Cold Opening: Bill Murray - Saturday Night Live

The SNL players talk to Bill Murray about being compared to the old cast. Aired 03/07/81

[RazorFoxDV]

Proof that Gilbert Gottfried can speak in a normal voice.

[braziliantvhd]

lmao, Bill had to drop in that comment about 1941 as a dig at John Belushi

[yuljohnson]

Wow, never ever seen Eddie and Bill together in anything before! Just now seeing this and im blown away by seeing these 2 great classic comedians collaborate for this SNL skit, pure comedy gold to see Bill and Eddie combine their talents together here!! Always wanted to see these 2 to work together and soooo glad i found this clip, amazing!!!

[jojopuppyfish]

To my knowledge, this was the only time Eddie and Bill Murray ever worked together. Eddie turned down Ghostbusters because he did Beverly Hills Cop

[tylertilwick]

My god, I never thought I’d see Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy and Gilbert Gottfried in the same room together😮

[RickRobinCagnaan]

The aftermath of this sketch was that Murphy, Piscopo and Gottfried went on with their successful movie careers. Matthius would later become a voice actress and teach improv comedy.

[aracelymoran]

Murray - "I'm gonna be sick"

Grabs bottle of liquer as remedy LOL

[greenpublishing]

The Bill Murray episode was vastly superior to the rest of season 6.

[itiswhatitaintanditaintwha]

This was the week after Charles Rocket infamously dropped the F bomb! That's what Bill is referring to when he says "Watch your mouth!".

[johnvastola]

Eddie Murphy really did save the show.

[NewhamMatt]

Straight after this episode, the show was canned for a month,  after which, Gilbert, Charles and Ann were gone.  One show later, Denny and Gail were gone too.  I guess NBC didn't share Bill's optimism.

The gag where Bill tells Charlie to clean up his mouth referred to the previous show when Charlie dropped the f-bomb on live TV.  It was cited as one of the reasons for Rocket's and Doumanian's sacking. 

[FortisRising]

Man I thought that looked like Gilbert but that voice! What a trip lol

[YodatheHobbit]

That went from a typical "oh these people aren't going to be very funny, lets acknowledge they're saying that" sketch, to silliness, to actually being a bit inspiring.

[NewhamMatt]

It's widely rumoured that Bill did this episode only as a favour to his brother Brian, who had been the only member of the previous cast or writers to return.  The rest of the previous cast weren't touching the show with a ten foot barge pole.  Apparently this episode wasn't too bad, but by then, the show was too far gone.

[isuriadireja]

i remember that little blonde chick in Saturday Night Fever, playing the weird nerdy gal asking Travolta to dance.

[robstearns]

well that's of the most powerful "LIVE FROM NEW YORK ITS SATURDAY NIGHT"s

[juozasg]

some of best comedy ever made. good work guys!

[NiceGuyPat]

Nice reference to "Meatballs".

[jojopuppyfish]

1:23 BTW one of the Rocket Reports is really good. He's in back of at NYC taxi.

[MegaCrimson]

I always find it funny that the season that's usually considered the worst was Eddie Murphy's debut season.