Weekend Update with Dennis Miller

Dennis Miller has some more good jokes in this fast-moving edition of Update, again opening with a sarcastic jab at Pardo/reference to a Kool & The Gang song, and selling a lot of the punchlines with his delivery. Damon Wayans provides the first Weekend Update guest commentary of the season as the show’s “uptown financial analyst” discussing Reagan’s proposed cuts to social programs and suggesting the country could get “mo’ money” by intimidating debtor nations and selling MX missiles to Iran and Iraq (“let ‘em blow each other up, they killing each other anyway”). This kills with the audience, though it hasn’t really aged well in the wake of Iran-Contra, the two Iraq wars, and the fruits of the U.S. meddling in the Middle East.

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