1)Tina Fey - great timing great jokes very smart, very hot.

2)Norm McDonald - for the reasons you stated

3)Dennis Miller - i'm to young to remember him but i'v seen re-peats of him & he seems pretty funny as the anchor man of SNL.

Gilda Radner as Emily Litella was my favorite running segment on Weekend Update.

These are fun topics, by the by.

Miller was like a rockstar for a short time, with the hair, and the insouciance, and the literal sign off. He was a bad ass.

Norm in my opinion was the ballsiest of any of them. And ballsy goes a long way with me.

One final thought regarding pop culture and Dennis Miller.

I've often thought that there should be a coffe table book called "Shoulda Died Young"

and it would just be pictures of people in their hey day and then in their later years. Like...Axl Rose would be on page 1 and 2. You get the idea.

The book would be devoted to people whose artistic greatness was in large part thanks to their freshness, or youthful audacity. Audacity doesn't generally age well.

Sometimes I think Miller belongs on the Shoulda Died Young list. But I enjoyed him on MNF so, maybe not.

As for the best female cast member on SNL, I've still gotta go with Gilda Radner.

Best bit by the current Poehler-Myers duo is their "Really" segment (as in, "So Michael Vick, you decided to hide your weed, which is not allowed on a plane, inside your water bottle, which is also not allowed on a plane. Really.")

I'd put Fallon and Fey higher as well, but I have already witnessed your Fallon hatred in the other thread about him. I'm not sure what your obsession is with the teeny-bopper thing - it never even crossed my mind while watching him, whether it's what the producers were trying to do or not.

For example, one snippet went "Avril Lavigne now has the #1 album on the charts in Japan. Really, Japan? Really?" In either case, it's a funny bit.

I wrote that Macdonald at his peak was the best. I give Miller the overall nod, as he was the one who made Update so special, plus did it for a longer time. Norm was more hit or miss. His best though, was better than I've seen anyone else.

Fallon is an air-head. I have no problem with someone doing entertainment news that way, but to make jokes about politicians that you know were written all by other writers doesn't work for me. Kind of like some of the cable news readers that you know are just bimbos reading a teleprompter. Like them or not, anyone hosting a cable news show has to have a decent grasp of the world or they would completely fall flat.

Name me another former SNL alum who had multiple chances in movies and didn't score with any one of their starring roles? I might be wrong, but I can't think of anyone who fits Fallon's type.

One thing I will give credit to Fey and Fallon for. When they were doing the news, 9/11 happened, which took away some of the stuff they could do for awhile. With this put in the mix, I might place them 8 or 9.

Sandler, Myers, and Ferrell have all had a ton of success, but it seems that a lot of the others have had to settle for smaller roles in their buddies' movies.

And I have to agree, Norm Macdonald was by far my favorite anchor. What the hell has happened to him, what does he do these days?

Dana Carvey was the co-star of Wayne's World. He was one of the greatest performers on SNL.

Deuce Bigalow and The Animal are pretty funny movies, granted that they appeal to my 12 year old mind. Rob Schneider understands his strengths.

Chris Rock didn't get his movie starring roles from SNL. He earned the opportunity from being one of the greatest standups of all-time. I've never really liked him in movies, as it's hard for him to be anyone but himself, in my eyes.

16 - Don't forget Farley's cameos as two (I think?) different characters in both Wayne's World movies.

and why exactly do people find Amy Poehler funny again? Could someone...please explain? ;)

Chris Farley - Tommy Boy is awesome, one of my favorite comedies of all time and Black Sheep is okay, but Almost Heroes and Beverly Hills Ninja were terrible.

Dana Carvey - Wayne's World is also awesome, but you can't really count that one since it was based on an SNL sketch. Clean Slate, Master of Disguise, and Trapped in Paradise? Ugh.

Rob Schneider - Deuce Bigalow is one of my guilty pleasures, but The Hot Chick? The Animal? The Benchwarmers? The 2nd Deuce Bigalow movie?

Jimmy Fallon - I didn't realize it, but he's only had a starring role in two movies. Two. Fever Pitch, which I love, and The Taxi (which I happen to be watching right now since it's the only TV program in English in Italy right) which is probably terrible. A 50% success rate is pretty amazing if you ask me. Any way you slice it though, 2 movies isn't nearly enough to start passing judgement on someone's movie career though.

I don't think anything Schneider has done outside of cameo roles as been very good.

I watched Taxi b/c it was free on our provider for awhile, and it was painfully bad. I'll have to see Fever Pitch all the way through -- I have only seen about 45 minutes of it, but that isn't enough to judge.

Also, your next top 10 should be funniest moments in SNL history...and #1 better be Jackie Rogers Jr.'s 100K celebrity jackpot wad with Guest's delivery of the Chocolate Babies line to Crystal as Sammy Davis Jr...possibly the funniest skit in the history of American TV.

But I guess when you boil it down, the main impetus for both of these posts was the rumor that he might take over for Conan in a few years. That, my friend, we agree would be a horrible move.