Saturday Night Live (season 18)

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.

Saturday Night Live
Season 18
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes20
Release
Original networkNBC
Original releaseSeptember 26, 1992 (1992-09-26) –
May 15, 1993 (1993-05-15)
Season chronology

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. Robert Smigel stayed a featured player.

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

After three years with the show, Chris Rock decided to quit the show at the end of the season (he 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 Robert 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, Lorne 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 roster

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers
Main article: List of Saturday Night Live writers § season 18

Episodes
Main article: List of Saturday Night Live episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		HostMusical guest(s)Original air date
3271Nicolas CageBobby BrownSeptember 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).
3282Tim RobbinsSinéad O'ConnorOctober 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.
3293Joe PesciThe Spin DoctorsOctober 10, 1992 (1992-10-10)

3304Christopher WalkenArrested DevelopmentOctober 24, 1992 (1992-10-24)

3315Catherine O'Hara10,000 ManiacsOctober 31, 1992 (1992-10-31)

3326Michael KeatonMorrisseyNovember 14, 1992 (1992-11-14)

3337SinbadSadeNovember 21, 1992 (1992-11-21)

3348Tom ArnoldNeil YoungDecember 5, 1992 (1992-12-05)

3359Glenn CloseThe Black CrowesDecember 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.
33610Danny DeVitoBon JoviJanuary 9, 1993 (1993-01-09)

33711Harvey KeitelMadonnaJanuary 16, 1993 (1993-01-16)

33812Luke PerryMick JaggerFebruary 6, 1993 (1993-02-06)

  • Mick Jagger performs "Sweet Thing" and "Don't Tear Me Up".[1] He also appears on "Point/Counterpoint" on "Weekend Update" as Keith Richards (with Mike Myers playing Jagger), and during the "Tampon Prince" sketch.
  • Guest appearances by Jan Hooks (as Hillary Clinton) and Giorgio Armani in the cold open.
  • Dana Carvey's final episode as a cast member.
  • This episode re-aired on March 9th, 2019 as a tribute to Luke Perry who had died five days earlier on March 4th.
33913Alec BaldwinPaul McCartneyFebruary 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".
34014Bill MurrayStingFebruary 20, 1993 (1993-02-20)

34115John GoodmanMary J. BligeMarch 13, 1993 (1993-03-13)

  • Mary J. Blige performs "Reminisce" and "Sweet Thing".[1]
  • Mary J. Blige's mother Cora appears during the goodnights.
  • Reese Witherspoon makes an uncredited cameo in the cold opening.
  • The Bravados appear during the monologue.
34216Miranda RichardsonSoul AsylumMarch 20, 1993 (1993-03-20)

34317Jason AlexanderPeter GabrielApril 10, 1993 (1993-04-10)

34418Kirstie AlleyLenny KravitzApril 17, 1993 (1993-04-17)

34519Christina ApplegateMidnight OilMay 8, 1993 (1993-05-08)

34620Kevin KlineWillie Nelson & Paul SimonMay 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.

References
  1. Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 124–127. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
  2. "Season 18: Episode 1". Saturday Night Live Transcripts. September 26, 1992.
  3. Saturday Night Live: Season 18, Episode 2 – Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor at IMDb
  4. Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller, pp. 369-371.
  5. Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 264. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
  6. "Air Date: December 5th, 1992". SNL Transcripts.
  7. "Season 18: Episode 20". Saturday Night Live Transcripts.
  8. "2nd Annual Saturday Night Live Mother's Day Special". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
  9. https://newspaperarchive.com/wilson-daily-times-may-11-1993-p-20/
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