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Season 18

20 episodes September 28, 1992

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 and featured player Smigel left to become the head writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, but would later return to the show in 1996 to write and produce the "TV Funhouse" cartoons. This season was also home to one of SNL's most infamous moments: Sinéad O'Connor tearing Pope John Paul II's photo at the end of her second performance on the episode hosted by Tim Robbins.

Episodes

1 Nicolas Cage/Bobby Brown Sep 28, 1992 No ratings 2 Tim Robbins/Sinead O'Connor Oct 3, 1992 No ratings 3 Joe Pesci/Spin Doctors Oct 10, 1992 No ratings 4 Christopher Walken/Arrested Development Oct 24, 1992 No ratings 5 Catherine O'Hara/10,000 Maniacs Oct 31, 1992 No ratings 6 Michael Keaton/Morrissey Nov 14, 1992 No ratings 7 Sinbad/Sade Nov 21, 1992 No ratings 8 Tom Arnold/Neil Young Dec 5, 1992 No ratings 9 Glenn Close/The Black Crowes Dec 12, 1992 No ratings 10 Danny DeVito/Bon Jovi Jan 9, 1993 No ratings 11 Harvey Keitel/Madonna Jan 16, 1993 No ratings 12 Luke Perry/Mick Jagger Feb 6, 1993 No ratings 13 Alec Baldwin/Paul McCartney Feb 13, 1993 No ratings 14 Bill Murray/Sting Feb 20, 1993 No ratings 15 John Goodman/Mary J. Blige Mar 13, 1993 No ratings 16 Miranda Richardson/Soul Asylum Mar 20, 1993 No ratings 17 Jason Alexander/Peter Gabriel Apr 10, 1993 No ratings 18 Kirstie Alley/Lenny Kravitz Apr 24, 1993 No ratings 19 Christina Applegate/Midnight Oil May 15, 1993 No ratings 20 Kevin Kline/Willie Nelson & Paul Simon May 22, 1993 No ratings