Not Necessarily The News - March 1985

Here's another rare episode of the award winning HBO comedy series Not Necessarily The News. This one is from March, 1985. At this point in the series Rich Hall was not a series regular, he just showed up for SNIGLETS updates. Also, Lucy Webb had replaced Audrie Neenan as a regular roughly 8 months before this episode broadcast. Lucy's anchorwoman character was acclaimed news journalist "Helen St. Thomas." This episode has several memorable gags such as when the british sound tech gets mad at the Pope for banging on the microphone, Bob Charles on vacation and some actual footage of President Ronald Reagan during the 1984 presidential debate where he makes basically NO sense while discussing American taxes. The footage is presented unaltered as a parody of H&R Block. As the old saying goes: You can't make this stuff up. Although some of the footage of this episode is somewhere else on KZbin, what i am presenting here is the only copy of the full episode from March, 1985 that i have seen. Happy Watching.
FOOTNOTE: "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey & Phil Collins, and "I Got Loaded" by Los Lobos are among the pop songs which appear in the gag sequences on this episode.

[@1985malibuexpress]

Why is this brilliant sketch comedy NOT available?

[@rrsaga]

Saturn? That came and went..,quick

[@charmalique]

"Reagan bar: all the nuts are on the right."

[@IceBergTYS]

Rich Hall was a SNL cast member that year.

[@racheljuchniewicz2200]

please post the episode called The Pope from March 4, 1985

[@bishopaz]

This was a good episode. A lot were not.

[@michaelhead2871]

What is the background music at 16:20?

[@dansteinberg411]

Looking for a NNTN sketch of You are entering the Knesset, please be very loud.

[@1985malibuexpress]

"Princess Diana" was pretty hot!

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We want Qaddafi Fried Chicken!

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