Saturday Night Live

• Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins, who performed musical interludes in Diaz's film There's Something About Mary, made a cameo appearance after a sketch.
• Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd reprise their roles as The Festrunk Brothers (a.k.a "The Wild and Crazy Guys").
• Donald Trump was originally scheduled to host. He would eventually host on April 3, 2004.
• John Goodman made a cameo appearance as Linda Tripp during the cold open.
• Jimmy Fallon, Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell's first episode as cast members. However, they were not mentioned in the opening credits.
• The Smashing Pumpkins performed "Perfect".

• Grammer appeared less than a month after Frasier had won five Emmys.
• Shaquille O'Neal was the producer's 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.
• Sheryl Crow performed "My Favorite Mistake".

• Chucky (the possessed doll from Bride of Chucky and related films) made a guest appearance on "Weekend Update."
• Judge Judy appeared as herself in a sketch in which she is being mocked by Cheri Oteri.
• Elliott Smith performed "Waltz #2".
• Elliott Smith's performance was edited out in syndication, despite the fact that he was mentioned in the opening credits.

• Yankee players David Cone, Felix Heredia and David Wells appeared in the opening monologue.
• Alanis Morrissette performed "Thank U" and "Baba".

• Brad Pitt appeared in the cold opening where David Spade visits his therapist (played by Pitt) about his overwhelming fame.
• Former castmember Chris Rock cameoed in a Mango sketch as an admirer of a new dancer named Kiwi (played by David Spade).
• Eagle-Eye Cherry performed "Save Tonight".

• In the Jensen Mint fake commercial, the NBC version and all reruns at the time it first aired 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.
• Jewel performed "Hands" and "Down So Long".

• Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz made a cameo appearance during the Spartan Cheerleaders sketch as Jennifer Love Hewitt's character's boyfriend.
• Beastie Boys performed "Three MC's and One DJ" and "Sabotage".

• Lauryn Hill performed "Doo Wop (That Thing)" and "Ex-Factor"
• On the "Pimp Chat" sketch, White Chocolate (Vince Vaughn's character) tells Bishop Don "Mack" Donald (Tracy Morgan's character) that his new website is called "www.bitchbetterhavemymoney.com" in the original airing and on the E! reruns. On the late-night NBC reruns and Comedy Central reruns, the website is changed to "www.bitchbetterhavemyloot.com". www.bitchbetterhavemyloot.com redirects to nbc.com/snl

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• The monologue where Alec Baldwin's mediocre monologue is mocked in a future episode of SNL was cut from syndication.
• John Goodman had a cameo appearance during Baldwin's monologue and in the "Bill Brasky" sketch featuring Goodman, Will Ferrell, and Alec Baldwin as the drunken businessmen.
• Luciano Pavarotti and Vanessa Williams performed "Adeste Fideles". This segment is not shown in syndication (and their mention in the opening credits is also removed).

• Titanic director James Cameron had a pre-recorded cameo in a sketch parodying his film.
• Debbie Matenopoulos appeared as herself in a parody of The View (after she was fired from the show).
• Beck performed "Nobody's Fault But My Own" and "Tropicalia".

• Darrell Hammond replaced an absent Don Pardo as announcer, particularly in a two-part running gag where Don Pardo (Darrell Hammond) tries to seduce Van Der Beek.
• Everlast performed "What It's Like".

• This episode was submitted for Emmy consideration for 1998-1999.
• Ben Affleck cameoed in Paltrow's opening monologue; she would later cameo in his opening monologue when he hosted the following season.
• Molly Shannon injured the back of her head when she fell during the "Mary Katherine Gallagher" sketch.
• Barenaked Ladies performed "It's All Been Done".

• Former SNL writer/featured player Tom Davis appeared in the monologue.
• The monologue where Brendan Fraser and Lorne Michaels find Tom Davis in the SNL bomb shelter was 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 open).
• Biusta Rhymes performed "Gimme Some More" and "Tear da Roof Off".

• Meryl Streep was scheduled to host but backed out at the last minute.
• Former castmember (and co-star of Caddyshack) Chevy Chase appeared in the "Quotable Caddyshack" sketch to re-enact his one scene with Bill Murray.
• Stephanie Seymour cameoed in the cold open.
• Lucinda Williams performed "Can't Let Go" and "2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten".

• Romano's Everybody Loves Raymond co-stars Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts made cameo appearances during the monologue, in which Boyle discussed his time as host in the 1970s and Roberts discussed her role in My Giant.
• The Corrs performed "What Can I Do" and "So Young".

• Edward Norton cameoed in a VH1 commercial parody as Daryl Dragon (with Drew Barrymore as Toni Tennille).
• Garbage performed "Special" and "When I Grow Up".
• This episode was never re-run on Comedy Central.

• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers performed "Swingin'" and "Room at the Top".

• Monica Lewinsky made a special appearance in the cold open where Bill Clinton (played by Darrell Hammond) imagines life after his Presidency, and in a sketch with Tim Meadows' Ladies Man character.
• The cold open was replaced in reruns with a dress rehearsal because the dog Darrell Hammond was petting ran away in the live show version.
• This episode ran a bit short, and the last segment of the night featured an extended band shot, lasting around 1 minute. The credits ran in full with time left over.
• Ricky Martin performed "Livin' La Vida Loca".

• David Boreanaz, Howie Dorough from the Backstreet Boys, and Seth Green cameoed 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 canceled.
• Backstreet Boys performed "I Want It That Way" and "All I Have to Give".