Live from New York, it's... Phil Hartman!



Sketches include "Bill Clinton," "NCI Long Distance," "Larry King Live," "Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley," "Gap Girls," "Coffee Talk with Linda Richman," "Big, Tall, & Black," "Deep Thoughts," "What's That?," "Out of Africa," "Donkey Basketball," and "Office Space" (cartoon).



Nirvana performed "Heart-Shaped Box" and "Rape Me."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 19 Episode 1 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 19 Episodes...

• s19e01 - Charles Barkley/Nirvana
• s19e02 - Shannen Doherty/Cypress Hill
• s19e03 - Jeff Goldblum/Aerosmith
• s19e04 - John Malkovich/Billy Joel
• s19e05 - Christian Slater/Smashing Pumpkins
• s19e06 - Rosie O'Donnell/James Taylor
• s19e07 - Nicole Kidman/Stone Temple Pilots
• s19e08 - Charlton Heston/Paul Westerberg
• s19e09 - Sally Field/Tony! Toni! Tone!
• s19e10 - Jason Patric/Blind Melon
• s19e11 - Sara Gilbert/Counting Crows
• s19e12 - Patrick Stewart/Salt-n-Pepa
• s19e13 - Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger/UB40
• s19e14 - Martin Lawrence/Crash Test Dummies
• s19e15 - Nancy Kerrigan/Aretha Franklin
• s19e16 - Helen Hunt/Snoop Doggy Dogg
• s19e17 - Kelsey Grammer/Dwight Yoakam
• s19e18 - Emilio Estevez/Pearl Jam
• s19e19 - John Goodman/The Pretenders
• s19e20 - Heather Locklear/Janet Jackson

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.