Host Kris Kristofferson performs “Help Me Make It Through the Night.” Also: “Samurai Doctor”; Jane Curtain's blind date with her gynecologist; and Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd as Los Angeles cops.
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Louise Lasser hosts; the Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs. Skits include a Swedish movie; two teens talking about sex as they raid the fridge; and John Belushi encouraging viewers to buy his clothes.
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Elliott Gould hosts; Leon Redbone performs “Shine On Harvest Moon.” Sketches include the last mission of the Starship Enterprise.
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Buck Henry hosts; Gordon Lightfoot performs “Summertime Dream.” Henry plays a controversial phone-in show host and visits the Samurai Tailor for a tuxedo fitting; Baba Wawa interviews Lina Wertmuller (Laraine Newman).
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Dyan Cannon hosts; Leon and Mary Russell perform. Also: Cannon's bathwater is offered for sale; Anita Bryant (Jane Curtin) promotes orange juice in Beirut; and Chevy Chase hiccups through a funeral.
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Madeline Kahn hosts; Carly Simon performs (“You're So Vain”). Kahn plays Marlene Dietrich appearing on “Not for Women Only” with Baba Wawa (Gilda Radner).
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Host: Raquel Welch. Music by Phoebe Snow (“All Over”) and John Sebastian (“Welcome Back”). Skits include Howard Hughes (Dan Aykroyd) inventing an aeronautical device for Jane Russell (Welch).
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Former White House press secretary Ron Nessen hosts; singer Patti Smith performs. Also: an appearance by actor-comedian Billy Crystal.
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Anthony Perkins hosts; Betty Carter sings “Music, Maestro, Please.” Included: Perkins appears in a “Psycho” spoof and plays a singing psychiatrist.
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Jill Clayburgh hosts; Leon Redbone performs “Ain't Misbehavin' ” and “Big Time Woman.” Also: an appearance by Andy Kaufman.
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Desi Arnaz
Season 1, Episode 14
Desi Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. Included is an “I Love Lucy” spoof with Gilda Radner as Lucy.
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Peter Boyle hosts; Al Jarreau performs “We Got By.” Sketches include “Dueling Brandos”; “Samurai Divorce Court”; and tag-team Killer Bees.
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Dick Cavett hosts; Jimmy Cliff performs. Skits include an editorial by Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) on the “eagle-rights amendment”; and an interview with a Nebraskan pimp (Cavett).
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore host; Neil Sedaka performs “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.” Included: convicts audition for a production of “Gigi”; a one-legged man (Moore) tries out for the part of Tarzan; Emily Litella comments on “Soviet jewelry”; and Jane Curatin interviews the first male impersonator.
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Buck Henry hosts; Bill Withers performs “Ain't No Sunshine.” Sketches include “Samurai Deli”; a press conference by Gerald Ford (Chevy Chase); and Dan Aykroyd as Citizen Kane.
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Candice Bergen hosts; Martha Reeves sings “Silver Bells.” Also: the Not Ready for Prime Time Players perform “Winter Wonderland”; Emily Litella delivers an editorial on “Firing the Handicapped.”
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Richard Pryor plays a priest in a a sendup of “The Exorcist.” Also: “Samurai Hotel”; and an original essay read by Emily Litella.
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Rob Reiner; Penny Marshall; the Lockers dance group; and the Nuns comic duo. Joe Cocker (John Belushi) sings “With a Little Help from My Friends”; Jane Curtain interviews would-be assassin Squeaky Fromme (Laraine Newman); the cast performs a violent square dance.
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Host Lily Tomlin appears in a “Jaws” spoof and performs “I Got You, Babe” and “St. James Infirmary”; John Belushi appears as Beethoven.
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Paul Simon; Art Garfunkel; Phoebe Snow; Billy Preston; and NBA star Connie Hawkins. Songs include “Scarborough Fair” and “The Boxer” (Simon and Garfunkel); “Still Crazy After All These Years” (Simon).
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Robert Klein; Loudon Wainwright III; Albert Brooks. Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) discusses her book “The Tiny Kingdom”; Sam Peckinpah (John Belushi) directs a romantic comedy.
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Candice Bergen; singer Esther Phillips (“What a Difference a Day Makes”); and Andy Kaufman.
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The October 1975 premiere, with host George Carlin, Andy Kaufman, and music guests Janis Ian and Billy Preston. Included: Killer Bees maternity ward; Kaufman sings “Mighty Mouse.” Music includes “At Seventeen” and “Nothing from Nothing.”
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Elliott Gould hosts; Anne Murray performs “The Crawl” and “Blue Finger Lou”. Sketches include a dessert topping that shines floors; the Godfather (John Belushi) joining a therapy group; and Lorne Michaels firing the director to pacify the Killer Bees.
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