There's an old adage that you think the Saturday Night Live cast of your college years is what you will always consider to be the benchmark of humor and "the best of the casts" as you grow old and cynical. For me, the exception to that rule is Bill Hader, today's birthday boy at the ripe old age of 38. He came after my college years, but he brought it. Week in and week out.
Whether you are familiar with him as Lindsey Buckingham on "What's Up With That?", Stefon, or perhaps the greatest character created, war vet Anthony Peter Coleman, odds are you've enjoyed a chuckle or two at Hader's expense, like this:
ALF was awesome.