Saturday Night News with Christopher Guest

After a string of guest anchors, Saturday Night News gets its first permanent anchor in almost an entire year with Christopher Guest helming the news desk. Guest was seen as a very poor fit for the desk; while it would be assumed his dry delivery would be a good fit for a news parody, Guest was seen as too dry, with slow and almost lecture-like readings and he flubs a few lines. Rich Hall appears as himself to give home economy tips, specifically all the free things you can find at different stores, such as “visible hand puppets” (produce bags), paint chip cards to staple to the side of your house, pneumatic tubes from the bank to use as dinner glasses, and the Brannock Devices from shoe stores as snack servers and cockroach football fields. Gary Kroeger tries to combat teenage suicide by giving young people reasons for living, such as this being Reagan’s last term, everything eventually being legal, and Ringo Starr hosting SNL next week. Nathan Thurm (Martin Short) returns to defend another shady client, the Trammel Barber and Beauty Supply Company, who has jumped into the artificial organs market without FDA approval.

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