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** Later on, comedy group Please Don't Destroy were added to fill Lonely Island's niche.
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** Charles Rocket = Creator/ChevyChase and Creator/BillMurray -- Close enough to the latter, in fact, that Bill mentioned it in the episode he hosted that season.
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** Joe Piscopo = Creator/DanAykroyd -- Even adopting Aykroyd's Tom Snyder impression and motormouthed pitchman character.
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*** The show's purported star, Creator/KirstenWiig, is an expy of Carol Burnett, whose [[Series/TheCarolBurnettShow own sketch-comedy show]] paved the way for SNL.
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!!''Series/SaturdayNightLive''
* The 1980-81 cast was intentionally comprised of actors meant to be reminiscent of the original Seventies cast. (Unfortunately, this gimmick ended up having a negative effect, particularly after the first sketch of the season was centered around it. The actors failed to live up to the comparisons in many ways.)
** Denny Dillon = Creator/GildaRadner -- The 'cute' one.
** Creator/GilbertGottfried = Creator/JohnBelushi and Creator/HarryShearer - Although, Jean Doumanian wouldn't actually allow Gilbert to use his manic personality that would've fit the Belushi comparison, and the Shearer comparison is a complete fluke.
** Gail Matthius = Laraine Newman -- Most obvious in the first episode, where Gail appears as both the Update correspondent and a valley girl.
** Creator/EddieMurphy = Garrett Morris -- A comparison Eddie resented bitterly.
** Joe Piscopo = Creator/DanAykroyd -- Even adopting Aykroyd's Tom Snyder impression and motormouthed pitchman character.
** Ann Risley = Creator/JaneCurtin -- Bizarrely, Ann is stated in the opening sketch to be similar to Gilda... which is completely wrong. Going beyond SNL, she also came across as a PoorMansSubstitute for Creator/DianeKeaton, which makes sense since she was a Creator/WoodyAllen protégé.
** Charles Rocket = Creator/ChevyChase and Creator/BillMurray -- Close enough to the latter, in fact, that Bill mentioned it in the episode he hosted that season.
* The next cast (hired to replace most of the above) seemed to move away from the 'Seventies counterparts' idea, thankfully. For example, none of the original cast are particularly similar to either Robin Duke or Tim Kazurinsky.
** Much of the current cast are expies:
*** Vanessa Bayer = Maya Rudolph
*** Nassim Pedrad = Creator/AmyPoehler
*** Andy Samberg = Creator/AdamSandler (right down to near-identical names)
*** The show's purported star, Creator/KirstenWiig, is an expy of Carol Burnett, whose [[Series/TheCarolBurnettShow own sketch-comedy show]] paved the way for SNL.
* In 2013 members of the comedy troupe [[http://www.goodneighborstuff.com Good Neighbor]] (performers Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney and filmmaker Dave [=McCary=]) joined SNL and were very clearly intended to fill the void left after the members of Music/TheLonelyIsland departed, including making short films (though they're very conspicuously NOT labeled as Digital Shorts). At one point they seemed to be grooming Bennett to be an expy of Jason Sudeikis (versatile guy-next-door type), but he's ended up being much more like Chris Parnell 2.0, doing voiceovers and alternating in sketches between pompous and skeevy characters. He even took the Parnell role when Creator/NataliePortman did a sequel to her rap with The Lonely Island.
* After Creator/PhilHartman left they hired [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Michael McKean]] to explicitly fill the "utility player who can do impressions, leads and supporting roles and is a little older than the rest of the cast" slot that Hartman left open. But [=McKean=]'s strengths were different than Hartman's, he seemed out of place and a bit uncomfortable in sketches, and he only lasted one and a half years (from the second half of the 1993-1994 season to the much-maligned 1994-95 season).
* The 1980-81 cast was intentionally comprised of actors meant to be reminiscent of the original Seventies cast. (Unfortunately, this gimmick ended up having a negative effect, particularly after the first sketch of the season was centered around it. The actors failed to live up to the comparisons in many ways.)
** Denny Dillon = Creator/GildaRadner -- The 'cute' one.
** Creator/GilbertGottfried = Creator/JohnBelushi and Creator/HarryShearer - Although, Jean Doumanian wouldn't actually allow Gilbert to use his manic personality that would've fit the Belushi comparison, and the Shearer comparison is a complete fluke.
** Gail Matthius = Laraine Newman -- Most obvious in the first episode, where Gail appears as both the Update correspondent and a valley girl.
** Creator/EddieMurphy = Garrett Morris -- A comparison Eddie resented bitterly.
** Joe Piscopo = Creator/DanAykroyd -- Even adopting Aykroyd's Tom Snyder impression and motormouthed pitchman character.
** Ann Risley = Creator/JaneCurtin -- Bizarrely, Ann is stated in the opening sketch to be similar to Gilda... which is completely wrong. Going beyond SNL, she also came across as a PoorMansSubstitute for Creator/DianeKeaton, which makes sense since she was a Creator/WoodyAllen protégé.
** Charles Rocket = Creator/ChevyChase and Creator/BillMurray -- Close enough to the latter, in fact, that Bill mentioned it in the episode he hosted that season.
* The next cast (hired to replace most of the above) seemed to move away from the 'Seventies counterparts' idea, thankfully. For example, none of the original cast are particularly similar to either Robin Duke or Tim Kazurinsky.
** Much of the current cast are expies:
*** Vanessa Bayer = Maya Rudolph
*** Nassim Pedrad = Creator/AmyPoehler
*** Andy Samberg = Creator/AdamSandler (right down to near-identical names)
*** The show's purported star, Creator/KirstenWiig, is an expy of Carol Burnett, whose [[Series/TheCarolBurnettShow own sketch-comedy show]] paved the way for SNL.
* In 2013 members of the comedy troupe [[http://www.goodneighborstuff.com Good Neighbor]] (performers Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney and filmmaker Dave [=McCary=]) joined SNL and were very clearly intended to fill the void left after the members of Music/TheLonelyIsland departed, including making short films (though they're very conspicuously NOT labeled as Digital Shorts). At one point they seemed to be grooming Bennett to be an expy of Jason Sudeikis (versatile guy-next-door type), but he's ended up being much more like Chris Parnell 2.0, doing voiceovers and alternating in sketches between pompous and skeevy characters. He even took the Parnell role when Creator/NataliePortman did a sequel to her rap with The Lonely Island.
* After Creator/PhilHartman left they hired [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Michael McKean]] to explicitly fill the "utility player who can do impressions, leads and supporting roles and is a little older than the rest of the cast" slot that Hartman left open. But [=McKean=]'s strengths were different than Hartman's, he seemed out of place and a bit uncomfortable in sketches, and he only lasted one and a half years (from the second half of the 1993-1994 season to the much-maligned 1994-95 season).
