Weekend Update: Headlines from 4/11/1981 - SNL
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Chevy Chase returns to anchor "Weekend Update," with stories on Erik Estrada, Alexander Haig, a Sammy Davis Jr. stamp and the Columbia Space Shuttle. Al Franken also returns to talk about the changes at SNL. Aired 04/11/81
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The random lady in the audience with the distinctive laugh is the best part.
@Bully Maguire lol.
I miss the old Saturday Night Live
Its Nancy Reagan
@@fogdog60 Well Terry Sweeney was a writer in the 6th season...
@@MrMatteNWk THE Terry Sweeney?!
Al Franken looks like an adult version of that kid from Stranger Things
You talking about Dustin from the show? I think that's who you meant.
@@KrabbyLama Dustin Diamond? RIP
@@dogchaser520 I was talking about a different Dustin, but yes Mr. Diamond seemed like a good man in real life. 🙏🏻
Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still deceased.
What about now?
They should've brought back Garrett to do the old News For The Hard Of Hearing.
The first five years of the show were a golden period, then everyone left and the program went deep into the basement until Eddie and Joe Piscopo got up to speed with their chemistry. Season Ten was actually pretty good with brief tours of duties coming from Jim Belushi, Billy Crystal, Mary Gross, Christopher Guest, Rich Hall, Gary Kroeger, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Harry Shearer and Martin Short. Then Lorne came back, and frankly it stunk again for a while, until he found the right chemistry of writers and cast.
Everything you said is FACTS AF
For the last 10 years or so its sucked swamp water and should be taken off the air.
Recently the only funny things are their guest impressions of the dump administration.
on the whole I agree, season 11 was subpar but the next cast hired the immediate season after in 1986 was very talented and turned the show around pretty quickly: Carvey, Hartman, Hooks, Nealon, etc. That cast continued for over five years and turned the ship around into the 90s, which in my opinion, was the best cast in the show's history.
@@weezadam I do miss Jan and Phil.
I thought season 10 was excellent. You’re right.
I remember watching these as a little sperm cell in my dad's eyes. So nostalgic
Your dad’s eyes can ejaculate?! Wtf!
Your dad needs to see a doctor
Who was the guy that gave it to him?
@@krayzeejojo Bill Murray. He needed to pass him time until season 2
His dad can’t see a doctor, or anything else for that matter.
In hindsight, the parking ticket and launch delay don’t seem that bad for the Columbia shuttle.
I would never, ever think less of you, Al Franken! :)
Wow! This is a piece of history now. Zaire isn’t a country anymore.
Jaxon Arnold yes it is, they just changed the name
Chevy weekend updates were better in the 70s. It looked like he didn't put much thought into this.
I think that was part of the joke. He teed it up by mentioning the Writer's strike...
Well right i think he was something to do with siding with snl rather than the writers. The only reason half of these greats are any good is cause of the writing. Not everyone's john belushi.
@@stevencahn4019 agreed ☻😈📼📽😎🤩🤯
Chevy didn't say "I'm Chevy Chase and your not"
ernest eidson do you know where i could find that clip of him actually saying that?
@@3mag1ne86 Here. ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html
@@gergelymann8636 oh no you didnt
@@gergelymann8636 man you're going to hell.
This shit is like a time capsule. I remember watching this as an 8 year old staying up late past my bedtime.
Tal Moore
I was almost two at this time but I remember watching this on reruns in the 90's.
No, you don't exist. You're just a shade in another person's dream...you never stayed up, you're just imagining this, as you're just imagining you're posting something on UA-cam...time doesn't exist in the physical universe.
This aired a few weeks before i was born. i feel so old
i wasnt even born yet
Wow, this aired the day before I was born! Makes me feel old but it’s kinda neat to see what people were watching the night before I showed up!
You feel old?.....I was 11 lol
Fed up with Fed I can make you both feel old because I wasn’t born for another 23 years...
@@Zoecat101 I was born in 2003
I was 78
1:58 I feel like that's me every time people give me more paperwork to do.
Holy shit that Jean Harris joke was dark and didn't get near the reception it deserved.
This literally aired live as I was being born on the other side of the world in Australia.
The guy with the glasses... what's his name again?
Our Future President.
PIX Promos & More
Only if we get realllllly lucky my friend.
PIX Promos & More - I hope! I hope! I hope!
Kaddywompous ted something
Kaddywompous senator Mchandsy Gropesalot.
As a serial nose hair plucker myself, I can attest how pesky sticky they are. SNL, relatable since before I was born.
Colin Jost looks different
person person don't know about the new set though
person person yeah and che too
Because that's micheal che
Zane Heil Yeah
I thought that’s seth meyers
Chevy appeared exhausted or something. LOL.
Clark Griswold and Stuart Smalley!
This is the best thing I've ever heard
Trump last night: I'm President and you're not. I think he was channeling Chevy.
Huh?
Holy hell, life was incredibly dark in the 80s. O.o
Even darker than it is today? Idk about that...lol but you are right, it was a dark time
myMelody4life The fuck? What do you mean by life wasn’t as dark back then as it is today? Wasn’t the Cold War occurring and the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse still much more probably than it was now? Take off the rose tinted glasses, life is better now than it’s ever been.
@@mattg8600 err really?
@@mattg8600 Did you actually live during the 1980's? You strike me as someone who didn't.
I hope Tina Fey takes over for Lorne Michaels.
This video needs to be shown as Weekend Update on the show now - so that the “it’s just not as funny as it used to be” folk can stfu.
"Then Dan and John left...........and THEM we missed"
I forgot news used to not have little pictures in the corner
oh he was a very good physical comedian.
I like the noises that happen when every single joke goes over my head because i was born 25 years too late. ✈
He was high AF during this broadcast I imagine
_I am not involved, in any way, with the new Saturday Night Live_
*Applause*
This really sums up how viewers and some former cast members have felt about the show throughout it's whole history
We were sailing in comedy heaven and then someone threw an anchor off the back of the boat. The anchor’s name? Al Franken.
Al Franken was great--both on SNL and in Congress.
You know, you can call me Al...
I'm sorry, but I thought only Betties can do that, 😉.
Is that Al Franken?
No, it's Al Franken get it right.
Those glasses on AL FRANKEN, hilarious!
SENATOR AL FRANKEN 🥰
Love you, Chevy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️⭐️⭐️
Al Franken literally looks like a kid here (3:25 - 8:35), but he was just one month shy of being 30! Wow! I'm grateful for his work as a Senator.
You should see the Grateful Dead and Blues Brothers video I have with Franken- I think Franken is fucked on on LSD, or stoned out of his mind during the interview at that NYE show.
Cool
There's a really funny video around here somewhere of Franken as Mick Jagger performing Under My Thumb.
Shame, that next episode never happened because of a writer's strike.
This Season was Cursed.
Franken is the best!
He's an IDIOT!
I was a teenager and my parents wouldn't let me watch SNL but my buddies and I would try to be quiet . It never worked someone always laughed so hard we got busted. I miss the 70's
I am surprised they are showing this one. This was when the show tanked after Lorne left, and Dick Ebersol came in and fired everyone in front of and behind the camera except Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo. This bit of time is a bit embarrassing for them.
Wish there was more of this update as I think its the only time Eddie Murphy and Chevy Chase were on the air together. Eddie does a review of Stir Crazy
There was the promo for the Halloween episode from season 7 in 1981 where Chevy was silently behind Eddie Murphy and Donald Pleasense.
@@freddyrichards878 Belushi popped up at the end of a sketch after Eddie left a bathroom with Donald Pleasance that episode.
Savage takedown of the then current producer & cast.
crazy to think al Franken became a senator after this
this guy was ok. Norm was great.
Can't believe Generalísimo Francisco Franco was still dead in 1981!
I was still 4 months away from bailing from my mom's womb 😊
I love this. Please put some Norm MacDonald clips on here too!
Look up the channel "I'm not Norm". Tons of SNL clips there as well as a lot of other things he's done since. Check out his recent podcasts if you haven't yet, especially Norm MacDonald Live.
@@dogchaser520 oh I know all about I’m not norm, I just want more norm clips everywhere!
@@OneManTheBand I think that guy is doing about as good a job as anyone could possibly hope for. And get this: he's not even Norm! Can you believe that?
Greatest ever
Dick Ebersol: I thought the XFL would be a ratings juggernaut 🙄
First 24 seconds is hilarious :D
I never been to Spain now I know why..
Thank you for your support x
I was 5 years old in 1981.
All you need to know about how bad 1981 SNLS was: you have a skit with Chevy Chase picking his nose.
The first 5 yrs were definitely the best the show had to offer. Today's offerings are pathetic and is so under rehearsed that it's obvious they're reading their lines from cue cards.
It needs taken off the air. I used to be a dedicated viewer but don't waste my time watching anymore.
Too far to the left. Way too far.
SNL is the most overrated and underrated show out there. Rewatch the first 5 seasons. Outside of a small percentage of brilliance, it was garbage.
Painkiller Jones They don’t seem to like “the new Saturday Night Live” much either.
@@painkillerjones6232 I'm an independent (meaning I'm on neither's side here and am speaking objectively), but did you ever stop and think that if the right stopped giving them so much good material to work with it wouldn't lean that way?
@@hellokittyangel211 The left have even more material to offer, so... no.
Norm Coleman was cheated out of his Senate seat.
Weird to think how that Jean Harris item is one where modern viewers would not get the reference in the least. Jokes like Francisco Franco, they've maybe heard of, while other jokes don't require being familiar with the story, just hearing the punchline. But a reference to the fact that a convicted murderer had murdered during what was supposedly a suicide attempt, you have to know the backstory to get that one.
I completed 3 y o on this exact date!
"a hint of snuff" in that writing
lol it's funny because it's still around
Chevy chase left the show in 1976
Is that address still correct? We can put the show out of its misery.
BOOM.
The show that has 14 million subscribers on UA-cam? You are going to “put it out of its misery” with a *writing* campaign?
Go ahead, fossils. Unwittingly become a part of a skit called “Two Ancient Cretins Don’t Know How the World Works” in an upcoming show.
After you are done with that, why don’t you *fax* the devil and ask for some help? You’ll be seeing him soon anyway.
Maybe someone should tell the Columbia not to launch?
hello hows your days ? :D
Pretty weak sketch. Shows how bad the show was during that stretch.
Still one of the best of season 6 (by default)
@@freddyrichards878 exactly
Who cares people still loved it
They should put a fork in the show now.
In regard to the parking ticket on the space shuttle - at least it wasn't double parked!
i still like al
GREAT !
This footage from the nineteen eighties.
You sure?
Lots of History here. you would have to write a paper to interpret it. This was a few seasons after I stopped watching it. Chevy Chase is a master of comic timing
Yes... but not here. He’s either really off his game, not giving a shit, or both.
Left snl to be a famous actor and had 2-3 good movies and 35 years of “I shouldn’t have left but also fuck those guys”
Interesting to see SNL in this interesting time ('80-85.) and how Mr. Franken got a raw deal.
MY CARD---AL FRANKEN
Someone please give us a transcription of the names mentioned, I’d like to do research and look these people up. Maybe I will understand why his jokes are funny. Disclaimer: I was not alive when any of this happened, or was recorded and broadcast.
So, do ithe research yourself...typical ...asking someone to do it for you, prepubescent clique behavior. Grow up!
Robert Mintun you look like 45 or 50 on your picture why don't you googled?
Chevy is not a person who will push a joke to make it funny, for Chevy you have one chance and one chance only. Remember, he's not writing all of what he is reading. So when a joke fails to get a laugh or when the joke is clearly not funny you can definitely see the ire in Chevy's face. For the most part, the audience isn't laughing at the jokes, they are laughing at the dead pan humor and ire that Chevy is showing as a way to get a laugh.
generelissimo fransisco franco was still dead - the update continues lol
Love the on air shit talking. Norm ????
Didn't really remember how harsh and evil some of the mentality was. How dare you jest at sacrificing a child!
Hold up.. is this only on Jupiter? Me thinks yes.. screenshot test...
When screen black it’s a Mandela Effect..
Perhaps this is a way of acknowledging that SNL sucks right now.
So much so, and a subtle jab at Chevy not really being liked WHEN he sitting there listening to it
Al Franken groped his way to infamy.
Nope.
@@sillygoose635 yup.
@@allsystemsgo8678 nuuuupe.
DesertScorpionKSA he never groped anyone.
Al Franken is a freaking legend, we need more people like him going into politics.
Bertha Rios
Oops.
And then resigning because he was asked to regarding his "sexual predations." Those who knew comedy, should have recognized his copying Stave Martin's antics in THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS when mugging to clutch the breasts of the sleeping woman. Al's a boring mediocre pol, goodby and Happy Trails Al...
Oof
This just in from Spain: Francisco Franco is still dead!
What was that flick? I see things now that I overlooked ... that’s a Dolly-ism
I've had farts that are funnier than Al Franken...what a lame bit.
The show needs to be put to sleep again.
How addicted to SNL i need to be to get this video of 80s in my recommendation. I know very addicted!!! PS* I was born in 1997.
Also they don’t throw their own under the bus. Maybe Al was framed... idk .. interdasting
Hilarious 😈📼📽
2:17 DERE HE IS
And Al is a Senator now, how does Chevy feel? But then again, who cares?
Who is here trying to find that’s what she said
I didnt get the suicide joke @1:50. Can someone explain? =/
According to wikipedia she claimed she planned a suicide, but then committed a murder.
Now i understand =) tyvm
Damn, that Columbia joke didn't age well, did it?
Serai3 If the aired on date is listed correctly in the description (4/11/81), then this aired exactly one day before the very first U.S. manned Space Shuttle launch which was the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1 Mission. They finally got it off the ground the very next day and the Shuttle program continued for 30 years until 2011, with a total of 135 U.S. Space Shuttle Launches/Missions.That doesn’t include the manned Space Shuttle “Enterprise” ALT program “Approach and Landing (atmospheric glide landing) Tests” Which were flown in 1977.
Parking tickets are so not funny anymore.
It aged fine. You are just looking for reasons to be offended.
@@SKa-tt9nm AAHAHAHA. It's cute how you think "that didn't age well" = "OMG OFFENDED". That's what comes of being a wingnut - you think everyone else gets butthurty at the drop of a hat just like you.
@@rivotrich7 Dude. Along with everyone else I knew, I followed the Apollo flights, the Skylab launch, and mourned at the explosion of the Columbia. So don't teach your grandma to suck eggs, little boy.
Did anyone get this funny
PSG
30 Years ago, maybe...
PSG - It wasn't really supposed to be. It wasn't a skit, he was explaining what happened to the show.
Lorne Michaels left after 5 years (along with the original cast) and instead of replacing Lorne with Al Franken, they replaced him with two unfunny people that nearly destroyed the show.
The show had gotten so bad during that time, the only thing that saved SNL from going under was Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscapo.
Al Franken was explaining everything to the viewers because they were probably wondering what happened to the show.
Get it now?
Honey Bee86 thx
PSG Chevy Chase's intro was funny
I was born in 1995. Just watching to see if I can understand any of these jokes. I can't.
Wasn't much here for the hard-of-hearing
No.. It took!