The BEST episodes written by Herbert Sargent
#1 - Danny DeVito/Bryan Ferry
Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 6
ive from New York, it's... Danny Devito! Sketches include: "Gorbachev-Reagan," "Siskel & Ebert," "Church Chat," "Eddie Spimozo's Jungle Room," "White Trash Appraiser," "Ann Landers' Playhouse," and "Reminiscing with Doorman." Bryan Ferry performs "The Right Stuff" and "Kiss and Tell."
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#2 - Justine Bateman/Terrance Trent D'Arby
Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 11
""53rd. Debate of the 1988 Republican Presidential Candidates"", ""Learning to Feel with Denise Venetti, Ph.D."", ""Family Ties: If These Old Walls Could Talk (Flashback-Flashback Episode)"", ""Blocked songwriter Derek Stevens loses his Muse"", ""An older man, the bimbo girlfriend Linda and his Judgemental Friends"".
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#3 - Jeff Daniels/Color Me Badd
Saturday Night Live - Season 17 - Episode 2
""Johnny Carson's Tonight Show: The 29th and Final Anniversary"", ""Earthies, the Bountiful Diaper Commercial (From Dell Monty)"", ""The Richmeister Vs. The Name Singing Guy"", ""The Chris Farley Show"", ""Community College Bowl"", ""Apex Novelty Guy gets fired for designing bad quality rubber vomit""
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#4 - Dudley Moore/Al Green
Saturday Night Live - Season 11 - Episode 8
Sketches include ""Monks and Football,"" ""The Pat Stevens Show,"" ""Master Thespian"", ""The Limits of the Imagination"", ""Name That Tune,"" and ""Die Foriegner Die!"" Al Green performs ""Going Away.""
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#5 - Sean Penn/L.L. Cool J., Michael Penn & the Pull
Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 2
Live from New York, it's... Sean Penn! Sketches include "Fatal Attraction 2," "Wall Street Week," "Church Chat," "Pitman & Bullock," "The Teeny Cafe," "Keister Family Talk," "Discover," "The Spimozo Brothers," and "Cat Dentist" (film). LL Cool J performs "Go Cut Creator Go." Michael Penn and The Pull performs "This & That."
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#6 - Bill Russell/Chicago
Saturday Night Live - Season 5 - Episode 3
Sketches include ""Kennedy in '80,"" ""Banshee,"" ""The Black Shadow,"" ""The Landers Files,"" ""Mr. Bill at Home,"" ""Nick in the Arctic,"" ""Eleanor Roosevelt,"" ""Sports Hot Line,"" and ""Big n' Tall That's All."" Chicago performs their 1970 hit ""I'm a Man"" and their then-current single ""Street Player.""
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#7 - Rosie O'Donnell/James Taylor
Saturday Night Live - Season 19 - Episode 6
Sketches include ""The Packwood Diaries,"" ""Frank Sinatra Duets,"" ""Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley,"" ""Forgetful Waiter,"" ""The Tomboy and the Sissy,"" ""Dick Clark's Receptionist,"" ""Will Work For Food,"" ""Homegirls""
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#8 - Richard Benjamin/Rickie Lee Jones
Saturday Night Live - Season 4 - Episode 16
Sketches include "The Pepsi Syndrome," "The Nerds In Love," and "Scottish Restaurant." Jones performs his hit "Chuck E's In Love."
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#9 - Sigourney Weaver/Buster Poindexter
Saturday Night Live - Season 12 - Episode 1
Live From New York, it's...Madonna Sketches Include: A Message From Madonna, ""General Dynamics,"" ""Tommy Flanagan,"" ""Quiz Masters,"" ""The Amazing Alexander,"" ""Church Chat,"" ""Bows and Smith Advertising,"" ""Alienses,"" ""Ten Weeks In Jail,"" ""Baby It's Cold Outside"" (musical number), ""Derek Stevens Auditions,"" and ""The Brecht Opera."" Buster Poindexter performed ""Smack Dab in the Middle"" and ""Fool For You.""
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#10 - Alec Baldwin/Paul McCartney
Saturday Night Live - Season 18 - Episode 13
Sketches include ""Dateline NBC,"" ""The Mimic,"" ""The Chris Farley Show,"" ""Soap Opera Digest,"" ""Gap Girls,"" ""Naked Woman Theater,"" ""Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley,"" ""The Bodyguard,"" and ""French Class"".
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#11 - Eddie Murphy/The Honeydrippers
Saturday Night Live - Season 10 - Episode 9
Sketches include ""Buckwheat Lives!"" ""White Like Me"" (film), ""Milestones,"" and ""Newsmakers."" Robert Plant and the Honeydrippers perform ""Santa Claus is Back in Town.""
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#12 - Joe Pesci/Spin Doctors
Saturday Night Live - Season 18 - Episode 3
Sketches include ""Debate '92,"" ""Pinky Ringery,"" ""Single White Person,"" ""Bullies on the Steps,"" and ""Zoriada annoys Joe Pesci."" Spin Doctors perform ""Jimmy Olson's Blues.""
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#13 - Sinbad/Sade
Saturday Night Live - Season 18 - Episode 7
Sketches include ""George Bush and Bill Clinton,"" ""Homosexuals at War,"" ""At Home with Monica,"" ""Blacula,"" ""Gilligan's Bioshpere,"" ""Superman's Funeral,"" and ""The Proud Pattersons.""
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#14 - Michael Palin/Eugene Record
Saturday Night Live - Season 3 - Episode 16
Live From New York, It's...Dan Aykroyd Sketches include--"Oscar Awards", "Little Chocolate Donuts", "Tax Deductions", "H&L Brock", "Great Escape", "Nerds Piano Lesson", "The Case of the Scarlet Membrane", "Good Time At Party", "Mr. Bill Pays His Taxes", "Danger Probe"
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#15 - Michael Sarrazin/Keith Jarrett
Saturday Night Live - Season 3 - Episode 17
Live From New York, It's...Laraine Newman Sketches include--"A Message From the President of the United States", "Angora Bouquet", "Judy Miller", "E. Buzz Miller's Exercise World", "La Dolce Gilda", "Abraham Lincoln in the Audience", "Archaeologicus"
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#16 - Steve Martin/Sting
Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 1
Sketches include ""Ronald Reagan and George Bush,"" ""Gary Hart Ad,"" ""Common Knowledge,"" ""NFL Today,"" ""Slide Whistle Sound Effects,"" ""Bullets Aren't Cheap,"" ""Permission to Speak Freely,"" ""Adventures in the Lost Realm,"" and ""Pumping Up With Hans and Franz"".
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#17 - John Goodman/Garth Brooks
Saturday Night Live - Season 17 - Episode 15
Sketches include ""Star Trek Democrats,"" ""Unforgettable: Natalie Cole Sings With All Her Dad's Dead Old Friends,"" ""My 75 Kids,"" ""Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer,"" ""Theatre Stories,"" ""Sauna"" ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Weekend Update with Kevin Nealon"".
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#18 - The Rolling Stones
Saturday Night Live - Season 4 - Episode 1
Live from New York, it's Dan Aykroyd! Sketches include "Garrett Morris and the National Broadcasting Orchestra," "Mayor Koch Honors John Belushi," the commercial parody "Autoscent," Tomorrow, "Nerds Meet the Norge Refrigerator Repairman," "Olympia Restaurant #4," Tom Schiller's Sushi By the Pool, "Paul McCartney and John Lennon Reunion," "Danger Probe."
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#19 - Steve Martin/Blondie
Saturday Night Live - Season 5 - Episode 1
Sketches include "The Pope's Doorman", "Craig's Travellers' Checks", "Free Spanish Lesson", "Juvenile Delinquent Vandal", "Rise", "Carole King", "The David Susskind Show", "Bolshoi Ballet", "The All-New Mr. Bill Show", "What the Hell is That"?
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#20 - Margot Kidder/The Chieftains
Saturday Night Live - Season 4 - Episode 15
Live from New York, it's...John Belushi! Sketches include "WGN Radio Live at Doyle's Tavern," "The Navy," "Fred Garvin: Male Prostitute," "St. Mickey's Knights of Columbus," "Superhero Party," The Franken and Davis Show, "Men's Problems," and The Mr. Bill Show. The Chieftains perform If I Had Maggie In The Woods and Morning Dew.
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#21 - Bob Uecker/Peter Wolf
Saturday Night Live - Season 10 - Episode 2
Live from New York, "it's a baby boy, Mr. Williams!" it's... Martin Short! Sketches include "Password," "Snap, Crackle & Pop," "An American Portrait," "Little League Trade," "Tom Brokaw," "Mamie Eisenhower Center For The Dull," "7 x 4," "Negro Leaguers" (film), "Lost and Found Department," "Tippi Turtle" (cartoon), "SNL Mailbag," "Baseball Juice," and "Color Commentary." Peter Wolf performed "Lights Out" and "I Need You Tonight.
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#22 - Robert Mitchum/Simply Red
Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 4
Sketches include: The Rolling Paper Chase, Compulsion, Death Be Not Deadly, The Mountain Man, Musical Performance "The Right Thing", Weekend Update, Sweeney's Comeback, Out Of Gas, Andre & Rex: Macho Hairstylists, BeautyBath, Musical Performance "Suffer", Mysterious Old Man
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#23 - Damon Wayans/Dionne Farris
Saturday Night Live - Season 20 - Episode 17
Sketches include: ""Judge Ito,"" ""Men on Film,"" ""Spit Valves,"" ""Black Names,"" ""Christopher Walken for Skittles"", and ""Court TV: The O.J. Trial.""
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#24 - Danny DeVito/Bon Jovi
Saturday Night Live - Season 18 - Episode 10
""The Super Fans Formally Express Their Anger Via Letter: Ditka is fired"", ""BBC1 Presents Simon! - Special Guest: A Foul-Mouthed, Middle-Aged Italian American"", ""The Fourth Amy Fisher Story on Fox: Aaron and Tori Spelling's Amy Fisher, 10516 with Danny DeVito as Joey Buttafuoco"", ""Gap Girls: Buy it large. Just belt it and cinch it!"", ""Black Entertainment Television Presents: Amy Fisher, One Messed Up Bitch"", ""The Privacy-Obsessed Hitman Whose Wife Knew Everything About His Business"", ""Books on Tape: Madonna's Sex Book. Text by Charlton Heston. Photo Interpretation by Al Goldstein"".
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#25 - Helen Hunt/Snoop Doggy Dogg
Saturday Night Live - Season 19 - Episode 16
Sketches include ""Rockers Explain Whitewater,"" ""Total Bastard Airlines,"" ""Sexist Director,"" ""Office Space,"" and ""Rob Schneider's Girlfriend Theater."" Snoop Dogg performed ""Gin & Juice.""
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#26 - Christopher Lee/Meat Loaf
Saturday Night Live - Season 3 - Episode 15
Live From New York, It's...John Belushi Sketches include--"Kevin Scott", "Movie Trailers", "My Fair Lady", "Mr. Death", "Anwar Sadat", "Cold As Ice", "Dell Stator's Rabbit Hut", "Vampire Hunters", "Richard Belzer", "Mr. Bill Goes To The Circus""
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#27 - David Hyde Pierce/Live
Saturday Night Live - Season 20 - Episode 11
Sketches include ""O.J. Simpson,"" ""Rock Poetry Class,"" ""Tales of Little Women,"" ""Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly,"" ""Robot Spy Onboard,"" ""Nervous Habits,"" ""Jersey Kids Meet the Foreigner,"" ""Perspectives,"" ""Claire Tries Internet Sex,"" ""Movie News""
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#28 - Steve Martin/Paul and Linda McCartney
Saturday Night Live - Season 5 - Episode 19
Sketches include: ""Father Guido Sarducci, Live from London,"" ""Real Incredible People,"" ""Stretch Marks Record Offer,"" ""Reagan's Dinner,"" and ""The Hominids."" 3-D performed ""All-Night Television.""
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#29 - Ed Asner/The Kinks
Saturday Night Live - Season 10 - Episode 6
Sketches include ""Lou Grant's Rescue Mission,"" ""Wing Tips,"" ""60 Minutes,"" and ""Nuclear Plant Retiree."" The Kinks perform ""Do It Again.""
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#30 - Steve Martin/The Blues Brothers
Saturday Night Live - Season 3 - Episode 18
*Nominated for an Emmy Award* Live From New York, It's...Paul Shaffer Sketches include--"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert", "Hey You!", "Wild & Crazy Guys", "Theodoric of York", "Dancing In The Dark", "Extramarital Foreplay", "Swan Lake", "Troff 'n' Brew", "Nerds Science Fair", "Next Week In Review".
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#31 - Rick Nelson/Judy Collins
Saturday Night Live - Season 4 - Episode 12
Live from New York, it's...John Belushi! Sketches include "WGN Morning Show," "The Twilight Zone," "Helium," "¿Quien Es Mas Macho?," and "Rock Against Yeast '79." Judy Collins performed "Hard Times for Lovers."
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#32 - Eric Idle/Bob Dylan
Saturday Night Live - Season 5 - Episode 2
Sketches include ""Eric's Sick,"" ""Hotel-Motel Art Fair,"" ""Mr. Howard's Shoe Store,"" ""Prince Charles Tells You How To Pick Up Girls!,"" ""Hardcore II,"" ""Heavy Sarcasm,"" and ""Ask Elvis."" Bob Dylan performs ""Gotta Serve Somebody,"" ""I Believe In You,"" and ""When You Gonna Wake Up.""
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#33 - Rodney Dangerfield/J. Geils Band
Saturday Night Live - Season 5 - Episode 13
Sketches include-- Dressing Room opening, Dr. Shockley's House of Sperm, Niggerands, Manhasset, The Subsitute Judge, Celebrity Corner: Bill Murray talks with Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow.
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#34 - Strother Martin/The Specials
Saturday Night Live - Season 5 - Episode 17
The host for the episode is Strother Martin, and the musical guest is The Specials. The skits for this episode are as follows: Rosalyn Carter talks about sections of the 1980 census intended for illegal aliens, including questions about how they got into the US, where they would hide if the INS came to their homes, and how much they would be willing to do housework for. During his opening monologue, Strother Martin reveals that he was asked to host the show because Lorne Michaels mistook him for Tennessee Williams, and so far he's been keeping up the act. At Camp Beau Soleil, the campers are forced to learn French by the brutal camp counselor, Le Capitain, but a camper named Luke is determined to escape. Additional skits include a variety show will, the Conductor's Club, Any Town, and Food. The Specials perform "Gangsters" and "Too Much, Too Young".
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#35 - Bob Newhart/The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Bruce Cockburn
Saturday Night Live - Season 5 - Episode 18
Sketches include ""Mysteries of the Universe,"" ""The Dating Zone,"" ""Writing Home,"" and ""Mr. Bill."" The Amazing Rhythm Aces (featuring Bill Murray) perform ""Third-Rate Romance.""
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#36 - Ringo Starr/Herbie Hancock
Saturday Night Live - Season 10 - Episode 8
Sketches include ""Beatles Auction,"" ""Fernando's Hideaway,"" and ""Ed Grimley Meets Ringo.""
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#37 - Madonna/Simple Minds
Saturday Night Live - Season 11 - Episode 1
Sketches include: ""SNL Drug Tests,"" ""A Message From The Almighty,"" ""National Inquirer Theatre,"" ""Pinklisting,"" ""Cabrini Green,"" and ""Nancy Reagan Meets Charles and Di."" Simple Minds performed ""Alive and Kicking.""
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#38 - Dabney Coleman/The Cars
Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 3
Live from New York, it's... Dana Carvey! Sketches include "Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Scary," "Nature's Broom," "The Winning Spirit," "Don't Go Down To The Basement," "Scary Campfire Stories," "Marriage Counselor," "Count Dracula, Self-Taught Auto Mechanic," "The Pat Stevens Show," "New High School Mascot," and "Lambert & Fitch Securites." The Cars performs "Strap Me In" and "Double Trouble."
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#39 - Carl Weathers/Robbie Robertson
Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 10
Sketches include ""Bush-Whacked,"" ""The NFL Today,"" ""Handi-Off,"" ""Democratic Debate '88,"" ""Helen and Cheri,"" ""TV Actress,"" ""Master Thespian,"" and ""The Garden"" (film). Robbie Robertson performed ""Testimony"" and ""Somewhere Down the Crazy River.""
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#40 - Leslie Nielsen/Cowboy Junkies
Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 13
Sketches include "The Pat Stevens Show", "The 60's Movie", "Subliminal Man and Friend" and "Wayne's World".
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#41 - Bruce Willis/Neil Young
Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 1
Sketches include ""George Bush,"" ""thirtysomething Cereal,"" ""Wayne's World,"" ""Phil Donahue,"" ""Anal-Retentive Carpenter,"" ""Johnny O'Connor,"" ""Sprockets,"" and ""Bruce Willis' Bluesy Commercial Jingles""
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#42 - Sting
Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 11
Sketches include ""Wayne's World,"" ""Hedley and Wyche,"" ""Sting in an Elevator,"" ""The Sinatra Group,"" ""The Richmeister,"" ""Frankenstein,"" ""Coffee Talk with Paul Baldwin,"" ""Meeting Parents Flashback,"" ""Bleak Poetry""
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#43 - Christian Slater/Bonnie Raitt
Saturday Night Live - Season 17 - Episode 4
Sketches include: Coldcock Malt Liquor, Dysfunctional Family Feud, The Wolf Man's Curse, Pumping Up With Hans and Franz, Nich-Aid Hair Dryers, Super Fire-Hot Chicken Wings, and Club Banana.
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#44 - Jason Priestley / Teenage Fanclub
Saturday Night Live - Season 17 - Episode 13
Sketches include ""Olympic Skating,"" ""The Life and Times of Johnny Hildo,"" ""Sprockets,"" ""The Arsenio Hall Show,"" and ""Beverly Hills 90210"".
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#45 - Harvey Keitel/Madonna
Saturday Night Live - Season 18 - Episode 11
Sketches include, ""It's Pat"", ""Subway Transit Authority"", ""The Bathroom Attendant"", ""In or Out The Cab"", ""Deep Thoughts"", ""Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer,"", and ""The Insane Deer Hunter"".
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#46 - Charlton Heston/Paul Westerberg
Saturday Night Live - Season 19 - Episode 8
Sketches include ""Studio of the Apes,"" ""Coffee Talk with Linda Richman,"" ""The President is Illiterate,"" ""The Ten Commandments,"" and ""Herlihy Boy House-Sitting Service"".
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#47 - Emilio Estevez/Pearl Jam
Saturday Night Live - Season 19 - Episode 18
Sketches include ""Michael Fay's Canning,"" ""Geek, Dweeb, of Spazz,"" ""The Whitewater Folder,"" and ""The Herlihy Boy.""
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#48 - David Duchovny/Rod Stewart
Saturday Night Live - Season 20 - Episode 20
Live from New York, for the last time, it's…Michael McKean! Sketches include ""Beastman of Studio 8H,"" You Think You're Better Than Me?, Zagat's, ""New England General Store,"" Ricki Lake, ""Rock and Roll Realtor,"" and ""Polar Bears.""
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#49 - Elliott Gould/Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger
Saturday Night Live - Season 4 - Episode 9
Sketches include "White House Lawn Special Event," "Rovco All-Flammable Christmas Tree," "The Widettes," "Mommie Dearest," "Scotch and Spirits," "Bob and Ray," "St. Mickey's Knights of Columbus," and "Honker Works the Christmas Lot".
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#50 - Sharon Stone/Pearl Jam
Saturday Night Live - Season 17 - Episode 17
Live from New York, it's... Mike Myers and Dana Carvey! Sketches include "Wayne's World," "Jiffy Pop Airbag," "Hitting on a Women," "Sex Games," "Flippy, The Flipping Chihuahua," "Lung Brush," "Pat's Interrogation," "Airport Security Check," "Ernie's," "Tayster's Choice Spermicidal Jelly," "Phil Hartman Creations," and "Pornographic Romance." Pearl Jam performed "Alive" and "Porch."
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