Live from New York, it's... Harry Shearer!



Sketches include "Mysteries of the Universe," "The Dating Zone," "Writing Home," "The Variety Store," "Mr. Bill" (film), and "Formerly Fat Fiancee."



The Amazing Rhythm Aces (featuring Bill Murray) perform "Who Will the Next Fool Be" and "Third-Rate Romance." Bruce Cockburn perform "Wondering Where the Lions Are."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 5 Episode 18 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Steve Martin/Blondie
• s05e02 - Eric Idle/Bob Dylan
• s05e03 - Bill Russell/Chicago
• s05e04 - Buck Henry/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• s05e05 - Bea Arthur/The Roches
• s05e06 - Howard Hesseman/Randy Newman
• s05e07 - Martin Sheen/David Bowie
• s05e08 - Ted Knight/Desmond Child & Rouge
• s05e09 - Teri Garr/The B-52's
• s05e10 - Chevy Chase/Marianne Faithfull
• s05e11 - Elliott Gould/Gary Numan
• s05e12 - Kirk Douglas/Sam and Dave
• s05e13 - Rodney Dangerfield/J. Geils Band
• s05e14 - (no host)/Paul Simon, James Taylor, and David Sanborn
• s05e15 - Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss/The Grateful Dead
• s05e16 - Burt Reynolds/Anne Murray
• s05e17 - Strother Martin/The Specials
• s05e18 - Bob Newhart/The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Bruce Cockburn
• s05e19 - Steve Martin/Paul and Linda McCartney
• s05e20 - Buck Henry/Andrew Gold, Andrae Crouch

Saturday Night Live Show Summary

Since 1975, SNL has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as "The New York Times" noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999. In defiance of both time and show business convention, "SNL" is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture". At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

Saturday Night Live is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The program is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.