SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE {JOE PESCI, THE SPIN DOCTORS} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of live, late-night comedy/variety programs featuring topical satire. Joe Pesci hosts this program with musical guest The Spin Doctors. The opening features a mock 1992 presidential debate among Republican incumbent George Bush, Democratic challenger Gov. Bill Clinton, and independent candidate H. Ross Perot. Phil Hartman plays Clinton, with Dana Carvey portraying the other two candidates with the aid of video trickery. Pesci's monologue concerns the previous week's show, when Gaelic wailer Sinéad O'Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II, exhorting viewers to "fight the real enemy." Pesci assures the audience that he would have smacked her had he hosted that show. Sketches include: two commercial parodies for the fictional law firm of Green & Fazio, which specializes in fradulent law suits; the "Bensonhurst Dating Game" in which Chris Rock plays the lone African-American bachelor on an otherwise Italian-American-dominated show; Pesci portrays a man shopping for a pinky ring; "Weekend Update" with Kevin Nealon features an editorial by Adam Sandler as his braying Cajun Man character; "It's Pat" has Julia Sweeney playing the androgynous Pat, pursued by an obsessive roommate in a parody of the film "Single White Female" called "Single White Person"; Pesci and Schneider play two creeps who sit on a stoop and insult passerby; Pesci, Sandler and Nealon play three bank robbers who waste precious getaway time by trying to find their story on a series of uninformative television news broadcasts; and Ellen Cleghorne plays an aggressive NBC security guard who accosts Pesci backstage, until actor Robert DeNiro and director Martin Scorsese pay the set a surprise visit. The Spin Doctors perform "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" and "Jimmy Olsen's Blues." Includes commercials and promos.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: October 10, 1992 Saturday 11:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:18:04
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:30683
- GENRE: Comedy/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy/Variety
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1975-
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "Candyman" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - "Split Second" board game
- TV - Commercials - "The Public Eye" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - Beck's beer
- TV - Commercials - Budweiser beer
- TV - Commercials - Castrol Syntec
- TV - Commercials - Dep Super hold hair styling gels
- TV - Commercials - Duracell batteries
- TV - Commercials - Hyundai automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Jovan Musk
- TV - Commercials - Maganavox products
- TV - Commercials - Omni Berkshire Place hotel
- TV - Commercials - Slick 50 Engine Formula
- TV - Commercials - Snuggle Singles
- TV - Commercials - Subway sandwich stores
- TV - Commercials - Sudafed Severe Cold Formula
- TV - Commercials - TDK cassette tape
- TV - Commercials - Taco Bell burritos
- TV - Promos - "Rhythm & Blues" (TV show)
- TV - Promos - NBC NFL football doubleheader
CREDITS
- Lorne Michaels … Executive Producer
- Audrey Peart Dickman … Coordinating Producer
- Ken Aymong … Supervising Producer
- James Downey … Producer
- Liz Welch Tirrell … Associate Producer
- Dave Wilson … Director
- Tom Davis … Writer
- James Downey … Writer
- Al Franken … Writer
- Warren Hutcherson … Writer
- Steven Koren … Writer
- David Mandel … Writer
- Ian Maxtone-Graham … Writer
- Tim Meadows … Writer
- Lorne Michaels … Writer
- Adam Sandler … Writer
- Herb Sargent … Writer
- Robert Smigel … Writer
- David Spade … Writer
- Bonnie Turner … Writer
- Terry Turner … Writer
- Christine Zander … Writer
- Fred Wolf … Writer, Additional sketch by
- Joe Pesci … Host
- Smith, G.E. and the Saturday Night Live Band … Music Group
- Cheryl Hardwick … Music (Misc. Credits), Musical Director, Instrumentalist, Pianist
- G.E. Smith … Instrumentalist, Guitarist, Music (Misc. Credits), Musical Director, Conductor
- Tom Barney … Instrumentalist
- Earl Gardner … Instrumentalist
- Paul Ossola … Instrumentalist
- Shawn Pelton … Instrumentalist
- Leon Pendarvis … Instrumentalist
- Lenny Pickett … Instrumentalist
- Steve Turre … Instrumentalist
- Tony Price … Instrumentalist
- George Young … Instrumentalist
- Spin Doctors, The … Music Group
- Joe Pesci … Host
- Don Pardo … Announcer
- Robert DeNiro … Guest
- Martin Scorsese … Guest
- Dana Carvey … Cast
- Chris Farley … Cast
- Phil Hartman … Cast
- Kevin Nealon … Cast
- Chris Rock … Cast
- Julia Sweeney … Cast
- Rob Schneider … Cast
- Ellen Cleghorne … Cast
- Melanie Hutsell … Cast
- Tim Meadows … Cast
- Adam Sandler … Cast
- David Spade … Cast
- George Bush
- Bill Clinton
- Sinéad O'Connor
- H. Ross Perot
- John Paul II, Pope (Karol Wojtyla)