Lorne Michaels
Director
Saturday Night Live (1975)
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
Released Oct. 11, 1975
Episode 67 min
14+
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Production Companies: Broadway Video, NBC Studios, Universal Television, SNL Studios, NBC Universal Television
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S18E1 - Nicolas Cage/Bobby Brown
Sketches include ""Husbands and Wives,"" ""Tiny Elvis,"" ""Nightline,"" ""Baby Names,"" and ""The Queen Shenequa Show"".
Sept. 28, 1992, midnight
S18E2 - 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, midnight
S18E3 - 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, midnight
S18E4 - 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, midnight
S18E5 - Catherine O'Hara/10,000 Maniacs
""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 with Kevin Nealon"", ""Daily Affirmations with Stewart Smalley"", ""New York's Strangest and Most Bizarre People: Shorty, The Guy Who Can't Cross The Street"".
Oct. 31, 1992, midnight
S18E6 - 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, midnight
S18E7 - 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, midnight
S18E8 - 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, midnight
S18E9 - 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, midnight
S18E10 - 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, midnight
S18E11 - Harvey Keitel/Madonna
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"".
Jan. 16, 1993, midnight
S18E12 - 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, midnight
S18E13 - Alec Baldwin/Paul McCartney
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"".
Feb. 13, 1993, midnight
S18E14 - Bill Murray/Sting
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, midnight
S18E15 - 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".
March 13, 1993, midnight
S18E16 - 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."
March 20, 1993, midnight
S18E17 - 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?"".
April 10, 1993, midnight
S18E18 - 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!""
April 24, 1993, midnight
S18E19 - Christina Applegate/Midnight Oil
Sketches include ""Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker"", ""Focus on Beauty"", ""The Backwards Romance"", ""Nerf Crotchbat"", ""Worrisome Audition Warnings"", and ""Coffee Talk""
May 15, 1993, midnight
S18E20 - 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, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 67 min.
Season Runtime: 66933 min.
Released: Oct. 11, 1975
Last Air Date: Dec. 20, 2025, midnight
Next Air Date: Jan. 17, 2026, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-14
Common sense age: 14+
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