YES! The one with Lorne Micheals’ return, the debut of Jon Lovitz & Dennis Miller (with at least one cast member staying at a time by this time), & especially the one with their sole Oscar winning cast member!
The most astonishing fact revealed: Jon Lovitz was 28 when he started on SNL! Seriously, I always assumed he lived in a perpetual state of being 52 years old.
28! I remember watching that season and assuming he was...early 40s I'd never checked how old he was and am surprised to see...born 1957. Would've guessed mid 1940s
I met him at a convention back in 2021. Even he admitted that he looked a lot younger back then. I had him sign my SNL: First Twenty Years coffee table book.
One thing worth noting about the potential for cancellation this season is the fact that by this point SNL was being replaced monthly on off weeks with WWF Wrestling which was red hot and doing phenomenal ratings, so that definitely hurt SNL’s case even more
I remember that. I was 10 and never knew until the news went off which one was gonna show. I hated Wrestling but that Andre the Giant battle royal where he turned heel and like 9 guys had to get him out of the ring was epic!!
In the George Wendt/Francis Ford Coppola episode, note how Lorne says he'll be doing wrestling full time. This is a dig at Dick Ebersol, who was the producer of the popular Saturday Night's Main Event.
I know exactly where I was that night. I remember I was going to be home from boarding school when Madonna would host Saturday Night Live. I looked forward to it. But then my dad said that we were going to the movies. I missed that episode. You might think I'm angry or bitter with that story. But I was actually overjoyed. My dad had taken me to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I've seen it in the theater hundreds of times now. I did catch the Madonna show and rerun. It was really great and I can see why she was a friend of the show for many years. Just thought I'd share. This is a great series. Thank you.
Was your dad that freaking awesome or did he just not know what Rocky horror picture show was? 😅 Don't keep me in suspense with your answer, I'm waiting with great antici...................
@@pts5217 Yes. My local theater played The Wall, Heavy Metal, and RHPS Midnight Friday and Saturday. Midnight movies were big back in the day. Movies like Pink Flamingos, and El Topo helped start the trend back in the 70s.
@@stevenmandl4920 Hartman and Carvey were not in this season. That's what I mean. If Lovitz and Dennis Miller and Nora weren't in 11 we wouldnt have season 12 when Hartman and Carvey and Jan and Kevin and Victoria came on
He definitely helped big time, but I don’t know if he single-handedly saved the show. That being said, Lovitz, Joe Piscopo, and Eddie Murphy deserve a ton of credit for saving the show at various points.
@@pts5217yeah but without the Liar and Master Thespian there were pretty much zero popular characters. I mean I love Nora Dunn, but Pat Stevens didn't blow up like the Liar
@@SayHello2Kevin yes! Fall 97 moved away to college and our dorms had cable with Comedy Central. My hometown's cable didn't have Comedy Central yet so I watched a ton of it Of course fall 97 was first season of South Park so that was huge. And Kilborn's Daily Show
I was about 10 when I graduated from Nickelodeon around 97/98. And it was that late 90s Comedy Central that I gravitated to. I remember those old snl episodes. The movies (they played history or the world part 1 a lot !) Early Daily Show And others …. 90s cable was the best. !
Jim Downey, Jack Handey, and Bob Smigel is a dream lineup in the writers' room. I think they just needed a little more time together. Thankfully, they got it.
This cast didn’t work as a unit. Most of them did better solo and with other troupes than they did in this group. The atmosphere of SNL is competitive. More attention is paid to break out performances and everyone is driven to stand out. Tough to find duos like Ackroyd and Belushi, Spade and Farley or Myers and Carvey when you’re trying to always one up the people on stage with you.
In the biopic Reagan, the titular protagonist is portrayed by Dennis Quaid. But, almost forty years ago, his brother Randy portrayed Reagan in some of the sketches from SNL's Season 11.
@@bobthebear1246wow thats definitely higher education put to good use. The ability to determine that a character from a comedy sketch television program is funnier than the same character portrayed in a biopic film. Congratulations
Cast for Season 11 (1985-1986) Joan Cusack (season 11) Robert Downey, Jr. (season 11) Nora Dunn (seasons 11-15) Anthony Michael Hall (season 11) Jon Lovitz (seasons 11-15) Dennis Miller (seasons 11-16) Randy Quaid (season 11) Terry Sweeney (season 11) Danitra Vance (season 11) A Whitney Brown (seasons 11-16) Don Novello (seasons 5, 11) Dan Vitale (season 11) Damon Wayans (season 11)
I was there man, I remember this season and it wasn't bad but the cast didn't gel at all. They had massive talent but they felt like each one was doing their own thing except for Lovitz and Dunn (Dennis Miller was actually doing his own thing). I enjoyed it but when it came back for season 12... it felt like a whole new show.
Oooh the coppola thing is so cool!! I would LOVE it if SNL had director as guest hosts lol like Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Charlie Kaufman, Greta Gherwig. I don't know how it would work but people might tune in? Idk.
im LUVIN this series. Youre now approaching MY favorite SNL period of the mid-80s to 1990, when i turned 18, had my own apartment and could stay up to even watch snl, so this period has ALL of MY fav actors, characters, skits and music guests.
Madonna summed up this season after she hosted the opening cold open for season 12…”it was a horrible dream”…or words to that effect. (Echoing the Dream Season on Dallas with Bobby coming back to life).
As someone whose freshman year of college coincided exactly with the very first season of SNL (and episodes then were appointment viewing on our dorm floor), I can't thank the creators of this series enough for this extremely well done and inciteful trip down memory lane. Keep up the good work - I eagerly await each new episode!
"You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose." The AV Club has a pretty good writeup of this season. The writer was either not alive or not old enough to watch SNL when this season was, had heard what a bad season it was, but was pleasantly surprised that there were some pretty funny sketches and they tried some different things (the Coppola episode).
The Dennis Miller Weekend Update intro (3:39), which was modified slightly a few times, was a visual parody of the NBC Nightly News intro at the time, which used the Statue of Liberty as its logo.
I asked Anthony Michael Hall why he wasn’t at the 40th anniversary celebration when they had an SNL special a few years ago. He simply said, I wasn’t invited. That is such BS!
FWIW, the main talk show host for the San Antonio AM station, who has interviewed hundreds of people in the business after 50 years, said AMH was the biggest dick he ever met in the business.
The Coppola episode really reminds me of the very special episode in season 3 of Arrested Development. High concept and risky during a period of potential cancellation.
OUCH! Cusack, Downey, Hall, and Quaid collectively get 9 mentions in the video. Each is introduced at the beginning and then fired at the end. Quaid gets one additional mention for his Reagan impersonation.
These are so interesting to watch, and they bring back a lot of memories - like E.G. Daily incorporating John Lovitz into her musical performance, and that Harry Dean Stanton hosted, too.
This was great as usual. I think like most people I'm looking forward to season 12. I feel like season 12 could be a whole in studio special or maybe a two-parter because that will really be the beginning of a classic era.
I'm kinda sorry I missed that season. At the time I heard the show had gone downhill, but I waa usually never home to watch it in the mid- to late-80s. In 1985 I had become rather good looking, and I had a pretty good job (not great, just pretty good). I was dating a knockout redhead who had to be home by 11:30, but we were always late. After that I usually headed over to Joey's house. His dad had a place down at the beach, and he was there every weekday. So, Joey and I could drink a few beers, shoot the breeze, and watch TV. If Joey's dad was around I would get Joey, and we would head over to Rob's house for cards or TV. His mom worked 3rd shift. Sometimes we would just go camping. It was a great time to be young. So, whatever happened to that knockout? She married my friend Alan, and they seem happy. They hike and camp a lot. They never had kids, which was too bad because they are great people. They would have been awesome parents, but she had some problem with her cervix or her uterus so maybe they couldn't have kids.
Well done and very interesting I remember a few episodes of this season and...it was horrific Jim Downey worked with Letterman IIRC They really turned things around in 86-87
The thing that always struck me about this season is just the level of talent together and how little any of it ended up working. THREE of the players have academy award nominations (RDJ, Randy Quaid, and Joan Cusack). Every writer from this season who didn’t continue onto 12 went on to create/work on Seinfeld, the Simpsons, or the Kids in the Hall. It’s not to say that the season isn’t a disaster because it absolutely is. It’s maybe the most fascinating misfire in the shows history
I can't wait until you guys get to the mid-90's, what was my era. I keep hearing tales about how that era flopped too? I remember laughing my ass off, but then I was a teen and everything was funny back then lol. I'm really enjoy this series, keep'em coming!
I watched every episode of season 11. I have never seen another season with so many episodes that bombed. I remember staying up and hoping they would show a rerun of the previous season, and then would be disappointed if it was a new episode.
These season recaps are awesome. Where do you get all ur footage? Im stuck over here trying to watch S11 on Peacock. Im only seeing like 30 min for each ep.
This podcast is the best. Before today, I thought John Schwartzwelder was made up for tax purposes. At the rate you're going (10 seasons every 3 months) you'll be caught up by the time next year. Thank god, SNL is connected to everything by a single degree of separation.
I remember Damon Wayans doing the Homeboys Shopping Network-type of sketch, with Anthony Michael Hall. No way in hell that sketch works with Hall, Damon was probably sitting in read-through like "I got to get out of here."
Saw an interview with RDJ recently where he indicated they also wanted him back for Season 12 but he didn’t want to do it if they didn’t bring Anthony Michael Hall (who was definitely gone) It was probably best for all parties involved this didn’t happen
Notably, when Harry Dean Stanton hosted with now-banned musical guests The Replacements, the theme was a bit faster when they had drummer Yogi Horton subbing for Steve Ferrone.
YES! The one with Lorne Micheals’ return, the debut of Jon Lovitz & Dennis Miller (with at least one cast member staying at a time by this time), & especially the one with their sole Oscar winning cast member!
Everyone seems to forget Nora Dunn!! 🤣
Jealous?
@@cammy85 Nora Dunn in Dora the Nun
@@cammy85 I haven't of course. She can be Deadpan Hilarious!ua-cam.com/video/KodqIPMbyUg/v-deo.html
Michaels
I worked on SNL from 1981 to 1989. I'm enjoying the trip down memory lane!
@@petermontagna3461 do do you know who's the lady at 2:40 with don novello?
The most astonishing fact revealed: Jon Lovitz was 28 when he started on SNL! Seriously, I always assumed he lived in a perpetual state of being 52 years old.
Yeah it's just so weird how many of them looked much older than their actual age, must've been all that cocaine making them look effed up.
28! I remember watching that season and assuming he was...early 40s
I'd never checked how old he was and am surprised to see...born 1957. Would've guessed mid 1940s
Maybe he was lying!! 🤣🤣
I met him at a convention back in 2021. Even he admitted that he looked a lot younger back then. I had him sign my SNL: First Twenty Years coffee table book.
Hate ages you. He went 28 whole years rooting for Israel to kill as many Palestinians as they could
I wish I'd found this channel AFTER you finished all fifty episodes. The suspense is killing me!!!
IKR, I wanted to binge them all.
One thing worth noting about the potential for cancellation this season is the fact that by this point SNL was being replaced monthly on off weeks with WWF Wrestling which was red hot and doing phenomenal ratings, so that definitely hurt SNL’s case even more
Sad. Wrestling
@@tomace194Not really. I don't even like wrestling but it was often better than these episodes.
I remember that. I was 10 and never knew until the news went off which one was gonna show. I hated Wrestling but that Andre the Giant battle royal where he turned heel and like 9 guys had to get him out of the ring was epic!!
In the George Wendt/Francis Ford Coppola episode, note how Lorne says he'll be doing wrestling full time. This is a dig at Dick Ebersol, who was the producer of the popular Saturday Night's Main Event.
Both Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon have said they started watching SNL because wrestling wasn’t on
I know exactly where I was that night. I remember I was going to be home from boarding school when Madonna would host Saturday Night Live. I looked forward to it.
But then my dad said that we were going to the movies. I missed that episode.
You might think I'm angry or bitter with that story. But I was actually overjoyed. My dad had taken me to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I've seen it in the theater hundreds of times now. I did catch the Madonna show and rerun. It was really great and I can see why she was a friend of the show for many years.
Just thought I'd share.
This is a great series. Thank you.
Was your dad that freaking awesome or did he just not know what Rocky horror picture show was? 😅 Don't keep me in suspense with your answer, I'm waiting with great antici...................
Going to the movies at 11:30 pm?
@@Don3PO My dad had seen it on a business trip. He knew I would love it too.
@@LannieLord Yes. It was a Catholic school. But that is a whole other story.
@@pts5217 Yes. My local theater played The Wall, Heavy Metal, and RHPS Midnight Friday and Saturday.
Midnight movies were big back in the day. Movies like Pink Flamingos, and El Topo helped start the trend back in the 70s.
This season's home base set still amazes me at just how freakin' big and elaborate it was. I wish they'd kept it longer than just one season!
It was the best one I've seen!!!
Lovitz literally saved SNL. Without him, this season would have been the final season ever
no, it wasnt just lovitz, it was phil hartman and dana carvey too
@@stevenmandl4920 Hartman and Carvey were not in this season. That's what I mean. If Lovitz and Dennis Miller and Nora weren't in 11 we wouldnt have season 12 when Hartman and Carvey and Jan and Kevin and Victoria came on
He definitely helped big time, but I don’t know if he single-handedly saved the show.
That being said, Lovitz, Joe Piscopo, and Eddie Murphy deserve a ton of credit for saving the show at various points.
@@pts5217yeah but without the Liar and Master Thespian there were pretty much zero popular characters. I mean I love Nora Dunn, but Pat Stevens didn't blow up like the Liar
@@pts5217 Along with Billy Crystal and Martin Short.
George Wendt’s nephew, Jason Sudeikis, later became a cast member of Saturday Night Live
That's some good trivia! Love both those guys.
Jason Sudeikis is circumcised.
I remember when Comedy Central would play the hell out of these mid 80s seasons. I hated them then but now I'm fascinated by this era of the show.
@@SayHello2Kevin yes! Fall 97 moved away to college and our dorms had cable with Comedy Central. My hometown's cable didn't have Comedy Central yet so I watched a ton of it
Of course fall 97 was first season of South Park so that was huge. And Kilborn's Daily Show
I was about 10 when I graduated from Nickelodeon around 97/98. And it was that late 90s Comedy Central that I gravitated to.
I remember those old snl episodes.
The movies (they played history or the world part 1 a lot !)
Early Daily Show
And others ….
90s cable was the best. !
The 80s were the worst decade, in my opinion, for SNL. All I can see is the gluttony and narcissism of the 80s.
@@tenofivelips even the Carvey era? That's my favorite. How old are you? I was 9 in 1988 when I started watching
I can’t wait for the 1986- 1987 season. The 1986 - 1987 season introduced Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, Jan Hooks, and Victoria Jackson.
Terry Sweeny as Nancy Regan was fantastic!
It’s honestly hard to believe this season didn’t work with how much talent they had on and off camera. That writing staff was first rate.
Very true. Maybe they needed more time to gel?
@@untexan They seem like talent in retrospect because of what they’ve gone on to do
Jim Downey, Jack Handey, and Bob Smigel is a dream lineup in the writers' room. I think they just needed a little more time together. Thankfully, they got it.
This cast didn’t work as a unit. Most of them did better solo and with other troupes than they did in this group. The atmosphere of SNL is competitive. More attention is paid to break out performances and everyone is driven to stand out. Tough to find duos like Ackroyd and Belushi, Spade and Farley or Myers and Carvey when you’re trying to always one up the people on stage with you.
@@robertbloom4424Plus two revered Simpsons writers in George Meyer and John Swartzwelder
In the biopic Reagan, the titular protagonist is portrayed by Dennis Quaid. But, almost forty years ago, his brother Randy portrayed Reagan in some of the sketches from SNL's Season 11.
Oh yeah, that's right. Except when Randy did it, it was far more entertaining.
Oh yeah, that's right. Except when Randy did it, it was far more entertaining.
@@bobthebear1246wow thats definitely higher education put to good use. The ability to determine that a character from a comedy sketch television program is funnier than the same character portrayed in a biopic film. Congratulations
@@ianschmitt4991 We found the reagan fan!
@@ianschmitt4991 the Quaid Brothers.
Cast for Season 11 (1985-1986)
Joan Cusack (season 11)
Robert Downey, Jr. (season 11)
Nora Dunn (seasons 11-15)
Anthony Michael Hall (season 11)
Jon Lovitz (seasons 11-15)
Dennis Miller (seasons 11-16)
Randy Quaid (season 11)
Terry Sweeney (season 11)
Danitra Vance (season 11)
A Whitney Brown (seasons 11-16)
Don Novello (seasons 5, 11)
Dan Vitale (season 11)
Damon Wayans (season 11)
I was there man, I remember this season and it wasn't bad but the cast didn't gel at all. They had massive talent but they felt like each one was doing their own thing except for Lovitz and Dunn (Dennis Miller was actually doing his own thing).
I enjoyed it but when it came back for season 12... it felt like a whole new show.
I love that GE Smith and the SNL band album. Nice touch using it as bed music.
Oooh the coppola thing is so cool!! I would LOVE it if SNL had director as guest hosts lol like Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Charlie Kaufman, Greta Gherwig. I don't know how it would work but people might tune in? Idk.
im LUVIN this series. Youre now approaching MY favorite SNL period of the mid-80s to 1990, when i turned 18, had my own apartment and could stay up to even watch snl, so this period has ALL of MY fav actors, characters, skits and music guests.
Madonna summed up this season after she hosted the opening cold open for season 12…”it was a horrible dream”…or words to that effect. (Echoing the Dream Season on Dallas with Bobby coming back to life).
Madonna? Yikes. I find the seasons the public say sre the worst were the best or had the potential to be the best. If it weren't for garbage writing.
YUP!! I WAS JUST THINKING THAT!! Then they proceeded to put on the best show they had in 2 seasons and it just got better from there!!
That was a great moment 😄
Wild to learn two KITH were writing this early in the SnL run!!
Something seems off about this!
Another point to be made is that Robert Downey Jr. was the nephew of Jim Downey, one of the original Saturday Night Live writers
What an absolutely necessary UA-cam channel. Thanks for the deep dive!
Paul Reubens brought Phil Hartman to NY to help write bits.
My god, I will be counting the hours for the next episode
No joke. That cast was the best.
As someone whose freshman year of college coincided exactly with the very first season of SNL (and episodes then were appointment viewing on our dorm floor), I can't thank the creators of this series enough for this extremely well done and inciteful trip down memory lane. Keep up the good work - I eagerly await each new episode!
I look forward to these videos, thanks guys!
THank you so much guys!
OMG 1985's Lenny Picket with curlies!😂 3:27 It can be briefly seen the great trombonist Steve Turre too
Joan Cusack is from Evanston Illinois.
THE SONG AT THE BEGINNING!!!! That was one of the signature “go to commercial” songs with G.E. Smith. Wow!
Thanks for that wave of nostalgia
What a great series...thank you!
Really loving this series! Thanks.
Great video. Great job! Held my interest throughout!
Great summaries!! Thank you!
Your video made the season seem better than it really was! 😄😄😄
i’ve watched all 11 of these over the last day or so and i am LOVING it. keep it up guys, awesome work ❤
Wow. Glad I missed this season.
"You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose."
The AV Club has a pretty good writeup of this season. The writer was either not alive or not old enough to watch SNL when this season was, had heard what a bad season it was, but was pleasantly surprised that there were some pretty funny sketches and they tried some different things (the Coppola episode).
Apparently there were some writers on this season that went on to write for The Simpsons
The Dennis Miller Weekend Update intro (3:39), which was modified slightly a few times, was a visual parody of the NBC Nightly News intro at the time, which used the Statue of Liberty as its logo.
I asked Anthony Michael Hall why he wasn’t at the 40th anniversary celebration when they had an SNL special a few years ago. He simply said, I wasn’t invited. That is such BS!
FWIW, the main talk show host for the San Antonio AM station, who has interviewed hundreds of people in the business after 50 years, said AMH was the biggest dick he ever met in the business.
I think they only invited people who were on more than 1 season. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough space to fit everyone
@@pts5217 They could’ve just had him be acknowledged, along with the rest of that cast, and the cast of season six
These are great and I look forward to each one. Keep it up guys.
Love these and remember this season well!
Loving this series, more please!
Chills at the end. So excited for Season 12 episode. Chills.
Thank you for another awesome video guys! One for the algorithm! 🙂
This is right in my wheelhouse…I have officially subscribed. You guys are amazingly good at this!
The Coppola episode really reminds me of the very special episode in season 3 of Arrested Development. High concept and risky during a period of potential cancellation.
great series guys
I am loving these!
You guys have a FANTASTIC CHANNEL!❤
I really enjoyed this, you've a new subscriber.
Thank you!
This season was dubbed "infamous" but it's pure gold if compared to the seasons from the 21st and onward!
These are great. A HUGE stroll down memory lane. Danitra Vance (RIP)was quite talented.
The Star Search skit with Randy Quaid and Damon Wayans is Gold!!
I have been waiting for Kevin Nealon!!!
A very good episode.
OUCH! Cusack, Downey, Hall, and Quaid collectively get 9 mentions in the video. Each is introduced at the beginning and then fired at the end. Quaid gets one additional mention for his Reagan impersonation.
Yeah, it might have been nice if we had been given an example of what they did wrong
Yes, I’m an eighties kid who loved Anthony Michael Hall. I’d heard he was in SNL and would like to see some of his sketches.
@@kamandi1362they're in peacock
Because none of them did anything memorable. A good actor doesn't necessarily make a good sketch player.
Love this series! So well done.
These are so interesting to watch, and they bring back a lot of memories - like E.G. Daily incorporating John Lovitz into her musical performance, and that Harry Dean Stanton hosted, too.
Finally!...thank you!!
The finale with Billy Martin was actually pretty brilliant, as was the whackadoodle Coppola episode.
Best SNL podcast on UA-cam
Always look forward to these! Mahalos guys!
Well whoever made the new cast picks for season 12 deserves an Emmy.
I'm really enjoying this series' recaps/history.
This was great as usual. I think like most people I'm looking forward to season 12. I feel like season 12 could be a whole in studio special or maybe a two-parter because that will really be the beginning of a classic era.
85-86 was as one writer put it, "The first year of the rest of SNL 's life" 😅
I'm kinda sorry I missed that season. At the time I heard the show had gone downhill, but I waa usually never home to watch it in the mid- to late-80s. In 1985 I had become rather good looking, and I had a pretty good job (not great, just pretty good). I was dating a knockout redhead who had to be home by 11:30, but we were always late. After that I usually headed over to Joey's house. His dad had a place down at the beach, and he was there every weekday. So, Joey and I could drink a few beers, shoot the breeze, and watch TV. If Joey's dad was around I would get Joey, and we would head over to Rob's house for cards or TV. His mom worked 3rd shift. Sometimes we would just go camping. It was a great time to be young. So, whatever happened to that knockout? She married my friend Alan, and they seem happy. They hike and camp a lot. They never had kids, which was too bad because they are great people. They would have been awesome parents, but she had some problem with her cervix or her uterus so maybe they couldn't have kids.
Well done and very interesting
I remember a few episodes of this season and...it was horrific
Jim Downey worked with Letterman IIRC
They really turned things around in 86-87
This retrospective of Season 11 was magnifi...... it gre..... eh... it was watchable. Yeah that's it.
😅
EXCELLENT AS USUAL!!!
thanks!
Jimmy Breslin was really funny in a Bond Villains Talk Show sketch
THANK YOU SO COOL!
I know this season was panned, but man it sure looked fun! And of course, In Lovitz We Trust.
The thing that always struck me about this season is just the level of talent together and how little any of it ended up working. THREE of the players have academy award nominations (RDJ, Randy Quaid, and Joan Cusack). Every writer from this season who didn’t continue onto 12 went on to create/work on Seinfeld, the Simpsons, or the Kids in the Hall.
It’s not to say that the season isn’t a disaster because it absolutely is. It’s maybe the most fascinating misfire in the shows history
Pretty good, but would've loved more info about RDJ on the show.
I can't wait until you guys get to the mid-90's, what was my era. I keep hearing tales about how that era flopped too? I remember laughing my ass off, but then I was a teen and everything was funny back then lol. I'm really enjoy this series, keep'em coming!
Cusack is from Chicago
This is the first season I started watching regularly, at age 15. My friends and I constantly quoted Tommy Flanagan, as well as many other skits.
I always look forward to these. Thanks for the content.
Great job guys!
Such a good series, keep them coming!
I would love to get this season on DVD! I thought it had some funny stuff!
I was a junior in high school when this particular season aired meaning each school year, there'd always be major cast changes on "SNL"!
I watched every episode of season 11. I have never seen another season with so many episodes that bombed. I remember staying up and hoping they would show a rerun of the previous season, and then would be disappointed if it was a new episode.
My favorite era is 86-91 so I’m excited for the next handful in particular.
An instant watch for me!
The yuppies going to hell sketch was pretty good. Every long running show has off seasons.
7:00 was Hanks impersonating Seinfeld years before the TV show made him a household name?!
Seinfeld was already a famous stand up act with several appearances on Carson
yes
@@ssenssel But he wasn't a househjoldnamr yer
@@GreatGooglieWooglie not a household name but he was definitely fairly well known by 1985-86
@@timburr4453 good point
Randy Quaid had some GREAT SKITS this season. Can't find em ANYWHERE!
I the only skit of his I recall is Cleveland Vice
These season recaps are awesome. Where do you get all ur footage? Im stuck over here trying to watch S11 on Peacock. Im only seeing like 30 min for each ep.
John Paragon also co-wrote the pee-wee episode; he would play Giambi on Pee-wee's Playhouse.
Great work on this series, new subscriber here.
Thanks for subscribing!
@@thesnlnetwork thanks for the hundreds of hours putting these gems together!
These are great, gentlemen. Looking forward to the next 38!
This podcast is the best. Before today, I thought John Schwartzwelder was made up for tax purposes.
At the rate you're going (10 seasons every 3 months) you'll be caught up by the time next year.
Thank god, SNL is connected to everything by a single degree of separation.
I remember Damon Wayans doing the Homeboys Shopping Network-type of sketch, with Anthony Michael Hall. No way in hell that sketch works with Hall, Damon was probably sitting in read-through like "I got to get out of here."
The Tom Hanks part sounds like early Seinfeld.
Yes that's what they were making fun of.
YAYYYYY I’ve been waiting for this
Saw an interview with RDJ recently where he indicated they also wanted him back for Season 12 but he didn’t want to do it if they didn’t bring Anthony Michael Hall (who was definitely gone)
It was probably best for all parties involved this didn’t happen
Notably, when Harry Dean Stanton hosted with now-banned musical guests The Replacements, the theme was a bit faster when they had drummer Yogi Horton subbing for Steve Ferrone.
Harry was drunk too you can tell.