Add
Private Notes
Special Appearance: Rich Hall Sketches include: Regan's hearing, Prince Spaghetti, Murder She Says, Tonight on PBS, Meister Brau, Death Wish: The Concept, Alka Seltzer, Royal Screw Award, Poverty Coins & America's Funniest Fowl-Ups.
The episode was produced right after President Ronald Reagan was inaugurated in his second term in office. The series regulars at the time were Anne Bloom, Danny Breen, Mitchell Laurance, Stuart Pankin & Lucy Webb. Additionally, when he had the time, Rich Hall would show up to talk about new "Sniglets."
At this point in the series Rich Hall was not a series regular, he just showed up for SNIGLETS updates. Also, Lucy Webb had replaced Audrie Neenan as a regular roughly 8 months before this episode broadcast. Lucy's anchorwoman character was acclaimed news journalist "Helen St. Thomas." This episode has several memorable gags such as when the british sound tech gets mad at the Pope for banging on the microphone, Bob Charles on vacation and some actual footage of President Ronald Reagan during the 1984 presidential debate where he makes basically NO sense while discussing American taxes. The footage is presented unaltered as a parody of H&R Block. As the old saying goes: You can't make this stuff up.
FOOTNOTE: "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey & Phil Collins, and "I Got Loaded" by Los Lobos are among the pop songs which appear in the gag sequences on this episode.
Sketches include: Regan will continue to appear on NNTN, Disney on Ice, New Guinea Evening News, Diet Pepsi, Backtalk, Mister Charge, American Caffeine Council, Society to Create American Royalty, Young Amadeus The Prequel & "Snacklets"
Includes The CBS Evening News with Jesse Helms, Grate Nuts Cereal, Dance Fever & The Random Report.
NNTN spoofs the world we live in. Sketched include: Goode takes a Vacation, The Spider, Still the Cleavers, What's Bush Doing?, Tefron II, Marihuana, World's Worst Wrestling, Ordinary K, Halley's Comet, Bounty, Ace audio reduction unit & Puttin' on the News.
What makes you laugh at the news? The "totally delightful nonsense" of HBO's comedy series. Sketches include: Skeleton in the Closet, Addidas, Today's New Army, HBO Vice President of Collections, Bank Accounts of the Rich and Famous, Stop Gourmets, Baseball Fever & Sniglets
The fastest and sometimes one of the funniest half hours on TV. Sketches include: The Bush Presidency: A Look Back, Christ II: The Second Coming, Celi-Bits, Celebrity Ring-Toss, Back to the Future, DUZ, Come to Iran, Mental Hospital, Return to Oz, E.T. II & Unexplained Sniglets of the Universe
Sketches include: Miss America, Back to the Past, Killer Spelling Bees, R.J. Reynolds/Nabisco, Canan Copiers, Boyarskya Vodka, Old Joke Academy, Bob Charles and the Leisure News & Summer Sniglets
What's in the news today? Not necessarily what you're gonna hear when HBO outrageous comedy news team takes over! All-new October edition.
Cable TV's #1 news parody is new and improved. SO if you liked NNTN before, now you'll like it even better. Only on HBO.
This upbeat, offbeat look at the news-makers and news-breakers is everything the nightly news isn't! All-new December edition.
Nothing is sacred and everybody is fair game when television's funniest news team takes it's annual look at the past twelve months.
