Saturday Night Live - Season 15
Description: Saturday Night Live aired its fifteenth season during the 1989 - 1990 television season on NBC. The fifteenth season started off with a 15th anniversary special on September 24, 1989 and ended on May 19, 1990. 21 episodes were produced, including the anniversary special.
Few changes happened before the start of the season. The only change was the absence of Ben Stiller. After being on the show for five episodes, Stiller left the show due to creative differences with Lorne Michaels. Mike Myers was upgraded to repertory status.
This season saw the first hosting gigs of three celebrities who would go on to be frequent SNL hosts: John Goodman, Christopher Walken, and Alec Baldwin.
This season is also notorious for an in-cast spat towards the end of the season. Nora Dunn staged a boycott over the host of the episode, controversial comedian Andrew Dice Clay. Dunn refused to appear in the episode because of Clay's profane jokes about women. The original musical guest for the episode, Sinéad O'Connor, joined Dunn in her boycott and canceled her scheduled appearance. O'Connor was replaced by Julee Cruise and The Spanic Boys.
Episodes
Bruce Willis/Neil Young
Aired: Sep 30, 1989
Sketches include: Thirtysomething, Wayne's World, Donahue, Home Improvement, New...
Rick Moranis/Rickie Lee Jones
Aired: Oct 7, 1989
Sketches include: The Big Bitch Bulldyke Bust Out of '89, Honey I Shrunk Hans & ...
Kathleen Turner/Billy Joel
Aired: Oct 21, 1989
Sketches Include: Plug Away With Harvey Fierstein, Die Squaren Ost Berliner, Egg...
James Woods/Don Henley
Aired: Oct 28, 1989
Sketches include ""The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,"" ""Yard-a-pult,"" ""Dra...
Chris Evert/Eurythmics
Aired: Nov 11, 1989
Sketches include ""Wimbledon,"" ""Oneupmanship,"" and ""Lothar of the Hill Peopl...
Woody Harrelson/David Byrne
Aired: Nov 18, 1989
Sketches include ""Jack Nicholson,"" ""Pumping Up with Hans & Franz,"" ""A&E Att...
John Goodman/k.d. lang & The Reclines
Aired: Dec 2, 1989
Sketches include ""It's a Wonderful Savings and Loan,"" ""Wayne's World,"" ""Coo...
Robert Wagner/Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
Aired: Dec 9, 1989
Sketches include ""George Bush and Dan Quayle"", ""Yard-A-Pult,"" ""Messy Date""...
Andie MacDowell/Tracy Chapman
Aired: Dec 16, 1989
Sketches included ""Interrupted PSA,"" ""Church Chat,"" ""The Night Hanukkah Har...
Ed O'Neill/Harry Connick, Jr.
Aired: Jan 13, 1990
Sketches include ""George Bush,"" ""Bizilady,"" ""I Got What You Need,"" ""Wayne...
Christopher Walken/Bonnie Raitt
Aired: Jan 20, 1990
Sketches include ""The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson,"" ""Eternity,"" ""Hired ...
Quincy Jones
Aired: Feb 10, 1990
Sketches include ""Pumping Up With Hans and Franz,"" ""Century 21 Marriage Couns...
Tom Hanks/Aerosmith
Aired: Feb 17, 1990
Sketches include ""Ivana Trump Pre-Nup"", ""Wayne's World,"" ""Tales of Ribaldry...
Fred Savage/Technotronic
Aired: Feb 24, 1990
Sketches include ""Church Chat,"" ""Left Alone with a Gun,"" ""The Pat Stevens S...
Rob Lowe/The Pogues
Aired: Mar 17, 1990
Sketches include "George Bush/Rob Lowe", "Irish Drinking Songs", "Church Chat", ...
Debra Winger/Eric Clapton
Aired: Mar 24, 1990
Sketches include ""Reagan Census Count,"" ""Wayne's World,"" ""Toonces the Cat W...
Corbin Bernsen/Smithereens
Aired: Apr 14, 1990
Sketches include ""Cable Shopping Network,"" ""Celebrity Lawyer Court,"" ""Hanuk...
Alec Baldwin/The B-52's
Aired: Apr 21, 1990
Sketches include "Bush Talks to Nation", "Greenhilly", "The Environmentally Cons...
Andrew Dice Clay/Spanic Boys & Julee Cruise
Aired: May 12, 1990
Sketches include ""It's a Wonderful Dice,"" ""Diceman Employment Agency,"" ""Coo...
Candice Bergen/Notting Hillbillies
Aired: May 19, 1990
Sketches include ""George Bush,"" ""Toonces The Cat Who Can Drive a Car,"" ""The...