Decades after the Griswold celebrated Christmas in the 1989 holiday hit National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, audiences around the world still enjoy (and relate to) the family’s tortured enthusiasm for the holidays. Christmas Vacation‘s gags and perfectly-timed punchlines make it an American classic that really does just keep on giving. While the memorable characters are forever frozen in time (along with daughter Audrey’s eyeballs and lower limbs), Snakkle finds out what happened to the actors who played them so well.

Comedies have recently ruled the big and small screens, and we love the talented comedians that make us laugh! Take a look at your favorite funnymen and -women long before they had us caring about Pawnee, Borat, and late-night shenanigans.