| Saturday Night Live | |
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| Season 19 | |
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| No. of episodes | 20 |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 25, 1993 – May 14, 1994 |
| Season chronology | |
The nineteenth season of Saturday Night Live , an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 25, 1993, and May 14, 1994.
Many changes happened before the start of the season.
Dana Carvey had left the show in the middle of the previous season. Chris Rock [1] and Robert Smigel [2] also left the show at the end of the previous season. Ellen Cleghorne, Melanie Hutsell, Tim Meadows, Adam Sandler, and David Spade were all promoted to repertory status. Stand-up comics Norm Macdonald, Jay Mohr and Sarah Silverman were hired as writers and would debut as featured players, a few episodes into the season. Veteran comic actor Michael McKean joined the show mid-season as a repertory cast member. [3] At age 46, McKean was the oldest person to join the cast of the show, a distinction he held until Leslie Jones became a cast member (at age 47) in 2014.
This would be the final season for longtime cast members Phil Hartman, [4] [5] Rob Schneider, Julia Sweeney and Melanie Hutsell. [2] This was also the only season for Sarah Silverman. [6]
A major blow for the show was the departure of Hartman. Before his final show the entire cast and crew presented him with a bronzed stick of glue, symbolizing how he had become "The Glue" of the show, a term coined by Adam Sandler. [7]
This was the final season to show StereoSurround captioning during the opening montage.
This is also the first season to feature the show returning to the original "repertory" and "featured" cast lists since Season 15.
Repertory players
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bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
| No. overall | No. in season | Host(s) | Musical guest | Original air date | |
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| 347 | 1 | Charles Barkley | Nirvana | September 25, 1993 | |
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| 348 | 2 | Shannen Doherty | Cypress Hill | October 2, 1993 | |
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| 349 | 3 | Jeff Goldblum | Aerosmith | October 9, 1993 | |
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| 350 | 4 | John Malkovich | Billy Joel | October 23, 1993 | |
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| 351 | 5 | Christian Slater | The Smashing Pumpkins | October 30, 1993 | |
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| 352 | 6 | Rosie O'Donnell | James Taylor | November 13, 1993 | |
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| 353 | 7 | Nicole Kidman | Stone Temple Pilots | November 20, 1993 | |
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| 354 | 8 | Charlton Heston | Paul Westerberg | December 4, 1993 | |
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| 355 | 9 | Sally Field | Tony! Toni! Toné! | December 11, 1993 | |
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| 356 | 10 | Jason Patric | Blind Melon | January 8, 1994 | |
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| 357 | 11 | Sara Gilbert | Counting Crows | January 15, 1994 | |
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| 358 | 12 | Patrick Stewart | Salt-N-Pepa | February 5, 1994 | |
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| 359 | 13 | Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger | UB40 | February 12, 1994 | |
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| 360 | 14 | Martin Lawrence | Crash Test Dummies | February 19, 1994 | |
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| 361 | 15 | Nancy Kerrigan | Aretha Franklin | March 12, 1994 | |
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| 362 | 16 | Helen Hunt | Snoop Doggy Dogg | March 19, 1994 | |
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| 363 | 17 | Kelsey Grammer | Dwight Yoakam | April 9, 1994 | |
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| 364 | 18 | Emilio Estevez | Pearl Jam | April 16, 1994 | |
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| 365 | 19 | John Goodman | The Pretenders | May 7, 1994 | |
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| 366 | 20 | Heather Locklear | Janet Jackson | May 14, 1994 | |
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| # | Special | Original airdate | |
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| 1 | "The President's Favorite Moments" | May 17, 1994 | |
Wayne's World 2, the sequel to the 1992 hit Wayne's World , was released on December 10, 1993. Based on the popular "Wayne's World" sketches, the film stars cast members Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Mike Myers and Harry Shearer. SNL writers Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel have brief cameos as concert nerds. The film did not do as well at the box office as its predecessor, grossing less than half of what the original did. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with Roger Ebert calling the characters of Wayne and Garth "impossible to dislike". [12]
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