SNL cast debuts
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SNL cast debuts
Order by the year each joined the Saturday Night Live cast. You place all 55 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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release years and dates
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How to play the SNL Cast Debuts timeline game
Each card names a Saturday Night Live cast member, with a signature character, impression or sketch printed underneath. Your job is to order them by the year each one joined the cast, counted from their first season as a performer rather than any earlier stint as a writer. One performer starts on the timeline with the year showing. Drop each new name into a gap. A right answer reveals the year; a wrong answer puts the card in its true place and uses up one of your three lives.
The show has reinvented its ensemble again and again, so players often arrive in bunches, and several names can share a debut year. Movie fame is a poor guide, because a performer's biggest films might have come long after their time in Studio 8H. Think instead about who shared the stage, who turned up together in the same sketches, and who was behind the news desk when you first watched. A beloved character can linger in reruns and clips, which makes some debuts feel more recent than they were.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 55 cards you might be dealt, with 27 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Dan Aykroyd Elwood Blues of The Blues Brothers
- John Belushi Samurai Futaba
- Jane Curtin Prymaat Conehead
- Laraine Newman Connie Conehead
- Bill Murray Nick the Lounge Singer
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus Consuela of Chi Chi & Consuela
- Martin Short Ed Grimley
- Jon Lovitz Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar
- Dana Carvey The Church Lady
- Mike Myers Wayne's World
- Chris Rock Nat X
- Julia Sweeney Pat
- Adam Sandler Opera Man
- Will Ferrell More Cowbell
- Molly Shannon Mary Katherine Gallagher
- Jimmy Fallon Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy
- Tina Fey Weekend Update anchor
- Amy Poehler Kaitlin
- Fred Armisen Nicholas Fehn
- Kenan Thompson What Up With That?
- Andy Samberg Shy Ronnie
- Kristen Wiig The Target Lady
- Cecily Strong Cathy Anne on Weekend Update
- Leslie Jones Weekend Update commentaries
- Michael Che Weekend Update anchor
- Bowen Yang The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
- Sarah Sherman Weekend Update roasts of Colin Jost
- Jane Wickline Weekend Update songs
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