April 7, 1984 Season 9 episode
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| Episode | 175 |
| Season Episode | 16 |
| Host | Michael Douglas |
| Musical Guest(s) | Deniece Williams |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Let's Hear It for the Boy" "Wrapped Up" |
| Previous Episode March 17, 1984 |
Next Episode April 14, 1984 |
The 16th episode of Season 9 and the 175th episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by actor Michael Douglas, the son of Kirk Douglas and the star of Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, as well as the hit films The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Oliver Stone's Wall Street, and the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, A Chorus Line, Fatal Attraction, The War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The American President, The Game, Traffic, Wonder Boys, and Solitary Man with musical guest Deniece Williams. It premiered on April 7, 1984.
This was the only time as host for Michael Douglas, as well as the only musical guest stint for Deniece Williams on SNL.
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Jim Belushi
- Robin Duke
- Mary Gross
- Brad Hall
- Tim Kazurinsky
- Gary Kroeger
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Joe Piscopo
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Lost Script Cold Open | When Michael Douglas can't find his script, former co-star Karl Malden (Joe Piscopo) comes to the rescue with an American Express Traveler's Script. | |
| Opening montage | ||
| Monologue by Michael Douglas | Making his only hosting stint, Michael Douglas' father Kirk hosted the show four years ago and gave him some advice: "forget the monologue, just plug your movie". An on-screen scroll explains that Michael has been plugging Romancing the Stone backstage all week. | |
| MTV News | Nina Blackwood (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) reads news items about John Cougar Mellencamp and ZZ Top. | |
| Foldgers Crystals | A pitchman swaps the blood of intensive care patients with instant coffee to demonstrate the richness of Foldger's Crystals. | |
| MTV News II | The Garage Band (Brad Hall, Jim Belushi, Gary Kroeger) presents their clip for "Look At Our Video". | |
| Price Waterhouse | Price (Tim Kazurinsky) and Waterhouse (Jim Belushi) prefer to base their Oscar winner picks on personal taste instead of vote tallies. | |
| 4 Minutes To Live | Dying Kevin (Gary Kroeger) vows to live his remaining time to the fullest, but a slow elevator ride complicates things. | |
| Annie Audition | Auditionee (Mary Gross) for a child's role in a play seems to be considerably mature for the part. | |
| Deniece Williams Performs "Let's Hear It for the Boy" with Georg Wadenius and Buddy Williams, two members of the Saturday Night Live Band | The SNL band backs Deniece Williams up for this performance, augmented by Errol "Crusher" Bennett on percussion and David Spinozza on guitar. Williams and the band are in good form here, but the brighter studio version is the better take. | |
| Miscellaneous: Next Week | Julia Louis-Dreyfus announces that George McGovern is hosting the show next week and shows clips of pedestrians and politicians "reacting" to the news. | |
| Saturday Night News with Michael Douglas | Michael Douglas is in the anchor chair this week; unfortunately, he's the weakest guest anchor at this point in the run. The main joke here is that the mudslide clip from Romancing the Stone that he played during the monologue is played repeatedly as video footage for all his stories, but the bigger issue is Douglas's delivery on the stories. Featuring Public citizen Wayne Huevos (Tim Kazurinsky) returns with more suggestions to improve his beloved New York City's vermin, court backlog and abandoned building problems. Huevos isn't my favorite Kazurinsky character, but this was harmless enough and Gary Kroeger is back with another movie review, panning Romancing the Stone on the sole basis that his girlfriend Leslie found Michael Douglas sexy; Kroeger launches into a (more or less adlibbed, according to Kroeger himself) rant about how much of a pasty-faced wimp Douglas was, before getting tossed over the news desk (continuing a running joke this season). Some good physical work from Kroeger and Douglas here, and easily the highlight of the segment. | |
| Footless | New kid (Brad Hall) learns the Reverend (Joe Piscopo) has made the townsfolk donate their feet to the poor in China and banned all music except for hymns. Kenny Loggins (Nate Herman) sings the title song. | |
| Soundtrack | Mr. Burrows (Michael Douglas) seeks psychiatric relief from the music that constantly follows him. | |
| TV's Foul-Ups, Bleeps, Blunders, Bloopers, Practical Jokes, and Political Debates | Kirk Douglas (Michael Douglas) and Shelley Winters (Robin Duke) present outtakes from the Democratic candidates debate. | |
| Sugar or Pain by John Davies | At an Ice cream parlor, a young couple (Lance Kinsey and Elizabeth Caldwell) are aggressively grilled about their dessert preferences by the counter staff (Jim Belushi and Rob Riley). | |
| Deniece Williams Performs "Wrapped Up", once again with Georg Wadenius and Buddy Williams of the Saturday Night Live Band | ||
| Sleepy Boy 2000 | Rerun from February 19, 1983, the fourteenth episode of the previous season. | |
| Goodnights | Joe Piscopo comments on Michael Douglas shoving the glass into his forehead in "Soundtrack"; Michael thanks everyone for the lovely week and calls the people at the show "angels". Credits cut off early in the live show, but this version of the closing theme was used in most repeat versions of the 1983-85 shows that needed a "clean" version of the music to replace Don Pardo announcing future shows; Julia Louis-Dreyfus yelling "Happy birthday, Laurie!" was included in the canned theme. |
| Preceded by: March 17, 1984 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: April 14, 1984 |