Live from New York, it's... Tom Hanks!



Sketches include "Entertainment Tonight," "Trojans," "The Pat Stevens Show," "Tommy Flanagan and His Mother," "After She Dies," "The Stand-Ups," Steven Wright performs stand-up, "Break from Shopping," and "Steve's Fantasy."



Sade performs "It Is A Crime" and "The Sweetest Taboo."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 11 Episode 5 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 11 Episodes...

• s11e01 - Madonna/Simple Minds
• s11e02 - Chevy Chase/Sheila E.
• s11e03 - Pee Wee Herman/Queen Ida & The Bon Temps Zydeco Band
• s11e04 - John Lithgow/Mr. Mister
• s11e05 - Tom Hanks/Sade
• s11e06 - Teri Garr/Dream Academy, The Cult
• s11e07 - Harry Dean Stanton/The Replacements
• s11e08 - Dudley Moore/Al Green
• s11e09 - Ron Reagan/The Nelsons
• s11e10 - Jerry Hall/Stevie Ray & Jimmie Vaughn
• s11e11 - Jay Leno/The Neville Brothers
• s11e12 - Griffin Dunne/Rosanne Cash
• s11e13 - George Wendt/Philip Glass
• s11e14 - Oprah Winfrey/Joe Jackson
• s11e15 - Tony Danza/Laurie Anderson
• s11e16 - Catherine Oxenberg, Paul Simon/Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• s11e17 - Jimmy Breslin & Marvin Hagler/Level 42, E.G. Daily
• s11e18 - Anjelica Huston & Billy Martin/George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic

Saturday Night Live Show Summary

Since 1975, SNL has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as "The New York Times" noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999. In defiance of both time and show business convention, "SNL" is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture". At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

Saturday Night Live is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The program is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.