Saturday Night Live has catapulted the careers of many of today's most popular comedians, including Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Adam Sandler and Bill Hader. Murphy, for his part, appeared as a cast member from 1980 to 1984. He went on to become a lucrative movie star. The Nutty Professor star briefly returned to Saturday Night Live in 2015 for the show's 40th anniversary special. However, he did not take the Studio 8H stage by force again until December 2019, when he hosted an episode that earned him his first Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.