Saturday Night Live - Season 18

Saturday Night Live - Season 18

Season 18

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.
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Episodes20
DatesSep 28, 1992 - May 22, 1993
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Episodes

Nicolas Cage / Bobby Brown
Season 18Episode 190 min

Nicolas Cage / Bobby Brown

Nicolas Cage hosts with musical guest Bobby Brown.

Sep 28, 1992
Tim Robbins / Sinead O'Connor
Season 18Episode 290 min

Tim Robbins / Sinead O'Connor

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 Dennis Miller, Sweet Jimmy: The World's Nicest Pimp, Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley, and Bob Roberts Book Burning Sinead O'Connor performs: ""Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home"" and an a cappella version of the song ""War"" that ends with the infamous destruction of Pope John Paul II's photograph and Sinead's words ""Fight the real enemy!"" The reruns on NBC and syndication (if they do air) either end the performance of the second song before the picture is ripped (which is the version that played on Comedy Central) or replace it with a dress rehearsal where Sinead O'Connor holds up a picture of a starving child, then walks off the stage (which played on NBC).
Oct 3, 1992
Joe Pesci / Spin Doctors
Season 18Episode 390 min

Joe Pesci / Spin Doctors

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.""
Oct 10, 1992
Christopher Walken / Arrested Development
Season 18Episode 490 min

Christopher Walken / Arrested Development

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 of running mate Stockdale"", and ""The Boulevard of Broken Balls"".
Oct 24, 1992
Catherine O'Hara / 10,000 Maniacs
Season 18Episode 590 min

Catherine O'Hara / 10,000 Maniacs

Catherine O'Hara hosts with musical guest 10,000 Maniacs.

Oct 31, 1992
Michael Keaton / Morrissey
Season 18Episode 690 min

Michael Keaton / Morrissey

""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 Awards, Honoring the Best Books of the Year"", ""The Horny Guy Who Had To Date The Prudish/Formerly Slutty Girl"".
Nov 14, 1992
Sinbad / Sade
Season 18Episode 790 min

Sinbad / Sade

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.""
Nov 21, 1992
Tom Arnold / Neil Young
Season 18Episode 890 min

Tom Arnold / Neil Young

""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 Super Fans at 'Fatty Foods' Hospital"", ""Lincoln High G.E.D Ten Year Reunion"".
Dec 5, 1992
Glenn Close / The Black Crowes
Season 18Episode 990 min

Glenn Close / The Black Crowes

Sketches include ""The Queen of England,"" ""Coffee Talk with Linda Richman,"" ""Michael Eisner,"" ""What's the Best Way?,"" and ""Drumming on Your Stomach.""
Dec 12, 1992
Danny DeVito / Bon Jovi
Season 18Episode 1090 min

Danny DeVito / Bon Jovi

""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: Aaron and Tori Spelling's Amy Fisher, 10516 with Danny DeVito as Joey Buttafuoco"", ""Gap Girls: Buy it large. Just belt it and cinch it!"", ""Black Entertainment Television Presents: Amy Fisher, One Messed Up Bitch"", ""The Privacy-Obsessed Hitman Whose Wife Knew Everything About His Business"", ""Books on Tape: Madonna's Sex Book. Text by Charlton Heston. Photo Interpretation by Al Goldstein"".
Jan 9, 1993
Harvey Keitel / Madonna
Season 18Episode 1190 min

Harvey Keitel / Madonna

Harvey Keitel hosts with Madonna as musical guest.

Jan 16, 1993
Luke Perry / Mick Jagger
Season 18Episode 1290 min

Luke Perry / Mick Jagger

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 Home"".
Feb 6, 1993
Alec Baldwin / Paul McCartney
Season 18Episode 1390 min

Alec Baldwin / Paul McCartney

Alec Baldwin hosts with musical guest Paul McCartney.

Feb 13, 1993
Bill Murray / Sting
Season 18Episode 1490 min

Bill Murray / Sting

Host Bill Murray; Sting performs. 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."

Feb 20, 1993
John Goodman / Mary J. Blige
Season 18Episode 1590 min

John Goodman / Mary J. Blige

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".
Mar 13, 1993
Miranda Richardson / Soul Asylum
Season 18Episode 1690 min

Miranda Richardson / Soul Asylum

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 Magic Show Jam," "MTV Spring Break," "Dieter's Dream" (film), and "Jack McManus' Bar." Soul Asylum performs "Somebody To Shove" and "Black Gold."
Mar 20, 1993
Jason Alexander / Peter Gabriel
Season 18Episode 1790 min

Jason Alexander / Peter Gabriel

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"", ""Can't you tell black or white people apart?"", ""Gyros: You like the juice?"".
Apr 10, 1993
Kirstie Alley / Lenny Kravitz
Season 18Episode 1890 min

Kirstie Alley / Lenny Kravitz

""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 at La Cantoria"", ""The Montel Williams Show"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Kirstie Alley meets Zoraida, the NBC page"", ""The all natural makeover"", ""Schiller's Reel presents: Security Camera Spectacular!""
Apr 24, 1993
Christina Applegate / Midnight Oil
Season 18Episode 1990 min

Christina Applegate / Midnight Oil

Christina Applegate hosts and Midnight Oil performs.

May 15, 1993
Kevin Kline / Willie Nelson & Paul Simon
Season 18Episode 2090 min

Kevin Kline / Willie Nelson & Paul Simon

Sketches include: ""Mmmph?"", ""Italian Flatulence"", ""Don Lapre: Financial Freedom with a 900 Number"", ""Hub's Gyros"", and ""Criminal Encounter"".
May 22, 1993

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