| 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 makes 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.
- This episode marks the first appearance of Robert Smigel's "Saturday TV Funhouse" segment. The cartoon is the first installment of The Ambiguously Gay Duo, which originally debuted on the now-defunct sketch program The Dana Carvey Show earlier that year, where creator Smigel worked as a cast member, writer and producer.
|
| 408 (22.2) |
October 5, 1996 |
Lisa Kudrow |
Sheryl Crow |
|
| 409 (22.3) |
October 19, 1996 |
Bill Pullman |
New Edition |
- Fred Wolf's final episode as a cast member
|
| 410 (22.4) |
October 26, 1996 |
Dana Carvey |
Dr. Dre |
- The "Tom Brokaw/Gerald Ford" sketch was originally performed on The Dana Carvey Show earlier that year. Dana Carvey (as Tom Brokaw) and Robert Smigel (in a voice-over role as the director) reprised their roles from the original sketch.
|
| 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. Carvey also appears as Charles Grodin in a "The Charles Grodin Show" parody.
- Abe Vigoda also makes a cameo appearance in "The Charles Grodin Show" sketch, 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.
- Robert Downey, Jr. is one of three cast members from SNL's 11th season (the 1985-1986 season) to host SNL (the others are Damon Wayans [in season 20], and Jon Lovitz [in the next season]).
|
| 413 (22.7) |
November 23, 1996 |
Phil Hartman† |
Bush |
- This episode came only seven months after Hartman first hosted the show (and would be the last time he appeared on SNL).
|
| 414 (22.8) |
December 7, 1996 |
Martin Short |
No Doubt |
- Chevy Chase makes a cameo appearance during a sketch featuring Short's Ed Grimley character.
- This marked the fifth consecutive episode hosted by a former castmember.
|
| 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, which was notable for the near-total audience silence during the performance. In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Palin attributed this to his seeing audience members reverently mouthing the words of the sketch, rather than laughing at it.
|
| 417 (22.11) |
January 18, 1997 |
David Alan Grier |
Snoop Dogg |
|
| 418 (22.12) |
February 8, 1997 |
Neve Campbell |
David Bowie |
- David Spade makes a surprise appearance during the monologue, does "The Hollywood Minute" during Weekend Update, and appears as Woody Allen in a 60 Minutes sketch.
|
| 419 (22.13) |
February 15, 1997 |
Chevy Chase |
Live |
|
| 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.
- 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 guest appearance as Ron Wood in a sketch featuring Chris Kattan's gibberish speaking "Suel Forrester" character as a talk-show host.
|
| 426 (22.20) |
May 17, 1997 |
Jeff Goldblum |
En Vogue |
|
United States
