February 5, 1983 Season 8 episode
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| Episode | 151 |
| Season Episode | 12 |
| Host | Sid Caesar |
| Musical Guest(s) | Joe Cocker Jennifer Warnes |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Up Where We Belong" "Seven Days" |
| Previous Episode January 29, 1983 |
Next Episode February 19, 1983 |
The 12th episode of Season 8 and the 151st episode of Saturday Night Live premieres on February 5, 1983, hosted by the legendary actor, comedian and writer Sid Caesar, with musical guests Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
This was the only hosting stint for Sid Caesar. This is also the 2nd and final musical guest appearances on SNL for both Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes, as well as their only appearances in the Ebersol-era.
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- 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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| The Scheme Cold Opening | The cast argues over a scheme to demonstrate on air that the show is done live; Sid Caesar gives them a lesson on how it relates to now, was, and gonna-be. | |
| Sid Caesar's Monologue | Sid Caesar reminisces about how the hardest part of Your Show Of Shows was when he had to appear as himself. This is the fairly short and very earnest monologue. | |
| Funeral In A Cab | Crazy Lenny (Eddie Murphy) pitches the low-cost way to dispose of your dead loved ones. | |
| The Hospital Whiners | ||
| Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes Performs "Up Where We Belong" | Muscal Guests Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes Performs "Up Where We Belong" on Saturday Night Live. | |
| Hotel | A door in a hotel room shows how changing times affect an advertiser's (Sid Caesar) hotel room liaisons with co-workers in 1953 and 1983. | |
| Who Do You Hate? | Rerun from February 20, 1982, the twelfth episode of 7th season. | |
| Saturday Night News with Brad Hall | Underwhelming (and comparatively long) news segment this week; Hall's best joke didn't get much response (a photo-based gag, yes, but I liked the twist that he failed the test), and most of his other jokes were forgettable, aside from him dismissing Reagan's speech about how the economy was better as a fairy tale. Julia Louis-Dreyfus debuts her complaining teenager character Patti-Lynn Hunnsacker to comment on the new "squeal law" (where Title X-supported family planning clinics would be required to notify parents of minors who seek their services; this was withdrawn after two federal courts struck it down). Aside from the cheers she got from declaring she was sexually active, the character is mostly a vehicle for weak jokes (and one about Roman Polanski), and it seems like an example of the writers not knowing what to do with Louis-Dreyfus. Mary Gross is spittin' mad again, this time about the federal budget, and thinks a lot of cuts need to be made to federal departments; this was weaker than usual. Her list actually sounds like something that austerity-happy Tea Partiers would try to implement. Dr. Jack Badofsky (Tim Kazurinsky) explains different types of suicide; he seems to embrace the awfulness of some of the puns and starting to break character as the audience groans at one line. Best one: Cock-a-doodle-doo-icide (when impotent roosters kill themselves). The little anti-suicide bit at the beginning felt tacked on. | |
| Guest Performance: Harry Anderson | The comedy magician Harry Anderson has an audience member help with a trick involving red rubber balls and a pair of handcuffs. | |
| Crime and Self-Punishment | A silent film tells the story of tortured genius & inventor Julius Swell (Sid Caesar). | |
| Saturday Night News Extra | Professor Helmut (Sid Caesar) proposes the United States start exporting soap operas to fix the trade imbalance. | |
| A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney | While discussing the lack of literary merit of today's best-sellers, Andy Rooney (Joe Piscopo) takes issue with Helen Gurley Brown's "apartment". | |
| Joe Crocker Performs "Seven Days" | Musical Guest Joe Cocker Performs "Seven Days" on Saturday Night Live. | |
| Goodnights and Closing Credits | Mary Gross and the cast present Sid Caesar with a plaque declaring him to be an honorary cast member of Saturday Night Live; Gross tells him "you'll always have a home here!". Various cast members including Robin Duke and Eddie Murphy hug Caesar; Murphy (either earnestly or facetiously) is in tears afterward. Jennifer Warnes can be seen jumping up and down in the back. |
Trivia[]
- The first episode back for writer Pam Norris, who had took off time after the March 27, 1982 episode from last season, as she got back from traveling overseas.[1]
References[]
| Preceded by: January 29, 1983 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: February 19, 1983 |