While we can’t easily ask the cast of the original Saturday Night Live about the show’s all-time greatest sketches, PEOPLE did the next best thing, getting the skinny from the cast of the new movie, Saturday Night. With 50 years of comedy to choose from, the actors playing the Not Ready for Primetime Players didn’t choose a single sketch from the early days, instead opting for these more contemporary bits…
Gabriel LaBelle (Lorne Michaels)
LaBelle went Season 44 for his favorite sketch of all time. “I really love (when) Adam Driver comes in for career day, and he’s this really old man, this oil man, and Pete Davidson is his son, and it’s just hysterical.”
Dylan O’Brien (Dan Aykroyd)
O’Brien agreed that Driver is an all-time great (“His Undercover Boss is really good too,” he says), but his pick for best-ever went to Ryan Gosling’s “Santa Baby” sketch with Vanessa Bayer. “They basically get kinky for Santa.”
Rachel Sennott (Writer Rosie Shuster)
“I’m obviously going to change my mind tomorrow,” said Sennott. “But I’m just going to say one of my favorites, which is the Andy (Samberg) Lonely Island one, where it’s like, ‘I threw it on the ground.’”
Ella Hunt (Gilda Radner)
“Julio Torres’ ‘Wells for Sensitive Boys’ kills me,” confessed Hunt.
Lamorne Morris (Garrett Morris)
Morris, no relation to Morris, went with “Eddie Murphy’s ‘Too Hot in a Hot Tub.’ So good. That’s got to be up there. Eddie Murphy’s my idol.”
Cory Michael Smith (Chevy Chase)
The Spartan Cheerleaders appeared a mindnumbing 17 times, but Smith still couldn’t get enough. “Cheri Oteri, Will Ferrell. It’s brilliant.”
Director Jason Reitman
Reitman went back to Season 12 for his all-time favorite: “Steve Martin doing his very special Christmas wish.”
