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.

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