Before he was a massive movie star and director, Ben Stiller had a very brief, four-episode run as a featured player on SNL in 1989. He was hired for his short film work but quickly grew frustrated with the constraints of the live show and left. A few years later, he created and starred in the Emmy-winning, critically acclaimed (but short-lived) The Ben Stiller Show, a program that better suited his cinematic, parody-driven comedic style. He went on, of course, to direct and star in huge comedy hits like Zoolander and Tropic Thunder, proving that his comedic vision was simply too specific to be contained by SNL.