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| Saturday Night Live - The Complete Fourth Season |
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| Saturday Night Live - The Complete Fourth Season |
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 Rating: - Terrific Comedy Sktis from a First-Rate Cast"Saturday Night Live: The Complete Fourth Season" is a seven-disc box set containing all the shows from the 1978-1979 season. This is one of the great years of the NBC sketch comedy show, which has just passed its 33rd anniversary. Maybe it's nostalgia, but it seems the comedy landed a lot more frequently then than in the current season of "SNL." Some of the skits in this set include Nick the Lounge Singer (Bill Murray singing the "Star Wars" theme to a uninterested cocktail lounge audience), Candy Slice (Gilda Radner), The Loud Family (Jane Curtin), Fred Garvin: Male Prostitute (Dan Aykroyd), and the Nerds (Bill Murray and Gilda Radner). Also included is the "Wild and Crazy" Festrunk Brothers (Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd) and Buck Henry's inappropriate "Uncle Roy." Guest hosts include Fred Willard, Carrie Fisher, Kate Jackson, Gary Busey, and Walter Matthau. Musical guests include Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, the Doobie Brothers, Bette Midler, Talking Heads, Devo, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, James Taylor, and Rickie Lee Jones. Rating: - Best Season EverSNL used to be the most inovative and funny show of the late 70's. It reinvented the variety show with a "supporting cast" and a rotating guest host every week. They knew how to create a funny pieces and keep it moving forward. Every show was not a masterpiece but the hits were more than the misses. This season had the two best episodes ever with the two most unlikely hosts - Cicley Tyson and Maureen Stapleton. The following are a list of the 20 guest hosts and musical guests: Rolling Stones Fred Willard / Devo Frank Zappa Steve Martin / Van Morrison Buck Henry / The Greatful Dead Carrie Fisher / The Blues Brothers Walter Matthau Eric Idle / Kate Bush Elliot Gould / Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger Michael Palin / The Doobie Brothers Cicley Tyson / Talking Heads - This is the best episode ever. It starts Garrett Morris opening the show in drag as Cicley. And gets even better when she appears on Black Perspectives. She and Garrett visit the wide butts. Ricky Nelson / Judy Collins Kate Jackson / Delbert McClinton Gary Busey / Rick Danko and Paul Butterfield / Eubie Blake and Gregory Hines Margot Kidder / The Chieftans Richard Benjamin / Rickey Lee Jones Milton Berle / Ornette Coleman Michael Palin / James Taylor Maureen Statpleton ... Read More Rating: - ExcellentExcellent music and skits that will bring back memories of your college days and these great comedians. Rating: - Superstar SeasonI'm very familiar with this season and would like to offer up a few of my favorite moments. The last season for Belushi and Aykroyd, along with the third season, includes the troupe's finest hours. Season 4 highlights: 1. Rolling Stones - You may be slightly disappointed by this season-opener if you're a big Stones fan. There is no opening monologue from them, which would have been interesting. Those duties are helmed by NYC mayor (actually, I think he was campaigning at the time), Ed "How Am I Doing" Koch. Mick does show up for a very funny Tom Snyder bit, and Ron Wood & Charlie Watts are patrons of the always-classic Olympia Café. As for the music, it comes in one big chunk, as opposed to the usual two segments. Somewhat disappointingly, the boys perform songs exclusively from their then- newly-released "Some Girls" album ("Shattered", "Beast of Burden" and "Respectable"). Amazingly, their biggest hit from that album, "Miss You", is ignored. Worst of all, Mick's voice is in unusually bad form; he sounds strained, hoarse and froggy throughout. My biggest - indeed oddest - memory of this episode's original airing was the talk that followed at school on Monday. "Did you see Mick tongue kiss Keith Richards!?" As time passed and my memory got sketchier, I thought this may have been urban legend, but after getting a copy a few years ago, Mick does actually - if not "tongue kiss" - lick Ron Wood's closed mouth, and tries a similar move on Keith, who seems to shy away from it. Incidentally, ... Read More Rating: - A Good Reason To Stay Home Saturday Night....Back in the day this show was tops; now 30 years later as a middle age guy I have a reason to stay home on Saturday Night. This show was the best, the best writing, the best actors/actresses and most talent. John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Garrett Morris, Gilda Radner, Lorraine Newman, Jane Curtin and the whole guest cast for 5 years made this show a classic. I have never laughed so hard till I saw this show back then and continue to laugh today. We need laughter more than ever and this is one show for the 1st 5 years that will keep you in Stitches. I can't wait to add this addition to my vast library of dvd's. Another great show from the same era is SCTV and it was also tops in its market. Browse for similar items by category:
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