January 22, 1983 Season 8 episode
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| Episode | 149 |
| Season Episode | 10 |
| Host | Lily Tomlin |
| Musical Guest(s) | Purvis Hawkins |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"We Care" |
| Previous Episode December 11, 1982 |
Next Episode January 29, 1983 |
The 10th episode of Season 8 and the 149th episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on January 22, 1983, and was hosted by actress, comedian, singer and producer Lily Tomlin who also acted as the musical guest, as 'Pervis Hawkins'.
This is Lily Tomlin's 3rd and final time as host and the only musical guest appearance for her as Pervis Hawkins on SNL.
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Robin Duke
- Mary Gross
- Brad Hall
- Tim Kazurinsky
- Gary Kroeger
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Eddie Murphy
- Joe Piscopo
Sketches[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Dressing Room: Lily and Eddie Cold Opening | In Eddie Murphy's dressing room, Lily Tomlin expresses her concern over his star trip in the wake of 48 Hours' success and his SNL hosting gig. Mary Gross, Tim Kazurinsky and Gary Kroeger resort to doing Murphy's characters in order to make it big like their co-star. | |
| Monologue by Lily Tomlin | Lily Tomlin does some one-liners about her worries and leads the audience in a cheer. | |
| Judith Goes Shopping | Housewife Judith Beasley (Lily Tomlin) shows how to keep well-fed without spending a cent at the grocery store. | |
| Ernestine's House Call | While on a visit to retrieve a company-owned phone, Bell Systems employee Ernestine (Lily Tomlin) uses different tactics to win back her former customers (Tim Kazurinsky and Mary Gross). | |
| Speaking as a Woman | Michael Nash (Tim Kazurinsky) interviews Tootsie star Dustin Hoffman (Gary Kroeger) and comedian Joan Rivers (Joe Piscopo). | |
| Natural Resources | Judith Beasley (Lily Tomlin) warns that plastics may soon become scarcer than natural resources. | |
| Edith Ann & Friends | In the rocking chair, Edith Ann (Lily Tomlin) and Darlene (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) use their stories to do battle. | |
| Pudge & Solomon | Solomon's (Eddie Murphy) "happy birthday" suit was splashed in mud; the wealthy driver of the car (Lily Tomlin) buys him and Pudge (Joe Piscopo) drinks as restitution. | |
| Next Week | Bob (Rick Moranis) and Doug McKenzie (Dave Thomas) announce they will be on next week's show. | |
| Tess in the Balcony | Bag lady Tess DiSenzo (Lily Tomlin) sits in the SNL audience and talks about aliens. | |
| Saturday Night News with Brad Hall | A better night for Brad Hall; while again a lot of them were photo-based ones, the best joke (Crawford) had a surprising edginess (the picture was of a pro-choice protest with a banner featuring a crossed out coat hanger with the words "NEVER AGAIN"). Andy Kaufman makes his final SNL appearance with a pre-taped "thank you" message thanking the 169,000 or so who supported him on November 20th; Hall calls the earnest message "pretty sad" and announces that Kaufman now owes the network money for the airtime. Not really much more to the segment than that, but it worked. Joe Piscopo returns with Saturday Night Sports to comment on Billy Martin, recently rehired by the Yankees, by holding a contest that offers World Series tickets to the first person that correctly guesses when he will next be fired. He gets a jab in at NBC ("No transportation, no lodging, no meals! Big spenders, huh?") and there's a graphic of Martin in a guillotine, which cuts his head off at the end. There's nothing online confirming whether this was a real contest; I'm guessing it was a joke or it just petered out (for the record, Martin was next canned by Steinbrenner on December 16, 1983). Havnagootiim Vishnuuerheer (Tim Kazurinsky) returns with questions he would ask God. As usual, it's light but entertaining, and an audio glitch during one of the questions ("Is being the Almighty all that it's cracked up to be?") prompts an ad-lib from Kazurinsky ("I guess we got our answer"). | |
| Pervis Hawikns performs "We Care" | ||
| Fantasy | Peter Marshall (Joe Piscopo) and Leslie Uggams (Mary Gross) host the wish-fulfillment daytime show where Bobbi Jeanine (Lily Tomlin) achieves her dream of playing "Flight Of The Bumblebee" on national TV. | |
| The Irish Radio Hour | Siobhan Cahill (Mary Gross) emcees a broadcast featuring music from the Isle Rovers (Brad Hall and Gary Kroeger), a visit from Father Timothy Owens (Tim Kazurinsky), and Mary Fitzgerald's (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) essay on why she is not ashamed to be Irish, | |
| Coffees of the World | Robin Duke serves her friends General House's line of questionably appealing international-inspired coffee beverages. | |
| The Web | Rerun from September 25, 1982, and November 20, 1982. | |
| Goodnights and Closing Credits | Lily Tomlin thanks the cast for treating her like a wholesome person, and shouts out to Lillian Gish. Joe Piscopo plugs the Bye Bye Billy contest again before asking "Who's Lillian Gish?" in jest. Eddie Murphy wears black leather. |
| Preceded by: December 11, 1982 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: January 29, 1983 |