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Saturday Night Live
Season 25
No. of episodes20
Release
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List of episodes

The twenty-fifth season of Saturday Night Live (also branded Saturday Night Live 25 and SNL25), an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 2, 1999 and May 20, 2000.

Cast

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Contract for new cast members

SNL, they are the not-ready-for-prime-time players. These are people who are just starting out. I challenge you to name a network, much less a show, that has created this many stars, ever ... All we're asking is, somebody who comes in and is, basically, virtually unknown and young has an opportunity to be on a very, very powerful sketch-comedy show and to be able to launch a film career and be in sitcoms. I think that's a pretty great opportunity.

— Scott Sassa, NBC's West Coast president, at the network's summer press presentation in Pasadena, California[1]

In July 1999, when executive producer Lorne Michaels held auditions for the season, NBC introduced a new contract for first-year cast members, replacing the five- or six-year deals they had used in the past.[1] The terms were established by NBC executives Scott Sassa and Garth Ancier. According to Peter Bogdanovich, the new contract came with the following terms:[1]

The starting salary remained $5,000 per episode.[1]

Writers

Starting this season Tina Fey is credited as the writing supervisor.

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
HostMusical guest(s)Original air date
4661Jerry SeinfeldDavid BowieOctober 2, 1999 (1999-10-02)

4672
Heather Graham
Marc AnthonyOctober 16, 1999 (1999-10-16)

  • Marc Anthony performs "I Need to Know" and "That's Okay".
  • Former cast members
    Where Are They Now?
4683Norm MacdonaldDr. Dre featuring
Snoop Dogg & Eminem
October 23, 1999 (1999-10-23)

4694Dylan McDermottFoo FightersNovember 6, 1999 (1999-11-06)

4705Garth BrooksGarth Brooks as Chris GainesNovember 13, 1999 (1999-11-13)

  • Chris Gaines performs "Way of the Girl".
  • In a callback to Brooks' appearance when he hosted in season 23, Brooks, as Chris Gaines, does a sketch with Mango then unmasks Gaines.
  • First appearance of The Boston Teens sketch
4716Jennifer AnistonStingNovember 20, 1999 (1999-11-20)

4727Christina RicciBeckDecember 4, 1999 (1999-12-04)

4738Danny DeVitoR.E.M.December 11, 1999 (1999-12-11)

  • R.E.M. performs "The Great Beyond" and "Man on the Moon". As well, lead singer Michael Stipe makes an appearance in a "Mango" sketch with Chris Kattan.
  • Former cast member Al Franken and his son Joe appear during Weekend Update.
  • The Rockettes guest star in the "Rockettes Auditions" sketch featuring Molly Shannon's character Sally O'Malley.
  • Jim Carrey was the original host for this episode, but cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.
4749Jamie FoxxBlink-182January 8, 2000 (2000-01-08)

47510
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Macy GrayJanuary 15, 2000 (2000-01-15)

47611Alan CummingJennifer LopezFebruary 5, 2000 (2000-02-05)

47712
DMX
February 12, 2000 (2000-02-12)

47813Ben AffleckFiona AppleFebruary 19, 2000 (2000-02-19)

  • Fiona Apple performs "Limp".
  • Gwyneth Paltrow makes an appearance in Affleck's monologue (Affleck made an appearance in Paltrow's monologue when she hosted in 1999).
  • Paul Thomas Anderson directed the "Fanatic" pretaped sketch, where an orphan (Ben Affleck) meets Anna Nicole Smith (Molly Shannon).
47914
'N Sync
March 11, 2000 (2000-03-11)

  • 'N Sync performs "
    Bye, Bye, Bye
    " and "I Thought She Knew". They also appeared in the "7° Degrees Celsius" sketch (Performing "Come On and Supersize It") as well as the "Parents Day" sketch.
  • The Statler Brothers appear in the "Parents Day" Sketch.
  • Badal Roy performs with the SNL Band.
  • SNL writer and stand up comic Kevin Brennan appeared as himself in a Weekend Update commentary on presidential candidates.
  • Includes the infamous sketch where Jimmy Fallon impersonated Chris Rock in blackface. Twenty years later, Fallon would apologize for that sketch in the June 1, 2020 episode of his show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon during the opening monologue.[2]
48015The RockAC/DCMarch 18, 2000 (2000-03-18)

48116Christopher WalkenChristina AguileraApril 8, 2000 (2000-04-08)

48217Tobey MaguireSisqóApril 15, 2000 (2000-04-15)

48318John GoodmanNeil YoungMay 6, 2000 (2000-05-06)

48419Britney SpearsBritney SpearsMay 13, 2000 (2000-05-13)

48520Jackie ChanKid RockMay 20, 2000 (2000-05-20)

Specials

TitleOriginal air date
"25th Anniversary Special"September 26, 1999 (1999-09-26)
A special celebrating the 25th anniversary of the show. A long list of cast members, guest hosts and others stop by to honor the show's anniversary. and many more attended the event.
"Best of Game Show Parodies"February 29, 2000 (2000-02-29)
The special presented game show parodies featured on the show. Sketches include "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", "Celebrity Jeopardy", "Old French Whore", "Stand-Up and Win", "Who Wants to Eat?", "The Bensonhurst Dating Game", "Who Wants to Be Groped by an Eleven Thousand-aire?" The clip show was hosted by Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek and Darrell Hammond as Regis Philbin.
"The Best of Tim Meadows"September 9, 2000 (2000-09-09)
A compilation of some of Tim Meadows' sketches from his 10-year stint on the show.

Superstar film

A Superstar film, based on the Mary Katherine Gallagher sketches, was released on October 8, 1999. Cast members Will Ferrell, Mark McKinney and Molly Shannon appear in the film. The film did modestly well at the box office but was panned by critics.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bogdanovich, Peter (August 11, 1999). "SNL's Killer Contract". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  2. ^ "Jimmy Fallon Talks Blackface Controversy With Don Lemon, NAACP's Derrick Johnson, – The Hollywood Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter. June 2, 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2023.