Saturday Night News with George Carlin

George Carlin is tonight’s anchor; he only has one joke (the crew of the shuttle Discovery learning the results of the election, Nicaraugua) and an extended bit where he discusses potential contenders for the 1988 election before suggesting Charlton Heston would be a good successor to Reagan on the Republican ticket. He’s better at an anchor than some of the other guest hosts, but it feels a little like a waste of his talents. Aware of the American male’s fascination with breasts, Pamela Stephenson introduces her own pair (including the “customary bumpy things”) to the audience, which promptly start taking on a life of their own and eventually fling her over the desk. This was silly, but there were a few funny lines besides the visual joke (their utility in balancing tubs of Haagen-Daaz, her observations about the size of men’s dogs). Kevin Kelton confirms he was the one under the desk moving the sticks controlling Stephenson’s breasts; a wardrobe person did it in rehearsal but couldn’t nail the timing, so she asked Kelton, a writer who also happened to be small enough to fit under the desk, to do it. As well, David Misch (guest writer for Uecker and Jackson’s shows) wrote an unproduced version of this bit. An uncomfortable-looking Gary Kroeger, introduced as science editor, discusses the lack of tax dollars for research of a medical condition known as “spot bleeding”. He removes his jacket to reveal a dress shirt with tiny blood spots all over it, only for Carlin to remind him that he didn’t remove the straight pins from his new dress shirt. Carlin’s response: “You’re a moron, Kroeger!”. This was the highlight of tonight’s SNL News segment, and again makes great use of Kroeger’s on-air persona. Kroeger confirmed that he co-wrote this with Andy Breckman, and Carlin’s line at the end was an ad-lib. Lew Goldman (Billy Crystal) returns to give the sports report for members of his family. Again, Crystal milks the broadness and phlegm-clearing for all it’s worth, but it works with the audience.

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