- "I’ll do the funny stuff; you just do the regular lines!"
- — Don Rickles to Joe Piscopo in the Witness Relocation sketch
Season 9 is the ninth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 8, 1983, and May 12, 1984. It premiered on October 8, 1983 on NBC, with host television executive who was the then President of NBC from 1981 to 1991, Brandon Tartikoff and musical guest John Cougar, and ended on May 12, 1984, hosted by Billy Crystal, Mayor Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Father Guido Sarducci, and Betty Thomas, with musical guests The Cars.
Hosts[]
Future cast member Billy Crystal hosted twice this season: once with musical guest Al Jarreau[1] and again on the season finale with Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Betty Thomas and former cast member Don Novello (as Father Guido Sarducci), with the Cars as the musical guest.[2]
Cast Changes[]
The cast remained the same from season 8, with the addition of Jim Belushi was added to the cast, making his debut on the third episode of the season.
Later midway in the season in February 1984, Eddie Murphy began appearing intermittently- Jamie Lee Curtis joked about his absence in her monologue, he appeared only via a taped sketch on the March 17 episode, was dropped from the credits for one show, returned for one show, and left for good. With Joe Piscopo, who had been clashing with producer Dick Ebersol since Murphy's hosting gig the previous season, left at the end of the season. With the Murphy-Piscopo nucleus gone, Ebersol looked to reinvent the cast, and would force out Robin Duke, Tim Kazurinsky, and Brad Hall at the end of the season.
Brad Hall, who had been anchoring Weekend Update (then called Saturday Night News) since the previous season, left the position in January of 1984.[6] For the rest of the season and into the next, both cast members and SNL guest-hosts would take turns at the anchor chair. Hall himself left SNL at the end of the season.
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
Changes[]
- Eddie Murphy: Last-live show: February 25; Last pre-taped show: April 14; Not credited April 7
Episodes[]
Births[]
- Kate McKinnon (January 6, 1984)
- Cecily Strong (February 8, 1984)
- Kyle Mooney (September 4, 1984)
- Beck Bennett (October 1, 1984)
Trivia[]
- This marked the first season to have 19 episodes were produced (rather than the usual 20), and the others are Season 24 and Season 31.
| Preceded by: Season 8 |
Season 9 (1983— 1984) |
Followed by: Season 10 |
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