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Classic SNL Review: March 12, 1983: Bruce Dern / Leon Redbone (S08E15)
Sketches include "Backstage", "Buckwheat Jeans", "Donny & Marie St. Patrick's Day Special", "Buckwheat Buys the Farm", "The Home For Disgusting Practices", "The Buckwheat Story", "Jerry Lewis School", "Gumbys", "Old Jew Beer", "Old Negro Beer", "Songwriters", "Old Chinaman Beer", and "Veggie Burgers". Leon Redbone performs "Sweet Sue, Just You", "When You Wish Upon A Star" and "I Ain't Got Nobody".
Classic SNL Review: February 26, 1983: Beau & Jeff Bridges / Randy Newman (S08E14)
Sketches include: "Childhood Stories", "Texxon", "Pimple", "Rick's Cafe", "Cheap Hunt", "Battered Husband", "Saundra's House of Massage", and "Guy Crazy". Randy Newman performs "I Love L.A." and "Real Emotional Girl".
Classic SNL Review: February 19, 1983: Howard Hesseman / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (S08E13)
Sketches include "Dressing Room", "Sleepy Boy 2000", "Gas Station", "Mad Magazine Theatre", "The A-Team", "Holiday Inn", "My Date with Dion" and "The Laughing Buddha". Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers perform "Change of Heart" and "The Waiting". Tonight also features a personal tribute to John Belushi by his wife Judith Jacklin Belushi, featuring an original song by Rhonda Coullet.
Classic SNL Review: February 5, 1983: Sid Caesar / Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (S08E12)
Sketches include: "The Scheme", "Funeral In A Cab", "Hospital Whiners", "Hotel", "Crime and Self-Punishment" and "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney". Joe Cocker performs "Up Where We Belong" (with Jennifer Warnes) and "Seven Days". Harry Anderson also appears.
Classic SNL Review: January 29, 1983: Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas / The BusBoys (S08E11)
Sketches include "Super Bowl Party", "McKenzie Brothers", "Whiners V", "I'll Be the Judge of That", "Hitchcock Hygiene", "Guy Talk", "Porta-Dish", "Hell Bent for Glory", "Rent Ed McMahon", "Five Minutes to Reflect" and "The Biological Watch". The BusBoys perform "The Boys Are Back In Town" and "New Shoes".
Classic SNL Review: January 22, 1983: Lily Tomlin / "Purvis Hawkins" (S08E10)
Sketches include "Lily and Eddie", "Judith Goes Shopping", "Ernestine's House Call", "Speaking As A Woman", "Natural Resources", "Edith Ann and Friends", "Pudge & Solomon", "Tess In The Balcony", "Fantasy", "The Irish Radio Hour" and "Coffees Of The World". Purvis Hawkins (Lily Tomlin in drag) performs "We Care". Andy Kaufman, Barry Mitchell, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas also appear.
Classic SNL Review: December 11, 1982: Eddie Murphy / Lionel Richie (S08E09)
Eddie Murphy fills in for scheduled host Nick Nolte; sketches include "Substitute Host", "Rubik's Grenade", "Merry Christmas, Dammit!", "Clysler-Prymouth", "I Came, I Saw, I Came Again", "Hairem Scarem", "Herpes Gone Bananas", "Joy of Christmas" and "A Special Christmas Message". Lionel Richie performs "You Are" and "Truly". Harry Anderson also appears.
Classic SNL Review: December 4, 1982: The Smothers Brothers / Laura Branigan (S08E08)
Sketches include "The Tonight Show", "Ledge", "Rubbers", "Who Do You Prefer", "Truckstop Teases", "TV", "Pudge & Solomon", "Rules & Noodles", "The Inside Story" and "Handsome Men With Big Noses". Laura Branigan performs "Gloria" and "Living A Lie".
Fired Rookies, Designated Stars and the Troubling SNL Status Quo
Brooks Wheelan, Noel Wells and John Milheiser have all been fired from Saturday Night Live last week. That’s one half of the cohort of featured players brought in at the beginning of the 2013-14 season. Despite trumpeting their collective SNL debut in the season premiere with two sketches devoted to the new hires, it felt like the show lost faith in them by the end of November...
The Worst SNL Sketches of All-Time: Part 3 - The All-Time Worst
Throughout voting, one particular sketch received the most nominations for "worst Saturday Night Live sketch of all time", and by a significant margin.While these polls are subjective with a high representation of those who know their history, I think it's safe to say that we've found the absolute worst thing the show's put on the air.