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Saturday Night Live Season 15
Series	Saturday Night Live
Country of origin	United States
Network	NBC
Original run	September 30, 1989 – May 19, 1990
No. of episodes	20
Previous season	14
Next season	16

Saturday Night Live aired its fifteenth season during the 1989 - 1990 television season on NBC. This season saw the first hosting gigs of three celebrities who would go on to be frequent (and favorite) SNL hosts: John Goodman (who actually auditioned to be a castmember on SNL during the critically abysmal 1980-1981 season), Christopher Walken (whose singing and dancing monologues and recurring sketch "The Continental" have been a staple in six of the seven episodes hosted by Walken), and Alec Baldwin (who went on to break John Goodman's record of most frequent SNL host in 2006 and is now the second most-frequent host in SNL history). Near the end of the season, Nora Dunn was fired due to her refusal to appear in an episode hosted by controversial comedian Andrew Dice Clay, which led to controversy with critics and fans.

The fifteenth season started off with a 15th anniversary special on September 24, 1989 and ended on May 19, 1990.

1 Cast
- 1.1 Repertory cast members
- 1.2 Featured cast members
2 Episodes

Cast

Repertory cast members

Featured cast members

Episodes

Episode #	Air Date	Host(s)	Musical Guest(s)	Remarks
Special	September 24, 1989	15th Anniversary Special
267 (15.1)	September 30, 1989	Bruce Willis	Neil Young
268 (15.2)	October 7, 1989	Rick Moranis	Rickie Lee Jones
269 (15.3)	October 21, 1989	Kathleen Turner	Billy Joel
270 (15.4)	October 28, 1989	James Woods	Don Henley
271 (15.5)	November 11, 1989	Chris Evert	Eurythmics
272 (15.6)	November 18, 1989	Woody Harrelson	David Byrne
273 (15.7)	December 2, 1989	John Goodman	K.D. Lang & The Reclines
274 (15.8)	December 9, 1989	Robert Wagner	Linda Ronstadt Aaron Neville
275 (15.9)	December 16, 1989	Andie MacDowell	Tracy Chapman	Chapman performs "Give Me One Reason" which was not released until 1995.
276 (15.10)	January 13, 1990	Ed O'Neill	Harry Connick Jr.	Maury Povich cameos during the monologue Ed O'Neill is the first castmember from a FOX TV show (Married...With Children) to host SNL. According to IMDb, Kirsten Dunst appeared in this episode as the girl in the Bizilady commercial.
277 (15.11)	January 20, 1990	Christopher Walken	Bonnie Raitt
278 (15.12)	February 10, 1990	Quincy Jones	Tevin Campbell Andrae Crouch Sandra Crouch Kool Moe Dee Big Daddy Kane Melle Mel Quincy D III Siedah Garrett Al Jarreau Take 6	This broadcast has ten musical guests, far and away an SNL record (though most of them were uncredited). Much like Jack Burns, episode host Quincy Jones went on to produce the FOX sketch show MADtv in 1995, which, like Fridays, has been compared favorably (and unfavorably) to SNL. Some reruns of this episode include a sketch where Quincy Jones and Phil Hartman play a psychiatrist and a patient respectively who speak-sing about their problems.
279 (15.13)	February 17, 1990	Tom Hanks	Aerosmith	Aerosmith were special guest on the popular sketch Wayne's World where they perform the theme song. Tom Hanks plays their roadie.
280 (15.14)	February 24, 1990	Fred Savage	Technotronic	Fred Savage is the first host to have been born after SNL premiered on television. Neil Patrick Harris (back when he was on Doogie Howser, MD) was originally scheduled to host, but was dropped in favor of Savage. Harris makes light on this fact during his hosting gig during season 34.
281 (15.15)	March 17, 1990	Rob Lowe	The Pogues
282 (15.16)	March 24, 1990	Debra Winger	Eric Clapton	Jennifer Jason Leigh was originally scheduled to host, but backed at the last minute.
283 (15.17)	April 14, 1990	Corbin Bernsen	The Smithereens
284 (15.18)	April 21, 1990	Alec Baldwin	The B-52's
285 (15.19)	May 12, 1990	Andrew Dice Clay	The Spanic Boys Julee Cruise	Sinéad O'Connor was originally scheduled as the musical guest, but pulled out in protest against the controversial host, Andrew Dice Clay. O'Connor subsequently appeared at the beginning of Season 16. SNL castmember Nora Dunn would also protest and did not appear in the episode due to Clay's profane jokes about women. The musical segment featuring the Spanic Boys is not shown in syndication.
286 (15.20)	May 19, 1990	Candice Bergen	The Notting Hillbillies	This is Nora Dunn and Jon Lovitz's final episode as cast members.

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