Scot Bertram

Farley, Spade, Rock, Schneider, and Sandler: Here Come the Kids

By the fall of 1990, the core cast of Saturday Night Live had spent four full seasons together, and clearly Executive Producer Lorne Michaels thought it was time for new blood.

Gone were Nora Dunn and Jon Lovitz, while Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Dennis Miller, Mike Myers, and Victoria Jackson were all back. But throughout the season, viewers began to see new faces, like David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Tim Meadows, Julia Sweeney, and a chubby kid from Wisconsin named Chris Farley.

It was a drastic departure from how the show had regenerated itself in the past. Previous seasons had seen full cast overhauls, whereas now, with the show having established itself, Michaels began working new players into the cast, nearly doubling its size.

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