Any television show is hard work, but few work as hard as the cast and crew of "Saturday Night Live." Not only do they put on a live comedy show for millions of viewers, they do so week after week, barely catching their breath from one episode before they are back at it and planning the next. With this in mind, it seems a bit unfair how few "SNL" cast members have won Emmy awards for their work on the show. In fact, only four regular cast members in the entire history of the show have won an acting Emmy during their stint on the show (per Billboard) — and Dana Carvey is one of them.
The first to do so was Chevy Chase, followed shortly after by Gilda Radner. The latter got her award in 1978, and it would be a whopping 15 years before it would happen again. After getting nominated three previous times, Carvey finally won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety of Musical Program in 1993 for his work on "SNL." Even more remarkable is that, despite subsequent casts that included the likes of Will Ferrell, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, and Jason Sudeikis, it would take all the way until 2016 before the fourth regular "SNL" cast member would get an Emmy when Kate McKinnon won hers that year.
