Top 10 SNL Cast Members No. 7: Mike Myers

Over the next couple weeks (err, months), I'll be counting down my choices for the all time best cast members from Saturday Night Live, one of my favourite shows over the years.

Two certain criteria need to be met: 1) no cast members before 1990, because I didn't watch the show before that time, and 2) no members of the current cast, because it just isn't that good.

Mike Myers (1989-1995)

When I think back to when I first started watching the show, Mike Myers is the first cast member that comes to mind.

His characters are perhaps some of the most memorable in the show's history.

The was Wayne Campbell of course. The Wayne's World sketches always played toward me as a hockey loving Canadian kid, because Wayne was usually wearing a Blackhawks jersey and the sport got incorporated into the conversation more times than not. Not only that, but the skits were always good old juvenile fun.

There was "Coffee Talk" where Myers played host Linda Richman, a worried, stereotypical Jewish woman with a New York accent. The skit was predictable after a while, but then again aren't they all? "Grape Nuts... it contains neither grapes nor nuts... Discuss!"

A character I liked that only saw the light of two episodes was Phillip, a kid chained to a monkey bars set because he had "hyper hypo" disorder. Myers' facial expressions and great sense of physical humour in the Phillip character deserved more than two skits.

Of course there was also "Sprockets", the German talk show hosted by Dieter. Admittedly, this skit was a bit over my head as a 10-12 year old, but I found it hilarious watching Myers squirm in his black tight ensemble.

My favourite Myers character was without a doubt Simon, who hosted his own show from his bathtub. I can still hear Ryan Demille doing a bang on version of "Oh, you know my name is Simon...and I like to do drawrings.." in Mrs. Hair's P.E.C.I. drama class.