Saturday Night Live: Elliott Gould & Gary Numan [Condensed]NBC
February 16, 1980
Variety
VHS
B-
This is one of the hour-long (I think they were called Best of Saturday Night Live) editions that were syndicated later in the '80s, in this case '87. The highlights here are Kramer vs. Godzilla and the Wizard of Oz parody, although the latter does have regrettably racist casting of Morris as a flying monkey. (Poor Garrett was in tears a few days afterwards, after five years of mistreatment.) Numan sings "Cars." The running joke of Father Guido Sarducci waiting to interview Nixon live outside his new apartment building gets tedious, until there's an unexpected pay-off right at the end.
And, yes, the jokes about candidates Carter and Reagan are pretty ironic of course, especially the one about Reagan being senile. (He had recently turned 69, which is right between the ages of current candidates Clinton and Trump, although at the time he was definitely the oldest American presidential candidate ever.)
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