Saturday Night Live (season 18)

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Saturday Night Live (season 18)
The title card for the eighteenth season of Saturday Night Live.
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 20
Release
Original network NBC
Original release September 26, 1992 (1992-09-26) – May 15, 1993 (1993-05-15)
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List of Saturday Night Live episodes

The eighteenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 26, 1992, and May 15, 1993.

Many changes happened before the start of the season. Long term cast member Victoria Jackson left the show after six seasons. Newer cast members Beth Cahill and Siobhan Fallon were both fired to make room in the cast.

Unlike the past two seasons Lorne Michaels did not hire any new cast members. Rob Schneider was upgraded to repertory status. Ellen Cleghorne, Tim Meadows, Adam Sandler, and David Spade remained in the middle category. Melanie Hutsell was promoted to the middle category. Robert Smigel remained as a featured cast member.

Long-term cast member Dana Carvey decided to leave the show mid season. This would also be the final season for Chris Rock and Robert Smigel.

After three years with the show, Rock decided to quit the show at the end of the season. Rock had become frustrated with never quite finding a voice on the show and wanted to instead focus on his stand-up career. Writer and featured player Smigel left to become the head writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, but would later return to the show in 1996 to write and produce the "TV Funhouse" cartoons.

This was also the last season to feature three separate categories for cast members. Starting next season, the show returned to the original "repertory" and "featured" cast lists.

This season was also home to one of SNL's most infamous moments: Sinéad O'Connor tore a photograph of Pope John Paul II at the end of her second performance on the episode hosted by Tim Robbins.

Due to the success of the film Wayne's World, Michaels decided it was a good idea to jump onto the popularity of the film and make more movies based on SNL characters. However, none would prove to be as successful as Wayne's World, critically or commercially.

Cast

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers

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Episodes

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No.
overall
No. in
season
Host Musical guest(s) Original air date
327 1 Nicolas Cage Bobby Brown September 26, 1992
328 2 Tim Robbins Sinéad O'Connor October 3, 1992
  • Sinéad O'Connor performs "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" and the Bob Marley song "War".[1][3]
  • At the end of her second song, "War", Sinéad O'Connor held up a picture of Pope John Paul II, exclaimed, "Fight the real enemy," and tore the picture to pieces. During the earlier rehearsal taping, O'Connor held up a picture of a starving African child before leaving the stage. Director Dave Wilson gave the order to not light up the audience applause light following "War," as he felt she had "railroaded" the crew and producers.[4] The segment marked one of only a few times that a sketch or performance ended with a quiet studio.[4] NBC received 4,484 complaints about O'Connor, and 725 calls supporting her.[5]
329 3 Joe Pesci The Spin Doctors October 10, 1992
330 4 Christopher Walken Arrested Development October 24, 1992
331 5 Catherine O'Hara 10,000 Maniacs October 31, 1992
332 6 Michael Keaton Morrissey November 14, 1992
333 7 Sinbad Sade November 21, 1992
334 8 Tom Arnold Neil Young December 5, 1992
335 9 Glenn Close The Black Crowes December 12, 1992
336 10 Danny DeVito Bon Jovi January 9, 1993
337 11 Harvey Keitel Madonna January 16, 1993
  • Madonna performs "Fever" and "Bad Girl".[1] During "Bad Girl," she imitated Sinéad O'Connor's actions from earlier in the season by ripping a photo and yelling "Fight the real enemy". The photo Madonna used, however, was of Joey Buttafuoco. She additionally appeared in the Clinton Inauguration sketch.
  • Guest appearance by Jan Hooks as Hillary Clinton.
338 12 Luke Perry Mick Jagger February 6, 1993
  • Dana Carvey's final episode as a cast member.
  • Guest appearances by Jan Hooks (as Hillary Clinton) and Giorgio Armani.
  • Mick Jagger appears on "Point/Counterpoint" on "Weekend Update" as Keith Richards (with Mike Myers playing Jagger) and also appears during the Prince Charles tampon sketch. He also performs "Sweet Thing" and "Don't Tear Me Up".[1]
339 13 Alec Baldwin Paul McCartney February 13, 1993
  • Paul McCartney performs "Get Out of My Way" and "Biker Like an Icon" from Off the Ground, as well as The Beatles song "Hey Jude."[1] McCartney appears during the monologue, the "Mimic" sketch, the "Chris Farley Show" sketch and Weekend Update.
  • Linda McCartney performs alongside Paul McCartney during the musical segments and appears during Weekend Update.
340 14 Bill Murray Sting February 20, 1993
341 15 John Goodman Mary J. Blige March 13, 1993
342 16 Miranda Richardson Soul Asylum March 20, 1993
343 17 Jason Alexander Peter Gabriel April 10, 1993
344 18 Kirstie Alley Lenny Kravitz April 17, 1993
345 19 Christina Applegate Midnight Oil May 8, 1993
346 20 Kevin Kline Willie Nelson & Paul Simon May 15, 1993

Special

Title Original air date
"SNL Presidential Bash" November 1, 1992
This special featured some of SNL's best political sketches throughout its 18-year run. Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman hosted the special as George Bush, Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, respectively. Sketches include "The Pepsi Syndrome", "Ask President Carter", "Debate '92", and "Stockdale's Joyride."

Coneheads film

Coneheads, a film based on the popular Coneheads sketches that appeared on the show in the 1970s, was released on July 23, 1993. Cast members Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Jon Lovitz, Michael McKean, Tim Meadows, Garret Morris, Kevin Nealon, Laraine Newman, Adam Sandler, David Spade, and Julia Sweeney all appear in the film. The film did not do well at the box office and was largely panned by critics.[citation needed]

References

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  4. 4.0 4.1 Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller, pp. 369-371.
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