Saturday Night Live (Season 13)

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Saturday Night Live (Season 13)

Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
aired its thirteenth season during the 1987-1988 television season on NBC. Except for Kevin Nealon moving from featured player to repertory player, there were no major cast changes. There were, however, major events that impeded the show's production. During production of the season premiere, a fire broke out near Studio 8H during dress rehearsal. Despite plans to cancel the show for the week, Steve Martin (the episode host) pushed the cast to perform, making the Steve Martin/Sting episode the only episode without a dress rehearsal.

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Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers around New York City....
went on strike, cancelling many planned episodes, including one originally planned to be hosted by former "Not Ready for Primetime" player Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner

Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the National Broadcasting Company comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award....
with musical guest U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
. U2 would go on to be the musical guests for Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor and possible candidate for Governor of New Mexico. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun ...
(in season 26) and Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson

Luke Cunningham Wilson is an United States film actor. He is the younger brother of Owen Wilson and Andrew Wilson , and is considered a member of the Frat Pack....
(in season 30) while U2 frontman Bono

Bono

Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
would cameo in the season 33 episode hosted by Brian Williams

Brian Williams

Brian Douglas Williams is the anchorman and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network. Williams replaced Tom Brokaw on December 2, 2004....
. Gilda Radner, however, would never get the chance to host due to her death from ovarian cancer. The host and musical guest for the March 12, 1988 broadcast (the first episode to be cancelled due to the strike of 1988) was never confirmed.

Season 13 started on October 17, 1987 and ended (abruptly) on February 27, 1988.

Cast

Repertory cast members

Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey

Dana Thomas Carvey is an United States comedian and actor, known for his work on Saturday Night Live and the spin-off movie Wayne's World ....
Nora Dunn
Nora Dunn

Nora Dunn is an American actress and comedian known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live....
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman

Phil Hartman was a Canada-born United Statesn actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family emigrated to the United States when he was ten....
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Jan Hooks
Jan Hooks

Jan Hooks is an United States actress and comedian best known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live , on which she appeared from 1986 to 1991....
Victoria Jackson
Victoria Jackson

Victoria Jackson is an American comedian, actress and singer best known as a cast member of the NBC television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1992....
Jon Lovitz
Jon Lovitz

Jonathan M. "Jon" Lovitz is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live and the voice of Jay Sherman in The Critic....
Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller

Dennis Miller is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator and sports commentator, and television/radio personality. He is known for his uncanny ability to improvise critical assessments laced with pop culture references....
Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon

Kevin Nealon is an US comedian and actor best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1995, and his role on the series Weeds ....

Featured cast members

A. Whitney Brown
A. Whitney Brown

Alan Whitney Brown is an Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian probably best known for his recurring appearances on Saturday Night Live in the 1980s in a Weekend Update segment called "The Big Picture"....
Al Franken
Al Franken

Alan Stuart Franken is an United States politician, comedian, writer and Modern liberalism in the United States political commentator. He first became famous as a writer and a performer for the television show Saturday Night Live, then moved into writing several films....

Episodes

Episode #	Air Date	Host(s)	Musical Guest(s)	Remarks
234 (13.1)	October 17, 1987	Steve Martin Steve Martin Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor, comedian, writer, playwright, Film producer, musician, and composer....	Sting	This is the only episode that did not have a dress rehearsal. A fire near Studio 8H caused everyone to evacuate before rehearsal could begin. Steve Martin convinced everyone to go on with the show instead of cancelling it. Al Franken rejoins the cast after a one year hiatus. Presidential candidate Bruce Babbitt Bruce Babbitt Bruce Edward Babbitt , a Democratic Party , served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as Governor of Arizona.... appears on Weekend Update
235 (13.2)	October 24, 1987	Sean Penn Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn is an United States film actor. He is also a filmmaker and political activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Awa...	LL Cool J LL Cool J James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies love Cool James." He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "Headsprung", "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Mama Said Knock You O... The Pull	Michael Penn Michael Penn Michael Penn is an United States singer and songwriter. He is the son of actor/director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, and the brother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.... , younger brother of host Sean, performed "This and That" with his band The Pull (making it the only time in SNL's history that one brother hosts the show while another serves as a musical guest). He would later have a hit with the song as a solo artist.
236 (13.3)	October 31, 1987	Dabney Coleman Dabney Coleman Dabney Wharton Coleman is an United States actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his always present mustache.Biography...	The Cars The Cars The Cars were an American Rock music band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. Members of the band were singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson ....	Special guest: Cassandra Peterson Cassandra Peterson Cassandra Peterson is an United States actor best known for her on-screen horror hostess character "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark." She gained fame on Los Angeles, California television station KCAL-TV wearing a black, Gothic fashion, cleavage -enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly Horror film presentation.... as Elvira
237 (13.4)	November 14, 1987	Robert Mitchum Robert Mitchum Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an Academy Award-nominated United States film actor, author, composer and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.... †	Simply Red Simply Red Simply Red are an England soul band. Their style draws influences from blue-eyed soul, new romantic, Rock music, jazz music and lovers rock....
238 (13.5)	November 21, 1987	Candice Bergen Candice Bergen 'Candice Patricia Bergen' is an Academy Awards-nominated and Golden Globe- and Emmy Awards-winning United States actress and former fashion model, best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown, and as Shirley Schmidt, the legal partner of Denny Crane , on the American Broadcasting Company comedy-drama B...	Cher Cher Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
239 (13.6)	December 5, 1987	Danny DeVito Danny DeVito Daniel Michael "Danny-Fanny" DeVito, Jr. is an United States actor, film director and film producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the popular American Broadcasting Company and NBC television television program Taxi ....	Bryan Ferry Bryan Ferry Bryan Ferry is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor famed for his suave visual and vocal style. Ferry came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter for Roxy Music, which enjoyed a highly successful career with three albums and ten single s entering the Top 40 charts in the United Ki...
240 (13.7)	December 12, 1987	Angie Dickinson Angie Dickinson Angie Dickinson is a Golden Globe-winning United States television and film actor, perhaps best known for her role as Sergeant Leann "Pepper" Anderson in the successful 1970s crime drama Police Woman ....	Buster Poindexter David Gilmour David Gilmour David Jon Gilmour Order of the British Empire , is an England musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the main songwriters in the band Pink Floyd....	The music in the Drunk Man sketch would later be used as the intro music to "Weekend Update with Norm MacDonald". David Gilmour's appearance on SNL marked the first time a member of Pink Floyd played live on US television (Pink Floyd, without Gilmour and with his predecessor Syd Barrett, appeared 20 years earlier on American Bandstand miming to "Apples and Oranges"). He played an otherwise unreleased instrumental guitar jam with the SNL house band called "Song For My Sara" (which was mistakenly called "Aah Robinson It's You" on many Gilmour ROIOs), and he plays lead guitar using a Steinberger electric guitar instead of his famed Fender Stratocaster.
241 (13.8)	December 19, 1987	Paul Simon Paul Simon Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....	Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....	U.S. Senator Paul Simon Paul Simon (politician) Paul Martin Simon was an American politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and United States Senate from 1985 to 1997.... made a cameo in the monologue. Paul Simon (the musician) is the only musical guest to promote the same album on SNL three times.
242 (13.9)	January 23, 1988	Robin Williams Robin Williams Robin McLaurim Williams is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy Award-winning United Statesn comedian and actor.Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....	James Taylor James Taylor James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
243 (13.10)	January 30, 1988	Carl Weathers Carl Weathers Carl Weathers is an United States acting, as well as former professional American football player in the American football and Canadian football....	Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson is a singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine?s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
244 (13.11)	February 13, 1988	Justine Bateman Justine Bateman Justine Tanya Bateman is an United States actor best known for her role as Mallory Keaton on the television sitcom Family Ties.Biography...	Terence Trent D'Arby	D'Arby performed "Wishing Well" and "Under My Thumb."
245 (13.12)	February 20, 1988	Tom Hanks Tom Hanks Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American film actor, film director, voice-over artist, writer and film producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia , the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander J...	Randy Travis Randy Travis Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
246 (13.13)	February 27, 1988	Judge Reinhold Judge Reinhold Judge Reinhold is an United States actor, perhaps best known for co-starring in movies such as Beverly Hills Cop, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and The Santa Clause....	10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs was a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career....