April 13, 1996

April 13, 1996 Season 21 episode


Episode	403
Season Episode	17
Host	Steve Forbes
Musical Guest(s)	Rage Against The Machine
Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s)	"Bulls on Parade"

Previous Episode
March 23, 1996

Next Episode
April 20, 1996

The seventeenth episode of Season 21 and the 403rd episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by the publishing executive and politician Steve Forbes with rock band Rage Against The Machine as the musical guest. This was Steve Forbes' only time hosting and the only musical guest appearance on SNL for Rage Against the Machine. It premiered on April 13, 1996.

This marked the first episode for Fred Wolf as a cast member.

Cast[]

Repertory Players[]

Featured Players[]

Chris Kattan
Colin Quinn
Fred Wolf (First credited appearance)

† Credited, but did not appear in this episode

Sketches and Musical Performances[]

Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other

Title	Image	Summary
Unabomber Class Reunion Cold Opening		While in shackles, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski (Will Ferrell) attends his college reunion and meets up with old friends.
Opening montage		Fred Wolf is added to the cast, as a featured player.
Monologue by Steve Forbes		Business tycoon Steve Forbes hopes that the audience is home, preparing to pay their taxes in time. He also wants to set his audience straight about how down-to-earth he is, as he hosted SNL for the only time.
Grayson Moorhead Securities I		Repeat from October 21, 1995.
Drill Sergeant Suel Forrester		Mumbly Sgt. Suel Forrester (Chris Kattan) reduces his soldiers (Jim Breuer, Will Ferrell, Mark McKinney and Fred Wolf) to tears. Fred Wolf's first appearance as an SNL cast member.
Nightline		A smug Steve Forbes won’t admit to having authored a slanderous tell-all book about the year’s Republican candidates.
Rita Delvecchio: Screen Door		A college recruiter (Steve Forbes) visits Rita Delvecchio’s (Cheri Oteri) porch.
Forbes on Forbes
Grayson Moorhead Securities II		Repeat from October 21, 1995.
Weekend Update with Norm Macdonald		Fred Wolf comments on recent personalized mail requests he’s received.
Rage Against The Machine performs “Bulls On Parade”		To show their opposition to Steve Forbes and his politics, the members of Rage Against the Machine hung two upside-down American flags from their amps, their metaphor for the inverted nature of American democracy. SNL and NBC sent stagehands to remove the flags before their performance, and the band was then asked to leave the building at the completion of that performance. The band had also planned on performing their song, “Bullet in the Head.”
Roofers		A trio of roofers (Colin Quinn, David Koechner, Steve Forbes) slack off while on the job.
Seattle Today		While examining his sketch of the Unabomber suspect, Stan Hooper (Norm MacDonald) admits to his artistic shortcomings.
Fuzzy Memories by Jack Handey		Jack Handey recalls the time he splashed a kid with a puddle.
Gerald Tibbins		Wartime romantic barbs between Johnny Jones (Chris Kattan) and Dottie the waitress (Molly Shannon).
Fast Talk		Wartime romantic barbs between Johnny Jones (Chris Kattan) and Dottie the waitress (Molly Shannon).
Florida Bugs		An angry bug (Jim Breuer) yells at a motorist (Steve Forbes) for hitting his brother (Chris Kattan) with his car.
Goodnights		Steve Forbes thanked Rage Against The Machine, the cast, writers, crew and Lorne Michaels, his wife and his daughters and every one of them for coming.

Trivia[]

Prior to joining the cast, Fred Wolf had been writing on the show for the last three seasons, and became one of the head writers at the start of this season, he continued in, through the end of the season.

Preceded by: March 23, 1996	Saturday Night Live episode	Followed by: April 20, 1996