Saturday Night News with Robin Williams

Robin Williams is this week's guest anchor; Williams fits the news desk a little better than Rickles did, but he's mainly there to set up the remote and commentary and only has a handful of news items to read. Brad Hall appears on Saturday Night News for the first time since losing the anchor chair in a videotaped remote (directed by Claude Kerven), where he interviews Jesse Donnelly (Jim Belushi), the man who personifies the NYC crime statistic of a man mugged every 11 seconds. Despite the thinness of the premise, this was pretty well executed, and I laughed at the little girl mugging him at the end. The subject of Andropov's death brings Tim Kazurinsky back to do his last Salute to Journalism: he is utterly flabbergasted and a little disappointed about the New York Post not giving the news its usual sensationalistic treatment and shows what some of those headlines would have looked like (my favorite: "LENIN GETS ROOMMATE"). This was a strong one to go out on.

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