Saturday Night Live Season 6 Episode 5 Synopsis

Live from New York, it's... Joe Piscopo!



Sketches include "Joe Impersonates Don Pardo," "Gun City," "The Menswear Store," "Vicky and Debbie at the Mall," "The Rocket Report," "Dylan and Guthrie," "The Home Version of Dallas," "Mr. Bill's Christmas," "Kung Fu Christmas," "The Harlem Heroin Experience," "The Virgin Search" (film), "Dopenhagen and Happy Daze," "Remembering Colonel Sanders," "The Dancing Man" (film), and "Welfare Counseling."



George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith and the cast of "The Pirates of Penzance" perform a medley of songs from the musical as well as a medley of Christmas carols.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 6 Episode 5 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 6 Episodes...

• s06e01 - Elliott Gould/Kid Creole and the Coconuts
• s06e02 - Malcolm McDowell/Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
• s06e03 - Ellen Burstyn/Aretha Franklin, Keith Sykes
• s06e04 - Jamie Lee Curtis/James Brown, Ellen Shipley
• s06e05 - David Carradine/Linda Ronstadt with Rex Smith, George Rose
• s06e06 - Ray Sharkey/Jack Bruce and Friends
• s06e07 - Karen Black/Cheap Trick, Stanley Clarke Trio
• s06e08 - Robert Hays/14 Karat Soul, Joe "King" Carrasco & The Crowns
• s06e09 - Sally Kellerman/Jimmy Cliff
• s06e10 - Deborah Harry/The Funky Four + One More
• s06e11 - Charlene Tilton/Todd Rundgren, Prince
• s06e12 - Bill Murray/Delbert McClinton
• s06e13 - Chevy Chase/Jr. Walker and the All Stars

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.