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Title Premiere date Main actor(s) Description Weekend Update: October 11, 1975 Chevy Chase Jane Curtin Dan Aykroyd: A satirical news segment starring that is the longest-running recurring sketch in the show's history.
The Limits of the Imagination was a short-lived sketch featured on the 1985–1986 season. It featured Randy Quaid as "The Floating Head", a Rod Serling-like character who would introduce a creepy, Twilight Zone-esque story with a weak ending (or no ending at all).
Debuted October 11, 1986. This song was originally in a Dana Carvey stand-up comedy routine about the vapidness of popular music. Stevens returns in a later sketch, in which his producers try to convince him that his premature death might help the sales of his album.
The '80s were considered Franken's peak on the show when he debuted one of the most famous "SNL" recurring characters, self-help guru Stuart Smalley. According to Time, he left the show in 1995 ...
A short-lived cartoon series was made based on this character from 1988 to 1989. Jackie Rogers Jr. , an albino entertainer who appears on the sketch The Joe Franklin Show. He hosted the game show parody (on SNL) called Jackie Rogers's $100,000 Jackpot Wad
Saturday Night Live has long mocked the television medium with many fake commercials and parodies of TV shows themselves. Another of the show's frequently used styles of recurring sketches has been the talk show format (e.g. "Brian Fellow's Safari Planet", "The Barry Gibb Talk Show", etc.).
December 6, 1986: Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short: 22: December 7, 1996: ... Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1985-86
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1986–87 Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1987–88 Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1988–89