| Episode # |
Air Date |
Host(s) |
Musical Guest(s) |
Remarks |
| 407 (22.1) |
September 28, 1996 |
Tom Hanks |
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers |
- Olympic athlete Kerri Strug made a cameo appearance on Weekend Update alonsgide Chris Kattan, who would often imitate her on the show.
- Ana Gasteyer and Tracy Morgan's first episode as cast members
|
| 408 (22.2) |
October 5, 1996 |
Lisa Kudrow |
Sheryl Crow |
|
| 409 (22.3) |
October 19, 1996 |
Bill Pullman |
New Edition |
- Fred Wolf's last episode as a cast member
|
| 410 (22.4) |
October 26, 1996 |
Dana Carvey |
Dr. Dre |
|
| 411 (22.5) |
November 2, 1996 |
Chris Rock |
The Wallflowers |
- Dana Carvey makes a cameo appearance, most notably as George H. W. Bush, who tells Norm MacDonald's Bob Dole to give up hope on the 1996 election.
- Abe Vigoda makes a cameo appearance, saying only the line: "Clinton's a shmuck."
|
| 412 (22.6) |
November 16, 1996 |
Robert Downey Jr. |
Fiona Apple |
- Bob Dole made an appearance in the cold opening in which he and his wife, Elizabeth, ask Norm MacDonald to stop impersonating him after the 1996 elections were over, and Dole lost.
|
| 413 (22.7) |
November 23, 1996 |
Phil Hartman |
Bush |
|
| 414 (22.8) |
December 7, 1996 |
Martin Short |
No Doubt |
- Chevy Chase makes a cameo appearance (to massive applause) during a sketch featuring Short's Ed Grimley character.
- This marked the fifth straight episode in which a former cast member hosts.
|
| 415 (22.9) |
December 14, 1996 |
Rosie O'Donnell |
Whitney Houston |
- O'Donnell's co-star in Kmart TV commercials, director/actress Penny Marshall, makes an appearance during the monologue and in a Mary Katherine Gallagher sketch.
|
| 416 (22.10) |
January 11, 1997 |
Kevin Spacey |
Beck |
- Monty Python cast members Michael Palin and John Cleese have cameos, appearing in the cold opening as well as in select sketches (at one point, Palin announces that he is "the star of TV's Home Improvement, Tim Allen"). Near the end of the show, Cleese and Palin took over the show for one segment to perform their classic Dead Parrot sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus but it didn't seem to go over as well with the audience as it did on the original Flying Circus program.
|
| 417 (22.11) |
January 18, 1997 |
David Alan Grier |
Snoop Doggy Dogg |
|
| 418 (22.12) |
February 8, 1997 |
Neve Campbell |
David Bowie |
- David Spade makes an appearance during the monologue, and he also does The Hollywood Minute during Weekend Update.
|
| 419 (22.13) |
February 15, 1997 |
Chevy Chase |
Live |
- As an SNL host (as opposed to cast member), Chase had long had a reputation for being difficult and insulting to the cast and crew, as described in the book, "Live From New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live". During the week of his 1997 appearance he offended the staff with lewd comments, and embarrassed Lorne Michaels so badly that he was subsequently banned for life from hosting SNL (although he would later cameo in several episodes, including the Chris Farley/Mighty Mighty Bosstones episode from season 23, the Bill Murray/Lucinda Williams episode from season 24, the Seann William Scott/Sum-41 episode from season 27, and the Seth Rogan/Spoon episode from season 33).
|
| 420 (22.14) |
February 22, 1997 |
Alec Baldwin |
Tina Turner |
|
| 421 (22.15) |
March 15, 1997 |
Sting |
Veruca Salt |
|
| 422 (22.16) |
March 22, 1997 |
Mike Myers |
Aerosmith |
|
| 423 (22.17) |
April 12, 1997 |
Rob Lowe |
Spice Girls |
- Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro make cameo appearances during a "Joe Pesci Show" sketch. Colin Quinn portrays DeNiro (alongside Jim Breuer's Pesci) after Alec Baldwin had to back out of the guest role.
- It is said that audience members laughing at the Spice Girls' musical numbers is clearly audible.
- Norm MacDonald slips and says "What the fuck was that?" to himself after choking on his words in the middle of a Weekend Update joke. The audience applauds the error, prompting MacDonald to reply "My farewell performance" and "Maybe I'll see you next week, folks." NBC received only three complaints about the goof and all reruns on NBC and syndication mute out the obscenity.
|
| 424 (22.18) |
April 19, 1997 |
Pamela Lee |
Rollins Band |
- Anderson's then-husband, rocker Tommy Lee, makes an appearance as himself in two sketches.
|
| 425 (22.19) |
May 10, 1997 |
John Goodman |
Jewel |
- Mike Myers makes a cameo appearance to promote Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
|
| 426 (22.20) |
May 17, 1997 |
Jeff Goldblum |
En Vogue |
- Robert Smigel's "Fun With Real Audio" cartoon (about a talk show made from animal excrement, bodily fluid, and trash) was almost cut from this episode because it depicted animals defecating, but it aired anyway.
- Mark McKinney's final episode as a cast member.
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