December 3, 1983 Season 9 episode
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| Episode | 166 |
| Season Episode | 7 |
| Host | The Smothers Brothers |
| Musical Guest(s) | Big Country |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"In a Big Country" "Fields of Fire" |
| Previous Episode November 19, 1983 |
Next Episode December 10, 1983 |
The 7th episode of Season 9 and the 166th episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on December 3, 1983. It was hosted by American folk singers, musicians and comedians The Smothers Brothers. Together they hosted their classic television variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on CBS. Scottish rock band Big Country was the musical guests.
The Smothers Brothers hosted SNL for the 2nd and last time, and this is also the only musical guest appearance on SNL for Big County.
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Jim Belushi
- Robin Duke
- Mary Gross
- Brad Hall
- Tim Kazurinsky
- Gary Kroeger
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Eddie Murphy
- Joe Piscopo
Sketches and Music Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Rain Delay Cold Opening | Tom Seaver reports as the cast awaits umpire Ron Luciano's decision on whether tonight's show can go ahead during a rainstorm in the studio. | |
| Monologue by The Smothers Brothers | While the Smothers Brothers lead the audience in a singalong of "If I Had A Ship", Tom tries to take a picture of Dick. | |
| Nightline | Ted Koppel (Joe Piscopo) pits John Glenn (Tom Smothers) against Rev. Jesse Jackson (Eddie Murphy) in "Crisis Game '83". | |
| Know Your Neighbor | Host Bob McCarthy (Jim Belushi) disrespectfully mocks the Hanukkah traditions his guest (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) describes. | |
| Carvel | Tom Carvel (Joe Piscopo) learns his King of Prussia franchisee (Tim Kazurinsky) sells some very adult ice cream novelties at his store. | |
| Big Country performed "In a Big Country" | ||
| Mentl | Barbra Streisand (Joe Piscopo) made her new movie all by herself. | |
| The Smothers Brothers and the Mike Preddy Trio perform Mason Williams and Art Maddox's composition "Fantasy for Auto Horn and Electronic Pulse in D Minor". | ||
| Saturday Night News with Brad Hall | Brad Hall seems to have fewer jokes between commentaries, although his frustration at the overexposure of the Cabbage Patch KIds doll started the segment off strong and segued nicely into Gary Kroeger's commentary. Gary Kroeger introduces his now-grown Cabbage Patch Kid, Huckleberry (Jim Belushi wearing a giant fake head), who gets upset when he learns that he's adopted. This was quite funny, with Belushi picking his "nose", Kroeger bemoaning being a single parent as a toddler, and a strong ending with Huckleberry throwing Kroeger over the SNN desk. Dr. Jack Badofsky (Tim Kazurinsky) returns with a particularly bad set of influenza puns, played to a particularly hostile audience that boos the first joke and some other particularly bad ones. I've said before that Kazurinsky seems to revel in the audience's hostility towards the excruciating puns, but this audience seems especially harsh (then again, you would boo at the "in flew enza" line too). Joe Piscopo's Saturday Night Sports is back, with a rare athlete cameo: world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, who remains coy about whether he's retiring. Piscopo posits a hypothetical situation about what would get Holmes back into the ring; when he mentions "Mohammed Ali's son", a child comes out swinging at Holmes. More memorable than Piscopo's last few Sports segments at least. In the original West Coast airing, the "Mohammed Ali's son" segment was pre-empted by an NBC News bulletin about an American fighter pilot being shot down over Lebanon. | |
| DreamLand | Elroy Sandquist (Jim Belushi) interprets women's dreams as sexual fantasies about him, except for one that clearly is. | |
| The Point | After Dick chastises him for making a cheap joke, Tom misses the point by telling "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". | |
| Clark Street Garage Band | Road Warrior (Jim Belushi) and his terrible band audition for a representative from Atlantic Records (Dick Smothers). | |
| Autograph | At a restaurant, Sara (Mary Gross) makes her husband (Tom Smothers) make repeated trips to get Dick Smothers' autograph. | |
| Big Country performed "Fields of Fire" | ||
| Goodnights and Closing Credits | Tom mentions they were able to get eight sketches in, so they can call it an official show; Dick tells him to read the cue cards. When Big Country are thanked, Brad Hall can be heard saying "Buy the album". Don Pardo announces that (weather permitting), next week's guests are Flip Wilson and Stevie Nicks, or, in case of rain, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (a callback to the cold opening). "Either way, you can't lose!" |
| Preceded by: November 19, 1983 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: December 10, 1983 |