The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 30, 1995, and May 18, 1996, the twenty-first season of SNL.
A Will Ferrell and David Koechner and Nancy Walls sketch. Debuted September 30, 1995.
A Molly Shannon and Cheri Oteri sketch.
A parody of Nightline, starring Darrell Hammond as Ted Koppel.
David Spade's Season 21 segment where he gives his thoughts, guest interviews, and Hollywood Minute jokes. Makes up fifteen of his nineteen sketch appearances in 95-96.
A Cheri Oteri sketch. Debuted September 30, 1995.
Rita DelVecchio (Cheri Oteri) is a grouchy, sharp tongued, Italian-American, Brooklyn housewife. Rita hates it when the neighborhood kids's toys wind up landing in her front yard, so she claims the item saying that it's "hers now, I keep it!" and tells the kids to go away. Other times Rita tries to one-up any of her neighbors when it comes to things like the who has the best decorated front lawn on Christmas, or who has the better car, etc.
A Molly Shannon sketch. Debuted October 28, 1995.
A Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri sketch. Debuted November 11, 1995.
A Norm Macdonald sketch. Debuted November 11, 1995.
The British Fops, or Lucien Callow (Mark McKinney) and Fagan (David Koechner) appeared in several episodes during SNL's 1995-1996 season. The characters first appeared on "Weekend Update" as the presidents of the Norm Macdonald fanclub, but later appeared in several other sketches, namely monologues. The Fops would appear in late restoration period clothing, and used a silly take on the period's language, mannerisms, and culture, not sparing the subsequent perversion also known for the time. Debuted November 11, 1995.
Joe Blow was played by Colin Quinn. A blue collar worker by trade, Blow came onto Weekend Update as a New York public service to deliver local news from Brooklyn, New York. Most of his "news" included family problems and neighborhood gossip. Joe Blow regularly concluded his commentary by asking anchor Norm Macdonald if he would join him for "a beer", which Macdonald (who clearly did not want to socialize with him) would avoid by making up an excuse, or putting it off until a later date. Debuted November 18, 1995.