'Saturday Night Live': 13 memorable stars

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Life after 'SNL'Andy SambergKristen WiigAmy PoehlerTina FeyJimmy FallonWill FerrellAdam SandlerPhil HartmanEddie MurphyBill MurrayDan AykroydJohn BelushiChevy Chase

<strong>Years on the show:</strong> 1991-95 (started as a writer in 1990)
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<strong>Memorable role:</strong> Opera Man
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<strong>Away from "SNL":</strong> Adam Sandler went on to make a string of hit movies in the mid- to late 1990s — notably "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore" — and started Happy Madison Productions in 1999. Most recently, he returned to the silver screen this year with fellow "SNL" alumnus Andy Samberg in "That's My Boy," which critics widely panned.
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Adam Sandler

( Valerie Macon / AFP/Getty Images, NBC / July 17, 2012 )

Years on the show: 1991-95 (started as a writer in 1990)
Memorable role: Opera Man
Away from "SNL": Adam Sandler went on to make a string of hit movies in the mid- to late 1990s — notably "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore" — and started Happy Madison Productions in 1999. Most recently, he returned to the silver screen this year with fellow "SNL" alumnus Andy Samberg in "That's My Boy," which critics widely panned.

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