![]() ![]() While an expert at playing insecure teens and tweens with a delicate comic sensitivity, Bryant clearly relished knocking broader characters into the cheap seats, whether playing Tinker Bell's crude bruiser of a sister or belting out the self-penned waterbed store jingle her proprietor husband has to constantly explain away. Blessed with a fearsome theatricality and a sweetly silly demeanor, Bryant slipped assuredly into every role with an infectious energy and a mischievous glint. In stacked and varied casts during his time on the show, Sudeikis more than held his own, displaying a star wattage (even while playing a dancing sidekick) that's gone on to serve him especially well since leaving in 2013.īold, bubbly, and brilliantly adaptable, Aidy Bryant joined Cecily Strong and Kate McKinnon to form an unbeatable SNL trio during their time together. As an impressionist, Sudeikis remains the best Joe Biden, his white-toothed bluffness and occasional rambling a soul-match for the career politician and future president, while his riffing with Kristen Wiig as the gum-chewing "Two A-Holes" mined Sudeikis' sinister charm for huge, consistent laughs. While gamely playing the many comedy Everyman roles his general appearance and demeanor suggest him for, Sudeikis loved leaning into the strange as much as costars Will Forte, Fred Armisen, and Andy Samberg traditionally did, his grinning cheekiness putting his own unique spin on the proceedings. ![]() Recurring character Satan breezily explains all the delightful torments he's proudest of ("Hey, d'you get that rash I sent you?, he asks anchor Seth Meyers happily at one point), while ultimately taking offense at something deviously evil we humans have done, his Devil's "what you see is what you get" assholery coming off, in Sudeikis' hands, as irresistibly preferable in comparison. With his unassuming Midwestern handsomeness, Sudeikis threatens to get lost in the shuffle of blandly handsome SNL white guys - until he doesn't. There have been a fair number of Satans in Saturday Night Live history, but none so captured the essence as a performer than Jason Sudeikis' affably sinister prince of darkness. ![]() Every team needs the perfect situational player off the bench. Still, the stalwart Parnell shone in his roles, no matter the size, and his invaluable comic presence served him well afterward, with Tina Fey remembering her SNL colleague for the scene-stealing role of Dr. Parnell's pitch-perfect performing composure is in full evidence in the 2013 sketch, " Centaur Job Interview," where the eminently sensible centaur (Parnell, in half-horse prosthetic) patiently answers every invasively elaborate question Christopher Walken's interview can come up with. Like all undervalued utility players, Parnell found himself getting laid off by Lorne Michaels due to budget cuts not once, but twice, in 20. Possessed of a sonorous performer's cadence that could switch registers from smarmy to silky as the sketch demanded, Parnell was the definition of the all-star utility player during his time on the show. Able to essay deadpan commercial pitchmen like Phil Hartman, plumb the depths of deliberately irritating weirdos like Will Forte, and anchor any number of quiz, talk, and news shows, Parnell had a sly, gleaming look in his eyes that suggested a lot more strangeness than his placid outer shell promised. Can you really be called one of the best cast members of all time if you were fired twice during your time on Saturday Night Live? If you're bulletproof Everyman Chris Parnell you can. ![]()
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