The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between November 9, 1985, and May 24, 1986, the eleventh season of SNL.
A Danitra Vance sketch. Debuted November 9, 1985.
A Damon Wayans and Anthony Michael Hall sketch. Debuted November 9, 1985.
The Limits of the Imagination was a short-lived sketch featured on the 1985–1986 season. It featured Randy Quaid as "The Floating Head", a Rod Serling-like character who would introduce a creepy, Twilight Zone-esque story with a weak ending (or no ending at all).
Nora Dunn played the host, a somewhat dim, shallow, ex-model who thought Vogue was literature. Debuted November 16, 1985.
An Anthony Michael Hall sketch. Debuted November 16, 1985.
The Pathological Liar is a character created and portrayed by Jon Lovitz, often appearing on Weekend Update segments to share his farcical views. The character's name was Tommy Flanagan ( /fləˈneɪɡən/)[1] not to be confused with the jazz pianist), and he would tell outrageous whoppers in an effort to make himself seem important (such as his claim that he invented Rock and Roll). One recurring lie was claiming he was married to Morgan Fairchild, and thus had seen her naked, "more than once." His devious look, hand rubbing and nervous speech made it clear he was making up lies, one after the other, on the spot. After a particularly outrageous lie he would often add the catchphrase: "Yeahhh! That's the ticket!"
One of his biggest lies, however, would in fact work to his great advantage. During the cold opening when Jerry Hall hosted, Flanagan claimed to be an old friend of her then-boyfriend Mick Jagger; when Jagger himself entered moments later, he shocked her by revealing that the two were longtime friends, and had actually spent the previous weekend together (when she had no idea of his whereabouts) on a fishing trip - as he and Hall get up to leave, Jagger tells Flanagan "I owe you for this one" before opening the show.
A Jon Lovitz sketch. Debuted December 7, 1985.
A Randy Quaid and Robert Downey, Jr. sketch. Debuted December 7, 1985.
A Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz and Damon Wayans and Dennis Miller sketch. Debuted December 14, 1985.
A Danitra Vance sketch. Debuted January 18, 1986.
A Jon Lovitz sketch. Debuted January 18, 1986.
A Jon Lovitz sketch. Debuted January 25, 1986.
The various mundane events in the lives of a seemingly mentally disabled couple (Jon Lovitz and Joan Cusack). Debuted February 22, 1986.
A Nora Dunn sketch. Debuted March 22, 1986.
A Robert Downey, Jr. sketch. Debuted March 22, 1986.
A Nora Dunn sketch. Debuted April 19, 1986.
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