Live from New York, it's ... Chris Rock!
Sketches include "Clarence Thomas Hearings," "La Cantore Restaurant," "It's Pat," "Coffee Talk with Linda Richman," "Their Eyes Were On Their Breasts!," "Psycho Divorced Mother," and "Look Who Else is Talking Also."
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perform "Into The Great Wide Open" and "Kings Highway."
Season 17 Episode 3 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
s17e01 - Michael Jordan/Public Enemy
s17e02 - Jeff Daniels/Color Me Badd
s17e03 - Kirstie Alley/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
s17e04 - Christian Slater/Bonnie Raitt
s17e05 - Kiefer Sutherland/Skid Row
s17e06 - Linda Hamilton/Mariah Carey
s17e07 - Macaulay Culkin/Tin Machine
s17e08 - Hammer
s17e09 - Steve Martin/James Taylor
s17e10 - Rob Morrow/Nirvana
s17e11 - Chevy Chase/Robbie Robertson
s17e12 - Susan Dey/C+C Music Factory
s17e13 - Jason Priestley/Teenage Fan Club
s17e14 - Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold/Red Hot Chili Peppers
s17e16 - John Goodman/Garth Brooks
s17e17 - Mary Stuart Masterson/En Vogue
s17e18 - Sharon Stone/Pearl Jam
s17e19 - Jerry Seinfeld/Annie Lennox
s17e20 - Tom Hanks/Bruce Springsteen
s17e21 - Woody Harrelson/Vanessa Williams
Since 1975, SNL has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as "The New York Times" noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999. In defiance of both time and show business convention, "SNL" is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture". At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.
Saturday Night Live is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The program is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.