![]() The fourteenth season began with new opening credits - gone were the credits involving each cast member running away from something (including Dennis Miller doing his infamous girlie run while his mullet does a Jan Brady bounce – I felt the need to throw that in for Reaper, who has become very fond of my use of “girlie run” ever since the “Bordello of Blood” article – thanks, Reaper, for making repetitiveness sound so good!). ![]() On the marriage front, “Saturday Night Live’s” “Weekend Update” anchor Dennis Miller married his fiancée, Ali Epsley (they are still married).Īlso, I started Kindergarten (and my second year of dance school - that's me in my tap shoes - I was taking Ballet/Tap Combination class that year) in September 1988 – but it’s not about me, it’s about “Saturday Night Live.” And damn me for thinking anything different. Bush was the Republican Party’s nominee for the 1988 presidential elections, fighting the good fight against Democratic Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. Season fourteen kicked off on October 8, 1988, and a lot was going on in the world – Vice President George H.W. After all, the show premiered in October 1975, and more often than not, every season thereafter has often started around the same day.Īnd now, without further ado, let’s begin part 3 of “Saturday Night Lives”!ĭana Carvey! Nora Dunn! Phil Hartman! Jan Hooks! Victoria Jackson! Jon Lovitz! Dennis Miller! Kevin Nealon! It is truth that while many shows begin their seasons during late September, “Saturday Night Live” rarely starts its run in September. And the crazy train just keeps on rolling – next stop: 1988-1989.ĭespite a writer’s strike during the late winter months of 1988, season fourteen started within a normal time range for “Saturday Night Live” – October. We’ve seen a show come back from too many misses to lots of hits. With that out of the way, it has been an exciting couple of seasons, hasn’t it? In the course of two seasons, we’ve seen a show reinvent itself in ways that even the most lenient critics probably never saw coming. ![]() Welcome to part 3 of my exciting 4-part look at the four seasons that saved “Saturday Night Live.” If you’ve read parts 1 and 2, welcome back! But, if you haven’t, you have a little catching up to do. ![]()
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