This is eerie! This is Saturday Night Live doing a little skit about John Lennon two weeks before his death. I wonder if this episode was repeated during that year if they cut this scene.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-segment---john-lennon-and-yoko-ono/n8692
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shareDamn SNL was bad in those years. Almost as bad as today.
shareyeah, they cut the new producer's budget way back, such a rotten thing to do. This was season 6, I think I stopped watching this by the end of Oct, 1980 it was so awful. I really didn't watch again full time until the 1989 season, which was my favorite season ever.
shareIt wasn't just the budget, it was Jean Doumanian's sheer incompetence as a producer for a comedy show. Gilbert Gottfried said that Jean Doumanian was so tone-deaf about comedy and what was and wasn't funny that she was somebody who plausibly would've rooted for Margaret Dumont in a Marx brothers film.
shareIt's even more crazy by the fact that Al Franken(of all people) was in line to take over as producer in 1980 but he screwed that up by his mean spirited sketch on NBC president Fred Silverman. Silverman was so incensed by Franken's stupid sketch he gave the producing job to Doumanian instead. So yeah, Franken's been an idiot for decades!
shareOne has to take into account that when this was made, Lennon had just released an album, Double Fantasy, that was a major disappointment to many of his fans. Yes, it was a big hit with a number of singles, but many viewed it as a "sell out" or "MOR" album. To this day, some people refer to his last recording sessions as "John Lennon Lite". It's a pleasant, amiable album that fits right in with the late-1970s/early 1980s "sound".
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