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Season 18

Saturday Night Live

Season 18

  • 1992

Saturday Night Live aired its eighteenth season during the 1992-1993 television season on NBC. The eighteenth season began on September 26, 1992, and ended on May 15, 1993.

Many changes happened before the start of the season. Long term cast member Victoria Jackson left the show after 6 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. Ellen Cleghorne, Melanie Hutsell, Tim Meadows, Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel and David Spade stayed as featured players. Rob Schneider was upgraded to repertory status.

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

  1. Episode 1 Nicolas Cage/Bobby Brown September 28, 1992, 1 h 7 min Sketches include ""Husbands and Wives,"" ""Tiny Elvis,"" ""Nightline,"" ""Baby Names,"" and ""The Queen Shenequa Show"".
  2. Tim Robbins/Sinead O’Connor Episode 2 Tim Robbins/Sinead O’Connor October 3, 1992, 1 h 7 min Live from New York, it's...Dana Carvey Sketches include: Perot '92, Caracci's Pizza, The Founding Fathers, Sunday Morning Videos, That's Not Yogurt, The Tori Spelling Show, Larry King Live, Cooking With…
  3. Episode 3 Joe Pesci/Spin Doctors October 10, 1992, 1 h 7 min Sketches include ""Debate '92,"" ""Pinky Ringery,"" ""Single White Person,"" ""Bullies on the Steps,"" and ""Zoriada annoys Joe Pesci."" Spin Doctors perform ""Jimmy Olson's Blues.""
  4. Christopher Walken/Arrested Development Episode 4 Christopher Walken/Arrested Development October 24, 1992, 1 h 7 min Sketches include ""Jiffy Express,"" ""Ed Closser, Trivial Psychic,"" ""Sinead O'Connor's Goodtime Happy Jamboree,"" ""The Continental,"" ""An Apology From Sinead O'Connor,"" ""It's Pat,"" ""Deep Thoughts By Jack Handey,"" ""Perot gets rid…
  5. Catherine O’Hara/10,000 Maniacs Episode 5 Catherine O’Hara/10,000 Maniacs October 31, 1992, 1 h 7 min ""Perot's Press Conference and the Republican Dirty Tricks"", ""Ass Don't Smell Commercial: The Name Says It All"", ""The Richmeister's Halloween Encounter with Death"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Weekend Update…
  6. Michael Keaton/Morrissey Episode 6 Michael Keaton/Morrissey November 14, 1992, 1 h 7 min ""George Bush Loses The Election to Clinton"", ""Hibernol Commercial: It Knocks Your Cold Out, While You're Out Cold"", ""Training the New, Socially Impaired Elevator Guy"", ""The First (Oscar-like) Annual Gutenberg…
  7. Sinbad/Sade Episode 7 Sinbad/Sade November 21, 1992, 1 h 7 min Sketches include ""George Bush and Bill Clinton,"" ""Homosexuals at War,"" ""At Home with Monica,"" ""Blacula,"" ""Gilligan's Bioshpere,"" ""Superman's Funeral,"" and ""The Proud Pattersons.""
  8. Tom Arnold/Neil Young Episode 8 Tom Arnold/Neil Young December 5, 1992, 1 h 7 min ""Wayne's World presents: Top Ten Things we love about Clinton"", ""Sex and Peer Pressure at Valley High, a PBS Afterschool Special"", ""Clinton's exercising at a fast food joint"", ""Bill Swerski's…
  9. Glenn Close/The Black Crowes Episode 9 Glenn Close/The Black Crowes December 12, 1992, 1 h 7 min Sketches include ""The Queen of England,"" ""Coffee Talk with Linda Richman,"" ""Michael Eisner,"" ""What's the Best Way?,"" and ""Drumming on Your Stomach.""
  10. Danny DeVito/Bon Jovi Episode 10 Danny DeVito/Bon Jovi January 9, 1993, 1 h 7 min ""The Super Fans Formally Express Their Anger Via Letter: Ditka is fired"", ""BBC1 Presents Simon! - Special Guest: A Foul-Mouthed, Middle-Aged Italian American"", ""The Fourth Amy Fisher Story on Fox:…
  11. Harvey Keitel/Madonna Episode 11 Harvey Keitel/Madonna January 16, 1993, 1 h 7 min Sketches include, ""It's Pat"", ""Subway Transit Authority"", ""The Bathroom Attendant"", ""In or Out The Cab"", ""Deep Thoughts"", ""Unforzen Caveman Lawyer,"", and ""The Insane Deer Hunter"".
  12. Luke Perry/Mick Jagger Episode 12 Luke Perry/Mick Jagger February 6, 1993, 1 h 7 min Sketches include ""Clintons Meet Wrestlers,"" ""Prince Charles is a Tampon,"" ""Dumb Yard Boy,"" ""Magic Fish Meeting,"" ""SNL Halftime Special,"" ""High School Liar's Club,"" ""Sassy,"" ""Queen Shenequa,"" and ""Country Boy Leaves…
  13. Alec Baldwin/Paul McCartney Episode 13 Alec Baldwin/Paul McCartney February 13, 1993, 1 h 7 min Sketches include ""Dateline NBC,"" ""The Mimic,"" ""The Chris Farley Show,"" ""Soap Opera Digest,"" ""Gap Girls,"" ""Naked Woman Theater,"" ""Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley,"" ""The Bodyguard,"" and ""French Class"".
  14. Bill Murray/Sting Episode 14 Bill Murray/Sting February 20, 1993, 1 h 7 min Sketches include: ""Bill Clinton,"" ""Hibernol,"" ""The Whipmaster,"" ""Frequent Flyer,"" ""I'm Chillin',"" ""Tommy Two-Tap,"" ""Coffee Talk With Linda Richman,"" and ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"".
  15. John Goodman/Mary J. Blige Episode 15 John Goodman/Mary J. Blige March 13, 1993, 1 h 7 min Sketches include: "College Students", "Coffee Talk With Linda Richman", "Turkish Department Store Worker", "Let's Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk About Movies".
  16. Miranda Richardson/Soul Asylum Episode 16 Miranda Richardson/Soul Asylum March 20, 1993, 1 h 7 min Live from New York, it's... Julia Sweeney Sketches include "Pat's Crying Game," "Green & Fazio" (two parts), "The Rain People," "World War II Hospital," "Eager & Jones," "Russell Simmmons Def…
  17. Jason Alexander/Peter Gabriel Episode 17 Jason Alexander/Peter Gabriel April 10, 1993, 1 h 7 min Complete Sketches: ""Clinton's Indecent Proposal to Yeltsin's wife"", ""Jason Alexander's Peter Pan"", ""Meeting of the Woody Allen Fan Club"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Descending-Size Employee Lounges for Privacy-Obssessed People"",…
  18. Kirstie Alley/Lenny Kravitz Episode 18 Kirstie Alley/Lenny Kravitz April 24, 1993, 1 h 7 min ""Rodney King Song: Fire Bad by Recurring SNL Characters for Unity"", ""Quinko's Mmmph Board Game Commercial"", ""SNL Cheers wannabes come to cheer Kirstie up"", ""Hotel staff loves the Bellissima wife…
  19. Christina Applegate/Midnight Oil Episode 19 Christina Applegate/Midnight Oil May 15, 1993, 1 h 7 min Sketches include ""Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker"", ""Focus on Beauty"", ""The Backwards Romance"", ""Nerf Crotchbat"", ""Worrisome Audition Warnings"", and ""Coffee Talk""
  20. Kevin Kline/Willie Nelson & Paul Simon Episode 20 Kevin Kline/Willie Nelson & Paul Simon May 22, 1993, 1 h 7 min Sketches include: ""Mmmph?"", ""Italian Flatulence"", ""Don Lapre: Financial Freedom with a 900 Number"", ""Hub's Gyros"", and ""Criminal Encounter"".