Live from New York, it's... Eddie Murphy!

Sketches include "Last-Minute Problems," "The Interesting Four Meets Espresso," "A Sense of Fear," "Thank You, Ronald Reagan," "Snookie Foreplay," "President Reagan's Transformation," "Topol The Idiot," "Behind the Smith Campaign," and "Pumpkin Carving" (film).

The New Joe Jackson Band performs "Steppin' Out" and "Another World."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 8 Episode 5 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 8 Episodes...

• s08e01 - Chevy Chase/Queen
• s08e02 - Louis Gossett Jr./George Thorogood and the Destroyers
• s08e03 - Ron Howard/The Clash
• s08e04 - Howard Hesseman/Men at Work
• s08e05 - Michael Keaton/The New Joe Jackson Band
• s08e06 - Robert Blake/Kenny Loggins
• s08e07 - Drew Barrymore/Squeeze
• s08e08 - The Smothers Brothers/Laura Branigan
• s08e09 - Eddie Murphy/Lionel Richie
• s08e10 - Lily Tomlin
• s08e11 - Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas/The Bus Boys
• s08e12 - Sid Caesar/Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
• s08e13 - Howard Hesseman/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• s08e14 - Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges/Randy Newman
• s08e15 - Bruce Dern/Leon Redbone
• s08e16 - Robert Guillaume/Duran Duran
• s08e17 - Joan Rivers/Musical Youth
• s08e18 - Susan St. James/Michael McDonald
• s08e19 - Stevie Wonder
• s08e20 - Ed Koch/Dexys Midnight Runners

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.