Saturday Night News with Brad Hall

Brad Hall doesn't get too many jokes in this week, and does the "Thank you, Brad" routine for the third week in a row, but has a pair of particularly dark ones that boost the average. Instead, he leads off this week's SNN with a version of The Day After appropriate for preschool-aged children, complete with childlike drawings. This was merely alright, but I like the ending being whitewashed to everyone taking a long walk in the country. More successful is Hall's debate with Jim Belushi over the TV movie, where the latter is more interested in watching football. While it starts off similarly to Hall and Belushi's Point-Counterpoint from two weeks before (right down to Belushi interrupting Hall's resolution with a "come on!") this really picks up when Belushi accuses ABC of airing the movie as a pilot for a series where they nuke different American cities each week, and ties nicely into Belushi's earlier remarks about the Green Bay Packers. Julia Louis-Dreyfus appears to comment about her lack of airtime, only getting time to mention that her speech was four and a half minutes long in dress rehearsal. Quick joke, it worked. The "traditional" Mary Gross returns to deliver a "spittin' mad" commentary on the upcoming holiday season's new traditions, ranting about fruitcake, assortment baskets, holiday parties (which includes a very impressive run on pre- and post-holiday parties), egg nog, and doctors going skiing (they go to Mount Sinai...the real one). An improvement over her last few "spittin' mads". Joe Piscopo returns with Saturday Night Sports, where Jim Brown (Eddie Murphy) explains why he wants to return to the NFL at age 47: he wants to protect his rushing record, and protests that they don't count his 1000 yards from his scene in The Dirty Dozen (which is shown as "game" footage). This was merely alright, more notable for the film clip than anything. Hall signs off as Elvis Presley.

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