SNL Newsbreak with Brian Doyle-Murray, Mary Gross and Christine Ebersole

This is also the only Ebersole-period Newsbreak that made it into the 60-minute edits of that season's shows. The first segment is Mary Gross' report from the HMS Invisible; her "ditzy correspondent" act was a little too cutesy (especially the HMS stands for "HuMongous Ship" line), but I always enjoy the complete deadpan of SNL's production designer Akira Yoshimura (who appeared in all of the SNL Star Trek sketches as Sulu) as the fake Prince Andrew (his "Sunday morning. Sneak attack" line was funny). The ending with Doyle-Murray suggesting Gross invite the "prince" to a sushi dinner was dumb. Tony Rosato gives a test of the Emergency Broadcast Network [sic], which consists of panicked screaming. An obvious joke, but Rosato's segues between his calm introduction, the test, and his outro were flawless. Joe Piscopo's Saturday Night Sports segment changes the formula a little bit by not having Piscopo utter a word: instead, Piscopo was made up to look as if he were covered in ice and snow as on-screen captions spelled out his normally bellowed lines. It was a welcome change of pace, and the audience loved it. Up next is an interminable two-and-a-half minute photo montage bit about the many pictures that exist of the Reagans waving. By this point in the season, every Newsbreak seems to be padded with one of these bits (there's some more pointless ones to come); while Brian Doyle-Murray had some humorous asides, and the gag in the last picture with the Reagans' arms starting to move propellor-like was somewhat funny, the bit definitely did not warrant its length. Tim Kazurinsky comments on that year's overlong Oscars by offering suggestions on how to improve next year's ceremony. This was alright, particularly when Kazurinsky suggested to take the award away from the winner if their speeches ran too long and mentioning Bette Midler as a "hilarious woman with large breasts". The funniest moment, though, was when Kaz handed off back to Christine Ebersole who asked "What the heck was Morgan Fairchild doing there?" The audience evidently agreed. The little bit where Doyle-Murray spells the new formula for relativity on a blackboard as ROLAIDS is a spoof of the current ad campaign for the antacid (the tag: "Rolaids Spells Relief"). At the end of the segment, Doyle-Murray gives the numbers to vote on Larry's fate.

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