Saturday Night News with Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas is in the anchor chair this week; unfortunately, he's the weakest guest anchor at this point in the run. The main joke here is that the mudslide clip from Romancing the Stone that he played during the monologue is played repeatedly as video footage for all his stories, but the bigger issue is Douglas's delivery on the stories. Featuring Public citizen Wayne Huevos (Tim Kazurinsky) returns with more suggestions to improve his beloved New York City's vermin, court backlog and abandoned building problems. Huevos isn't my favorite Kazurinsky character, but this was harmless enough and Gary Kroeger is back with another movie review, panning Romancing the Stone on the sole basis that his girlfriend Leslie found Michael Douglas sexy; Kroeger launches into a (more or less adlibbed, according to Kroeger himself) rant about how much of a pasty-faced wimp Douglas was, before getting tossed over the news desk (continuing a running joke this season). Some good physical work from Kroeger and Douglas here, and easily the highlight of the segment.

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