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

Everything You NEED To Know About Saturday Night Live
Season 8 (1982-1983)

Hosts Jon Schneider and James Stephens (Saturday Night Network) explore season-by-season the cast members, sketches, characters, and backstage stories that have made Saturday Night Live a television institution.

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Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live:
Executive Producers: Jon Schneider & James Stephens
Producers: Matthew Ammon, Cameron Bristow, Ellis Mitchell
Announcer: Alex Quintero
Post Production: JPS Productions
“News Theme Logo” composed by Alexander Rufire; “Broadcast News Opener” by Motionsparrow are used under license from Envato Elements Pty Ltd.

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[thesnlnetwork]

We also spoke with Gary Kroeger recently when he joined us to recap the S49 Ryan Gosling episode:

[toucansam]

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

[manceventure]

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.

[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 👘🙌

[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.

[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.

[UPCM]

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

[nitedreamer]

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

[henrykujawa]

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?"

[janeelliott]

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

[Crusader]

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

[theamishsoylentretailersof]

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 .

[adamwendt]

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.

[carlosguerra]

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.

[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

[barbaraflowers]

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

[BallparkHunter]

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

[jamesbonnen]

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

[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.

[robertharvey]

By this time I was completely into SNL.