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The SNL cast from the 1986-87 season

Weekend Update with Dennis Miller and Chevy Chase.  During the Miller Update era, whenever Chevy would show up to host, he would come to do Weekend Update.  On paper, this sounds awesome, I mean how could you go wrong two update legends right? The execution of it all in my opinion was a disaster.  They had no chemistry and you could tell Dennis didn’t really want to do it with him at all (he even adlibbed a joke about how they have no witty banter).  Chevy was still doing his same 70s update schtick and it just wasn’t working in late 80s SNL.

These were from a commercial advertising the SNL episode hosted by  Rosanna Arquette. The funny thing about this episode was that it never aired that week because Game 6 of the World Series ran too long (It was between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets, the “Bill Buckner” game).  It would air two weeks later.