Saturday Night Live season 24

• Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins, who performed musical interludes in Diaz' film There's Something About Mary, make a cameo appearance after a sketch.
• Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd have cameos, reprising their roles as The Festrunk Bros. (a.k.a "The Wild and Crazy Guys")
• Donald Trump was originally scheduled to host. He would eventually host five seasons later.
• John Goodman makes a cameo appearance as Linda Tripp during the cold opening.
• Jimmy Fallon, Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell's first episode as cast members

• Grammer appears less than a month after Frasier had won five Emmys.
• Shaquille O'Neal was the producers first choice to host, but he declined and said he just wanted to appear in a couple sketches. He appeared in two sketches: "Big Bernard" about an overgrown man who comes home late and receives a spanking by his father (played by Tracy Morgan) and "Morning Latte" as himself.

• Chucky (the possessed doll from Bride of Chucky and related films) makes a guest appearance on "Weekend Update."
• Judge Judy appears as herself in a sketch in which she's being mocked by Cheri Oteri.

• Yankee players David Cone, Felix Heredia and David Wells appear in the opening monologue.

• Brad Pitt appears in the cold opening where David Spade visits his therapist (played by Pitt) about his overwhelming fame.
• Former castmember Chris Rock cameos in a Mango sketch as an admirer of a new dancer named Kiwi (played by David Spade)

• In the Jensen Mint fake commercial, the NBC version and all reruns at the time it first came on actually show the middle finger on all of the currency (the coin given to the bum played by Horatio Sanz and the dollar given to the bum played by Tim Meadows). The 60-minute syndicated version digitally blurs out the obscene gesture. The NBC Late Night rerun of this episode cuts out the fake commercial altogether.

• Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz makes a cameo appearance during the Spartan Cheerleaders sketch.

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• The musical segment featuring Vanessa Williams and Luciano Pavarotti is not shown in syndication.
• The monologue where Alec Baldwin's mediocre monologue is mocked in a future episode of SNL is also cut from syndication.
• John Goodman has a cameo appearance during Baldwin's monologue and in the "Bill Brasky" sketch featuring Goodman, Will Ferrell, and Alec Baldwin as the drunken businessmen.

• Titanic director James Cameron has a pre-recorded cameo in a sketch parodying his film.
• Debbie Matenopoulos appears as herself in a parody of The View (After she was fired from the show).

• Darrell Hammond replaces an absent Don Pardo as announcer, particularly in a two-part running gag where Don Pardo (Darrell Hammond) tries to seduce Van Der Beek.

• This episode was submitted for Emmy consideration for 1998-1999.
• Ben Affleck cameos in Gwenyth's opening monologue; she would later cameo in his opening monologue when he hosted in season 25.

• Former SNL writer/featured player Tom Davis appears in the monologue.
• The monologue where Brendan Fraser and Lorne Michaels find Tom Davis in the SNL bomb shelter is cut in the 60-minute rerun versions.
• Other cameos include: George Plimpton (after the "Shut Up and Enjoy the Ozzy" sketch) and John Goodman (as Linda Tripp during the cold opening).

• Former castmember (and co-star of Caddyshack) Chevy Chase appears in the "Quotable Caddyshack" sketch to re-enact his one scene with Bill Murray.
• Stephanie Seymour cameos in the cold opening.

• Romano's Everybody Loves Raymond co-stars Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts make cameo appearances during the monologue, in which Boyle discusses his time as host in the 1970s and Roberts discusses her role in My Giant.

• Edward Norton cameos in a VH1 commercial parody as Daryl Dragon (with Drew Barrymore as Toni Tennille)

• Monica Lewinsky made a special appearance in the cold opening where Bill Clinton (played by Darrell Hammond) imagines life after his Presidency, and in a sketch with Tim Meadows's Ladies Man character.
• The cold opening is replaced in reruns with a dress rehearsal because the dog Darrell Hammond was petting ran away in the live show version.

• David Boreanaz, Howie Dorough from the Backstreet Boys, and Seth Green cameo in the recurring sketch, "Tiger Beat's Ultra Super Duper Dreamy Love Show"
• Shania Twain was originally asked to be the musical guest for this episode, but she dropped.