Saturday Night Live season 24

*Saturday Night Live*
Saturday Night Live
Season 24
No. of episodes	19
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 26, 1998 –; May 15, 1999
Season chronology
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	List of episodes

Last updated September 09, 2025

Cast

Before the start of the season, Jim Breuer, who had been a cast member for three seasons since 1995, left the show on his own terms.^[1] Following Breuer's departure, the show added three new featured players: stand-up comedian Jimmy Fallon,^[2]^[3] Chris Parnell, a performer with The Groundlings in Los Angeles, and Upright Citizens Brigade and Second City performer Horatio Sanz.^[1]

Starting with this season, every new cast member is hired as a featured player before being promoted to Repertory; additionally, all featured players are credited for every episode, whether they appear or not.

Fallon, Parnell, and Sanz were all also promoted to repertory status during the following season.

Following the finale, no changes were made to the cast, and everyone returned for the next season.

Cast roster

Repertory players

Featured players

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers

T. Sean Shannon joins the writing staff.^[4] This was also Adam McKay's last season as head writer, but he would return to the show the next season.^[5]

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest(s)	Original release date
447	1	Cameron Diaz	The Smashing Pumpkins	September 26, 1998 (1998-09-26)
The Smashing Pumpkins performs "Perfect" and appeared in the Roxbury Guys sketch. John Goodman made a cameo appearance as Linda Tripp during the cold open. Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins, who performed musical interludes in Diaz's film There's Something About Mary , made a cameo appearance after the "What Does That Smell Like" sketch. Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin reprise their roles as The Festrunk Brothers (a.k.a. "The Wild and Crazy Guys") during the Roxbury Guys sketch. Jimmy Fallon, Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz's first episode as cast members (they are not credited as such, however, until the next episode).
448	2	Kelsey Grammer	Sheryl Crow	October 3, 1998 (1998-10-03)
Sheryl Crow performs "My Favorite Mistake" with Wendy Melvoin. Shaquille O'Neal appeared in two sketches: "Big Bernard," about an overgrown man who comes home late and receives a spanking from his father (played by Tracy Morgan), and "Morning Latte" as himself. He was initially intended to be the host of the episode, but had to back out due to unknown scheduling conflicts. Guest appearances by Christine Baranski, Hal Linden and Patti Lupone, who were in the "Wet 'em Down!" sketch
449	3	Lucy Lawless	Elliott Smith	October 17, 1998 (1998-10-17)
Elliott Smith performs "Waltz #2". Chucky, the possessed doll from Bride of Chucky and related films, made a guest appearance on "Weekend Update", albeit voiced by another person. Judge Judy appeared as herself in a sketch in which she is being mocked by Cheri Oteri. Writer and future cast member Tina Fey appears during the monologue. Michael Richards was originally to host but dropped out.
450	4	Ben Stiller	Alanis Morissette	October 24, 1998 (1998-10-24)
Alanis Morissette performs "Thank U" and "Baba". New York Yankees players David Cone, Chili Davis, Graeme Lloyd, Tino Martinez and David Wells appeared in the opening monologue.
451	5	David Spade	Eagle-Eye Cherry	November 7, 1998 (1998-11-07)
Eagle-Eye Cherry performs "Save Tonight". Brad Pitt appeared in the cold opening where David Spade visits his therapist (played by Pitt) about his overwhelming fame. Former cast member Chris Rock cameoed in a Mango sketch as an admirer of a new dancer named Kiwi (played by David Spade).
452	6	Joan Allen	Jewel	November 14, 1998 (1998-11-14)
Jewel performs "Hands" and "Down So Long". John Goodman made a cameo in a Suel Forrester Sketch.
453	7	Jennifer Love Hewitt	Beastie Boys	November 21, 1998 (1998-11-21)
Beastie Boys performs "Three MC's and One DJ" and "Sabotage". Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz made a cameo appearance during the Spartan Cheerleaders sketch as Jennifer Love Hewitt's character's boyfriend. Hewitt's co-star in the I Know What You Did Last Summer films, Muse Watson, made a cameo during the monologue as his character Ben Willis. John Goodman made a cameo in the cold open as Linda Tripp.
454	8	Vince Vaughn	Lauryn Hill	December 5, 1998 (1998-12-05)
Lauryn Hill performs "Doo Wop (That Thing)" and "Ex-Factor".
455	9	Alec Baldwin	Luciano Pavarotti Vanessa Williams Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale	December 12, 1998 (1998-12-12)
Luciano Pavarotti and Vanessa Williams performs "Adeste Fideles". Vanessa Williams also appeared as a 'Kwanzette' during Weekend Update while Tim Meadows sings a song about Kwanzaa with Janice Pendarvis. John Goodman had a cameo appearance during Baldwin's monologue and in the "Bill Brasky" sketch featuring Goodman, Will Ferrell, and Alec Baldwin as drunken businessmen.
456	10	Bill Paxton	Beck	January 9, 1999 (1999-01-09)
Beck performs "Nobody's Fault but My Own" and "Tropicalia". He also appeared in the Behind the Music Fat Albert parody sketch. Titanic director James Cameron had a pre-recorded cameo in a sketch parodying his film. Debbie Matenopoulos appeared as herself in a parody of The View .
457	11	James Van Der Beek	Everlast	January 16, 1999 (1999-01-16)
Everlast performs "What It's Like". Colin Quinn's last pre-Weekend Update monologue. Darrell Hammond imitated an absent Don Pardo as announcer, particularly in a two-part running gag where 'Don Pardo' (Darrell Hammond) tries to seduce Van Der Beek.
458	12	Gwyneth Paltrow	Barenaked Ladies	February 6, 1999 (1999-02-06)
Barenaked Ladies performs "It's All Been Done". Ben Affleck cameoed in Paltrow's opening monologue. Writer and future cast member Tina Fey appeared during the monologue.
459	13	Brendan Fraser	Busta Rhymes The Roots	February 13, 1999 (1999-02-13)
Busta Rhymes and The Roots performs "Gimme Some More" and "Tear da Roof Off". John Goodman cameos as Linda Tripp during the cold open. Former SNL writer/featured player Tom Davis appeared in the monologue. George Plimpton appears after the "Shut Up and Enjoy the Ozzy" sketch.
460	14	Bill Murray	Lucinda Williams	February 20, 1999 (1999-02-20)
Lucinda Williams performs "Can't Let Go" and "2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten". Former castmember (and co-star of Caddyshack ) Chevy Chase appeared in the "Quotable Caddyshack" sketch to re-enact his one scene with Bill Murray. Stephanie Seymour cameoed in the "Ladies Man" cold open. Rebroadcasts the "Swill" commercial parody from Season 3 (10/08/1977), starring Bill Murray.
461	15	Ray Romano	The Corrs	March 13, 1999 (1999-03-13)
The Corrs performs "What Can I Do?" and "So Young". Romano's Everybody Loves Raymond co-stars, Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, made cameo appearances during the monologue, in which Boyle discussed his time as host in the 1970s and Roberts discussed her role in My Giant .
462	16	Drew Barrymore	Garbage	March 20, 1999 (1999-03-20)
Garbage performs "Special" and "When I Grow Up". Edward Norton cameoed in a VH1 commercial parody as Daryl Dragon.
463	17	John Goodman	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	April 10, 1999 (1999-04-10)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers performs "Swingin'" and "Room at the Top". Writer and future cast member Tina Fey appears as a fake audience member interrupting the host during the monologue. Dana Carvey was originally to host this episode with Goodman hosting an April 17th episode. But due to NBC budget cuts, that episode was cancelled and Goodman ended up hosting this episode.
464	18	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Ricky Martin	May 8, 1999 (1999-05-08)
Ricky Martin performs "Livin' la Vida Loca". Monica Lewinsky made a special appearance in the cold open where Bill Clinton (played by Darrell Hammond) imagines life after his presidency, and in a sketch with Tim Meadows' Ladies Man character. John Goodman makes a voice-only guest appearance as Linda Tripp in the "Ladies Man" sketch.
465	19	Sarah Michelle Gellar	Backstreet Boys	May 15, 1999 (1999-05-15)
Backstreet Boys performs "I Want It That Way" and "All I Have to Give". David Boreanaz, Howie Dorough (from the Backstreet Boys) and Seth Green cameoed in the recurring sketch, "Tiger Beat's Ultra Super Duper Dreamy Love Show".

Specials

"Goat Boy leaves the herd as three join 'SNL' cast". Record-Journal. August 14, 1998. p. 2. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

↑ Bloch, Judd (November 2000). "Saturday Night Special". Spin . pp. 137–138. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

↑ Levy, Ariel (October 18, 1999). "Not Jerry Seinfeld". New York Magazine. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

↑ "Cameron Diaz/The Smashing Pumpkins". Saturday Night Live. Season 24. Episode 01. September 26, 1998. Event occurs at Closing credits. NBC.

↑ "Jerry Seinfeld/David Bowie". Saturday Night Live. Season 25. Episode 01. October 2, 1999. Event occurs at Closing credits. NBC.

↑ "Weekend Box Office". Los Angeles Times. October 6, 1998. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

↑ "A Night at the Roxbury". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

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