6.7/1088 votes#1 - Mariel Hemingway/Blues Traveler
Season 21 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1995
Sketches include: ""OJ Today,"" ""Leg Up,"" ""The Taylors,"" ""Spade in America,"" ""Long Phone Call,"" ""Nightline,"" ""Biography"".
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6.5/1090 votes#2 - Chevy Chase/Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Season 21 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1995
Sketches include: ""NFL on NBC,"" ""The Mark Fuhrman Show,"" ""Althea,"" ""Lobotol,"" ""The Blame Game,"" ""Jim Breuer and Braveheart,"" ""Spade in America,"" and ""Fuzzy Memories"".
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6.1/1088 votes#3 - David Schwimmer/Natalie Merchant
Season 21 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1995
Sketches include ""Darius Rucker,"" ""Kids vs. Grownups,"" ""Rita Delvecchio,"" ""Fuzzy Memories,"" ""The Elevator,"" ""Secrets,"" ""Spade in America,"" ""Slim Shannon,"" and ""Triumph Performers"".
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6.6/1085 votes#4 - Gabriel Byrne/Alanis Morissette
Season 21 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1995
Sketches include: ""Halloween in New Hampshire,"" ""Grayson-Moorhead,"" ""Mary Katherine Gallagher,"" ""Cooking With Keith,"" ""Marshall Power Tools,"" ""Spade in America at the 1995 World Series,"" Fuzzy Memories, and ""Firing a Prison Guard.""
Director: N/A
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6.8/10104 votes#5 - Quentin Tarantino/Smashing Pumpkins
Season 21 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1995
Sketches include: ""Spartan Cheerleaders,"" ""Old Glory Insurance,"" ""Clara Turley's Bible Challenge,"" ""Bill Clinton,"" ""Bug Off,"" ""Directors on Directing,"" and ""All Aboard"".
Director: N/A
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5.8/1084 votes#6 - Laura Leighton/Rancid
Season 21 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1995
Sketches include ""Air Force One,"" ""Psychic Reading,"" ""Midgets,"" and ""Spade in America.""
Director: N/A
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6.3/1077 votes#7 - Anthony Edwards/Foo Fighters
Season 21 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1995
Sketches include ""Inside Politics,"" ""Grimaldi's,"" ""The Joe Pesci Show,"" ""Nightline,"" ""Mary Katherine Gallagher,"" ""G-Dog Does the Nasty,"" ""Spade in America,"" ""Turning Point,"" and ""Hulk Hogan Talk Show"".
Director: N/A
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6.5/1091 votes#8 - David Alan Grier/Silverchair
Season 21 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1995
Sketches include ""Nightline,"" ""Rocky Roads,"" ""The Today Show,"" ""Three Wise Men,"" ""Wake Up and Smile,"" ""Spade in America,"" ""Black People,"" and ""Perspectives"".
Director: N/A
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5.7/1076 votes#9 - Madeline Kahn/Bush
Season 21 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/1995
Sketches include ""Bosnian Goodwill Tour,"" ""Spartan Cheerleaders,"" ""John-John Mackie,"" ""Giant Bird,"" ""Leg Up,"" ""Lucien and Fagin,"" ""Spade in America,"" and ""Wedding Vows"".
Director: N/A
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7.1/1093 votes#10 - Christopher Walken/Joan Osborne
Season 21 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1996
Live from New York, it's...Rudolph Giuliani Sketches include: ""Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki Apologize For SNL's Low Quality,"" ""Rita Delvecchio,"" ""Spade In America,"" ""The Continental,"" ""Fuzzy Memories,"" ""T-Bone The Executioner,"" ""Connie Stinston"", and ""Mary Katherine Gallagher's Dancing Fantasy"". Joan Osborne performs: ""One of Us""
Director: N/A
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6.7/1087 votes#11 - Alec Baldwin/Tori Amos
Season 21 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/1996
Sketches include ""Nightline,"" ""The Joe Pesci Show,"" ""Spartan Cheerleaders,"" ""Navy Guys,"" ""Talking About Bill Brasky,"" and ""Accidentally Shot by Hunters.""
Director: N/A
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5.8/1093 votes#12 - Danny Aiello/Coolio
Season 21 Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/1996
Sketches include ""Inside Politics,"" ""Spaghetti Sauce,"" ""The Kevin Franklin Show,"" ""Time Life's Valentine's Day Arguments,"" ""Althea,"" ""Spade in America,"" ""Hi-C and Turkey,"" ""Martha Stewart Living,"" and ""Fuzzy Memories"".
Director: N/A
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6.6/1085 votes#13 - Tom Arnold/Tupac Shakur
Season 21 Episode 13 - Aired 2/17/1996
Sketches include ""Presidential Candidates,"" ""The Life We Lead/Channel 7 Action News,"" ""Ranger Ron and his Tree Slice,"" ""St. Gabriel's Annual Bake Sale,"" ""A Criminal and his Grandmother,"" and ""Drunk Surgeon.""
Director: N/A
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6.1/1079 votes#14 - Elle MacPherson/Sting
Season 21 Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/1996
Sketches include ""Presidential Candidates,"" ""Mary Katherine Gallagher,"" ""Spartan Cheerleaders,"" ""Winston Graff,"" ""Stan Hooper,"" ""Dinner at Oliver's,"" and ""Australian Phone Sex.""
Director: N/A
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7.1/1082 votes#15 - John Goodman/Everclear
Season 21 Episode 15 - Aired 3/16/1996
Sketches include ""Suel Forrester,"" ""The Real World,"" ""Steve Forbes,"" and ""The Joe Pesci Show.""
Director: N/A
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7.0/1090 votes#16 - Phil Hartman/Gin Blossoms
Season 21 Episode 16 - Aired 3/23/1996
Sketches include ""Leg Up,"" ""Acting Class,"" ""Fuzzy Memories,"" ""Bug-Off,"" ""Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer,"" ""Petchow Rat Poison,"" ""Hollywood Minute With David Spade"".
Director: N/A
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5.7/1082 votes#17 - Steve Forbes/Rage Against the Machine
Season 21 Episode 17 - Aired 4/13/1996
Sketches include ""Class Reunion,"" ""Nightline,"" ""House Workers,"" ""Entering Penn State,"" ""Seattle Today,"" ""Greyson-Moore,"" ""Gibberish Sergeant,"" ""Fuzzy Memories,"" ""Steve Forbes and the Flies""
Director: N/A
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6.2/1081 votes#18 - Teri Hatcher/Dave Matthews Band
Season 21 Episode 18 - Aired 4/20/1996
Sketches include ""Kazinsky and his Lawyers,"" ""Spade in America,"" ""Spartan Cheerleaders,"" ""The Princess and the Homeboy,"" ""Romantic Music,"" and ""St. Gabriel's Women's Charity for the Needy.""
Director: N/A
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6.3/1092 votes#19 - Christine Baranski/The Cure
Season 21 Episode 19 - Aired 5/11/1996
Sketches include ""Bob Dole Press Conference,"" ""AM Ale,"" ""The Courtney Love Show,"" ""Get Off The Shed!,"" ""20 Years and One Week,"" ""Terminally Ill Amateur Singer,"" ""Spade in America,"" ""Rolf,"" ""Goat Boy,"" ""Personality Alteration,"" ""Lansing Phone Sex,"" ""Fuzzy Memories"".
Director: N/A
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8.4/10291 votes#20 - Jim Carrey/Soundgarden
Season 21 Episode 20 - Aired 5/18/1996
Sketches include: ""Nightline,"" ""Spartan Cheerleaders,"" ""Roxbury Guys,"" ""Overprotective Lifeguard,"" ""I'll See You In Hell,"" ""Spade in America,"" ""The Joe Pesci Show,"" and ""Jimmy Tango's Fat Busters"".
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Saturday Night Live Season 21
Every episode of Saturday Night Live Season 21 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Saturday Night Live Season 21!
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed...
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Season 21 Ratings Summary
"Mariel Hemingway/Blues Traveler" is the best rated episode of "Saturday Night Live" season 21. It scored 6.7/10 based on 88 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1995. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Chevy Chase/Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories".