text: This season saw the first hosting gigs of three celebrities who would go on to be frequent SNL hosts: John Goodman (who auditioned to be a castmember on SNL during the 1980-1981 season and frequently cameoed on SNL in the mid-1990s as Linda Tripp), Christopher Walken (whose sketch "The Continental" had been a staple in six of the seven episodes hosted by Walken), and Alec Baldwin (who went on to break John Goodman's hosting record in 2006 and, as of October 2011, surpassed Steve Martin as the most frequent SNL host).