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Saturday Night Live Candice Bergen/Esther Phillips (1975– ) Online

Saturday Night Live Candice Bergen/Esther Phillips (1975– ) Online
1975– Candice Bergen Little Esther Phillips The Muppets Dave Wilson
Original Title :
Candice Bergen/Esther Phillips
Genre :
TV Episode / Comedy / Music
Year :
1975–
Directror :
Dave Wilson
Cast :
Candice Bergen,Little Esther Phillips,The Muppets
Writer :
Rosie Shuster,Anne Beatts
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
1h 30min
Rating :
7.2/10

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Saturday Night Live Candice Bergen/Esther Phillips (1975– ) Online

The host for the episode is Candice Bergen, and the musical guest is Esther Phillips. The skits for this episode are as follows: President Ford gives an accident-laden introduction to the show. Candice Bergen is interrupted during her monologue by one of the Bees. A commercial informs viewers of the opportunities for wealth by becoming an ambassador. A man demanding to see his CIA file is faced with a seemingly insurmountable pile of disarray. A special on intelligent animals profiles the dangerous land shark. A gay man has fond memories of dressing in his mother's clothes. Catherine Deneuve endorses Chanel perfume. Andy Kaufman's foreign man character attempts to entertain the audience, but bombs terribly. Albert Brooks presents previews of new shows for the coming TV season, including an over-dramatic medical series, a show about a frustrated man living with two women, and a Vietnam vet who becomes a veterinarian. A strange man makes a crank call to an airline and begins talking ...
Episode complete credited cast:
Candice Bergen Candice Bergen - Herself - Host / Various
Little Esther Phillips Little Esther Phillips - Herself - Musical Guest (as Esther Phillips)
The Muppets The Muppets - Various (as Jim Henson's Muppets)
Albert Brooks Albert Brooks - Bob (segment 'NBC Super Season')
Andy Kaufman Andy Kaufman - Foreign Man
Dan Aykroyd Dan Aykroyd - Husband / Bookkeeper / Brody / Dennis X
John Belushi John Belushi - Bee / Matt Hooper / Anthony Q / King
Chevy Chase Chevy Chase - Gerald Ford / Land Shark / Weekend Update Anchor
Jane Curtin Jane Curtin - Land Shark Victim / Jane Curtin
Garrett Morris Garrett Morris - Garrett Morris / Jehovah's Witness
Laraine Newman Laraine Newman - Wife #1 / Land Shark Victim / Teller
Gilda Radner Gilda Radner - Land Shark Victim
Michael O'Donoghue Michael O'Donoghue - Caller

The cast appears with the host during the good nights for the first time.

This is the first time Chevy Chase says his Weekend Update introduction "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not."

Chevy Chase plays Gerald Ford for the first time in this episode.

Candice Bergen is SNL's first female host. She also is the first SNL host to play a character in a sketch other than themselves.

This the first time Andy Kaufman's "Foreign Man" character speaks in his indistinguishable accent. In previous appearances, he lip-synched to novelty records. This character became a precursor to Latka Gravas of Taxi (1978),

This episode received the lowest ratings of any SNL episode, but Lorne says this happened because a long-running movie delayed the show's start by 15 minutes.

An engineer at NBC owned-and-operated WNBC-TV thought the "Ambassador Training Institute" commercial parody was a real ad, and turned to a local commercial. This prompted Lorne Michaels to resign as producer, only to return the next Tuesday.

Michael O'Donoghue is no longer credited as a Not Ready For Prime Time Player after this episode but he would continue to appear in sketches until 1980.

The "Long Distance" commercial parody, which featured a gay man reminiscing about dressing in his mother's clothes, angered The Gay Activists Alliance. It has been edited out most of the repeats.


User reviews

Wenaiand

Wenaiand

The clumsy folded chair kicking opener aside, this episode's recurring show bits hit the spot effectively. The 'Bee's' were relegated to just John Belushi invading the host's monologue and the film by Albert Brooks was great, but the best performance of the night belonged to Andy Kaufman...again. Kaufman's "little foreign guy" character (which would be used to tremendous effect later on the television show Taxi) stole the spotlight away from a real solid performance from host Candice Bergen.

Most of the sketches on the show never really hit hard. Only the Jaws spoof of the New York City land-shark carried any weight whatsoever. However, what this episode did feature was a tremendously infectious vibe, mainly due to Bergen's acceptance to give herself entirely over to the cast, in putting trust into them to make her look good and to help bring out her comic sensibilities. Bergen and Radner talking about female insecurities may have been born out of filling time for the show, but the improvised chat session came off as a breath of fresh air and it certainly aided to the great vibe of the show.

The cast coming on stage at the end of the show was the start of a tradition that has lasted decades, though not every host has been showered with roses as Bergen was.
Wizard

Wizard

The Bees appear in this show more often than others though they have been in every episode to this point. All the birds are in Jim Hensons Muppets routine.

This episode is fairly week but did introduce two things- on Week-End Update, Chevy Chase says "I'm Chevy Chase, & your not for the first time.". Then there is the first take-off on Jaws, called Jaws 2 where the Landshark makes his first of many bites to come.

In spite of these classic bits, this show seems to be flat as there is little else in the show that is really good. One other premiere here is the infomercial ad about being an Ambassador to a foreign country. This one would get more play in upcoming episodes & actually is a pretty good bit though it would get better the second time around.