Saturday Night Live season 19

The nineteenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 25, 1993, and May 14, 1994.

Cast

Many changes happened to the cast before the start of the season.
Dana Carvey had left the show in the middle of the previous season. Chris Rock and Robert Smigel also left the show at the end of the previous season. Ellen Cleghorne, Melanie Hutsell, Tim Meadows, Adam Sandler, and David Spade were all promoted to repertory status. Stand-up comics Norm Macdonald, Jay Mohr and Sarah Silverman were hired as writers and would debut as featured players, a few episodes into the season. Veteran comic actor Michael McKean joined the show midseason as a repertory cast member. At 46, McKean became the oldest person to join the cast of the show. It was a distinction he held until Leslie Jones became a cast member in 2014.
This would be the final season for longtime cast members Phil Hartman, Rob Schneider, Julia Sweeney and Melanie Hutsell. This was also the only season for Sarah Silverman.
A major blow for the show was the departure of Hartman. Before his final show the entire cast and crew presented him with a bronzed stick of glue, symbolizing how he had become "The Glue" of the show, a term coined by Adam Sandler.
This was the final season to show StereoSurround captioning during the opening montage.
This is also the first season to feature the show returning to the "repertory" and "featured" cast lists since season 15.

Cast roster

Repertory players

Featured players

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Norm Macdonald and Jay Mohr were each credited in the open montage for 14 of the season's 20 episodes, whereas Sarah Silverman was credited for 10 episodes and Al Franken was credited for three episodes.

Writers

Several veteran writers, among them Robert Smigel, Jack Handey, and Bonnie and Terry Turner, left the staff prior to the season. Head writer Jim Downey later attributed part of the season's drop in quality and the negative reception of season 20 to the turnovers among the writing staff and cast.
New writers hired included stand-up comedians Dave Attell, Norm Macdonald, Jay Mohr, and Sarah Silverman ; as well as Lewis Morton, Steve Lookner, and Tony DeSena. This would be the only season for Attell, Silverman, and DeSena.
Fred Wolf joins the writing staff with the John Malkovich hosted episode.
Tim Herlihy was added to the writing staff, with the Nancy Kerrigan-hosted episode.
This was also the final season for longtime/original writer Tom Davis, as he left the show after 14 accumulative years.

Episodes

''Wayne's World 2'' film

Wayne's World 2, the sequel to the 1992 hit Wayne's World, was released on December 10, 1993. Based on the popular "Wayne's World" sketches, the film stars cast members Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Mike Myers and Harry Shearer. SNL writers Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel have brief cameos as concert nerds. The film did not do as well at the box office as its predecessor, grossing less than half of what the original did. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with Roger Ebert calling the characters of Wayne and Garth "impossible to dislike".

''It's Pat'' film

It's Pat, a film based on the popular Pat sketches, was released on August 26, 1994. Cast members Tim Meadows, Charles Rocket and Julia Sweeney appear in the film. The film was a box office bomb, barely making $50,000. The film was also panned by critics and has a rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews.