Saturday Night Live season 19

Saturday Night Live
Season 19
No. of episodes	20
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 25, 1993 (1993-09-25) – May 14, 1994 (1994-05-14)
Season chronology

The nineteenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 25, 1993, and May 14, 1994.

Cast

Many changes happened before the start of the season.

Dana Carvey had left the show in the middle of the previous season. Chris Rock and Robert Smigel also left the show at the end of the previous season. Ellen Cleghorne, Melanie Hutsell, Tim Meadows, Adam Sandler, and David Spade were all promoted to repertory status. Stand-up comics Norm Macdonald, Jay Mohr and Sarah Silverman were hired as writers and would debut as featured players a few episodes into the season. Veteran comic actor Michael McKean joined the show mid-season as a repertory cast member. At age 46, McKean was the oldest person to join the cast of the show, a distinction he held until Leslie Jones became a cast member (at age 47) in 2014.

This would be the final season for Phil Hartman, Rob Schneider, Julia Sweeney and Melanie Hutsell and the only season for Sarah Silverman.

A major blow for the show was the loss of Hartman. Before his final show the entire cast and crew presented him with a bronzed stick of glue, symbolizing how he had become "The Glue" of the show, a term coined by Adam Sandler.

This is also the final season to show StereoSurround captioning during the opening montage.

This would be also the first season to feature the show returned to the original "repertory" and "featured" cast lists since season 15.

Cast roster

Repertory players

• Ellen Cleghorne
• Chris Farley
• Phil Hartman
• Melanie Hutsell
• Michael McKean (first episode: March 12, 1994)
• Tim Meadows
• Mike Myers
• Kevin Nealon
• Adam Sandler
• Rob Schneider
• David Spade
• Julia Sweeney

Featured players

• Al Franken
• Norm Macdonald (first episode: October 2, 1993)
• Jay Mohr (first episode: October 9, 1993)
• Sarah Silverman (first episode: October 9, 1993)

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers

Main article: List of Saturday Night Live writers § season 19

Episodes

Main article: List of Saturday Night Live episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Host(s)	Musical guest	Original air date
347	1	Charles Barkley	Nirvana	September 25, 1993 (1993-09-25)
348	2	Shannen Doherty	Cypress Hill	October 2, 1993 (1993-10-02)
349	3	Jeff Goldblum	Aerosmith	October 9, 1993 (1993-10-09)
350	4	John Malkovich	Billy Joel	October 23, 1993 (1993-10-23)
351	5	Christian Slater	The Smashing Pumpkins	October 30, 1993 (1993-10-30)
352	6	Rosie O'Donnell	James Taylor	November 13, 1993 (1993-11-13)
353	7	Nicole Kidman	Stone Temple Pilots	November 20, 1993 (1993-11-20)
354	8	Charlton Heston	Paul Westerberg	December 4, 1993 (1993-12-04)
355	9	Sally Field	Tony! Toni! Toné!	December 11, 1993 (1993-12-11)
356	10	Jason Patric	Blind Melon	January 8, 1994 (1994-01-08)
357	11	Sara Gilbert	Counting Crows	January 15, 1994 (1994-01-15)
358	12	Patrick Stewart	Salt-N-Pepa	February 5, 1994 (1994-02-05)
359	13	Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger	UB40	February 12, 1994 (1994-02-12)
360	14	Martin Lawrence	Crash Test Dummies	February 19, 1994 (1994-02-19)
361	15	Nancy Kerrigan	Aretha Franklin	March 12, 1994 (1994-03-12)
362	16	Helen Hunt	Snoop Doggy Dogg	March 19, 1994 (1994-03-19)
363	17	Kelsey Grammer	Dwight Yoakam	April 9, 1994 (1994-04-09)
364	18	Emilio Estevez	Pearl Jam	April 16, 1994 (1994-04-16)
365	19	John Goodman	The Pretenders	May 7, 1994 (1994-05-07)
366	20	Heather Locklear	Janet Jackson	May 14, 1994 (1994-05-14)

Wayne's World 2 film

Wayne's World 2, the sequel to the 1992 hit Wayne's World, was released on December 10, 1993. Based on the popular "Wayne's World" sketches, the film stars cast members Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Mike Myers and Harry Shearer. SNL writers Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel have brief cameos as concert nerds. The film did not do as well at the box office as its predecessor but it still did well commercially. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with Roger Ebert calling the characters of Wayne and Garth "impossible to dislike".

It's Pat film

It's Pat, a film based on the popular Pat sketches, was released on August 26, 1994. Cast members Tim Meadows, Charles Rocket and Julia Sweeney appear in the film. The film was a box office bomb, barely making $50,000. The film was also panned by critics and has a rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews.