Dan Aykroyd

He was good in the skits, but didn't really carry them. I think if it weren't for those he worked alongside, such as Belushi, he wouldn't have been as successful.

Like Jon Lovitz Phil Hartman, Nora Dunn, Mike Meyers, Molly Shannon and maybe Will Ferrell he was a great ensemble player. Although SNL is to some degree looked upon as a launching pad for film careers, it's best work has always been as a skit comedy showcase. In the later decades it became a lazy format of repeat characters and shtick but the original style was more freewheeling and Ackroyd's ability to play the everyman, the oddball, the political impersonation, the weird concept like the Coneheads, Wild and Crazy Guys, Blues Brothers, ethnic guys in the burger joint were the best of the early years. And although he was never considered a superstar movie lead, his film resume probably out performed any of the SNL Alumnus at the box office.

One of the top five of all time on SNL. Brilliant guy that has made some bad choices for his movie selections. Although he did a convincing Joe Friday in Dragnet. And yes, the Bass-O-Matic bit was a classic for sure.

Jane you ignorant slut. Another good straight man

"You'll be spending the night with Fred Garvin, male prostitute." That is my favorite line of all-time. Akroyd was great.

Oh Dan, what happened to you? The five-star rating is strickly for his work on SNL in the 70s. I think aliens abducted the real Dan sometime after his time on SNL to entertain them, and left us with a lame impersonator.

The best writer and performer the show has ever had.

pretty damn funny, i hear he has ausbergers

He was pretty good on SNL. But, I lost all respect for him when I saw him make an absolute fool out of himself by attempting to fill Bill Murray's groundskeeper role in CaddyShack II, which may be the worst sequel ever.

Strong cast member.

I can't believe some of the comments...he never made me laugh. HUH?? This guy was (notice tense--his recent movies didn't cut it for me) hysterical on SNL! How can you not laugh at E. Buzz Miller, his Julia Child skit, Fred Garvin--Male Prostitute, his Richard Nixon??

Creepy and not funny. But wife Donna Dixon is very attractive.

I have never thought him to be funny----at all!

his wife in that spy movie..what nice boobs!!!

His impersonation of Nixon was the best!

danny is an angel. hes a real person unlike most of hollywood. he was also a dedicated best friend of john belushi. elwood is a doll, ray stantz is a delight. his work in snl was phenominal. this man has done more for blues music than anybody else...he revitalized it from the depths of oblivion. he wrote most of the old skits for snl himself and wrote the blues brothers and ghostbusters skits. hes a genius. i hope he contacts belushi with all his paranormal research someday...that would be awesome. i will always love these two 'brothers.' they really were brothers in more than just the blues sense. they did everything together and had plans to grow old together...but it was aykroyd that had to play 2000 pound bee first.

Was great on show,loved the commericals.

Great on this show, not so great since then. He can still hang, but most of the time he's hanging-on. He's had more ups and downs than a see saw.

Was without question, the back bone of the original, and still best cast. whether it was acting as m.c. of some game show, or spokesperson of a commercial, or second banana to bellushi or someone else in a sketch, he was genuinely hilarious. I still use my Bass-O-Matic, to this day!

Refridgerator repairman and The Chinch Ranch!

Probably the best of the bunch. Also the best writer. Look to Dragnet, Spies Like Us, and Ghostbusters for proof. And of course Blues Brothers.

His stuff was good, it's too bad he felt the need to work after SNL (just garbage)

Though he wasn't the backbone of the show, he was a valuable asset with his Conehead skits and who could ever forget Bass-O-Matic? A timeless skit.

The Bag O' Glass skit alone gives him five stars. He's done a lot of other funny stuff as well. Why can't we have more members like this now?

Dan Akroyd was one of the members of the original cast, and I must say that he was one of the lesser of them. His characters were funny at times, and annoying at others. His Blues Brothers character was plain old stupid to the core of the earth, while his others could be fairly amusing.

JANE, you ignorant slut! LOL!!!! Damn that felt good.

He is a legend to the older generation of SNL fans that leaves the newer generation without a lot of laughs. He comes from an era where he was the best, but we look for more slapstick nowadays. So he's simply alright.

Great a developing and creating characters.

Maybe I'm letting his post-SNL career affect me, but Aykroyd, while funny on SNL, just didn't seem to be on the same level as Belushi, Murray, Martin, and Chase. Still, I did like the Bass-o-Matic commercial, and he made a good Conehead.

Bass-o-matic.