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From: tgd@bonnie.UUCP (Tom Dennehy)
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Subject: Re: Another good Saturday Night Live
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 09:59:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 09:59:21 1984
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The Texxon ad ("Do what we want and nobody gets hurt") was good the
first time I saw it...

LAST YEAR!!!

that film has been run on at least 4 live shows and it pops up in reruns
a lot when it replaces a sketch which didn't work on the original.

I have two shows this year, and both have used the Strategic
Airborne Contraceptive film clip.  The phrase Saturday Night Live is
starting to be a misnomer, and given the relative air time of the 
cast, it should be called "The Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest Show."
Too many talk show parodies and not nearly enough NEW, REALLY NEW stuff.
Think of all the characters, catch phrases, and silliness the Not Ready
for Prime Timers made permanent parts of the national comedy consciousness.
Two producers and three major cast changes later, nothing...

Not to be entirely negative, I do like Crystal and Guest's "You know what
I hate..." sketches.  They could probably do a helluva "Who's on First".
And Ed Begley's return from the future (Here, hold this over your head)
was the first uh, well...shall we say, tweak on network TV.

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Tom Dennehy	AT&T BL WH, NJ	bonnie!tgd