Saturday Night Live has been bringing us live comedy and music for 47 years now. One of the things the show is known for is recurring characters. If a new idea becomes a hit, which is iffy at best, that character will be brought back again and again, until the person behind that character leaves the show or gets a full-length movie based on the character. Where do those character ideas come from? They are often drawn from real-life people, which is why the best of them are so relatable.

Some character stories we might never know about. We can't ask John Belushi about the origins of Samurai Delicatessen, but we can read about <a href="https://www.cracked.com/image-pictofact-6067-behind-the-scenes-beginnings-of-14-iconic-snl-characters" class="on">the inspirations behind 14 recurring characters made famous by SNL</a> in a pictofacts post at Cracked.&nbsp; #SNL #SaturdayNightLive #recurringcharacter