Saturday Night Live has featured many recurring characters that appear in sketches with a musical theme. In addition there are characters listed here who predominantly featured music, but may not have exclusively featured it.
- Nick The Lounge Singer (Bill Murray) – April 16, 1977
- The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi) – April 22, 1978
- Candy Slice (Gilda Radner) – December 9, 1978
- Buckwheat (Eddie Murphy) – October 10, 1981
- Pudge & Solomon (Joe Piscopo, Eddie Murphy) – January 30, 1982
- The Sweeney Sisters (Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn, Marc Shaiman) – October 18, 1986
- Tonto, Tarzan & Frankenstein's Monster (Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman) – December 19, 1987
- I'm Chillin' (Chris Rock, Chris Farley) – January 12, 1991
- Opera Man (Adam Sandler) – April 18, 1992
- Mighty Mack Blues (John Goodman) – March 25, 1995
- G-Dog (Tim Meadows) – December 2, 1995
- The Roxbury Guys (Chris Kattan, Will Ferrell) – March 23, 1996
- The Culps (Ana Gasteyer, Will Ferrell) – November 2, 1996
- Janet Reno's Dance Party (Will Ferrell) – January 11, 1997
- The DeMarco Brothers (Chris Parnell, Chris Kattan) – March 15, 1997
- Gunner Olsen (Jim Breuer) – March 7, 1998
- 7 Degrees Celsius (Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell, Jimmy Fallon, Horatio Sanz) – January 16, 1999
- Gemini's Twin (Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer) – November 4, 2000
- Rap Street (Jerry Minor, Horatio Sanz) – November 18, 2000
- Season's Greetings From Saturday Night Live (Christmas is Number One) (Horatio Sanz, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan) – December 16, 2000
- The Kelly Brothers (Fred Armisen, Will Forte) – February 8, 2003
- Mascots (Justin Timberlake) – October 11, 2003
- The Prince Show (Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph) – February 14, 2004
- The Lundford Twins Feel Good Variety Hour (Fred Armisen, Amy Poehler) – January 22, 2005
- Deep House Dish (Kenan Thompson, Rachel Dratch, Andy Samberg) – November 19, 2005
- The Lawrence Welk Show (Fred Armisen, Kristen Wiig) – October 4, 2008
- Les Jeunes de Paris (Taran Killam) - October 23, 2010
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“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You don’t look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to list you in their publicity with the local attractions.”
—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Last night I fled until I came
To streets where leaking casements dripped
Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame;
A nervous window bled.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.”
—J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Monday’s child is fair in face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for its living;
And a child that is born on a Christmas day,
Is fair and wise, good and gay.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire, vol. 2, ed. Anna E.K.S. Bray (1838)