Saturday Night Live (Season 12)

Saturday Night Live (Season 12)

"Saturday Night Live" aired its twelfth season during the 1986-1987 television season on NBC. Despite plans to have SNL cancelled due to its disastrous 11th season, Lorne Michaels pushed Brandon Tartikoff to give the show another chance, provided that a better cast be found for the next season. As a result, many of season 11's castmembers were fired, save for Jon Lovitz, Nora Dunn, Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller, and featured player A. Whitney Brown (with Al Franken hired back as a writer). Hired in their places were Jan Hooks (who auditioned to be in the season 11 cast, but was turned down for not being young enough), Victoria Jackson, Phil Hartman (who wrote season 11's Thanksgiving episode hosted by Pee Wee Herman, and appeared in a sketch as a Pilgrim), Kevin Nealon, and Dana Carvey. This resulted in a new golden age for the show, as critics and (most) viewers began to comment on the show more favorably. In a "Dallas"-esque joke, the season started with Madonna (who hosted the first episode of the previous season with musical guest Simple Minds) reading a "statement" from NBC about season 11's mediocre writing and bad cast choices. According to the "statement", season 11 was "...all a dream. A horrible, horrible dream."

The 12th season started on October 11, 1986 (coincidentally, the 11th anniversary of the show's first episode), and ended on May 23, 1987.

Cast

Repertory cast members

*Dana Carvey
*Nora Dunn
*Phil Hartman
*Jan Hooks
*Victoria Jackson
*Jon Lovitz
*Dennis Miller

Featured cast members

*A. Whitney Brown
*Kevin Nealon

Episodes


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