Movies Ranking Mike Myers' best characters By Nivea Serrao and Eric King Updated on July 23, 2022 11:09AM EDT Trending Videos Close this video player The many faces—and voices—of Mike Myers Everett Collection( 2); Eddy Chen/ABC Mike Myers is no stranger to playing someone outlandish. The Saturday Night Live alum has been gracing audiences with eccentric characters for decades. In his Netflix comedy series, The Pentaverate, Myers takes on a whopping eight roles over six episodes. In honor of his continued commitment to inhabiting peculiar persons (and ogres…), EW ranks Myers' best characters. 10. Pitka (The Love Guru, 2008) Mike Myers in 'The Love Guru'. Everett Collection Even Myers admits this character was a major stinker—he quipped in a 2014 episode of SNL, "If you really want to put a bomb in the theater, do what I did: Put in The Love Guru." In the film, Pitka is an American raised by gurus in India who wants to make a name for himself in the self-help business. In addition to the film's cringe-worthy appropriation of Indian culture and guru tradition, Myers' timing feels awkward, and the performance falls flat. 9. The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat, 2003) Everett Collection Myers' version of the Seussian character had the popular anthropomorphic feline sporting a Brooklyn accent—which probably isn't exactly what Massachusetts native Dr. Seuss had in mind. 8. Phillip (Saturday Night Live, 1993–94) Raymond Bonar/Getty Images Myers' 6-year-old character was hyperactive, hypoglycemic, and, thanks to his sense of comedic timing, hyper-hilarious. 7. Simon (Saturday Night Live, 1990) Alan Singer/Getty Images Myers debuted his SNL character Simon, a British child in a bathtub with a penchant for drawings (or, as he would call them, draw-rings), during the show's 16th season. Throughout his five sketches, Simon is sometimes alone in the tub, sometimes accompanied by a friend, but always neglected by his father. 6. Linda Richman (Saturday Night Live, 1991–94) Norman Ng/Getty Images Another iconic SNL caricature from Myers is the host of the public access show Coffee Talk, a.k.a. "Cawfee Tawk." Myers based the character of Linda Richman, a Jewish woman with a Brooklyn accent, on his real-life mother-in-law, also named Linda Richman. The character frequently uses totally made-up Yiddish-sounding phrases like, "He had developed shpilkes in his genecktecessoink," and "Oy vey, schmear, I think it's a shanda in a chuppah." 5. Dieter (Saturday Night Live, 1989–93) NBC/Getty Images German minimalist artist Dieter hosts a talk show called Sprockets, on which he implores every guest to touch his pet monkey. Although Myers made Dieter popular on SNL, he actually developed the character during his Second City days in the '80s. 4. Shrek (Shrek, 2001) Everett Collection Fans are still quoting Myers' computer-animated green ogre decades after the first Shrek film hit theaters. It may have helped that the DreamWorks film and its sequels were send-ups of popular fairy tale tropes, but Myers' gruff Scottish brogue anchored Shrek and helped viewers fall in love with Donkay. 3. Austin Powers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, 1997) Everett Collection Myers first debuted his James Bond spoof in 1997 and would go on to play the party-happy, womanizing British spy in two more movies. The "randy" role proved so successful, EW has since ranked it as No. 23 on our list of the 100 greatest characters of the '90s and 2000s. 2. Wayne Campbell (Wayne's World, 1992) Everett Collection Having one breakout SNL character is impressive enough, but Myers' lovable metalhead Wayne Campbell (along with Dana Carvey's Garth Algar) would go on to spawn two feature films and a slew of popular catchphrases. Excellent. 1. Dr. Evil (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, 1997) Everett Collection Not Mr. Evil, because, "I didn't spend six years in evil medical school to be called 'Mister,' thank you very much." He's the archnemesis of Austin Powers over the course of the franchise's three movies, but for an evil genius, he's actually pretty thick. His world-domination antics ("sharks with friggin' laser beams attached to their heads"), constant ridicule of his non-evil adult son, and the infamous pinky-to-lip face made him even funnier than the movie's hero, also played by Myers. According to previous SNL staffers, the character is almost entirely based on an impression of SNL boss Lorne Michaels...even the pinky.