Saturday Night Live - Season 18
Description: 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.
Episodes
Nicolas Cage/Bobby Brown
Aired: Sep 28, 1992
Sketches include ""Husbands and Wives,"" ""Tiny Elvis,"" ""Nightline,"" ""Baby N...
Tim Robbins/Sinead O'Connor
Aired: Oct 3, 1992
Live from New York, it's...Dana Carvey Sketches include: Perot '92, Caracci's P...
Joe Pesci/Spin Doctors
Aired: Oct 10, 1992
Sketches include ""Debate '92,"" ""Pinky Ringery,"" ""Single White Person,"" ""B...
Christopher Walken/Arrested Development
Aired: Oct 24, 1992
Sketches include ""Jiffy Express,"" ""Ed Closser, Trivial Psychic,"" ""Sinead O'...
Catherine O'Hara/10,000 Maniacs
Aired: Oct 31, 1992
""Perot's Press Conference and the Republican Dirty Tricks"", ""Ass Don't Smell ...
Michael Keaton/Morrissey
Aired: Nov 14, 1992
""George Bush Loses The Election to Clinton"", ""Hibernol Commercial: It Knoc...
Sinbad/Sade
Aired: Nov 21, 1992
Sketches include ""George Bush and Bill Clinton,"" ""Homosexuals at War,"" ""At ...
Tom Arnold/Neil Young
Aired: Dec 5, 1992
""Wayne's World presents: Top Ten Things we love about Clinton"", ""Sex and Peer...
Glenn Close/The Black Crowes
Aired: Dec 12, 1992
Sketches include ""The Queen of England,"" ""Coffee Talk with Linda Richman,"" "...
Danny DeVito/Bon Jovi
Aired: Jan 9, 1993
""The Super Fans Formally Express Their Anger Via Letter: Ditka is fired"", "...
Harvey Keitel/Madonna
Aired: Jan 16, 1993
Sketches include, ""It's Pat"", ""Subway Transit Authority"", ""The Bathroom Att...
Luke Perry/Mick Jagger
Aired: Feb 6, 1993
Sketches include ""Clintons Meet Wrestlers,"" ""Prince Charles is a Tampon,"" ""...
Alec Baldwin/Paul McCartney
Aired: Feb 13, 1993
Sketches include ""Dateline NBC,"" ""The Mimic,"" ""The Chris Farley Show,"" ""S...
Bill Murray/Sting
Aired: Feb 20, 1993
Sketches include: ""Bill Clinton,"" ""Hibernol,"" ""The Whipmaster,"" ""Frequent...
John Goodman/Mary J. Blige
Aired: Mar 13, 1993
Sketches include: "College Students", "Coffee Talk With Linda Richman", "Turkish...
Miranda Richardson/Soul Asylum
Aired: Mar 20, 1993
Live from New York, it's... Julia Sweeney Sketches include "Pat's Crying Game,"...
Jason Alexander/Peter Gabriel
Aired: Apr 10, 1993
Complete Sketches: ""Clinton's Indecent Proposal to Yeltsin's wife"", ""Jason Al...
Kirstie Alley/Lenny Kravitz
Aired: Apr 24, 1993
""Rodney King Song: Fire Bad by Recurring SNL Characters for Unity"", ""Quinko's...
Christina Applegate/Midnight Oil
Aired: May 15, 1993
Sketches include ""Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker"", ""Focus on Beauty"", ""Th...
Kevin Kline/Willie Nelson & Paul Simon
Aired: May 22, 1993
Sketches include: ""Mmmph?"", ""Italian Flatulence"", ""Don Lapre: Financial Fre...