Saturday Night Live: 1983-1984

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  Season 9: 1983-1984


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Starring:

Jim Belushi

Robin Duke

Mary Gross

Brad Hall

Tim Kazurinsky

Gary Kroeger

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Eddie Murphy

Joe Piscopo

Episodes

10/08/83: Brandon Tartikoff / John Cougar

10/15/83: Danny DeVito & Rhea Perlman / Eddy Grant

10/22/83: John Candy / Men at Work

11/05/83: Betty Thomas / Stray Cats

11/12/83: Teri Garr / Mick Fleetwood’s Zoo & Lindsey Buckingham

11/19/83: Jerry Lewis / Loverboy

12/03/83: Tom & Dick Smothers / Big Country

12/10/83: Flip Wilson / Stevie Nicks

01/14/84: Father Guido Sarducci / Huey Lewis & The News

01/21/84: Michael Palin / The Motels

01/28/84: Don Rickles / Billy Idol

02/11/84: Robin Williams / Adam Ant

02/18/84: Jamie Lee Curtis / The Fixx

02/25/84: Edwin Newman / Kool & The Gang

03/17/84: Billy Crystal / Al Jarreau

04/07/84: Michael Douglas / Deniece Williams

04/14/84: George McGovern / Madness

05/05/84: Barry Bostwick / Spinal Tap

05/12/84: Billy Crystal, Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Father Guido Sarducci, Betty Thomas / The Cars

SummaryA long-time habit of “Saturday Night Live” has been to employ up-and-coming personalities as their hosts, but Dick Ebersol planned a different strategy for the 1983 season. Straying from their usual host selections, “SNL” recruiteded many older generation stars to become hosts – stars like Jerry Lewis, Flip Wilson and Don Rickles. Of the up-and-coming personalities, comedian Robin Williams makes his hosting debut, and future castmember Billy Crystal probably enjoyed hosting so much that he just had to come back to be on the show each week. Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo perform their final sketches this season (after the death of Buckwheat, what’s left to do?), as does everyone else from the 1981 cast – with the exception of Mary Gross, who must have thought she would get to do more sketches with Murphy and Piscopo far away from the cameras.

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