Finally, Jill Clayburgh thanks the crowd and says her good nights. Finally, Steve Martin thanks the crowd and says his goodnights to the home audience. It's sad, but the way he dances as he plays might be the funniest part of the episode especially since he looks a tad bit like Eric Andre and I still sort of feel like I am being pranked. This causes the other two US soldiers to think that they have a third spy on their hand and then four when the other US soldier also fails to answer. Buck is playing an angry Dad, with Jane as the wife who's had too much as well as a bundle that's supposed to be a real baby. In this telling of the tale, Gilda is sick and needs a kidney transplant but is also really into brushing her hair to keep it soft. Aha! The final sketch fulfilling the rule of three is a fake commercial for Vincent Price as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Rodgers. Tonight's special episode is "interrupting" The Boy In The Plastic Pants Suit. The opening sketch takes place in the locker room with Gilda and Bill Murray discussing Belushi getting transferred out to L.A. to be the next Grizzly Adam's due to an NBC shuffle following a famous news anchor's retirement. This was followed by a repeat of the Swill fake ad promoting sludge water from Lake Erie. It hasnt snowed in Sonora for 192 years. Keep in mind Nerd Rock was not a thing at that time so this was a fake band called The Nerds comprised of Gilda, Murray, and Klein making "jokes" about what this type of band would be in a sketch that lost all of the humor due to the fact that this is now a reality. There's a clamp on my head? Isolation's got you down??? Belushi plays a brute of a cop, and Aykroyd plays an existentialist, and that's just the beginning of this convoluted sketch. Ashford and Simpson performs "Don't Cost You Nothing" and "So, So Satisfied". This was followed by a fake ad for Body Floss because "No 'body' is really clean without it.". Don't get me wrong, the jokes are still funny, I'm just noting this in case it becomes a pattern that I see as I make my way through ten more elections. She then goes on to bitch and complains about how Murray leaves her alone at these events to go goof off with his friends. It reminded me of the improv routine where you provide the voices to a movie without knowing what's coming. Michael Sarrazin opens the show opening admitting to his hesitation to host and goes on to perform a justifyingly dull monolog as to why he would be apprehensive about doing live comedy. The Dirt Band then performs On the Loose with the Blues. Look at Books is an interview sketch where Jane interviews the authors of Whatever Happened to the Class of '77 which is a fake follow-up to a real book of the same title only the year is '65 so these nerds that Gilda and Murray are portraying. He went on to share his list of demands with the joke being that they told him this week's show is being shot at Carnegie Hall and they just tricking him because he is blind. The DVD set of the entire season was released on May 13, 2008. Eventually, Gilda gets so smacked around that she admits that it is all a scam, then she gets whacked by Jane Curtin for not respecting her dad. Simpson then runs out to the stage, and he's dressed like he's a Conehead. He sets up that "Chuck" Grodin was so busy promoting his movie that he missed out on all the rehearsals. I swear its Colombian.

Robert Klein then comes out to announce the next performance by Bonnie Raitt, but Jane interrupts with breaking news that Russia has released gigantic nuclear lobsters into the lakes and rivers of America. Grizzly Adams Sets Fire to His Head is the show being interrupted for tonight's "special broadcast" of Saturday Night Live. Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night! Next, we go to a confession booth where the priest gets interrogated by the IRS for tax evasion. First, An Oval Office was a sketch where Carter is saying goodbye to one of his cabinet members when it's revealed that no one knows who he is it becomes a fake ad for National Express and everyone knows his name on the credit card. This leads to him getting really creepy as he talks about how excited he gets when he sees girls aged five to seven, hinting that he hopes they'll be in his magazine before breaking into singing Thank Heaven For Little Girls. Season 3 was released on DVD May 13, 2008. Just when the rednecks get ready to pummel the two flamboyant visitors, the investigators from the TV show step in to save the day. Jill plays a woman in a motel room who just finished cheating with who we find out is Dan Aykroyd Conehead. points out this is another case of a white guy taking back a promise to a black man. The priest uses a computer to communicate with Rome to calculate the punishments. Franken and Davis do a routine where Franken has just gotten out of brain surgery. At one point, the psychiatrist turns her back as she dictates her notes into a recorder at this point two of the Sybils sneak out leaving the psychiatrist to believe she was successful. Instead, the show opens on The President's Message on Inflation where Carter gives a "Plant Side Chat" where he discusses his plan to defeat inflation by having everyone literally burn 8% of their earned income to balance things out and ends with Amy Carter getting to say, "Live from New York". We start with a sketch about how dumb Playmates are, as Laraine plays a Bunny reading from the joke page. The play is theatrical which highlights the hilarity of Palin escaping the box, then spastically trying to escape the straitjacket, finally freeing himself just in time to deliver his one and only line. Additionally, he has been nominated for fifteen DGA Awards and won in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Finally, the head US soldier who is in charge of this mess realizes he doesn't know the answer either. The short film this week was Laraine going about her day with an Omen-esque soundtrack that makes it look like she's losing her mind to evil. We then see a bit of a Weekend at Bernie's routine before being flashed the dialog card that reads, "Live from New York". Charles Grodin then opens the show keeping up the character that he is utterly unprepared because he missed all the rehearsals to take advantage of his trip to New York to fit in all sorts of tourist activities. The longer the sketch goes, the more it seems this is a scam as Belushi gets abusive every time Gilda speaks. Your email address will not be published.

Royal Deluxe III was a repeat of the ad of the kid getting circumcised in the back of the car to show how smooth the ride was. Buck Henry then opens the show by explaining the contest and introducing Miskel Spillman who is pretending to be stoned based on the opening sketch and won't let go of a fruit bowl that is keeping her grounded. Danger Probe Mystery Investigation Discover type program that breaks down a bar fight that happened one night at a very redneck bar after Garrett Morris and Michael Palin enter as two extremely flamboyant Frenchmen. He then looks to his left where the devil character should be only to end up in an H&L Brock tax accountant commercial. He gets through one full joke then locks up just before giving the second punchline. He then performs a bit from Hamlet to prove his acting chops only to get directed by Belushi who thinks he's not doing a good job. Celebrity Crack-Up is a celebrity talk show hosted by Jane who interviews celebrities from that time that had public meltdowns. I was half expecting Franken to come out drooling and stupid like the surgery wrecked his brain, but he treats the condition a little more realistic, walking and talking just a little slower with a freshly bandaged head. Madeline Kahn then starred in a home movie where she sings Autumn in New York throughout the city. The governor attempted to pay him off. The Farber Family then gives us a Chanukah lessen as Gilda tells the real history behind the menorah to their gentile guest, complete with a flashback with Mr. Farber playing the part of Judas. It turns out that their dates are a pair of Soviet girls who are also on a quest to find swinging America romance, but both pairs are so the same that it doesn't work out but it doesn't slow down any enthusiasm. Art Garfunkel then hits the stage to sing All I Know then goes right into singing Scarborough Fair. Meat Wagon Action Track was a fake ad for an extreme slot car track, complete with fire, crash paths and a meat wagon to clean up the bodies after crashes. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. That work has earned him ten Emmys and fourteen nominations. A running gag throughout the episode involves Grodin breaking character and ruining sketches, as if he missed the dress rehearsal. The next sketch feature to British Chaps discussing linguistic in a very fancy home library. Then it gets to the final chance, and Babe hits a ball that comes super close but is caught by the center fielder. Jackson Brown then returned to perform The Pretender. Show", "Father Guido Sarducci", There are no reviews yet. The show dropped the bit they were doing for a while where they would announce that this "Special Episode" of SNL was "interrupting" some sort of parody programming. Then the cast came out and stood around the piano all singing along with Ray Charles. Regardless, Grodin would never host again. I was expecting this to go horribly wrong, but the back and forth of sexist stereotypes was equal enough to seem playful fun. Sketches include--"Paraquat", "Cone Encounters of the Third Kind", "Sex 's Hertz commercial only this time he doesn't get the special treatment as the Hertz representative informs O.J. Art Garfunkel then opens the show and goes straight into singing What a Wonderful World without so much as a hello to the crowd. Mr. Mike refuses until she sings a song and this back and forth goes on forever until she finally gives in and sings in the style of opera. Once again, we have the news hosted by Jane and Dan. Dreyfuss then goes on to introduce Gary Tiger and once again we hear Jaws theme, but this time Dreyfuss goes to investigate opening a nearby door only to find nothing. The Sex Test is an informative show where Richard Dreyfuss asks the home audience multiple choice questions about sex, complete with sexperts going into more details about the right answer. View all posts by Don Roy King. Tonight's topic was delivered by Bill Murray as he reviewed the new Donnie and Marie Show. According to Bill Murray during Weekend Update.

Bill Murray reviews his Oscar picks from last week to discuss all the choices he got wrong. And as god as my witness, I'll never be hungry again. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Four sketches down and we are already at the musical guest this is a sign of just how long that first sketch ran because the band doesn't usually perform until slot seven or eight and none of the other sketches ran long. Tonight's very special episode is "interrupting" Bowling For Medicine. What a Beautiful Mornin'" and a medley of "I Got a Woman," "I Believe to My Soul," "Them That Got" and "Hit the Road Jack". HOST: O.J. Garrett Morris then plays a desk cop who assigns a case to an unlikely team of detectives. Uploaded by The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. No votes so far! Davis steps in and sponges Franken off which snaps him back so that he can finish his joke which he does but it's the punchline from the first one. The dancing is fun on its own but to top it off it features Ozone and Turbo from the Breakin' films which I'm a fan of for non-joking reasons. Robert Klein then opens the show with a hilarious monolog/routine about how he moved from New York City to rural New York back when he attended college. Mr. Mike then gets a segment where Laraine comes in claiming to be a drunk and needing a Least-Loved Bedtime Tale. Ray then performed the real version of That's What I Say also killing the performance. Their other competition is the big reveal of the sketch which is Steve Martin's experiment is a fully activated Plutonium bomb. This is where they decide to eat at Troff and Brew, and then we cut to said restaurant everyone drinks chili out of a trough and washes it all down by drinking beer straight from the tap, all this while discussing their business agendas. Finally, Steve Martin says his goodnights. Publisher of CelebStoner.com, former editor of High Times and Freedom Leaf and co-author of Pot Culture and Reefer Movie Madness. I kind of miss those days as far as the "real" media is concerned but prefer the new Weekend Update where the anchors are allowed to smile. and Leon Spinks against Sandy Duncan and Marie Osmond who lose hands down at every step of the competition. As always it's fun but not all that specific of an impersonation. Michael O'Donoghue temporarily left the show. Gilda then plays her kid character who is sitting on Santa's lap requesting her gifts for Christmas. Russell Putnam, High Times Investigative Reporter (2002), Cookies Cannabis Brand Aiming for Worldwide Domination, NFL Hall of Famer Passed Blunt to Ricky Williams in 2009, Drake Camp Denies Rapper Was Detained in Stockholm for Cannabis Possession, Wiz Khalifa on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live': 'I'm Freakin' Stoned', CelebStoner's 2022 Cannabis-Industry Events Guide, Pop, Hip-Hop and Rock Star Deaths in 2022, Willie Nelson's 'Planting the Seed' Cannabis Conference. He's pretty annoying but the only one trying to promote that he's funny enough to earn the win. Tonight's special episode is "interrupting" 101 Dalmatians Get Run Over 101 Moving Vans. Pedro, this must be a sign from Our Lady of Guadalupe. It was a fun way to learn about this story without making it an offensive joke. This made the opening sketch make ten times more sense and got me to look up the real story after. on June 30, 2020. He tells the couple that they have to go and warns them to watch out for Big Foot. Then Aykroyd adds the English as the actors have to go through the actions once more. There is such a lack of conflict that it built anxiety in me as I was waiting for an even further fall that never came which was a brilliant play on expectations that you just never see any more these days. Laraine has a segment where she interviews all the finalist once more but cuts them all off before it gets to anything all that important. Gilda then plays her nerdy kid character, playing piano before getting sent up to her room to prepare for the prom by her mom. Bill Murray and Laraine then act as Oscar presenters that announce Vanessa Redgrave as the winner of best actress. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute (including commercials) American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. Once again, Jane and Dan anchor the news and start with the story about Charlie Chaplin's body going missing in real life. Later, after a smokey sesh at the High Times office, Putnam sneaks into Holden's office and declares, "Caught you red-handed?"

(Clip 2). Leon Redbone returns to perform, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone. He does his routine where he literally does nothing but read The Great Gatsby and fight with the crowd when they get antsy. Here, 50 tons was transferred to six converted Lockheed Hudson C-40 transport planes with flight plans for the American Midwest. It's then revealed that the two British guys end up talking like Barbara Wawa. I'm sure this is a 40-year-old reference that is still significant to what's currently going on in the area. Mr. Mike makes a quick appearance to introduce his latest segment called The Ricky Rat Club which is the Mickey Mouse Club dealing with much darker topics, mainly how missing members of the club are being used in government experiments.

After that, every at-bat is filled with close calls but no actual homers. He then pulls a woman onto the stage and does a bunch of weird Andy Kaufman stuff with her, leaving her confused as to what just happened. We are also given a comedic dramatization. This sketch starts out like the rest of the sketches in the Samurai series only this time Buck calls Belushi's bluff of hara-kiri causing Belushi to finally commit suicide as he stabs himself in the stomach. The next couple questions are along those same lines with more answers that admitted the writers were just winging it this week. Richard Dreyfuss opens the show dressed up as a Shakespearian actor. Next was a convoluted sketch that started out with a filmed bit sharing the statistics of singles living in New York. Dan Aykroyd then plays the pitchman for Del Stator's Rabbit Hut, a restaurant where the customers get to choose their rabbits to be cooked in front of them like one would do with a live lobster. The show starts with a fake notice that The Walton's Eat Their Young will not be airing tonight so that they can air this special episode of SNL instead. I'm noticing that it's getting a little dry without the election to give it focus. They talk about boys and the Patty Duke show as well as sharing their deepest secrets. Don Roy King has directed fourteen seasons of Saturday Night Live. Finally, there is also a reunion between Chevy and Emily Litella. Woman: Pedro! Sybil III is a parody of Sybil where Jill Clayburgh plays Sybil's psychiatrist, only in this sequel, there are actually three people named Sybil, and the psychiatrist tries to convince them that they are just one schizophrenic person. This time Belushi is about to fire Bill Murray's character who sleeps in the back so that he can subscribe to a service that rents overnight guard dogs but hires Bill back only because the dogs were too expensive. Ashford and Simpson then perform So, So Satisfied. This sketch also leads to an excuse for Chevy to fall down and announce, "Live from New York". Palin then plays a stuffy British actor who's going to perform a classical play while escaping from a straight jacket while locked in a box. This was followed by a repeat of the fake ad for a perfume designed for one night stands. That said, I didn't get any of the references in the short film, so I didn't find it all that entertaining, which again, I wouldn't even point out if I wasn't so annoyed with the rest of the episode. [12], Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of Saturday Night Live writers season 3, "TV's Top 100 Episodes of All Time: #20-11", Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saturday_Night_Live_(season_3)&oldid=1099110604, Articles needing additional references from October 2011, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. He's very politiciany and gives us nothing to root for. Madeline Kahn opens the show with a monolog about why we love SNL and have a fascination with the unknown. Steve Martin then opens the show with one of his silly routines.