Season 15
Saturday Night Live aired its fifteenth season during the 1989 - 1990 television season on NBC. The fifteenth season started off with a 15th anniversary special on September 24, 1989 and ended on May 19, 1990. 21 episodes were produced, including the anniversary special. Few changes happened before the start of the season. The only change was the absence of Ben Stiller. After being on the show for five episodes, Stiller left the show due to creative differences with Lorne Michaels. Mike Myers was upgraded to repertory status. This season saw the first hosting gigs of three celebrities who would go on to be frequent SNL hosts: John Goodman, Christopher Walken, and Alec Baldwin. This season is also notorious for an in-cast spat towards the end of the season. Nora Dunn staged a boycott over the host of the episode, controversial comedian Andrew Dice Clay. Dunn refused to appear in the episode because of Clay's profane jokes about women. The original musical guest for the episode, Sinéad O'Connor, joined Dunn in her boycott and canceled her scheduled appearance. O'Connor was replaced by Julee Cruise and The Spanic Boys.
| Air date | Sep 30, 1989 |
|---|---|
| Episodes | 20 |
Episodes
- 1. Bruce Willis/Neil Young
- 2. Rick Moranis/Rickie Lee Jones
- 3. Kathleen Turner/Billy Joel
- 4. James Woods/Don Henley
- 5. Chris Evert/Eurythmics
- 6. Woody Harrelson/David Byrne
- 7. John Goodman/k.d. lang & The Reclines
- 8. Robert Wagner/Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
- 9. Andie MacDowell/Tracy Chapman
- 10. Ed O'Neill/Harry Connick, Jr.
- 11. Christopher Walken/Bonnie Raitt
- 12. Quincy Jones
- 13. Tom Hanks/Aerosmith
- 14. Fred Savage/Technotronic
- 15. Rob Lowe/The Pogues
- 16. Debra Winger/Eric Clapton
- 17. Corbin Bernsen/Smithereens
- 18. Alec Baldwin/The B-52's
- 19. Andrew Dice Clay/Spanic Boys & Julee Cruise
- 20. Candice Bergen/Notting Hillbillies