NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT {SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE} {RICHARD PRYOR, GIL SCOTT-HERON, JIM HENSON'S MUPPETS} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of live, late-night comedy/variety programs featuring topical satire. Richard Pryor hosts this program, with guests Gil Scott-Heron, Jim Henson's Muppets, Shelley Pryor, and a short film by Albert Brooks. Highlights include the following: Chevy Chase checks into the Samurai Hotel and witnesses a battle between dueling samurais John Belushi and Richard Pryor; Jane Curtin interviews Pryor, who plays a black author masquerading as a white man in order to research a book; a parody commercial offers "New Dad" family insurance; Pryor portrays a criminal in a recurring theme about bogus police line-ups; Chase gives Pryor a word-association test in which racial slurs are used; Dan Aykroyd plays a family man who sees racial changes all around him; Chase reports the "Weekend Update" news segment during which Gilda Radner as Emily Litella presents an editorial reply on "busting" schoolchildren; a parody commercial promotes Spud Beer; Pryor plays a U.S. Army major who mistakenly swallows a suicide pill; Jim Henson's Muppets portray drunken creatures in a prehistoric world; Laraine Newman satirizes a possessed child in "Exorcist II," with Pryor as the priest called in to save her; Shelley Pryor tells a love story about two horses on a carousel as a metaphor for interracial relationships; and Albert Brooks presents a short film made from his sick bed. In addition, Pryor presents two comic monologues, and Gil Scott-Heron performs a song about Johannesburg, South Africa, and another about coming to life in springtime. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: December 13, 1975 11:40 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:28:44
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:03508
- GENRE: Comedy/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Satire; She Made It Collection (Anne Beatts); She Made It Collection (Marilyn Suzanne Miller); She Made It Collection (Rosie Shuster); African-American Collection - Music; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1975-
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Bic lighters
- TV - Commercials - Certs breath mints
- TV - Commercials - Coca-Cola soft drinks
- TV - Commercials - Cricket lighters
- TV - Commercials - Delta airlines
- TV - Commercials - Golden Griddle pancake syrup
- TV - Commercials - Green Giant foods
- TV - Commercials - Kentucky Fried Chicken
- TV - Commercials - Kodak cameras
- TV - Commercials - L'eggs pantyhose
- TV - Commercials - Monsieur Jovan aftershave/cologne
- TV - Commercials - Nestle's chocolate
- TV - Commercials - RCA televisions
- TV - Commercials - Radio shack stores
- TV - Commercials - Schick hot lather machine
- TV - Commercials - Timex watches
CREDITS
- Penelope Spheeris … Producer
- Lorne Michaels … Producer, Writer
- Craig Kellem … Associate Producer
- Dave Wilson … Director
- Albert Brooks … Writer
- Anne Beatts … Writer
- Chevy Chase … Writer
- Al Franken … Writer
- Tom Davis … Writer
- Marilyn Suzanne Miller … Writer
- Paul Mooney … Writer
- Michael O'Donoghue … Writer
- Herb Sargent … Writer
- Tom Schiller … Writer
- Rosie Shuster … Writer
- Alan Zweibel … Writer
- Richard Pryor … Host
- Annazette Chase … Guest
- Jim Henson's Muppets … Guest
- Shelley Pryor … Guest
- Rasulala, Thalmus (See also: Crowder, Jack) … Guest
- Gil Scott-Heron … Guest
- Dan Aykroyd … Cast
- John Belushi … Cast
- Chevy Chase … Cast
- Jane Curtin … Cast
- Garrett Morris … Cast
- Laraine Newman … Cast
- Gilda Radner … Cast