SNL Stars With SciFi Careers
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SNL Stars With SciFi Careers

Which Saturday Night Live actors soar at the science fiction multiplex, and which ones flop?

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1 Robert Downey, Jr.
Downey Jr. earns some serious scifi cred for his portrayal of the playboy-turned-pacifist superhero in Iron Man (2008). 60 110
2 Bill Murray
Murray has live-action-animated germs inside of him in Osmosis Jones (2001), and leads an underground city in City of Ember (2008). 42 92
3 Dan Aykroyd
Aykroyd spins his popular SNL sketch into a hit alien comedy in Coneheads (1993) and plays a Gov’na in the 2001 scifi comedy Evolution. 40 96
4 Billy Crystal
Crystal loans his voice to the role of one-eyed monster Mike in Monsters, Inc. (2001), and he's a scene-stealing sidekick. 32 84
5 Chevy Chase
Chase plays an incurable playboy turned transparent by a lab accident in Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992). 7 81
6 Eddie Murphy
Murphy turns himself into a stud in The Nutty Professor movies and plays a futuristic nightclub owner in The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002). -9 89
7 Will Ferrell
In Land of the Lost (2009), Dr. Rick Marshall (Ferrell) is sucked into a vortex and lands in a world full of dinosaurs, aliens, and a primate named Chaka. -14 92
8 Adam Sandler
In scifi comedy, Click (2006), Sandler's workaholic architect controls a universal remote that fast-forwards and rewinds his life. -14 90
9 Rob Schneider
Schneider shares a prison cell with Stallone as cowardly computer hacker Herman Ferguson in Judge Dredd (1995). -15 79
10 Jon Lovitz
In Mom and Dad Save the World (1992), Lovitz’s evil Emperor kidnaps a hot Earth babe. He’s a futuristic L.A. cop In Southland Tales (2006). -21 73