The Richest ‘SNL’ Stars Ranked from Lowest to Highest (& the Wealthiest Has a Net Worth of $13 Million!)
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After a long hiatus, SNL is back! Saturday Night Live is airing a brand new episode tonight (January 15), and we’re breaking down some information fans have been wondering about the core cast of comedians!
The net worths of the show’s current cast members have been revealed! The numbers range from $1.5 million all the way up to $13 million.
Click through the slideshow to see who are the richest SNL cast members…
Stars Describe Their ‘SNL’ Hosting Debuts: Kim Kardashian, More
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Fulfilling a dream! Saturday Night Live’s stage has played host to icons from Harry Styles to Betty White, and many of its celebrity guests have gushed over reaching the impressive career milestone.
“I can’t believe I am hosting Saturday Night Live. I’m not sure many of you know that I’m 88 and a half years old,” the late Golden Girls alum said during her monologue in May 2010. “It’s great to be here for a number of reasons. You know, I’m not new to live TV. In 1952, I starred in my first live sitcom, which was Life of Elizabeth, and of course, back then we didn’t want to do it live, we just didn’t know how to tape things. So, I don’t know what this show’s excuse is.”
White’s hosting debut on the late-night series was the result of a viral Facebook campaign, which she made sure to honor during her opening, adding: “I have so many people to thank for being here but I really have to thank Facebook. When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host Saturday Night Live, I didn’t know what Facebook was. And now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.”
The Proposal star passed away in December 2021, but she was hardly the only first-time SNL host to enjoy her experience. Kim Kardashian, for her part, made headlines in October 2021 when she poked fun at several of her sisters and roasted the likes of her estranged husband, Kanye West, stepparent Caitlyn Jenner, ex-NFL player O.J. Simpson and mom Kris Jenner’s boyfriend, Corey Gamble.
“OMFG no turning back now!!!! LOL,” the Skims founder tweeted shortly after her season 47 hosting gig was announced, alongside a screenshot of the cast list. “I’m hosting SNL!!!!!!”
During the October 2021 episode, the KKW Beauty founder — who connected with cast member Pete Davidson during the taping — even joked about people who criticized the casting choice.
“I’m Kim Kardashian West and it’s so great to be here tonight,” the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum began her opening monologue at the time. “I know, I’m surprised to see me here too.”
Other first-time hosts used their monologues to gush over their experiences as SNL viewers or as featured players.
“My last show was in 2013 and, since then, I have had two amazing children [with ex Olivia Wilde]: Otis and Daisy,” Jason Sudeikis, who was a part of the cast from 2006 to 2013, said at the start of his October 2021 show. “It’s fun to come back and be the veteran, you know? Different folks asking me for advice. Like, ‘I love working here, but what should I do next?’ Or, ‘How do I get Lorne [Michaels] to notice me?’ Stuff like that. And honestly, I found myself giving the same advice to every single person. I was just like, ‘Win an Emmy, and if you can, win two.’ That’s the best way to do it. It sets you up for success, I’ve found.”
The Ted Lasso star concluded at the time: “This place changed my life twice. Once as a cast member, as a writer here, but most importantly, as a kid watching from home. There’s a good chance that if you’re watching tonight, there’s probably something from this place that changed your life, too.”
Keep scrolling to see what the stars have thought about their SNL hosting debuts:
‘SNL’ Cold Open: Joe Biden Blames ‘Spider-Man’ for All of Nation’s Problems
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Pete Davidson as alternate-universe Joe Biden and James Austin Johnson as President Joe Biden during the “Message From The President” ‘Saturday Night Live’ cold open.
James Austin Johnson’s Joe Biden made a return in Saturday Night Live’s first cold open of 2022 on Jan. 15, blaming everything on Spider-Man: No Way Home.
“There’s one simple thing you can do to make this whole virus go away: Stop seeing Spider-Man,” Johnson’s Biden said in a press conference, when addressing the rise in COVID-19 cases.
“Now think about it, when did Spider-Man come out?” he asked. “December 17. When did every single person get omicron? The week after December 17. Stop seeing Spider-Man. That’s really all I have to say.”
The president then opened the floor to questions from reporters, who pressed him about whether or not that was really his solution for all of America’s problems. “Yes,” he said. “Next question.”
“Do you think all COVID will end if people stopped going to the movies?” Bowen Yang’s reporter asked. “I didn’t say don’t go to the movies,” Johnson’s Biden replied. “I said stop seeing Spider-Man.“
When another reporter played by Heidi Gardner asked Johnson if that was based on any data, he replied, “Yes. Everyone in America has seen Spider-Man like eight times. Everyone in America also has COVID.”
In response to Yang’s question about experts saying the real problem was a lack of testing, Johnson said Spider-Man has a 98% on “au gratin potatoes.”
The question Johnson’s Biden was most excited to answer was if it’s possible there’s another version of President Joe Biden in the multiverse who actually wants people to watch the record-breaking superhero film.
“I’ve actually thought about this a lot,” Johnson said. “I’m consulting with Dr. Fauci and Dr. Strange. As far as I can tell, there are at least three Joe Bidens. One of them’s me. One of them is me, the Joe Biden that lost to Trump,” he continued. “And then there’s a third Joe Biden, who’s the greatest president in history.”
Johnson’s Biden said he’s so adamant about the fact that he lives in a multiverse because it makes more sense “than whatever the hell our current world is,” adding, “I wake up every morning and look at the news and think, ‘This can’t be right.’”
Mid-rant, a tattooed Pete Davidson made an appearance, who claimed he was the Joe Biden of “the real universe,” which was created as a joke in 2016 when the Chicago Cubs won the World Series and is about to collapse.
When Johnson’s Biden asked Davidson’s Biden if he was the president in that world, Davidson replied, “Of course not. Did you really think he’d lose four times, and then finally win when he was 78?”
“What about the rest of us? Are we OK in the real world?” Gardner asked, to which Davidson replied, “Everyone on Earth is better off in the real world, except one man named Pete Davidson. This world is maybe more fun for him.”
In her opening monologue, Ariana DeBose shouted out Afro-Latinas and was joined by a special guest for a West Side Story duet: Kate McKinnon.
“Did I hear, ‘Sing songs from West Side Story with Kate McKinnon’?” the SNL cast member chimed in. Together, DeBose and McKinnon sang a compilation of “Tonight,” “I Feel Pretty,” “Something’s Coming” and “America.”
In a later skit, SNL spoofed another popular musical, Sound of Music, with appearances from DeBose, McKinnon, Yang, Chris Redd, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman and Kenan Thompson.
45 Years Ago: Bill Murray Makes His Uncomfortable ‘SNL’ Debut
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It’s never easy to replace a star. The worlds of sports, broadcasting and television are littered with stories of talented individuals who succeeded legends, only to fail.
The cards were stacked against Bill Murray Jan. 15, 1977, when he debuted on Saturday Night Live. Then just 26 years old, he was replacing Chevy Chase. SNL’s first star had departed the series to pursue a film career.
Though the cast still included talent such as John Belushi, Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd, Murray was the new guy. The pressure was on him to fill the show’s Chase-sized hole, and initial results were not encouraging.
“I remember my very first show. I had a sketch that was a little tricky to do, a telephone sketch,” Murray later recalled in the book Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live. “They were making me up for the first time and they were trying to make me look old and — well, you don’t feel really comfortable the first time they make you look old. There was like a committee of people going, ‘Maybe if you put some gray in his temples,’ and you’re thinking, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to be in trouble out here.’”
Murray was still adjusting to his role, and arguments over costumes and makeup didn’t make things any more comfortable: “My confidence sort of dropped, because I thought, ‘This isn’t really helping me.’”
Though he was still finding his place, Murray got through his first few shows relatively unscathed.
“I did three shows and they were on a look-see basis. I think they hired me for three shows. And I remember just walking out onto the street after the first show and Lorne said, ‘I guess you’re going to be moving to New York,’” Murray said in Live From New York. “And it felt great, you know. It felt really good. And so I thought, ‘This is great, I did it.’ But then I didn’t get any sketches for weeks after that. That’s when I became the second cop. Most of the rest of the year I played the ‘second cop’ in sketches.”
Sensing that he was fading into the background, Murray decided to make an appeal to viewers.
“I’d really been there a pretty long time, and they were sort of stuck with me. I was there, they’d sort of hired me, I was getting paid, but I was playing that second cop every week. You sort of have to break through, be noticed by the audience. They have to understand you a little bit, see a little bit of who you are, but as the second cop you don’t really get those opportunities,” Murray explained.
So, on his sixth episode as a cast member, roughly two months after his debut, Murray looked directly into the camera and apologized for not being funny.
Watch Bill Murray’s Apology on ‘Saturday Night Live’
“Hello, I’m Bill Murray. You can call me Billy. But around here, everybody just calls me the ‘new guy,” he began. “I’m a little bit concerned. I don’t think I’m making it on the show. I’m a funny guy, but I haven’t been so funny on the show. My friends say, ‘How come they’re giving you all those parts that aren’t funny?’ Well, it’s not the material, it’s me.”
Murray then told everyone his story, of growing up in an Irish-Catholic family, one of nine children, living in a small Illinois town, losing his father at the age of 17 – all of which, it should be noted, was true. More importantly, it was funny.
“I did this thing, I wrote the thing, and it was kind of funny, and I wasn’t too full of myself or anything. There was a couple tablespoons of humility in it, I got laughs in it, and I think the combination of the two broke some sort of ice, not just for me but for people watching, and they thought, ‘Well, okay, he’s going to be funny. He made us laugh with that sort of “I’m dying here’ thing” — which I’ve seen people do and die at. You know, I’ve seen people make that move before and fail, so the fact that I made that move and it was funny sort of took the pressure off.”
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Former ‘SNL’ cast member Ana Gasteyer on ‘American Auto’
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(NBC) — If you caught the “Saturday Night Live” replay of its Betty White episode back on New Year’s Day, you caught some work of former cast member Ana Gasteyer.
These days, Gasteyer’s starring in “American Auto,” a new Tuesday comedy on NBC that’s gotten praise from many critics.
In an interview, she talked about what makes her character unique.
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“She’s all about the bottom line and she’s all about motivating people, and she doesn’t really care if it’s hard for them to, it’s not her problem to solve, so she’s like, ‘go solve it, that’s fine,’” Gasteyer said.
She plays CEO Katherine Hastings, a former pharmaceutical CEO put in charge of the struggling automaker, despite knowing next to nothing about cars.
“She has an MBA, she’s trained, she has a sense of how to make, how to make herself look good at the top,” she said.
Gasteyer’s part of a diverse ensemble cast that bonded even more than usual while filming during COVID.
“You could socialize with one another somewhat because we were tested at the same pace and we were pretty much only seeing one another,” she said.
Just another way Gasteyer sees “American Auto” reflecting the current moment.
“It’s a show about Americans being bad at being good, you know, and trying really hard to do the right thing, but also, you know, worrying about their stock options at the same time,” she said.
The fuel for a comic engine.
“American Auto” airs tonight at 8 p.m., followed by a new episode of the comedy “Grand Crew” and then, at 9, an all-new “This Is Us.”