Saturday Night Live season 19

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Saturday Night Live aired its nineteenth season during the 1993-1994 television season on NBC. This season, much like season eighteen, had performances that caused controversy:

  • Musical guest Cypress Hill (for the episode hosted by Shannen Doherty) were banned from performing on SNL after trashing their dressing rooms and smoking marijuana backstage.
  • The episode hosted by Alec Baldwin and his (then) wife, Kim Basinger, had a sketch where Baldwin played a Boy Scout troop leader named Mr. Armstrong who attempted to sexually molest Adam Sandler's recurring character, Canteen Boy.
  • The episode immediately after that was hosted by Martin Lawrence, who shocked the audience with a monologue about the decline of feminine hygiene. As a result, Lawrence was banned from hosting SNL and all reruns (both 60-minute syndicated versions and full 90-minute reruns) have a series of cards that explain Lawrence's monologue and the reason why it can never be shown again in televised reruns.

This season also saw the final appearances of Phil Hartman and Julia Sweeney. The season began on September 25, 1993 and ended on May 14, 1994.

Contents

[edit] Cast

[edit] Repertory cast members

[edit] Featured cast members

[edit] Episodes

Episode # Air Date Host(s) Musical Guest(s) Remarks
347 (19.1) September 25, 1993 Charles Barkley Nirvana
348 (19.2) October 2, 1993 Shannen Doherty Cypress Hill
  • During Cypress Hill's performance on stage, the band members were smoking marijuana on air, and their instruments were destroyed during their second single. Cypress Hill has been banned from SNL.
  • Norm MacDonald's first episode as a cast member
349 (19.3) October 9, 1993 Jeff Goldblum Aerosmith
  • Jay Mohr and Sarah Silverman's first episode as cast members
350 (19.4) October 23, 1993 John Malkovich Billy Joel
351 (19.5) October 30, 1993 Christian Slater The Smashing Pumpkins
352 (19.6) November 13, 1993 Rosie O'Donnell James Taylor
353 (19.7) November 20, 1993 Nicole Kidman Stone Temple Pilots
354 (19.8) December 4, 1993 Charlton Heston Paul Westerberg
  • The opening montage has the castmembers made over to look like apes to coincide with a running gag from the cold opening parodying Planet of the Apes.
355 (19.9) December 11, 1993 Sally Field Tony! Toni! Tone!
356 (19.10) January 8, 1994 Jason Patric Blind Melon
357 (19.11) January 15, 1994 Sara Gilbert Counting Crows
358 (19.12) February 5, 1994 Patrick Stewart Salt-N-Pepa
359 (19.13) February 12, 1994 Alec Baldwin

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  • The 60-minute rerun of the episode has been edited to remove the infamous sketch where Adam Sandler's Canteen Boy is molested by his scoutmaster (played by Alec Baldwin). This is not cut in reruns of the 90-minute version and is included in the DVD versions of the SNL "Best Of" specials for Adam Sandler and Alec Baldwin (and is included in the DVD special: "SNL's Bad Boys").
360 (19.14) February 19, 1994 Martin Lawrence Crash Test Dummies
  • The monologue in the syndication reruns is edited to remove Lawrence's comments about the decline in feminine hygiene, and is replaced with a graphic explaining the comments and how it almost cost everyone at SNL their jobs. Martin Lawrence was consequently banned from appearing on the show again.
361 (19.15) March 12, 1994 Nancy Kerrigan Aretha Franklin
  • Originally, the episode was supposed to be hosted by Michael Richards (the actor who played Kramer on Seinfeld and was a castmember on ABC's short-lived sketch show "Fridays"). To date, Richards is the only member of Seinfeld's main cast who has not appeared on the show; Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander have both hosted, while Julia Louis-Dreyfus was a cast member on SNL in the 1980s and became the first female castmember from SNL to host SNL in May 2006 (and to host again in March 2007).
  • Michael McKean's first episode as a cast member.
362 (19.16) March 19, 1994 Helen Hunt Snoop Doggy Dogg
363 (19.17) April 9, 1994 Kelsey Grammer Dwight Yoakam
364 (19.18) April 16, 1994 Emilio Estevez Pearl Jam
  • Former castmember Dana Carvey was originally planned to host this episode.
  • Pearl Jam performed an emotional version of 'Daughter' only 8 days after the discovery of the body of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Nirvana had performed on SNL earlier in the season.
365 (19.19) May 7, 1994 John Goodman The Pretenders
366 (19.20) May 14, 1994 Heather Locklear Janet Jackson
  • This is Phil Hartman's, Julia Sweeney's, Rob Schneider's, Sarah Silverman's, and Melanie Hutsell's final episode as cast members
Preceded by
Season 18		 Saturday Night Live
Season 19		 Succeeded by
Season 20