Saturday Night Live season 17
The seventeenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 28, 1991, and May 16, 1992.
Cast
A. Whitney Brown, Jan Hooks and longtime Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller all left the show. Kevin Nealon was promoted to Weekend Update anchor. New cast members included Ellen Cleghorne, Siobhan Fallon and writer Robert Smigel. Beth Cahill and Melanie Hutsell also later joined the cast. Chris Farley, Chris Rock and Julia Sweeney were upgraded to repertory status, while Tim Meadows remained in the middle group. Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade were promoted to the middle group.This was the final season for Victoria Jackson. This would be Cahill and Fallon's only season on the show.
Cast roster
Repertory playersMiddle players
Featured players
bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
All middle players received credit in the opening montage for every episode throughout the season, while featured players only were credited for specific episodes in which they appeared. Hutsell was credited for 14 episodes, Cahill was credited for 13 episodes, Franken was credited for eight episodes and Smigel was credited for four episodes.