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.

Season 18 Episode 5 - Catherine O'Hara/10,000 Maniacs

""Perot's Press Conference and the Republican Dirty Tricks"", ""Ass Don't Smell Commercial: The Name Says It All"", ""The Richmeister's Halloween Encounter with Death"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Weekend Update with Kevin Nealon"", ""Daily Affirmations with Stewart Smalley"", ""New York's Strangest and Most Bizarre People: Shorty, The Guy Who Can't Cross The Street"". Air Date : 31st-Oct-1992

Season 18 Episode 1 - Nicolas Cage/Bobby Brown

Sketches include ""Husbands and Wives,"" ""Tiny Elvis,"" ""Nightline,"" ""Baby Names,"" and ""The Queen Shenequa Show"". Air Date : 28th-Sep-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 2 - Tim Robbins/Sinead O'Connor

Live from New York, it's...Dana Carvey Sketches include: Perot '92, Caracci's Pizza, The Founding Fathers, Sunday Morning Videos, That's Not Yogurt, The Tori Spelling Show, Larry King Live, Cooking With Dennis Miller, Sweet Jimmy: The World's Nicest Pimp, Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley, and Bob Roberts Book Burning Sinead O'Connor performs: ""Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home"" and an a cappella version of the song ""War"" that ends with the infamous destruction of Pope John Paul II's photograph and Sinead's words ""Fight the real enemy!"" The reruns on NBC and syndication (if they do air) either end the performance of the second song before the picture is ripped (which is the version that played on Comedy Central) or replace it with a dress rehearsal where Sinead O'Connor holds up a picture of a starving child, then walks off the stage (which played on NBC). Air Date : 3rd-Oct-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 3 - Joe Pesci/Spin Doctors

Sketches include ""Debate '92,"" ""Pinky Ringery,"" ""Single White Person,"" ""Bullies on the Steps,"" and ""Zoriada annoys Joe Pesci."" Spin Doctors perform ""Jimmy Olson's Blues."" Air Date : 10th-Oct-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 4 - Christopher Walken/Arrested Development

Sketches include ""Jiffy Express,"" ""Ed Closser, Trivial Psychic,"" ""Sinead O'Connor's Goodtime Happy Jamboree,"" ""The Continental,"" ""An Apology From Sinead O'Connor,"" ""It's Pat,"" ""Deep Thoughts By Jack Handey,"" ""Perot gets rid of running mate Stockdale"", and ""The Boulevard of Broken Balls"". Air Date : 24th-Oct-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 5 - Catherine O'Hara/10,000 Maniacs

""Perot's Press Conference and the Republican Dirty Tricks"", ""Ass Don't Smell Commercial: The Name Says It All"", ""The Richmeister's Halloween Encounter with Death"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Weekend Update with Kevin Nealon"", ""Daily Affirmations with Stewart Smalley"", ""New York's Strangest and Most Bizarre People: Shorty, The Guy Who Can't Cross The Street"". Air Date : 31st-Oct-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 6 - Michael Keaton/Morrissey

""George Bush Loses The Election to Clinton"", ""Hibernol Commercial: It Knocks Your Cold Out, While You're Out Cold"", ""Training the New, Socially Impaired Elevator Guy"", ""The First (Oscar-like) Annual Gutenberg Awards, Honoring the Best Books of the Year"", ""The Horny Guy Who Had To Date The Prudish/Formerly Slutty Girl"". Air Date : 14th-Nov-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 7 - Sinbad/Sade

Sketches include ""George Bush and Bill Clinton,"" ""Homosexuals at War,"" ""At Home with Monica,"" ""Blacula,"" ""Gilligan's Bioshpere,"" ""Superman's Funeral,"" and ""The Proud Pattersons."" Air Date : 21st-Nov-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 8 - Tom Arnold/Neil Young

""Wayne's World presents: Top Ten Things we love about Clinton"", ""Sex and Peer Pressure at Valley High, a PBS Afterschool Special"", ""Clinton's exercising at a fast food joint"", ""Bill Swerski's Super Fans at 'Fatty Foods' Hospital"", ""Lincoln High G.E.D Ten Year Reunion"". Air Date : 5th-Dec-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 9 - Glenn Close/The Black Crowes

Sketches include ""The Queen of England,"" ""Coffee Talk with Linda Richman,"" ""Michael Eisner,"" ""What's the Best Way?,"" and ""Drumming on Your Stomach."" Air Date : 12th-Dec-1992  Read More

Season 18 Episode 10 - Danny DeVito/Bon Jovi

""The Super Fans Formally Express Their Anger Via Letter: Ditka is fired"", ""BBC1 Presents Simon! - Special Guest: A Foul-Mouthed, Middle-Aged Italian American"", ""The Fourth Amy Fisher Story on Fox: Aaron and Tori Spelling's Amy Fisher, 10516 with Danny DeVito as Joey Buttafuoco"", ""Gap Girls: Buy it large. Just belt it and cinch it!"", ""Black Entertainment Television Presents: Amy Fisher, One Messed Up Bitch"", ""The Privacy-Obsessed Hitman Whose Wife Knew Everything About His Business"", ""Books on Tape: Madonna's Sex Book. Text by Charlton Heston. Photo Interpretation by Al Goldstein"". Air Date : 9th-Jan-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 11 - Harvey Keitel/Madonna

Sketches include, ""It's Pat"", ""Subway Transit Authority"", ""The Bathroom Attendant"", ""In or Out The Cab"", ""Deep Thoughts"", ""Unforzen Caveman Lawyer,"", and ""The Insane Deer Hunter"". Air Date : 16th-Jan-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 12 - Luke Perry/Mick Jagger

Sketches include ""Clintons Meet Wrestlers,"" ""Prince Charles is a Tampon,"" ""Dumb Yard Boy,"" ""Magic Fish Meeting,"" ""SNL Halftime Special,"" ""High School Liar's Club,"" ""Sassy,"" ""Queen Shenequa,"" and ""Country Boy Leaves Home"". Air Date : 6th-Feb-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 13 - Alec Baldwin/Paul McCartney

Sketches include ""Dateline NBC,"" ""The Mimic,"" ""The Chris Farley Show,"" ""Soap Opera Digest,"" ""Gap Girls,"" ""Naked Woman Theater,"" ""Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley,"" ""The Bodyguard,"" and ""French Class"". Air Date : 13th-Feb-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 14 - Bill Murray/Sting

Sketches include: ""Bill Clinton,"" ""Hibernol,"" ""The Whipmaster,"" ""Frequent Flyer,"" ""I'm Chillin',"" ""Tommy Two-Tap,"" ""Coffee Talk With Linda Richman,"" and ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"". Air Date : 20th-Feb-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 15 - John Goodman/Mary J. Blige

Sketches include: "College Students", "Coffee Talk With Linda Richman", "Turkish Department Store Worker", "Let's Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk About Movies". Air Date : 13th-Mar-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 16 - Miranda Richardson/Soul Asylum

Live from New York, it's... Julia Sweeney Sketches include "Pat's Crying Game," "Green & Fazio" (two parts), "The Rain People," "World War II Hospital," "Eager & Jones," "Russell Simmmons Def Magic Show Jam," "MTV Spring Break," "Dieter's Dream" (film), and "Jack McManus' Bar." Soul Asylum performs "Somebody To Shove" and "Black Gold." Air Date : 20th-Mar-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 17 - Jason Alexander/Peter Gabriel

Complete Sketches: ""Clinton's Indecent Proposal to Yeltsin's wife"", ""Jason Alexander's Peter Pan"", ""Meeting of the Woody Allen Fan Club"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Descending-Size Employee Lounges for Privacy-Obssessed People"", ""Can't you tell black or white people apart?"", ""Gyros: You like the juice?"". Air Date : 10th-Apr-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 18 - Kirstie Alley/Lenny Kravitz

""Rodney King Song: Fire Bad by Recurring SNL Characters for Unity"", ""Quinko's Mmmph Board Game Commercial"", ""SNL Cheers wannabes come to cheer Kirstie up"", ""Hotel staff loves the Bellissima wife at La Cantoria"", ""The Montel Williams Show"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Kirstie Alley meets Zoraida, the NBC page"", ""The all natural makeover"", ""Schiller's Reel presents: Security Camera Spectacular!"" Air Date : 24th-Apr-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 19 - Christina Applegate/Midnight Oil

Sketches include ""Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker"", ""Focus on Beauty"", ""The Backwards Romance"", ""Nerf Crotchbat"", ""Worrisome Audition Warnings"", and ""Coffee Talk"" Air Date : 15th-May-1993  Read More

Season 18 Episode 20 - Kevin Kline/Willie Nelson & Paul Simon

Sketches include: ""Mmmph?"", ""Italian Flatulence"", ""Don Lapre: Financial Freedom with a 900 Number"", ""Hub's Gyros"", and ""Criminal Encounter"". Air Date : 22nd-May-1993  Read More