After six years, he retired from Saturday Night Live in 1995 and took a two-year hiatus from acting. He produced eight SNL spin-off movies in the following eight years, as well as several others, like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep which starred SNL cast members but didn't have their roots in sketches.Īt the same time, Myers' star had continued to rise. It was an immediate and immense success – grossing $181 million against a budget of $20 million and spawning a sequel the following year – which convinced Michaels that he could make a move into the film world. The first of these, in 1992, was Wayne's World. With his talent for falling completely into character and ability to create sketches that could support longer storylines, Myers was a natural choice for the spin-off films that SNL producer Lorne Michaels had begun to envision. These included the aforementioned Wayne Campbell ('Wayne's World') and Dieter ('Sprockets'), along with Linda Richman ('Coffee Talk'), Stuart Rankin ('All Things Scottish') and many more. Within eighteen months of his debut on Saturday Night Live, Myers had become one of the most popular cast members and had a large number of recurring bits on the show.
