November 7, 1981 Season 7 episode
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| Episode | 124 |
| Season Episode | 5 |
| Host | Lauren Hutton |
| Musical Guest(s) | Rick James |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Give It to Me Baby" "Super Freak" |
| Previous Episode October 31, 1981 |
Next Episode November 14, 1981 |
The 5th episode of Season 7 and the 124th episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on November 7, 1981, hosted by model and actress Lauren Hutton, with musical guest Rick James, a music legend, singer-songwriter, musician and record producer.
This was Lauren Hutton's only time hosting, as well as the only musical guest appearance on SNL for Rick James.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
Featured Player[]
Sketches and Music Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Videotaped Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Exxico | The oil company's threat is direct: "Stay out of our way or we'll kill you". | |
| Talent Entrance | ||
| Here's Cos | Frequent Tonight Show guest host Bill Cosby (Eddie Murphy) has another new album of his most irritating staple bits. At the end of the commercial, stage manager Joe Dicso tells Eddie that Lauren Hutton is waiting for him in her dressing room. | |
| Dressing Room | Lauren flirts with Eddie Murphy in her dressing room and invites him to stay as she changes for her next sketch. As he waits, Joe Piscopo magically appears and advises him that she is still way out of his league. | |
| Hail To The Chief | A sketch from Ronald Reagan's (voice of Joe Piscopo) perspective as Ed Meese (Tony Rosato) prepares him for his upcoming press conference. Reagan is still convinced he is only playing a role in a movie. | |
| TransEastern | A number of different airline employees cheerily introduce themselves and how they'll inconvenience you on your next flight. | |
| Whisper | Lauren Hutton's bubble bath of choice also helps her get her dishes sparkling; she demonstrates with dinnerware she has soaking in the tub with her. | |
| Rick James performed "Give It to Me Baby" | ||
| The Khaddaffi Look | Rerun from October 3, 1981. | |
| Cheap Laffs | Tony Rosato introduces another idea rejected by the show for cheapness: a super abrasive toilet paper for real men. | |
| SNL Newsbreak with Brian Doyle-Murray | They still do the letters falling routine yet again, but Doyle-Murray changes it up a little by putting a hard hat on as they drop, only for a few more to fall after he takes it off. I admit I could see the Oil of Olay punchline coming from a mile away, but I still laughed. Christine Ebersole's Princess Di bit was silly; the best line was where she pinpoints the exact time of conception. Like a lot of Piscopo's impressions, Ted Koppel has been done better by later cast members, but this was one of the funnier news pieces of the entire season, particularly Begin (Tim Kazurinsky) and Arafat's (Tony Rosato) argument degenerating into childish insults ("You look like Ringo Starr!" "You look like Phil Silvers!") and Koppel's mass of hair weighing down his body to the point where he tips over. Eddie Murphy's "animals landing on their feet" experiment commentary was one of his weaker bits, but I did enjoy him describing the parrot angrily insulting him as he plummeted from the balcony, and him inviting Doyle-Murray and telling him to bring the kids. I just realized this is the fifth Newsbreak in a row with Murphy. | |
| Harlequin Romances | The pronouns are reversed when a man (Joe Piscopo) disguises himself as a woman to join Denise Dunn-Davis (Lauren Hutton) and her brutish crew on a jungle expedition. | |
| Reach Out | Brooke Shields (Mary Gross) and Cheryl Tiegs (Christine Ebersole) offer solutions and advice to audience members that would only work for models. Lauren Hutton expresses her outrage at the "models are dumb" stereotypes in the sketch. | |
| Velvet Jones School of Technology | Velvet Jones (Eddie Murphy) hasn't forgotten about the men with his new pimping manual, complete with specialized training on kicking hos in the butt. | |
| Big Baser | Infomercial host Don Davis (Joe Piscopo) says the world was better when Coca-Cola still contained a trace of cocaine, and touts Big Baser, a product to restore the drug to the soft drink. | |
| Guest Performance: William Burroughs | In his first television appearance ever, the Beat icon reads excerpts from "Naked Lunch" and "Nova Express". | |
| Push Button To Explode Building | Rerun from October 10, 1981. | |
| Bitter People | Comedian Pat Cooper (Joe Piscopo) has some nasty words about Lola Falana, Tom Jones and Jerry Vale. | |
| Rick James performed "Super Freak" | ||
| Schiller's Reel: Art is Ficial | A French documentary chronicles the final years of "literary dog" Maurice Blaget. | |
| Goodnights and Closing Credits |
Trivia[]
- Although not seen, this was the debut of Joe Piscopo's impression of Ronald Reagan.
| Preceded by: October 31, 1981 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: November 14, 1981 |