Saturday Night News with Christopher Guest

Christopher Guest is actually improving as an anchor; he only has two jokes tonight, but the cabinet shuffle summary lands well and the Elvis joke also works. He still does better playing off the guest commentaries, though, particularly his “that’s very sad” after Gary Kroeger’s bit. Gary Kroeger discusses the trend of beefcake calendars, and hops on that bandwagon with his own “Kroeger-A-Month” calendar (which he’s selling in the lobby at a discount). This is the stuff Kroeger does very well, with some nice self-deprecation in there (the first anniversary of him losing his virginity). Rich Hall takes over the role of Doug Henning, who is now Reagan’s new financial advisor (tying in nicely to the cabinet shuffle joke at the beginning), and has Guest help him make the deficit disappear. Hall’s impression isn’t as good as Short’s (then again, Hall’s impressions have an “I’m not under any pretense that I’m an impressionist” quality to them I like, similar to Norm Macdonald), but this piece is still pretty funny, and not just only for the blooper where Hall’s fake buck-teeth fall out of his mouth.

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