Weekend Update with Dennis Miller

Another Weekend Update Dancers routine, this time interpreting the revelations about the Marcos’ financial holdings to the tune of “What You Need” by INXS, with dancers holding shoes, ornate frames and buildings, as well as one bejeweled dancer playing Imelda. This is probably more notable for Dennis Miller using the term “kleptocracy” in his preamble (which he mispronounces as “klepto-tocracy”). Joan Cusack has her first Weekend Update commentary to review Oscar front-runner Out of Africa, panning the film for not being funny. It’s nice to see Cusack appear as herself, but it’s a shame to see her wasted on this weak piece (though I did like her interpretation of Midnight Cowboy as a funny situation). The obligatory reference to tonight’s runner is limited to Francis Ford Coppola nixing Miller’s satellite interview with Pinochet for “not being original” and “too derivative of Ted Koppel”; this also ties into the running joke about the pronunciation of Coppola’s last name (“Cope-o-la” vs. “Coppel-a”) when he pronounces the Nightline anchor’s name as “Ted Kope-ol”. Unfortunately, in the live show, Coppola’s microphone isn’t working, rendering most of his dialogue barely audible (Dave Wilson can be heard saying “Get a boom on him”).

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