Saturday Night Live Season 9 Episode 1 Synopsis

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



Sketches include "In Brandon's Office," "Whiner Show Ideas," "NBC Junket," "Calvin Klein Cream Pies," "Everyone Hates James Watt," "Jazz Riffs," "Gumby's Rehearsal," "Larry's Corner," "Feln's Discount Warehouse," "SNL Review," "Ethel's Diner" and "Be There."



John Cougar Mellancamp performs "Tumblin' Down" and "Pink Houses."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 9 Episode 1 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 9 Episodes...

• s09e01 - Brandon Tartikoff/John Cougar
• s09e02 - Danny DeVito & Rhea Perlman/Eddy Grant
• s09e03 - John Candy/Men at Work
• s09e04 - Betty Thomas/Stray Cats
• s09e05 - Teri Garr/Mick Fleetwood's Zoo
• s09e06 - Jerry Lewis/Loverboy
• s09e07 - Smothers Brothers/Big Country
• s09e08 - Flip Wilson/Stevie Nicks
• s09e09 - Don Novello/Huey Lewis and the News
• s09e10 - Michael Palin, Mary Palin/The Motels
• s09e11 - Don Rickles/Billy Idol
• s09e12 - Robin Williams/Adam Ant
• s09e13 - Jamie Lee Curtis/The Fixx
• s09e14 - Edwin Newman/Kool & the Gang
• s09e15 - Billy Crystal/Al Jarreau
• s09e16 - Michael Douglas/Deniece Williams
• s09e17 - George McGovern/Madness
• s09e18 - Barry Bostwick/Spinal Tap
• s09e19 - Billy Crystal, Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Father Guido Sarducci, Betty Thomas/The Cars

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.