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 April 12, 1997
 Season 22 episode
 Episode 423
 Season Episode 17
 Host Rob Lowe
 Musical Guest(s) Spice Girls
 Song(s) performed by
 Musical Guest(s)
"Wannabe"
"Say You'll Be There"
Previous Episode
March 22, 1997
Next Episode
April 19, 1997

The 17th episode of Season 22 and the 423rd episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on April 12, 1997, hosted by actor Rob Lowe, star of the hit films The Outsiders, Class, The Hotel New Hampshire, Oxford Blues, St. Elmo's Fire, Youngblood, About Last Night, Square Dance, Masquerade, Illegally Yours, Bad Influence, Wayne's World, The Finest Hour, Frank and Jesse, Crazy Six, The Specials, The Invention of Lying, Knife Fight, Holiday in the Wild and Dog Gone, the NBC's classic political satire mockumentary sitcom Parks and Recreation and the star and co-executive producer of 9-1-1: Lone Star, a spin-off of FOX's hit procedural drama series 9-1-1, with musical guests Spice Girls, an English girl group.

This is Rob Lowe's 2nd hosting stint and his first appearance in 7 years and 26 days. He previously hosted SNL back on the March 17, 1990 episode, the fifteenth episode and St. Patrick's Day episode of SNL's 15th season, with musical guests The Pogues.

This is also the only musical guest appearance on SNL for the Spice Girls.

Rob Lowe's goodnights speech is the following: Hey! Thanks to Robert De Niro – how about that? And Joe Pesci. [The Spice Girls climb all over Rob Lowe, chanting their group’s name in a feeble attempt to plug themselves] And The Spice Girls! And my cast! Matthew, John Owen – I love you! Thanks for coming – good night!


Cast[]

Repertory Players[]

Featured Player[]

Cameos by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci

Sketches and Musical Performances[]

 Cold Open   Sketch   Pre-recorded   Weekend Update   Music Performance   Other 

Title Image Summary
Nightline Cold Open Ted Koppel (Darrell Hammond) conducts a satellite interview with Marshall Applewhite (Will Ferrell) and the Heaven’s Gate cult members (Ana Gasteyer, Tim Meadows, Chris Kattan, Jim Breuer, Cheri Oteri, and Mark McKinney).
Opening Montage
Monologue by Rob Lowe After finding the diary he accidentally left at Studio 8H before after the first time he hosted, actor Rob Lowe reads the 80’s-themed entries inside of it, as he returned to SNL to making his second hosting stint and his first appearance in 7 years and 26 days.
Keds The shoes worn by level-headed Christians on their journey into their next life.
The Joe Pesci Show Eric Roberts (Rob Lowe) and David Spade (Chris Kattan) are administered beatings from Joe Pesci (Jim Breuer) and Robert De Niro (Colin Quinn). The real Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro then make a surprise visit, and neither are impressed with the exaggerated impressions of themselves.
Food, Sex or Cars? Game show contestants (Jim Breuer and Will Ferrell) choose the most desirable object among food, sex and cars. Rob Lowe plays the game show host Jim Oliver.
Goth Talk
TV Funhouse: The X-Presidents In an animated adventure by Robert Smigel, the X-Presidents summon the ghost of Richard Nixon to aid in their rescue of Vice-President Al Gore from a group of aliens.
NBC Lesbian Programming Mickey the Dyke (Cheri Oteri) helps NBC with lesbian programming.
Weekend Update with Norm Macdonald Norm MacDonald delivers the fake news solo, without any guest commentaries.
Spice Girls performs “Wannabe”
Perspectives While interviewing baseball player Jermaine Allensworth (Tracy Morgan), Lionel Osbourne (Tim Meadows) can’t seem to comprehend the significance of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier fifty years earlier.
La Politica Non Correcto
Spice Girls performs “Say You’ll Be There”
Janet Blaum’s Rant Though she’s fueled with anger, waitress Janet Blaum (Ana Gasteyer) is ineffective in telling off her boss (Rob Lowe).
Goodnights and Closing Credits Rob Lowe thanked Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, the Spice Girls, and the cast for having him back, Matthew, John and Owen that he loved them and everyone for coming.

Trivia[]

  • It was planned for Alec Baldwin to respire his two-time Robert De Niro impression, but scheduling conflicts prevented his appearance, so Colin Quinn took over the role instead.
  • Norm Macdonald accidentally drops the F-bomb between jokes, and thus speculates on being fired.
Preceded by:
March 22, 1997
Saturday Night Live episode Followed by:
April 19, 1997
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