And that was it. Charles Rocket was sacked because someone left his microphone on by mistake. I'd love to see season six. Much talked about, never seen.
@collegeman1988 you can If you have Netflix or Hulu plus. but it has been said by Lorne Michaels that he wont release it because he left the show at the end of the 1979-1980.
Last episode I ever saw was one with Steve Martin where he played "the Great Flydini" skit. This has been considered one of the funniest skits for Martin and SNL.
Does anyone in their 50's or older remember a skit form SNL Feb-May 1980? Rodney Dangerfield was the guest and it was about a celebrity sperm bank. Many couples came in wanting a baby with Dangerfield DNA, thus Rodney had to repeatedly go in the back room with a hand full of porno magazines and je@*k off.
Ray Sharkey used it in his monologue in Season 6 Episode 6. But I guess maybe they knew he was gonna say it and bleeped it before it hit the television audience... having a hard time finding anything about it online.
That was the first major cast change so because the show was not old at that time season 6 got a tough reputation from everyone right before the season even started. It's too bad that most of the cast had to take such a beaten by the public but they were not bad, just everyone expected them to be like the cast of the first 5 seasons. At that time people thought SNL would only have the original cast then go off the air but it's not true. This also happened in the 1995 cast change as well.
...I'd like to know who the fuck let Charlene Tilton into the medicine cabinet. She looks like she's either drunk or high. Also, you can see the cast laughing nervously when he says it. They probably knew their time was up.
Tthis was pulled from the uncut Comedy Channel airings in Canada in the early 00's. They played all the episodes as is, swearing and all.
Amazing that this is now 30 years ago, and in 1980 hardly anyone would have talked about what was on TV in 1950! I liked this season of SNL for its oddness mostly, and it's one I'd love to see make it to DVD. People saying Rocket was fired for this are a bit off; he appeared in one more episode, but he and most of the cast were all 86'd after that. Rocket did okay afterward, and even appeared in "It's Pat," little seen SNL-based film. SNL also acknowledged his passing on-air the week he died.
Rocket never could live this down,apparently there was a snl reunion,and this was brought up,and he became more depressed.Days later,he went out into a field near his house,and gave himself a sicilian necktie.
Some people need a good "fuck" so they can loosen the "fuck" up and sometimes people just gotta say what the "fuck" and act like who gives a "fuck" and try not to "fuck" around in other peoples business and if they do get the urge, they just need to shut the "fuck" up before somebody slaps the "fuck" out of them!
SNL has mostly been bad after the original cast left. There was a few bright spots with Murphy and Hartman but few and far in between. Rocket was an untalented dick as were many others of that era.
SNL has it's ups and downs - right now it's experiencing a huge down but it could easily pick back up again - the original cast was popular with many, and then you have the Dana Carvey/Mike Meyers era, Chris Farley, then the Will Ferrel early 2000's late 90's.
I remember this.. what an awful season that was.. horrible cast + horrible writing. These days the cast is outstanding, but the writing is incredibly bad.
After this, Charles became a voice actor. He voiced characters in "Static Shock" and played Judge Thatchett in the movie "Tom & Huck." Rocket also voiced Nym in Star Wars: Starfighter (VG) and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (VG). R.I.P. Charles.
Doumanian didn't know what the hell she was doing. It was obvious even that first season that Eddie Murphy was the funniest person on the show even thought he didn't get much air time.
I watched episodes from this season on Comedy Central in the mid 1990s. This season seems to be the rarest of them all. Since NBC seemingly vowed never to air any repeats from this season. Although they aired the December 13, 1980 episode hosted by Jamie Lee Curtis, part of its "Classic SNL" block. To put it simply, it might have been the worst season ever, but it has its moments.
i was a teenager watching this that night. shock value yes, real laughs no. the cast that season really was quite bad, and its no wonder none of the episodes stood the test of time. snl is lame these days because political correctness has taken the edge off. for example,we will never see another bit as biting and brilliant as the chase/pryor interview sketch. and lets be honest, there is rarely any sketch worth watching after the first half hour. r.i.p. snl
Huge conspiracy that year. Rocket sucked, but the new girl running the show must've been fuckin' him, because she was setting him up as the best cast member ever. Good thing they were both fired. Charles Rocket committed suicide right after... I won't go as far as saying he had that coming, but he probably realized that he did. I won't put words in his now-dead mouth, though. Those two (almost) destroyed a hilarious show... it's not in good shape to this day.
charles rocket didnt commit suicide until 2005 so your comments about his suicide dont ring true. jean doumanian, the cast and the writing all were below par. murphy and piscopo were the only bright lights that year. nothing is less funny that a group of people that think they are truly funny.
I also agree that Murphy and Piscopo were very good. They took charge after Doumanian was fired. I didn't mean to offend. I just wanted to bring the conspiracy to attention.
@sickkat44 I'd like to see piscopo do Jersey guy again, when he was living by to an old PCB-oil filled transformer storage dump, ok I just made up the last part, I think
@gammagamma08 sorry, cant agree with you. although some of the digital shorts have their moments, the live portions of the show fall flat much of the time. the strongest portion of the show is the first half hour and then it goes downhill fast. samberg and hader are funny, but only when there is some substance to the comedy.
Charles Rocket... I remember him as 'Adam--the Angel of Death' from 'Touched By an Angel', as Grossberg in 'Max Headroom', and in the various TV shows and movies that he appeared in. (I think the first time I saw him on TV was on a news/comedy show on HBO -- he was one of two co-anchors on that program. I really enjoyed watching him on that. Unfortunately, I didn't really watch much of SNL during the early 80's).
This looks intentional, and newest "biker chick f bomb" did not seem intentional. but maybe Charles Rocket was just playing it off since it slipped out perhaps?
The only thing i remember him in was a wings episode,and as the good hearted soldier killed for his good deed in dances with wolves.I think he commited suicide,when he went out to a field by his house,and gave himself a sicillian necktie.
@Nigelxman There are so many forgettable SNL actors that I can't even remember them. Charles Rocket proved himself later to be a rather good comedic actor and I for one think that he should have gotten a lot more credit for his comedy work.
Eddie Murphy rose in the ranks from extra, to featured player, to full fledged cast member in just twelve episodes. The fastest of any cast member on SNL ever.
It was a different show with this cast vs. the previous cast. The ensemble were also the writers, so you had all new writers. Lorne Michaels left, so it was produced by different people. It was just different.
omg you remember that??? we should talk - do you remember "mrs. T's Bloody Mary Mix", w/ robin duke and Mr. T??? no one remembers a LOT of great skits that are obscure.
Yeah, I remember "Mr. And Mrs. T's Bloody Mary Mix" from 1982 too [with Mr. T and Robin Duke as "Mrs. T"], that was from the Louis Gossett Jr./George Thorogood And The Delaware Destroyers show.
do you remember "dina's disco meltdown"? that was terrible. "sweeney sisters" was great (jan hooks was hysterical). are you able to help me locate a skit i thought was genius, if i told you the basics?
It was on the January 24, 1981 episode [Robert Hays/14 Karat Soul, Joe "King" Carrasco And The Crowns], I believe it was edited out of the re-edited 1-hour Comedy Central version, I'll have to check on my tape.
nnaw - there was a skit where tim kazurinsky (i THINK) and either jan hooks or robin duke were grease monkey-type mechanics. in comes big city businessman Phil Hartman with auto problems. in conversation, he treats them like they know nothing, and the two retort and shoot down everything he says w/ intelligent responses...it wasnt necessarily funny but if i remember it correctly it was a briliantly written sketch. ring a bell at all? is there any way i can locate it?
This entire segment was edited out entirely in the 90s Comedy Central re-edited 1-hour version of this episode, the "new talent" guest was a then unknown Prince [performing his early hit "Party Up"], the musical guest was Todd Rundgren.
youd be troubled too if your entire career was destroyed by the FCC for this exact reason...one F-word and he was destroyed...our system is pathetic sometimes.
I remember watching it the night it happened but apparently I'm not remembering correctly. I thought I remembered a prone Charles Rocket lifting himself off the floor & saying: "I want to know who the fuck shot me!" But apparently it didn't go that way. Hmm.
It was nice music, but the "smooth jazz" band albeit very much music of the time in 1980-81, was too sophisticated for a comedy show. Blowing out the theme songs (although I too like the 80-81 music too - opening theme was a JAM) was also part of what made this season so jarring to fans of SNL from it's glorious first five years. It was doomed from every angle. Sad.
Norm got fired because he was a grown up comedian and he appealed to the wrong age brackett that NBC were shooting to please. Norm was the only thing I tuned into see all through-out the years he was ther. He was made for Week-end update. The hosts even started to say so --right there on the show. Norm exposed the rest of the players as beginner comics and literal hacks -- so they fired him. I stopped watching SNL altogether.
better fire that new girls ass...if norm can get fired for dropping the f bomb, the same sure as fuck better apply here. norm macdonalds farts alone emits more talent than that show has shat in the last 5 years
it was one of the reasons ohlmeyer brought up to justify to all the other ge paid mouthbreathers that norm was a 'liability' and to let him go. that and oj...
He was fired because he wasn't funny, nor was the show in '80. A truly wretched season, beset with so many problems from the git go. Rocket and that cast were all sacrificial lambs after the originals left. Murphy and Piscopo went onto the next season with new regulars and a new producer.
Oh, he most certainly was. Too bad, because nobody saw it. Last night's F-bomb had more viewers, and the word was more pronounced, even if it was accidental. Supposedly so was Rocket's faux-pas.
I'm wondering if anyone has the "Altered Walter" sketch that they did about the time Cronkite retired. It was one of the few memorable pieces they did: "And in the end, the news you take is equal to the news you make." HUH?
Other than that, I'd like to know who the f--k told Dick Ebersol Jean Doumanian could produce.
Dic k Ebersol did not have anything to do with the program then or Jean's hiring. That unfortunate onus fell on Brandon Tartikoff, who was helming NBC at that time...he also had the fortunate onus however, of firing Jean as well...
To me, I didn't think the season was all that bad. People just gave them a hard time. The most memorable sketch from that season was the short film "The Dancing Man' with Bill Irwin.
i saw a little bit of some sketches from this cast it was pretty funny there was some great ppl in this cast. in 2005 nbc reran an episode from this season
I remember the Comedy Central reruns of this season, and remebering them being substandard, but after receiving the entire season recently, I was reminded of how HORRIBLE some of the moments this season really were. There was SOME talent, but the writing was unbelievably bad, the sketches relied heavily on racial and cultural stereotypes, and were just blatantly tasteless and silly. Some moments garnered absolutely NO response from the live audience, there were hecklers on some shows too. Bad.
You say that you recieved the entire season recently. How is that possible? I've visited Amazon's website and they don't have it up for order, unless I'm not looking in the right places. Let me know where to find it...I miss seeing these episodes. I saw the reruns on Comedy Central when I was a teen and I liked what I saw. I would like to see it again.
Yeah, the 5th season is being released to DVD on d ecember 1st, if the 6th season gets released it'll only be a skimpy 2 disc set at the most, ha ha!!
That's true, they'll only sell it in the Walmart bargain bin, LOL, I'm looking forward to the 5th season DVD release in December, should be just as good as the first 4 seasons DVD sets!!
I gotta find the tape to find out, it was Charles Rocket's last show as he was fired right after it, Comedy Central ran re-edited 1-hour versions of the whole 6th season except for the season premiere episode [Elliott Gould/Kid Creole And The Coconuts] for some reason [which was reran in Canada I heard].
wooow what a thrill
FAMEROB 7 months ago
And that was it. Charles Rocket was sacked because someone left his microphone on by mistake. I'd love to see season six. Much talked about, never seen.
TheChapaqua 7 months ago
Will NBC/Universal release the complete season six of SNL? I seriously doubt it. It was so bad that people would have to be paid money to own a copy.
collegeman1988 9 months ago
@collegeman1988 you can If you have Netflix or Hulu plus. but it has been said by Lorne Michaels that he wont release it because he left the show at the end of the 1979-1980.
popguru85 7 months ago
Last episode I ever saw was one with Steve Martin where he played "the Great Flydini" skit. This has been considered one of the funniest skits for Martin and SNL.
Redskin1040 10 months ago
Does anyone in their 50's or older remember a skit form SNL Feb-May 1980? Rodney Dangerfield was the guest and it was about a celebrity sperm bank. Many couples came in wanting a baby with Dangerfield DNA, thus Rodney had to repeatedly go in the back room with a hand full of porno magazines and je@*k off.
SirReal1958 10 months ago
Ray Sharkey used it in his monologue in Season 6 Episode 6. But I guess maybe they knew he was gonna say it and bleeped it before it hit the television audience... having a hard time finding anything about it online.
pallyandroid 1 year ago
That was the first major cast change so because the show was not old at that time season 6 got a tough reputation from everyone right before the season even started. It's too bad that most of the cast had to take such a beaten by the public but they were not bad, just everyone expected them to be like the cast of the first 5 seasons. At that time people thought SNL would only have the original cast then go off the air but it's not true. This also happened in the 1995 cast change as well.
xlogold 1 year ago
R.I.P. Arkantos
ForrHonour 1 year ago
HE'S FUCKIN DEAD!!!
BlackHoleSlut 1 year ago
Not even the F word could help SNL during season six. it was THAT BAD!
collegeman1988 1 year ago
Paul Shaffer dropped an F-bomb on the show, back in the late 70's.
tripjet999 1 year ago
...I'd like to know who the fuck let Charlene Tilton into the medicine cabinet. She looks like she's either drunk or high. Also, you can see the cast laughing nervously when he says it. They probably knew their time was up.
Tthis was pulled from the uncut Comedy Channel airings in Canada in the early 00's. They played all the episodes as is, swearing and all.
crazyrabbits 1 year ago 3
Amazing that this is now 30 years ago, and in 1980 hardly anyone would have talked about what was on TV in 1950! I liked this season of SNL for its oddness mostly, and it's one I'd love to see make it to DVD. People saying Rocket was fired for this are a bit off; he appeared in one more episode, but he and most of the cast were all 86'd after that. Rocket did okay afterward, and even appeared in "It's Pat," little seen SNL-based film. SNL also acknowledged his passing on-air the week he died.
LachrymoseIntolerant 1 year ago 4
And to think this guy was supposed to be the next Chevy Chase
MisterConan90 1 year ago
Aaaaaand then everyone was swiftly fired.
rubino83 1 year ago
Rocket never could live this down,apparently there was a snl reunion,and this was brought up,and he became more depressed.Days later,he went out into a field near his house,and gave himself a sicilian necktie.
TheGatorfan93 1 year ago
This was 1981, not 80.
smurfornge 1 year ago
lol that was the end of him
derpdederp101 1 year ago
That wasn't even funny.
Roguemember 1 year ago
"Your Fired!" Lorne Michaels.
TheCottonTop 1 year ago
@TheCottonTop He wasn't involved with the show at this time.
smurfornge 1 year ago
Rocket also had a recurring role as David Addison's brother Richard on Moonlighting. He's been dead for five or six years now.
Captmiloman 1 year ago
Hell , I don't even remember ANY of these cast members.
Was this even SNL?
The only thing i remember was "I'm Gumby , Dammit !"
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
Why do Americans make a big deal over certain language, just because it's on television?
sweiland75 1 year ago
@sweiland75 it is the american version of freedom.
you are free to be an rich asshole.
consider it happened in 2009 season and the girl didn't get another contract
ErikCartman 1 year ago
This guy slit his own throat in a Connecticut cornfield - NOW THAT'S EDGY...!
harrison58 1 year ago
@harrison58 - SHARP EDGY!
GoGoGadgetBeer 1 year ago
snl sucks. look at this pathetic attempt to be edgy.
zackhanscom 1 year ago
@zackhanscom mail that to the producers 20 years ago and have your voice heard!
flemchuck 1 year ago
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jakestooge34 1 year ago
@jakestooge34 I guess you must have missed the "Jack the Stripper" sketch.
SamBuddwing 1 year ago
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jakestooge34 1 year ago
It's interesting to me that the former Comedy Channel played this rerun without editing the f-word out!
Aeolis7 1 year ago
I'm glad he said the word "fuck," some people need to harden the fuck up.
Joe402 1 year ago
@Joe402
Some people need a good "fuck" so they can loosen the "fuck" up and sometimes people just gotta say what the "fuck" and act like who gives a "fuck" and try not to "fuck" around in other peoples business and if they do get the urge, they just need to shut the "fuck" up before somebody slaps the "fuck" out of them!
mypalrocco 1 year ago
His Father stood up in church the next day and apologized to the entire town of North Hampton, NH.
TellySavalis 1 year ago
I remember watching SNL with Neil Young as the musical guest once and he sang the song "Fuckin' Up". I guess he was never asked back...
keguribap 1 year ago
SNL has mostly been bad after the original cast left. There was a few bright spots with Murphy and Hartman but few and far in between. Rocket was an untalented dick as were many others of that era.
seymourbbest 1 year ago
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jakestooge34 1 year ago
Rest in peace, buddy.
non1mus 1 year ago
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non1mus 1 year ago
SNL has it's ups and downs - right now it's experiencing a huge down but it could easily pick back up again - the original cast was popular with many, and then you have the Dana Carvey/Mike Meyers era, Chris Farley, then the Will Ferrel early 2000's late 90's.
Merknilash 1 year ago
Ill always remember him for his role in Dumb and Dumber!
madatgravity1984 1 year ago 2
I remember this.. what an awful season that was.. horrible cast + horrible writing. These days the cast is outstanding, but the writing is incredibly bad.
lowlypeasant 1 year ago
After this, Charles became a voice actor. He voiced characters in "Static Shock" and played Judge Thatchett in the movie "Tom & Huck." Rocket also voiced Nym in Star Wars: Starfighter (VG) and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (VG). R.I.P. Charles.
Simpsons01111 1 year ago
This season is the next one to be released on DVD...I wonder if they will actually do it.
reedkennethia 2 years ago
UNfortunately for Charles, that got him fired from SNL.
Aeolis7 2 years ago
You have any more of this season?
lamareaton 2 years ago
Doumanian didn't know what the hell she was doing. It was obvious even that first season that Eddie Murphy was the funniest person on the show even thought he didn't get much air time.
dsfddsgh 2 years ago
I watched episodes from this season on Comedy Central in the mid 1990s. This season seems to be the rarest of them all. Since NBC seemingly vowed never to air any repeats from this season. Although they aired the December 13, 1980 episode hosted by Jamie Lee Curtis, part of its "Classic SNL" block. To put it simply, it might have been the worst season ever, but it has its moments.
jakestooge34 2 years ago 3
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This here is televised suicide. He might as well had just killed himself right there than had gone all the way home to do it privately.
Anxiety7h3Band 2 years ago
i was a teenager watching this that night. shock value yes, real laughs no. the cast that season really was quite bad, and its no wonder none of the episodes stood the test of time. snl is lame these days because political correctness has taken the edge off. for example,we will never see another bit as biting and brilliant as the chase/pryor interview sketch. and lets be honest, there is rarely any sketch worth watching after the first half hour. r.i.p. snl
sickkat44 2 years ago 13
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Huge conspiracy that year. Rocket sucked, but the new girl running the show must've been fuckin' him, because she was setting him up as the best cast member ever. Good thing they were both fired. Charles Rocket committed suicide right after... I won't go as far as saying he had that coming, but he probably realized that he did. I won't put words in his now-dead mouth, though. Those two (almost) destroyed a hilarious show... it's not in good shape to this day.
Anxiety7h3Band 2 years ago
charles rocket didnt commit suicide until 2005 so your comments about his suicide dont ring true. jean doumanian, the cast and the writing all were below par. murphy and piscopo were the only bright lights that year. nothing is less funny that a group of people that think they are truly funny.
sickkat44 2 years ago 9
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I meant to blur the truth a little. I tuly believe in a conspiracy, though. Humor that bad can't be natural... Yes, I've seen Freddy Got Fingered.
Anxiety7h3Band 2 years ago
@sickkat44
I also agree that Murphy and Piscopo were very good. They took charge after Doumanian was fired. I didn't mean to offend. I just wanted to bring the conspiracy to attention.
Anxiety7h3Band 2 years ago
@sickkat44 Your last sentance reminds me of the show now. Total poopy. What fun is sketch comedy if you can't say fuck or shit anyway?
TheCottonTop 1 year ago
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weiner66 1 year ago
@sickkat44 I'd like to see piscopo do Jersey guy again, when he was living by to an old PCB-oil filled transformer storage dump, ok I just made up the last part, I think
weiner66 1 year ago
@Anxiety7h3Band "right after" = 24 years later...
LeviWeaver 1 year ago
@sickkat44 Dude Andy Samberg and Bill Hader are tearing yup SNL you need to look again. The Digital Shorts cant get any better.
gammagamma08 1 year ago
@gammagamma08 sorry, cant agree with you. although some of the digital shorts have their moments, the live portions of the show fall flat much of the time. the strongest portion of the show is the first half hour and then it goes downhill fast. samberg and hader are funny, but only when there is some substance to the comedy.
sickkat44 1 year ago
@sickkat44 Dude what SNL have you been watching these days? Political correctness? They attack everyone these days. Sweaty Balls? Black Noise?
DerrickDJ 1 year ago
Charles Rocket... I remember him as 'Adam--the Angel of Death' from 'Touched By an Angel', as Grossberg in 'Max Headroom', and in the various TV shows and movies that he appeared in. (I think the first time I saw him on TV was on a news/comedy show on HBO -- he was one of two co-anchors on that program. I really enjoyed watching him on that. Unfortunately, I didn't really watch much of SNL during the early 80's).
PalakikaK 2 years ago
balls.
talent? no, but gigantic balls.
king kong sized...
rongravy 2 years ago
@rongravy How do you know?
SuperBrianm 1 year ago
@SuperBrianm i've held them... on my chin. ha!
happy now, sherlock?
rongravy 1 year ago
i read in another video that people hate SNL now. i still think its funny.
Insanel123 2 years ago
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I've been looking everywhere for this clip ever since YouTube was created
EdgeMusicOfficial 2 years ago
This looks intentional, and newest "biker chick f bomb" did not seem intentional. but maybe Charles Rocket was just playing it off since it slipped out perhaps?
Brngr0fOwnage 2 years ago
Charles Rocket...The most forgettable SNL member of all time and that's saying a lot. :-)
Nigelxman 2 years ago
The only thing i remember him in was a wings episode,and as the good hearted soldier killed for his good deed in dances with wolves.I think he commited suicide,when he went out to a field by his house,and gave himself a sicillian necktie.
TheGatorfan93 2 years ago
@Nigelxman There are so many forgettable SNL actors that I can't even remember them. Charles Rocket proved himself later to be a rather good comedic actor and I for one think that he should have gotten a lot more credit for his comedy work.
SuperBrianm 1 year ago
who is Charles Rocket?
cab11498121 2 years ago
SNL was truly bad that season. The only reason it's still on to this day is two words.....Eddie Murphy-he saved that show
saljustfarted 2 years ago 2
Eddie Murphy rose in the ranks from extra, to featured player, to full fledged cast member in just twelve episodes. The fastest of any cast member on SNL ever.
jayydee72 2 years ago 3
He got fired for that..
Ecksntrick8 2 years ago
It was a different show with this cast vs. the previous cast. The ensemble were also the writers, so you had all new writers. Lorne Michaels left, so it was produced by different people. It was just different.
mgjgmgng 2 years ago
R.I.P Charles Rocket
kondon89 2 years ago 2
Paul Schaefer was the first to say it, in the episode of SNL where Belushi was Queen Victoria and the rest were the Queen's minstrels.
NOmeansnoFAN 2 years ago 2
It's great to watch these years and have the backstories available through interviews and books.
WayneYonke 2 years ago 2
75-80, 86-95 were the best years by far. the only thing about 80-85 were piscipo and murphy and 95-present was will ferrell.
NYR21135 2 years ago
Also, remember, this F-bomb here was done on purpose. The one a few weeks ago was an accident.
logenisti 2 years ago
wow, i was born in '80 and this show is still on!
SwvStp 2 years ago
Who was the host there sitting on his lap?
armysniperman80 2 years ago
charlene tilton of the show dallas
saveus2132 2 years ago
i saw this live. it was the only memorable thing from that season, along with the S&M weather forecast skit they did one time.
jas22 2 years ago
That was the infamous "Leather Weather" [with Denny Dillon and Charles Rocket] which was edited out of the Comedy Central re-edited 1 -hour version.
nnaw 2 years ago
omg you remember that??? we should talk - do you remember "mrs. T's Bloody Mary Mix", w/ robin duke and Mr. T??? no one remembers a LOT of great skits that are obscure.
jas22 2 years ago 2
Yeah, I remember "Mr. And Mrs. T's Bloody Mary Mix" from 1982 too [with Mr. T and Robin Duke as "Mrs. T"], that was from the Louis Gossett Jr./George Thorogood And The Delaware Destroyers show.
nnaw 2 years ago 2
do you remember "dina's disco meltdown"? that was terrible. "sweeney sisters" was great (jan hooks was hysterical). are you able to help me locate a skit i thought was genius, if i told you the basics?
jas22 2 years ago
Was "Dina's Disco Meltdown" from the 6th season? I don't remember that one, yeah, I probably can remember most skits from SNL.
nnaw 2 years ago
it was in the 6th season i personally havent seen it but will once it gets to my house lol
saveus2132 2 years ago
It was on the January 24, 1981 episode [Robert Hays/14 Karat Soul, Joe "King" Carrasco And The Crowns], I believe it was edited out of the re-edited 1-hour Comedy Central version, I'll have to check on my tape.
nnaw 2 years ago
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jakestooge34 1 year ago
nnaw - there was a skit where tim kazurinsky (i THINK) and either jan hooks or robin duke were grease monkey-type mechanics. in comes big city businessman Phil Hartman with auto problems. in conversation, he treats them like they know nothing, and the two retort and shoot down everything he says w/ intelligent responses...it wasnt necessarily funny but if i remember it correctly it was a briliantly written sketch. ring a bell at all? is there any way i can locate it?
jas22 2 years ago
I don't remember that one, I'd have to look it up.
nnaw 2 years ago
Kazurinsky and Duke were on the show years before Hooks and Hartman...
NyeTunes 2 years ago
It can be seen on the "SNL Lost and Found DVD" but just a short clip.
AndyLBuss 2 years ago
That's what I said earlier!!
nnaw 2 years ago
i know but soemone asked again
saveus2132 2 years ago
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jakestooge34 1 year ago
This entire segment was edited out entirely in the 90s Comedy Central re-edited 1-hour version of this episode, the "new talent" guest was a then unknown Prince [performing his early hit "Party Up"], the musical guest was Todd Rundgren.
nnaw 2 years ago
did they just cut to the end of the goodnights?
saveus2132 2 years ago
Yeah, it was edited out completely and it just went right to the closing credits, I saw it [and taped it] on Comedy Central around 1997.
nnaw 2 years ago
who would've thought that some of the ppl in this cast would go on to be much more successful after SNL
saveus2132 2 years ago 2
well did any of you hear about jenny slate doing the exact same thing on snl
colpetne 2 years ago
Times change. This was 30 years ago. NBC mattered back then.
Bloodybunny 2 years ago 4
Charlene Tilton of "Dallas" which had the famous "Who shot J.R.? " season finale the previous year.
tvmonte 2 years ago
Whos the host? What a moron.
irishkevin44 2 years ago
FYI Charles Rocket killed himself in 2005. He slit his own throat. Obviously a very troubled man.
blanenship2 2 years ago
youd be troubled too if your entire career was destroyed by the FCC for this exact reason...one F-word and he was destroyed...our system is pathetic sometimes.
Hyst44 2 years ago 3
Wow, what a bunch of immature idiots with all that giggling!
mypalrocco 2 years ago 5
u do know that their gigling was staged right?
saveus2132 2 years ago
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jakestooge34 1 year ago
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okay???
mypalrocco 1 year ago
I remember watching it the night it happened but apparently I'm not remembering correctly. I thought I remembered a prone Charles Rocket lifting himself off the floor & saying: "I want to know who the fuck shot me!" But apparently it didn't go that way. Hmm.
Dblspace 2 years ago
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too much drugs for you back then.
mypalrocco 1 year ago
i kinda like this ending theme better than the old one. wow thats bad when your favorite thing about a show is its ending theme lol
saveus2132 2 years ago
It was nice music, but the "smooth jazz" band albeit very much music of the time in 1980-81, was too sophisticated for a comedy show. Blowing out the theme songs (although I too like the 80-81 music too - opening theme was a JAM) was also part of what made this season so jarring to fans of SNL from it's glorious first five years. It was doomed from every angle. Sad.
nightfly776 2 years ago
Norm got fired because he was a grown up comedian and he appealed to the wrong age brackett that NBC were shooting to please. Norm was the only thing I tuned into see all through-out the years he was ther. He was made for Week-end update. The hosts even started to say so --right there on the show. Norm exposed the rest of the players as beginner comics and literal hacks -- so they fired him. I stopped watching SNL altogether.
mysteria31 2 years ago 4
I though it had mainly to do with Ohlmayer being pals with OJ, who Norm just loved to rip to shreds.
tucsonia 2 years ago
The blonde chick's reaction is bizarre. She becomes almost hysterical, laughing in almost screams.
grenadianmed 2 years ago 12
better fire that new girls ass...if norm can get fired for dropping the f bomb, the same sure as fuck better apply here. norm macdonalds farts alone emits more talent than that show has shat in the last 5 years
thelatedavidsmith 2 years ago
only problem was he wasnt fired for that.
weightlifter27 2 years ago
They fired almost everyone on the show but Charles Rocket for that.
rrtodd95 2 years ago
it was one of the reasons ohlmeyer brought up to justify to all the other ge paid mouthbreathers that norm was a 'liability' and to let him go. that and oj...
thelatedavidsmith 2 years ago
He was fired because he wasn't funny, nor was the show in '80. A truly wretched season, beset with so many problems from the git go. Rocket and that cast were all sacrificial lambs after the originals left. Murphy and Piscopo went onto the next season with new regulars and a new producer.
nightfly776 2 years ago
he was funny just not on SNL lol i dont think iots fair that they had to be sacrificial lambs though but thats how shows like that go i guess
saveus2132 2 years ago
ya norm got fired cause he "wasn't funny". which is complete bullshit
saveus2132 2 years ago
i know dude Norm is fucking HILARIOUS!
cenasgay9111 2 years ago
Oh, he most certainly was. Too bad, because nobody saw it. Last night's F-bomb had more viewers, and the word was more pronounced, even if it was accidental. Supposedly so was Rocket's faux-pas.
nightfly776 2 years ago
OMG you're such a friggin douche!
lumbo 2 years ago
OMFG that girl in the biker chick chat skit on SNL just said fuckin instead of friggin!
thatsafakevid 2 years ago 3
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vsantana99 2 years ago
lol yeahhh i know
shootcocacola73 2 years ago
yeah i know i saw it and i was like "what the fuck can she really say that on tv?"
ufofreak1947 2 years ago
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saveus2132 2 years ago
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saveus2132 2 years ago
I vividly remember watching this live in my living room in NY. I thought the "new" show was terrible. This reinforced what I had thought. at the time
SNL was almost dead 30 years ago.
tommyrock69 2 years ago 5
I'm wondering if anyone has the "Altered Walter" sketch that they did about the time Cronkite retired. It was one of the few memorable pieces they did: "And in the end, the news you take is equal to the news you make." HUH?
Other than that, I'd like to know who the f--k told Dick Ebersol Jean Doumanian could produce.
fgldnglbs 2 years ago
Dic k Ebersol did not have anything to do with the program then or Jean's hiring. That unfortunate onus fell on Brandon Tartikoff, who was helming NBC at that time...he also had the fortunate onus however, of firing Jean as well...
StooGP 2 years ago
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saveus2132 2 years ago
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saveus2132 2 years ago
I have Altered Walter from a CC airing in fair quality. Don't know if I want to risk putting it up here, though.
hifithepanda 2 years ago
We've had fair-to-middling posts before. If it's audible, we can take it.
fgldnglbs 2 years ago
just put a notice that if violates in any way you'll take it down. I'd love to see some clips from this era!
ryanjones1983 2 years ago
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jakestooge34 1 year ago
I knew that. but my local affifilate didn't air it because of some coverage.
jakestooge34 2 years ago
that sucks i think they should've at least kept gilbert
saveus2132 2 years ago
To me, I didn't think the season was all that bad. People just gave them a hard time. The most memorable sketch from that season was the short film "The Dancing Man' with Bill Irwin.
jakestooge34 2 years ago
i saw a little bit of some sketches from this cast it was pretty funny there was some great ppl in this cast. in 2005 nbc reran an episode from this season
saveus2132 2 years ago
The last time I ever saw episodes of this season was on Comedy Central around 1995-1996. I wish they would rerun those again.
jakestooge34 2 years ago
are they as bad as everyone says they are?
saveus2132 2 years ago
I remember the Comedy Central reruns of this season, and remebering them being substandard, but after receiving the entire season recently, I was reminded of how HORRIBLE some of the moments this season really were. There was SOME talent, but the writing was unbelievably bad, the sketches relied heavily on racial and cultural stereotypes, and were just blatantly tasteless and silly. Some moments garnered absolutely NO response from the live audience, there were hecklers on some shows too. Bad.
nightfly776 2 years ago
You say that you recieved the entire season recently. How is that possible? I've visited Amazon's website and they don't have it up for order, unless I'm not looking in the right places. Let me know where to find it...I miss seeing these episodes. I saw the reruns on Comedy Central when I was a teen and I liked what I saw. I would like to see it again.
retrorocker 2 years ago
this season can only be bought off bootleg copies. idt nbc will ever release a dvd of it since it was very poorly recieved
saveus2132 2 years ago
Yeah, the 5th season is being released to DVD on d ecember 1st, if the 6th season gets released it'll only be a skimpy 2 disc set at the most, ha ha!!
nnaw 2 years ago
u honestly think they would release season 6 lol next thing u know they'll let gilbert gottfired host though i think they should do the latter
saveus2132 2 years ago
If it does get released it would be a small DVD set probably not worth releasing like I said [since they only made 12 shows in the 6th season].
nnaw 2 years ago
yeah you are right on that one lol it'll be the least promoted and insignificant dvd release of a tv show ever lol
saveus2132 2 years ago
That's true, they'll only sell it in the Walmart bargain bin, LOL, I'm looking forward to the 5th season DVD release in December, should be just as good as the first 4 seasons DVD sets!!
nnaw 2 years ago
lets hope they get to the late 80's and early 90's snl seasons soon my personal favorites are seasons 4 and 16
saveus2132 2 years ago
I hope so too, they'll most likely skip over the 6th season and go to the 7th season when Eddie Murphy really took off and saved the show!!
nnaw 2 years ago
the only reason im even into season 6 is i want to see how bad it is and im a big gilbert gottfried fan lol
saveus2132 2 years ago
It's a train wreck but is occasionally funny and Gilbert Gottfried is too!!
nnaw 2 years ago
the bill murray show seems really good i think they should've kept gilbert as well as murphy and piscopo
saveus2132 2 years ago
Yeah, I agree, the Bill Murray one is funny but it was the last one they did too!!
nnaw 2 years ago
at least they got to go out with a bang. how was the weekend update segment in that one was charlie alot funnier than he was in earlier episodes
saveus2132 2 years ago
I gotta find the tape to find out, it was Charles Rocket's last show as he was fired right after it, Comedy Central ran re-edited 1-hour versions of the whole 6th season except for the season premiere episode [Elliott Gould/Kid Creole And The Coconuts] for some reason [which was reran in Canada I heard].
nnaw 2 years ago
they all were reran in canada uncut and uncensored
saveus2132 2 years ago