Live from New York, its SNL baby names
Saturday Night Live is at this point a certifiable institution. The show has now been around for 36 years, and over its long run has featured many of the funniest, most creative, offbeat comic talents in America-some of whom have gone on to become so iconic that weve almost forgotten they were ever regulars on the show. As in Billy Crystal, Robert Downey Jr, Bill Murray, Dennis Miller, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Martin Short and now-Senator Al Im good enough, Im smart enough Franken.
In fact, SNL has been around so long that its now multi-generational: One of the current cast members, Abby Elliot, is the daughter of early 1990s SNLer Chris Elliott.
So the question is did these guys apply their quirky creativity when it came to naming their babies?
The answer is: not so much. For example, Billy Crystal named one of his daughters Jennifer, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Brad Hall have a Henry and a Charles, Dana Carvey a Thomas, Al Franken a Joe, and Jim Belushi a Robert.
But there are some who did- to lesser and greater degrees-think outside that aforementioned box, most recently Maya Rudolph with her choice of Lucille, and Amy Poehlers Archibald and Abel. Here are some others born to cast members who span the history of the show:
GIRLS
ALICE ZENOBIA - Tina Fey
AUBREY - Victoria Jackson
BELLA ZAHRA - Eddie Murphy
BELLE KINGSTON - Dan Ackroyd
BIRGEN - Phil Hartman
BRIA -Eddie Murphy
BRIDEY - Chris Elliot
CALEY LEIGH Chevy Chase
CARA MIA - Damon Wayans
CYDNEY CATALENE Chevy Chase
ELLA OLIVIA - Ben Stiller
EMILY EVELYN -Chevy Chase
GITRID - Tracy Morgan
HANNAH KATHRYN Bill Hader
HARPER - David Spade
JAMISON BESS - Jim Belushi
KYLA - Damon Wayans
LENA-Laraine Newman
LILY ASTER - Gilbert Gottfried
LOLA SIMONE - Chris Rock
LUCILLE - Maya Rudolph
MAE MAE-Christine Ebersole
MIA Darryl Hammond
MULAN - Julia Sweeney
OLIVIA - Joe Piscopo
PEARL BAILEY - Maya Rudolph
PENELOPE ATHENA Tina Fey
SADIE MADISON - Adam Sandler
SCARLET - Victoria Jackson
SHAYNE AUDRA - Eddie Murphy
STELLA IRENE AUGUST Dan Ackroyd
SUNNY MADELINE - Adam Sandler
TESS-Jane Curtin
THOMASIN - Al Franken
ZAHRA SAVANNAH - Chris Rock
ZOLA IVY - Eddie Murphy
BOYS
ABEL JAMES Amy Poehler
ARCHIBALD WILLIAM EMERSON - Amy Poehler
AXEL PAULIN Will Farrell
CALEB - Bill Murray
COLIN - Michael McKean
COOPER - Bill Murray
DEX - Dana Carvey
DYLAN - Norm McDonald
ELI Rachel Dratch
ELIJAH-Christine Ebersole
FLETCHER - Michael McKean
GABLE NESS - Kevin Nealon
HOLDEN - Dennis Miller
HOMER - Bill Murray
INDIO - Robert Downey, Jr.
JACKSON Jay Mohr, Maya Rudolph
JARED JAMES - Jim Belushi
LINCOLN - Bill Murray
LUKE - Bill Murray
MAGNUS PAULIN - Will Ferrell
MALCOLM - Tracy Morgan
MARLON - Dennis Miller
MATTIAS PAULIN- Will Ferrell (all three Ferrell boys have their mothers maiden name in the middle)
MEREDITH DANIEL Jay Mohr
MILES - Joan Cusack
MYLES MITCHELL - Eddie Murphy
NOLAN - Molly Shannon
OLIVER PATRICK - Martin Short
QUINLIN DEMPSEY - Ben Stiller
SPIKE Mike Myers
ULYSSES Ana Gasteyer
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