Weekend Update with Dennis Miller

The pairing of Dennis Miller with original Weekend Update anchor Chevy Chase may have sounded like a good idea on paper, but this just comes off as a mess; a lot of Chase’s jokes are weak (especially the approval rating poll), and there are more laughs from how amused Miller is at their lack of chemistry than the actual pairing. Thankfully, Miller has some good jokes this week, even though the prop joke with the Congressional Subpoena See-N-Say (which takes the Fifth) kind of peters out quickly. Tommy Flanagan (Jon Lovitz) returns in a tie-in to Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes’ resignation; even though the character is already played out by this point, I still found there were still some good jokes in this commentary (“Speakes, I spoke”, contraceptives to the condors, Jeane Kirkpatrick being his mistress).

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