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Only five cast members from the previous season remained. New hires included Will Ferrell , Cheri Oteri , Darrell Hammond , Jim Breuer , David Koechner , and Nancy Walls . Chris Kattan and Colin Quinn joined as featured players.
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Season 21 of Saturday Night Live began on September 30, 1995 with host Mariel Hemingway and musical guest Blues Traveler and ended on May 18, 1996 with host Jim Carrey and musical guest Everclear. Most of the cast were new hires, with mass firings having followed the previous season. This season did not include any featured players until March 16, 1996, and like earlier seasons, the featured players were only credited for episodes in which they appeared. David Spade is also missing from three episodes in the middle of the season.
Most of the cast had left or been fired from the previous season: only five cast members returned to the show: Norm MacDonald, Mark McKinney, Tim Meadows, Molly Shannon and David Spade. Although Spade returned to the show, he had more of a diminished role, very rarely appearing in sketches except for Spade in America, a "Weekend Update" segment hosted by Spade that debuted at the start of the season and was featured in all but five episodes. Shannon was upgraded to repertory status for this season.
Aside from Macdonald, McKinney, Meadows, Shannon, and Spade, the rest of the cast hired prior to the start of the season was entirely new. These included: stand-up comedians Jim Breuer and Darrell Hammond; Groundlings alumni Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri, and Chicago-based comedians Nancy Walls and David Koechner. Breuer, Hammond, Ferrell, Oteri, Koechner, and Walls were all promoted to repertory status upon being hired.
Ferrell and Oteri's fellow Groundling Chris Kattan, along with newly writer Colin Quinn, also joined the cast as featured players for the six final episodes of the season. Fred Wolf was hired in April as a featured player
RepertoryFeaturedChanges•Chris Kattan: First March 16 •Colin Quinn: First March 16 •Fred Wolf: First April 13 •David Spade: Not credited February 17-March 16Only five cast members: Norm Macdonald, Mark McKinney, Tim Meadows, Molly Shannon and David Spade returned to the show from the previous season. This would be the final season for David Spade. Spade had agreed to stay only for a year so that he could be a bridge between the old and new casts.
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The Cast of Season 21 . Cheri Oteri. Chris Kattan. Colin Quinn. Darrell Hammond. David Koechner. David Spade. Fred Wolf. Jim Breuer. Mark McKinney. Molly Shannon. Nancy Walls. Norm Macdonald. Tim Meadows. Will Ferrell. Categories. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
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