Saturday Night Live - Season 8
Description: Saturday Night Live aired its eighth season during the 1982–1983 season on NBC. The 8th season started on September 25, 1982 and ended on May 14, 1983. This was the third season to air since Lorne Michaels had left his first tenure as executive producer.
Many changes happened before the start of the season. Brian Doyle-Murray, Christine Ebersole and Tony Rosato were dropped from the show to make room for new cast members. Hired in their places were Brad Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Gary Kroeger.
Dick Ebersol brought back the show's cold openings that ended with "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" and the monologues by the host. Ebersol also changed Weekend Update's name for the second time, to Saturday Night News. Since Doyle-Murray and Ebersole had both been dropped, a new anchor was needed for the segment. Hall got the gig and became the new anchor.
Notable moments of this season included Drew Barrymore hosting the show—the youngest ever person to host the show. During the episode hosted by Barrymore, the audience at home was given the chance to vote on whether or not Andy Kaufman should be banned from the show. The vote was conducted by a 1-900 number. At the end of the show Kaufman was banned from ever performing on SNL again.
Episodes
Chevy Chase/Queen
Aired: Sep 25, 1982
Sketches are ""Chevy Live from Burbank,"" ""Tyrone Green Art Gallery,"" ""Joe Pi...
Louis Gossett Jr./George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Aired: Oct 2, 1982
Sketches include Mister Robinson's Neighborhood #4....
Ron Howard/The Clash
Aired: Oct 9, 1982
Sketches include "Opie's Back", "Whiners Want a Baby" and "Focus On Film". The C...
Howard Hesseman/Men at Work
Aired: Oct 23, 1982
Michael Keaton/The New Joe Jackson Band
Aired: Oct 30, 1982
Robert Blake/Kenny Loggins
Aired: Nov 13, 1982
Sketches include ""The Merv Griffin Show,"" ""Shuttle Mission,"" ""PBS Promo,"" ...
Drew Barrymore/Squeeze
Aired: Nov 20, 1982
Sketches include ""Dressing Room Opening,"" ""Gertie Kills E.T.,"" ""The Whiners...
The Smothers Brothers/Laura Branigan
Aired: Dec 4, 1982
Eddie Murphy/Lionel Richie
Aired: Dec 11, 1982
Sketches include ""A Message From Eddie,"" ""Merry Christmas, Dammit!,"" and ""A...
Lily Tomlin
Aired: Jan 22, 1983
Sketches include ""Lily Confronts Eddie,"" ""Geraldine,"" ""Irish-American Radio...
Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas/The Bus Boys
Aired: Jan 29, 1983
Sid Caesar/Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
Aired: Feb 5, 1983
Howard Hesseman/Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Aired: Feb 19, 1983
Sketches are ""Howard Works on his Monologue,"" ""Sleepy Boy 2000,"" ""Elvis Pre...
Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges/Randy Newman
Aired: Feb 26, 1983
Bruce Dern/Leon Redbone
Aired: Mar 12, 1983
Robert Guillaume/Duran Duran
Aired: Mar 19, 1983
Tim Kazurinsky was attacked by the monkey during the dress rehearsal of ""I Marr...
Joan Rivers/Musical Youth
Aired: Apr 9, 1983
Susan Saint James/Michael McDonald
Aired: Apr 16, 1983
Stevie Wonder
Aired: Apr 16, 1983
Sketches include ""VD,"" ""Kannon AE-1,"" ""Stevie Wonder Impersonator,"" ""Hitl...
Ed Koch/Dexys Midnight Runners
Aired: May 14, 1983
Sketches include ""What's the most disgusting thing you've seen in New York?"" "...