Saturday Night Live (season 18)

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Saturday Night Live
Season 18
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No. of episodes20
Release
Original network NBC
Original releaseSeptember 26, 1992 (1992-09-26) 
May 15, 1993 (1993-05-15)
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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.

Contents

Cast

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. 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 and Robert Smigel stayed a featured player.

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

After three years with the show, Chris Rock quit at the end of the season. Writer and featured player Robert Smigel left to become the head writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien .

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 singing performance.

Cast roster

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
HostMusical guest(s)Original air date
3271 Nicolas Cage Bobby Brown September 26, 1992 (1992-09-26)

  • Bobby Brown performs "Humpin' Around" and "Good Enough". [1] [2] Bobby Brown also appeared in the "Queen Shenequa Show" sketch.
  • Jan Hooks appears in the cold open and the "Nightline" sketch.
  • Cher appears during "Weekend Update".
  • One of the final sketches of the night is a satire of the famous Murphy Brown episode that aired that week responding to Dan Quayle's comments. Lorne Michaels does a cold open to the camera explaining that Dan Quayle had, during their summer hiatus, criticized the Rob Schneider running character "Mr. Casual Sex", and they would now like to respond the joke being that this character had never existed until that moment, though he has an introductory theme song. This is followed by a sketch of Mr. Casual Sex being criticized for his morality, followed by endless pedantic jokes about the spelling of potato, and culminating in Mr. Casual Sex being joined by an array of men who like casual sex to proudly stand up to Dan Quayle (a la the ending of the Murphy Brown episode).
3282 Tim Robbins Sinéad O'Connor October 3, 1992 (1992-10-03)

  • Sinéad O'Connor performs "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" and the Bob Marley song "War". [1] [3]
  • After four minutes of a capella during Sinéad O'Connor's second song, "War", she exclaims "child abuse" several times and then holds up a picture of Pope John Paul II, and says, "Fight the real enemy," tearing the picture to pieces. During the earlier rehearsal taping, Sinéad 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, which aired nearly a decade before the world became fully aware of the prolific sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church, 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]
  • Susan Sarandon appears during the goodnights.
3293 Joe Pesci Spin Doctors October 10, 1992 (1992-10-10)

3304 Christopher Walken Arrested Development October 24, 1992 (1992-10-24)

3315 Catherine O'Hara 10,000 Maniacs October 31, 1992 (1992-10-31)

3326 Michael Keaton Morrissey November 14, 1992 (1992-11-14)

3337 Sinbad Sade November 21, 1992 (1992-11-21)

3348 Tom Arnold Neil Young December 5, 1992 (1992-12-05)

3359 Glenn Close The Black Crowes December 12, 1992 (1992-12-12)

  • The Black Crowes performs "Sometimes Salvation" and "Non-Fiction". [1]
  • Jon Lovitz cameos during "Weekend Update".
  • Mary Beth Hurt appears in the "Lesbian Christmas Party" sketch.
  • Dana Carvey is absent from this episode.
33610 Danny DeVito Bon Jovi January 9, 1993 (1993-01-09)

33711 Harvey Keitel Madonna January 16, 1993 (1993-01-16)

33812 Luke Perry Mick Jagger February 6, 1993 (1993-02-06)

  • Mick Jagger performs "Sweet Thing" and "Don't Tear Me Up". [1] He also appears on "Weekend Update" as Keith Richards and during the "Tampon Prince" sketch.
  • Jan Hooks (as Hillary Clinton) and Giorgio Armani (as himself) appear in the cold open.
  • Dana Carvey's final episode as a cast member.
  • This episode re-aired on March 9, 2019 as a tribute to Luke Perry, who had died five days earlier.
33913 Alec Baldwin Paul McCartney February 13, 1993 (1993-02-13)

  • 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] Paul 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".
34014 Bill Murray Sting February 20, 1993 (1993-02-20)

34115 John Goodman Mary J. Blige March 13, 1993 (1993-03-13)

  • Mary J. Blige performs "Reminisce" and "Sweet Thing". [1] Blige's mother Cora appears during the goodnights.
  • The Bravados appear during the monologue.
34216 Miranda Richardson Soul Asylum March 20, 1993 (1993-03-20)

34317 Jason Alexander Peter Gabriel April 10, 1993 (1993-04-10)

34418 Kirstie Alley Lenny Kravitz April 17, 1993 (1993-04-17)

34519 Christina Applegate Midnight Oil May 8, 1993 (1993-05-08)

34620 Kevin Kline Willie Nelson & Paul Simon May 15, 1993 (1993-05-15)

Specials

TitleOriginal air date
"SNL Presidential Bash"November 1, 1992 (1992-11-01)
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".
"2nd Annual Saturday Night Live Mother's Day Special"May 9, 1993 (1993-05-09)
A Mother's Day special featuring the SNL ensemble with their real-life mothers as well as a compilation of sketches from the 1992-93 season. [8] Includes guest appearances by David Dinkins, George Steinbrenner, Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Gifford, Larry Gatlin, and Donald Trump. [9]

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, Peter 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 ]

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