this season's writers were a. whitney brown, tom davis, jim downey, jack handey, lanier laney, carol leifer, george meyer, lorne michaels, don novello, michael o'donoghue, r. d. rosen, herb sargent, suzy schneider, robert smigel, john swartzwelder, terry sweeney, mark mckinney and bruce mcculloch. the head writers were al franken and tom davis.