The Best David Spade Characters

Updated March 15, 2024 30 items

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We’re ranking David Spade’s greatest characters. As an actor, comic, and Saturday Night Live alumni, David Spade landed his first movie role in 1987’s Police Academy 4. After starring in a string of great comedies in the early ‘90s, including Coneheads, Reality Bites, and PCU, he teamed up with fellow SNL cast member Chris Farley for 1995’s hilarious hit Tommy Boy and again in ‘96 for Black Sheep.

Usually typecast as the tongue-in-cheek middleman, David Spade's also an accomplished voice actor. Voicing Emperor Kuzco in the Emperor’s New Groove and Griffin the Invisible Man in the Hotel Transylvania series, his characters are known for having a certain sarcastic charm. Which of David Spade’s characters is your favorite? Whether you prefer him as Shiloh in Grandma’s Boy, scrappy Joe in Joe Dirt, or know-it-all Dennis Finch in the NBC series Just Shoot Me, make your voice heard below.

Vote up David Spade’s best characters to see which performance is his most popular.

1
Emperor Kuzco
The Emperor's New Groove , Kronk's New Groove
26 votes
2000, 2005
2
Joe Dirt
Joe Dirt
29 votes
2001
3
Marcus Higgins
Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2
15 votes
2010,
4
Griffin the Invisible Man
Hotel Transylvania 1, 2, 3
13 votes
2012, 2015, 2018
5
Richie Goodman
The Benchwarmers
14 votes
2006
6
Richard Hayden
Tommy Boy
21 votes
1995
7
Dennis Finch
Just Shoot Me!
17 votes
1997-2003
8
Eli Turnbull
Coneheads
11 votes
1993
9
Groupie
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
10 votes
2007
10
Steve Dodds
Black Sheep
12 votes
1996