Live from New York, it's... Molly Shannon!



Sketches include "Well Babies Tragedy," "Spartan Cheerleaders," "The Quiet Storm," "Sister Wendy Beckett's Art Odyssey," "The History of Vaudeville," "The Songs That Ruined Everything," "The Lost Deep Thoughts," "Vance and Miss Milo," and "Ex-Convict Santa."



Metallica performs "Fuel" and "The Memory Remains" (featuring Marianne Faithfull).

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 23 Episode 8 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 23 Episodes...

• s23e01 - Sylvester Stallone/Jamiroquai
• s23e02 - Matthew Perry/Oasis
• s23e03 - Brendan Fraser/Bjork
• s23e04 - Chris Farley/The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• s23e05 - Jon Lovitz/Jane's Addiction
• s23e06 - Claire Danes/Mariah Carey
• s23e07 - Rudy Giuliani/Sarah McLachlan
• s23e08 - Nathan Lane/Metallica
• s23e09 - Helen Hunt/Hanson
• s23e10 - Samuel L. Jackson/Ben Folds Five
• s23e11 - Sarah Michelle Gellar/Portishead
• s23e12 - John Goodman/Paula Cole
• s23e13 - Roma Downey/Missy Elliott
• s23e15 - Garth Brooks (1)
• s23e16 - Scott Wolf/Natalie Imbruglia
• s23e17 - Julianne Moore/Backstreet Boys
• s23e18 - Steve Buscemi/Third Eye Blind
• s23e19 - Greg Kinnear/All Saints
• s23e20 - Matthew Broderick/Natalie Merchant
• s23e21 - David Duchovny/Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page

Saturday Night Live Show Summary

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.