rock

Charles Rocket

Tony Rosato

Maya Rudolph

S

Andy Samberg

Adam Sandler

Horatio Sanz

Rob Schneider

Molly Shannon

Harry Shearer

Martin Short

  • Ed Grimley, a nerdy Wheel of Fortune fan who plays the triangle and has a goldfish for a pet. This character was originally created for the show SCTV, but wasn't as popular there as it was on SNL. A short-lived cartoon series was made based on this character from 1988 to 1989.
  • Jackie Rogers, Jr., an albino entertainer who appears on the sketch The Joe Franklin Show. He hosted the game show parody (on SNL) called Jackie Rogers's $100,000 Jackpot Wad
  • Lawrence Orback (best known as one of the Synchronized Swimmers)
  • Nathan Thurm
  • Irving Cohen
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Katharine Hepburn

Sarah Silverman

Jenny Slate

Robert Smigel

David Spade

Pamela Stephenson

Cecily Strong

Jason Sudeikis

Julia Sweeney

Terry Sweeney

T

Kenan Thompson

V

Danitra Vance

Melissa Villaseñor

W

Nancy Walls

  • Gail Lafferty, a church bazaar attendee always itching for a fight with other attendees (in one episode, she was thrown through a window by an attendee played by Teri Hatcher)
  • Cindy, the Timelife hotline operator
  • Susan Taylor, neighbor who's always invited to Frank Henderson's (Will Ferrell) barbecues in the Get Off The Shed! sketches
  • Bobbie Battista
  • Martha Stewart

Michaela Watkins

Damon Wayans

Patrick Weathers

Kristen Wiig

Casey Wilson

Fred Wolf

Y

Bowen Yang

Z

Alan Zweibel

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