SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE {ALEC BALDWIN, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI, VANESSA WILLIAMS} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of live, late-night comedy/variety programs featuring topical satire. Actor Alec Baldwin hosts this program, with tenor Luciano Pavarotti and singer Vanessa Williams as guest performers. In the opening sequence, the cast spoofs President Bill Clinton discussing his impeachment and how "very sorry" he is. In the monologue, Baldwin explains that making people laugh has become meaningless to him as it's his eighth time hosting the show. That changes when surprise guest John Goodman appears. Next is a commercial parody for the National Basketball Association on NBC, right in the midst of labor negotiations. Sketches include: a Christmas edition of "Morning Latte" with hosts Tom Wilkens and Cass Van Ryan; a girl with an unusual glandular problem is paid a visit by hospital performer Katy the Klown; Robert Smigel's "TV Funhouse" presents "The Harlem Globetrotters' First Christmas"; and a spoof on long-distance calling commercials. Pavarotti and Williams are joined by the Harlem Boys Choir to sing "O Come, All Ye Faithful." Colin Quinn hosts "Weekend Update" with guest Tim Meadows, who discusses the significance of kwanzaa along with "the Kwanzettes." Next, in an "NBC Special Report with Tom Brokaw" spoof, "O.J. Simpson" makes a guest appearance as a witness at President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial; there is a commercial for a "Chanukah Hymns" compact disc; and three drinking buddies reminisce about a legendary man of Herculean abilities named Bill Brasky (a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live shows from 1996 to 1998.) Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: December 12, 1998 Saturday 11:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:07:42
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:56280
- GENRE: Comedy/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: She Made It Collection (Beth McCarthy Miller); She Made It Collection (Tina Fey)
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1975-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Lorne Michaels … Executive Producer, Writer
- Robert Smigel … Executive Producer, Writer
- Ken Aymong … Supervising Producer
- Steve Higgins … Producer, Writer
- Tim Herlihy … Producer, Writer
- Marci Klein … Co-Producer
- Michael Shoemaker … Co-Producer
- James Signorelli … Film Producer
- Beth McCarthy … Director
- Robert Carlock … Writer
- Jerry Collins … Writer
- Steven Cragg … Writer
- Tina Fey … Writer
- Hugh Fink … Writer
- Richard Francese … Writer
- Ray James … Writer
- Adam McKay … Writer
- Dennis McNicholas … Writer
- Lori Nasso … Writer
- Paula Pell … Writer
- Matt Piedmont … Writer
- Michael Schur … Writer
- T. Sean Shannon … Writer
- Andrew Steele … Writer
- Scott Wainio … Writer
- The Saturday Night Live Band … Music Group
- Lenny Pickett … Musical Director
- Horatio Sanz … Cast
- Alec Baldwin … Host
- Don Pardo … Announcer
- Luciano Pavarotti … Singer, Guest
- Vanessa Williams … Singer, Guest
- Harlem Boy Choir … Guest
- John Goodman … Guest
- Will Ferrell … Cast
- Ana Gasteyer … Cast
- Darrell Hammond … Cast
- Chris Kattan … Cast
- Tim Meadows … Cast
- Tracy Morgan … Cast
- Cheri Oteri … Cast
- Colin Quinn … Cast
- Molly Shannon … Cast
- Jimmy Fallon … Cast
- Chris Parnell … Cast
- Horatio Sanz … Cast
- Tom Brokaw
- O.J. Simpson