Everything You NEED to Know About SNL Season 8 (1982-83)

[@thesnlnetwork]

We also spoke with Gary Kroeger recently when he joined us to recap the S49 Ryan Gosling episode: kzbin.infoSCQdhT_-fUo

[@Blutszauger]

Please, for the love of God, keep these coming. I just binged all 8 in a row. You guys are doing an amazing job. Thank you for your hard work.

[@nitedreamer23]

I’ve been looking for that sketch with Donny and Marie making out for years! Hilarious.

[@crusherbmx]

Grade 7! It was a pretty good season, but "Buckwheat Has Been Shot" is the standout. That is one of the best things ever done on SNL.

[@wiesejay]

“Ouch” 😂

[@matthewweng8483]

I'm not sure what's sadder, the fact that I'm old enough to have watched the Buckwheat assassination sketch live, or that I remembered the guy's name was John David Stutts.

[@pablosonic892]

I have broken down the game film of this skit like the Zapruder film and that's when you spot stupid little details like one of Buckwheat's security detail is a still unknown Arsenio Hall. F*ck I'm old

[@Fixxer315]

The kicker of that bit was that Buckwheat's shooter would himself be shot, thus propelling the shooter of the shooter to fame. That is some incredible social commentary.

[@AlecTracey]

“Mr. Wheat!” Is the funniest line in SNL history. The idea that Buckwheat gets called Mr. Wheat is so damn funny.

[@FerdinandCesarano]

You didn't mention Howard Hesseman's brilliant monologue about John Belushi. He made several jokes about Belushi's death, including "That was one time when he should have said 'No coke. Pepsi'." After the audience groaned, he said, "If any of those jokes offended you, that's just the way John would have wanted it."

[@hoggers7572]

No Coke Pepsi must have been a fresh joke back then it's pretty hack nowadays

[@stinkypinkeee5085]

Oblivious ​@@hoggers7572

[@wiesejay]

@8:27 Lol, I got a black and white TV for Christmas 1982-this was this first SNL episode I saw

[@carlosguerra7441]

I don't remember the original cast of Saturday Night Live because I was a baby at that time. But Season 8 of SNL, I do remember watching though. Great cast and genius writing of sketches. Dick Ebersol was also a great executive producer of Saturday Night Live.

[@mrchopsticks3]

Gary Kroeger might be the most underrated cast member of all time.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

I met Brad Hall when he came into a bike shop I worked at in 1998. He was buying an expensive bike, but the person at the register wouldn't accept his credit card without ID. I was standing right there when it happened. His season was where I started watching SNL, so I recognized him. I had to argue with the cashier that he was in fact Brad Hall, give his resume, state who he was married to, and assure him everything was cool. It worked. I sometimes wonder what Brad thought of me; a hero or an autistic nut.

[@jeffw1267]

I can't help but wonder why Hall didn't have his ID. Did he drive his car to get there?

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

@@jeffw1267 I would think he lived close enough that he walked.

[@RichV20]

@@jeffw1267 He was buying a bicycle, I'm assuming in NYC. He probably walked or took the subway there. I never drove when i lived in NYC.

[@RobeLifeMusic]

3:22 - Robin Duke's wearing the same beautiful satin purple robe kimono that Debbie Harry wore in season 6 and Lauren Hutton wore in season 7 👘🙌

[@TANTRUMGASM]

Debbies skit was "waxmans visit soho" and Huttons was "Lauren Hutton wants Eddie Murphy"

[@daedralord1]

Brad halls career is being married to billionaire heiress Julia.

[@theamishsoylentretailersofohio]

Thank you for your time and effort in making these videos they have been great to look back on the whole series . I've watched since season 2 the show that you were allowed to stay up and watch if you were quiet and pretended not to understand all the jokes .

[@allhell138]

Really excited to have found this channel. Looking forward to catching up 🤙🏼🤙🏼

[@janeelliott1548]

Gentlemen, this is amazing. It's one of the best series that I've ever seen on youtube! Well done Sirs!

[@tyrantbossmedia2230]

I was too young to watch SNL in its glorious first season, but I remember bits from it. This and season 7 were the seasons I really started watching. I was 12 and 13 and started staying home alone on weekends when my parents had to go away for work. This was a fantastic season.

[@JasonKTerry]

How could you NOT give Michael Keaton more time? He would be a natural for this format.

[@David_F579]

Excellent fast paced video. Very entertaining. Great job

[@henrykujawa4427]

One of my favorite seasons, because I have so much of it on videotape. There was a girl at the factory I worked at in the 80s who reminded me of Julia Louis Dreyfus. She was one of the owners' 4 daughters, and there was a joke going around when she was put in charge of "personel", that she would only hire girls who were LESS attractive than she was. When a really pretty girl got hired in the drafting department and it was found she was already engaged, one guy I knew from high school was heard to yell out, "WHAT KIND OF A PLACE IS THIS???" "BUCKWHEAT HAS BEEN SHOT" may have been one of the most memorable things they ever did. It started with the Donny & Marie Osmond St. Patrick's Day Special, but when the brother & sister started kissing each other no camera, they cut to the special news report. Later, when Buckwheat's killer was killed, the news anchor reported, "We will be here tonight, and EVERY night, until this senseless killing stops." It was crazy, they managed to make fun of the attempted assassination of Reagan, the actual assassination of JFK, and, the murder of Jack Ruby! That's some deeply-weird stuff. Tim Kazurinsky's stuff remains among my favorites. "We do not know-- because we eat the only witnesses." How well I remember that bit. I also remember when the same guy did a routine about how do you know if you're stupid, and one of the questions was, "Do you have a friend named Biff?" I had forgotten that Don Pardo was ever gone! To learn that he was back on the show FOR SO LONG... wow. And I loved when Drew Barrymore KILLED E.T. with a baseball bat... and was confronted by his father-- MR. T. "But-- E.T.'s an extraterrestrial!" "Where do you think I'M from, Harlem?"

[@CrunchyFrog47]

This was my first year of watching SNL. I was 13 years old and I had saved up enough money to get my own TV on my room. So I'd stay up late on Saturday night just to watch it. The Murphy, Piscopo, Hall, Louis-Dreyfus, Tazurinsky, Duke, Gross, Kroeger cast though not often cited as their best years, It is my personal favorite two years of SNL. It was the beginning of my on and off relationship with SNL. Thanks for this series. This will be interesting once you get to the dozen or so sporadic years that I've missed throughout the next 40 episodes... as well bring back memories 30 years that I either watched live, or taped it for later consumption. Y'all are the best.

[@UPCM01]

Season 8 was the best season and best cast since the original cast members.

[@DaveMcConn1]

Love these videos, guys. Thank you. I wish they would release these seasons on DVD like the first five seasons were.

[@spman]

That’s the first time I’ve head Mr. T described as a professional wrestler. Mr. T was a bouncer who was recruited into acting, and he parlayed that into Pro Wrestling a handful of times, but he really was not a professional wrestler

[@oronbaba]

I was about to remark upon that myself!

[@mongoslade277]

That's why Roddy Piper wouldn't let Mr. T pin him at Wrestlemania. It's bc he didn't pay his dues as a pro wrestler

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

Hell Yes! I made a similar comment above. MR. T did a lot of different things and deep down, he really cares about helping wayword youth. Yes, the definition of pro, means you make money doing something. So he technically was a pro wrestler but he had 3 matches in his career. You don't call a dude a fire fighter just because he blew out a Match! ;)

[@robertlandpodcast]

Thank you guys for making great stuff! I grew up a huge SNL fan and was always intrigued by some of these first half of the 80’s seasons.

[@heathmcrigsby]

Making out with prime JLD must have been fantastic

[@KiLlMePlEaSe-p1f]

I agree

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

Nothing better than a pretty Lady, with a great sense of humor! I'll take humor over looks any day because looks don't stay but laughter is what keeps you young! Cheers

[@jacstonebaby]

she’s still in her prime! beautiful, hilarious woman!

[@heathmcrigsby]

@@jacstonebaby Come on dude she is 63. Sad fact is her prime was a long time ago. She may be in a financial prime but her youth and fertility are long gone.

[@michaelrochester48]

It should be pointed out that Mary Gross is the sister of Michael Gross of the classic TV show family ties

[@UPCM01]

Season 8 was the best season and best cast since the original cast members.

[@FREDGARRISON]

Likes the segment of SNL hosted by Robert Guillaume called "HEIL HITS NAZI GOLD" My weird sense of humor found this hilarious.

[@Crusader7077]

One of my memories from this season was the Rubik's Grenade fake ad (back when Rubik's cube was big at the time).

[@MrKaywyn]

A wonderful episode.

[@palmbumbler]

If the Gumby Christmas bit was so popular, how come it’s unavailable- even on Peacock?

[@rigeur071]

Music rights

[@robertharvey2604]

By this time I was completely into SNL.

[@Skoora]

What really stood out to me was the musical guests. What an amazing list of acts. Musical guests currently have sucked for the longest time.

[@AllenHansford-xz3mv]

Awesome 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍👍👍😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@206Vin]

This was my favorite era of SNL, except for maybe the Phil Hartman years.

[@davebooshty299]

7:37 The Osmonds.

[@michaelboggus9993]

Still the best version of Overjoyed

[@wolfgrade1955]

That's Arsenio Hall as one of Buckwheat's bodyguards that lounges to the front.

[@richcharvel7162]

It's not Arsenio. He addressed that (in one of his opening monologues) when he had his late night TV show.

[@wolfgrade1955]

@@richcharvel7162 Thank you. I missed that monologue.

[@adamwendt8972]

I loved the way Ebersole and the writers would write “through lines” of stories between the shows or within the show. It was such a delight when they would pick up a skit from the prior week. Really rewarded the viewer for watching every week. I wonder why Lorne got away from that.

[@timburr4453]

YES. glad someone else mentioned that finally...it was a nice touch

[@davidparker4072]

I was on snl that season. The episode where Eddie Murphy ended up the host. I was an extra in the skit called “I came, I saw , I came again. I was behind Joe Piscopo, so every time the camera was on him , you could see me. What I remember was how much funnier the run through was because Eddie was dirtier with no cameras. And the party after was great. My mother was friends with Christian Slater‘s mother, who was the casting Director of Snl. That’s how I got on. I was an extra in two other episodes, but you never saw me on camera, then I had to join the union if I wanted to be on again and I had no interest. Years later, I was working on the movie vampire in Brooklyn as a Grip and I talked to Eddie about that season, and we laughed a lot. 😊

[@timsommer9054]

I wish you guys would have kept this going! Having been around since the beginning, it was great to be able to reflect on the early seasons.

[@AAAFilm-yt7gx]

Instant Sub. Nice work on this.

[@theodorehsu5023]

2:48 When Louis Gossett Jr. opened SNL as "Sgt. Foley" from "An Officer and a Gentleman" (Which had just opened), he dragged the SNL cast through their paces, and got Eddie and Joe to do the schtick equivalent of "Drop and give me 20."

[@scott1178]

I just discovered and love this series. Brings back a lot of memories. It stinks that they can't show the musical guests. Those would be the best to see again.

[@hitthestreetsphoto1253]

That was definitely one of my favorite seasons. The cast was amazing as was the writing.

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

8:55 What a 'Strange Brew' indeed! I still have the record they put out, featuring the 12 days of Christmas cover! My brother and I even dressed up as them and filmed our own Skit for a school project! But I still never figured out how to get the mouse, into the Beer bottle ;) Long live SCTV Check out the cast they had and if you haven't seen any episodes, get ready to see a lot of familliar faces!! Cheers from Montreal Quebec Canada

[@dominickdirienzo8266]

Cast for Season 8 (1982-1983) Robin Duke (seasons 6-9) Mary Gross (seasons 7-10) Brad Hall (seasons 8-9) Tim Kazurinsky (seasons 6-9) Gary Kroeger (seasons 8-10) Julia Louis-Dreyfus (seasons 8-10) Eddie Murphy (seasons 6-9) Joe Piscopo (seasons 6-9)

[@barbaraflowers759]

Gee. Am I all caught up now? Is a season 9 coming? I am loving this series.

[@TellMeWhenImTellingLies]

Joe Piscapo was awesome

[@hrossaman]

Very good stuff. thanks guys

[@southblossom7805]

Wow! There was a time when this show used to take chances. It’s been soooo formulaic for a long time now.

[@seanshea8596]

I always thought that Stevie Wonder was reading his lines via Braile just out of camera shot. Thanks for clearing that up

[@PBRMuscle]

Just found this channel....wish I had thought of it first! I would loooooove to talk SNL with you all.

[@FUGP72]

How do you not mention perhaps THE most famous pre-taped segment ever...Alan: a Video Game Junkie

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

Probably because they're not as Pop culture savvy as they claim. When you call Mr. T a pro wrestler, instead of an actor 'Rocky 3' ,The A-team, D.C. Cab', my confidence in their knowledge is going down fast!

[@FUGP72]

@@Pocketrocket-pj1us In fairness, he was on SNL that night for wrestling reasons. Not just for Wrestlemania, either. This season was also when SNL was getting bumped like once a month or so for Saturday Night's Main Event. So NBC obviously was partnering with Vince McMahon (long before Peacock.)

[@asdasx392]

I was in high school during this season. They beat the Buckwheat skit to death so much that the name John David Stutz is burned into my memory and I kept thinking about it after the resent attempt on Trump.

[@timburr4453]

you can see by 1982 Howard was starting to lose his hair Had a crush on julia louis dreyfus...and thinking "man I hope she has a bright future"

[@ghettoblacktheater]

The sketch of the night for the Stevie Wonder episode was when Eddie did his Stevie imprecation, and Stevie got him where Eddie had to say "Your Stevie imprecation still sucks man."

[@CrunchyFrog47]

Love that skit right to the last line as it's fading out Stevie says, "I do a great Anita Bryant."

[@molly18239]

I never knew Sweetchuck was on SNL.

[@RedMenace-fp6dw]

I remember the Stevie Wonder episode to this day! Really funny, and so bold it felt like season 1. "You can't make fun of blind people!" Mr. Wonder said, "Oh yes we can!"

[@jamesbonnen]

1:44 That union helped get Northwestern into the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever!!! WOO HOO!!!

[@nevincaulfield]

The season I was born into 👏

[@rockabillypug]

I thought it was interesting that in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man In The Moon they chose to have Lorne Michaels (playing himself) as the SNL producer instead of Dick Ebersol.

[@BallparkHunter]

I believe that this was the first live US TV performance of Queen as well.

[@avantgarde999xxx]

Crazy to see child Drew Barrymore with an adult Julia-Louis Dreyfus. Weirdness lol

[@faustuskrauss6457]

When they shot Buckwheat, anyone see Arsenio Hall as one of the bodyguards?

[@Bargle5]

IIRC, Chevy did the hosting from Burbank because he missed his plane to NYC and there was nothing else available in time.

[@aladinsarsipeus]

Gee I wonder why he missed the plane? It probably snowed the night before ❄️❄️

[@billg3356]

Man, Season 8 was pretty solid. Another great video, guys!

[@nathananthony7517]

This is the first season I started watching as a kid.

[@lon9047]

Same here. Born in October 1975, same month as SNL, and this is probably my favorite season for sentimental reasons. I will never forget where I was when Buckwheat was shot. Who could though?

[@sotheresthat7882]

After Buckwheat is shot, you can see Arsenio Hall run past the camera…

[@mudd7331]

I LOVE this series and appreciate all the work you guys put into it…can’t wait to see the new episode tonight.

[@johnwatson3948]

I was at an SNL show during this season, not live but just taping Eddie Murphy skits to include while he was off shooting movies, it ended with the James Brown Hot-Tub bit that was aired season 9. When the audience was leaving Dick Ebersol had fun goofing on them, something I guess is normal - Eddie Murphy had even more fun, still in the hot-tub laughing and yelling “gwan y’all get the f-k out! Get the f-k out!”

[@markbarron7830]

Never watched much of this season, but I remember the Urban Sleepy Boy 2000 commercial.

[@sticksmcfly]

This was the first season my mom let me stay up late enough to watch it. I don't want to say how old I was at the time.

[@redboar]

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this. My memories have been gaslit by this LM reality (I won't even type his name, he ruined SNL into perpetuity) and Mr. Ebersol indeed saved the show.

[@boomka]

My favorite part of the episode with Siskel and Ebert was how they pretty much hated the whole show. Eddie wasn’t enough for me during this era. It was mostly boring.

[@sotheresthat7882]

Donnie and Larie kissing; that was traumatic for a nine year old 🤣🤣🤣

[@djmasey420]

This has been great! I can't wait for the rest of these. Y'all are doing great work here

[@bobhunt5820]

Snl needs Robert Dogchild as a writer. Owen Sound. Ont Canada.

[@michaelrochester48]

I once asked Spanky McFarland at a college speaking tour event about Eddie Murphy playing buckwheat on the show, and he was really upset. Spanky said it was disrespectful and he was very angry at the parody.

[@jeffw1267]

That's his right, but I thought it was funny and it seemed everyone else I knew agreed.

[@BenSkyLakewood]

Never knew Elaine attempted to sing.

[@zoozercattacrezooz4646]

Isn't this the only Julia and the only Larry David season? ( I was wrong season 10 Larry David wrote on and Julia stayed on till then as well.

[@rrsaga]

I remember that buckwheat saga. I so thought it was true because I was 10 at the time. Sad but funny!

[@notmyrealname6150]

Julia Louis-Dreyfus was so beautiful and still is.

[@richcharvel7162]

Great video! Whatever happened to Robin Duke? If she's still with us, you should interview her. This was one of my favorite seasons (from the 80's). I never missed an episode. The cast, hosts and musical guests were great. Looking forward to your next review about Season 9.

[@williamgiesen4910]

She’s still around. She appeared in a few episodes of Schitt’s Creek

[@maximusolivia9982]

lol. Mr. Wheat!

[@SADFORIAN]

I was 14 in 1983 and would record this season's episodes on a boombox (for audio only playback), listening to them over and over.

[@minervaselysium137]

andy Kauffman getting booted by voting feels like the first troll poll disaster from Kauffman to Boatymcboatface,

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Poor Andy. Always crappin' in his own bed and then asking who crapped the bed. He truly was the Amber Heard of the '80s.

[@DavidSampson-tk1oz]

Don Pardo passed away? I hadn't heard that.

[@PoesRaven73]

Well, I wouldn’t say we NEED to know these facts.

[@Listersmate2]

Is this the season where Julia Louis Dreyfus takes a pie in the face in a parody of a Calvin Klein commercial?

[@robgronotte1]

"Ladies and gentlemen, Buckwheat has been shot!"

[@RonWrightwrites]

@thesnlnetwork I have watched your 8 episodes and think they are great. But 2 things spring to mind: Why did you NOT mention Amy Carter hosting?? Remember the sketch where 2 Secret Service members stuff a 4th-grader into her desk because she is taunting Amy in class? Also, why no mention of the first episode in which the host is shot dead on stage in the cold open? And another (okay, so it's 3 things, not 2 ) is the irreverent text on screen as they throw to commercial. You know, where the camera pans into the audience and then zooms in on one or two people?

[@woohooboy]

This was the era where Eddie Murphy was "the face" of SNL. His career was blowing up bigtime and he was everywhere. Television, film and standup comedy. The guy was on fire, and he was one of the hottest commodities in show business. And he wasn't even 23!

[@andyrose5616]

11:10 The Buckwheat/Nightline intros are the only SNL appearance of legendary announcer Jackson Beck.

[@kennethspears22]

As a teen I found Mary Gross oddly attractive. Something about women wearing glasses.

[@Triggrrr]

Only when she wore wigs. I hated the boyish haircut.

[@justinweidenbach3699]

Julia was/is so talented, funny, smart, and beautiful. It's too bad her career never really went anywhere. 😑

[@TerryFlynn-sd1ho]

HAA, Good One , Tell that to'Elaine'

[@ObjectorSnark]

@@TerryFlynn-sd1ho or christine or selina. she's the female ted danson

[@TTony-tu6dm]

A pre nose job Julia Louis Dreyfus. She was still a doll

[@RustyKight]

Pretty awesome remember all of these very well done format Thank You

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

Why would I ever need to know anything about this?

[@I_Heart_Hader]

A top moment for me was the dueling Joan Rivers with Piscopo