Which 'SNL' Alum Makes the Most at the Box Office?
-Additional research by Christopher Rosa
As we're watching VH1 Classic's "SNL Rewind: 2015-1975 Mega Marathon," we can't help but wonder about the cast members' uneven movie careers. For instance, Tina Fey is one of the most famous and beloved SNL cast members of all time. However, her 2013 film Admission only made $6.5 million at the box office in its opening weekend. So, it made us wonder, how well has every single Saturday Night Live cast member of all-time —yes, all 142 of them!— performed in terms of box office draw? And the answers are incredibly surprising.
We went through the Box Office Mojo and IMDB pages of every Saturday Night Live cast member since the show began in 1975, found out how many movies each starred or had supporting roles in —voiceover roles count, too!— and tallied the U.S. box office amounts these films accumulated. Remember: Foreign box office, video and rental sales and bit parts and cameos don't count—and neither does being a comedy legend.
Meaning, that someone like Chris Farley, whose films exploded on VHS (and whose epic career was cut short by his untimely death) fared far more poorly than someone like Brian Doyle-Murray, who's built a career on character work and being part of the ensemble of popular box office hits.
So without further ado, VH1 presents the definitive SNL Cast Members All-Time Box Office Rankings (as of today—Friday, February 7, 2014).
Check out a full episode from one of SNL's biggest box office draws, Ben Stiller:
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142-101) The Not-Quite-Ready-For-Film-Work Players
Not every SNL alum has graduated to the big screen. Some of the following cast members have appeared in cameo roles, have only worked abroad, in unreleased indies or are too new on the scene to count. Others just simply never made the leap to the silver screen:
142) Peter Aykroyd $0.00
141) Beck Bennett $0.00
140) Morwenna Banks $0.00
139) Kyle Mooney $0.00
138) Vanessa Bayer $0.00
137) John Milhiser $0.00
136) Mike O’Brien $0.00
135) Michael Che $0.00
134) Pete Davidson $0.00
133) Sasheer Zamata $0.00
132) Colin Jost $0.00
131) Noel Wells $0.00
130) Brooks Wheelan $0.00
129) Paul Brittain $0.00
128) A. Whitney Brown $0.00
127) Aidy Bryant $0.00
126) Beth Cahill $0.00
125) Tom Davis (d) $0.00
124) Jim Downey $0.00
123) Robin Duke $0.00
122) Dean Edwards $0.00
121) Yvonne Hudson $0.00
120) Melanie Hutsell $0.00
119) Gary Kroeger $0.00
118) Gail Matthius $0.00
117) Kate McKinnon $0.00
116) Jay Pharoah $0.00
115) Emily Prager $0.00
114) Colin Quinn $0.00
113) Jeff Richards $0.00
112) Ann Risley $0.00
111) Tim Robinson $0.00
110) Tom Schiller $0.00
109) Paul Shaffer $0.00
108) Cecily Strong $0.00
107) Terry Sweeney $0.00
106) Danitra Vance (d) $0.00
105) Dan Vitale $0.00
104) Nancy Walls $0.00
103) Patrick Weathers $0.00
102) Fred Wolf $0.00
101) Alan Zweibel $0.00
100) Al Franken $911,310.00
99) Rich Hall $989,033.00
98) Tony Rosato $6,166,819.00
97) Jerry Minor $7,291,825.00
96) Abby Elliott $9,402,410.00
95) Ellen Cleghorne $12,350,030.00
94) Garrett Morris $12,828,562.00
93) Finesse Mitchell $19,043,559.00
92) Jim Breuer $23,520,677.00
91) Brad Hall $26,179,102.00
90) Denny Dillon $31,483,450.00 
89) Gilda Radner (d) $43,157,331.00
88) Julia Sweeney $45,781,852.00
87) Joe Piscopo $46,510,247.00
86) Michael O'Donoghue (d) $47,155,873.00
85) Leslie Jones $50,019,879
84) Matthew Laurance $56,194,930.00
83) Laraine Newman $60,535,034.00
82) Victoria Jackson $63,374,486.00
81) Michaela Watkins $68,919,640
80) Pamela Stephenson $83,253,349.00 
79) Bobby Moynihan $83,683,450.00
78) Mark McKinney $92,750,844.00
77) Horatio Sanz $105,876,112.00
76) Tim Kazurinsky $107,042,006.00
75) Rachel Dratch $111,709,966.00
74) Norm Macdonald $116,749,936.00
73) Chris Farley (d) $129,741,767.00
72) Chris Kattan $144,903,791.00
71) Jimmy Fallon $151,616,635.00
70) Don Novello $168,460,129.00 
[Photo Credit: Getty Images, Box Office Grosses via IMDB and Box Office Mojo]