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The 4th episode of Season 7 and the 123rd episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on October 31, 1981, hosted by English actor Donald Pleasence with musical guest Fear, a punk rock band. The special guest is Michael Davis, a comedic juggler.
The seventh season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 3, 1981, and May 22, 1982. It was the first full season produced by Dick Ebersol.
31 paź 2021 · You might not think of legendary comedian John Belushi and punk icon Ian MacKaye as having too much in common, but there’s at least one time that the two were in the same room for the same reason. That would be the time in 1981 when the punk band FEAR was Saturday Night Live ‘s musical guest.
29 paź 2021 · Punk band Fear played a notorious set on 'Saturday Night Live' on Oct. 31, 1981, thanks to some help from John Belushi.
17 lip 2010 · The cast, Pleasence and Davis stand on a still-messy stage holding bits of pumpkin. Eddie Murphy starts playing along on Fear's drum kit as the closing theme played. FINAL THOUGHTS: This is definitely one of the most unusual episodes of SNL's long history, but this was easily the weakest episode of the season to date.
10 lut 2021 · By 1981 he’d already left SNL to film The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd, but he returned for the 1981 Halloween show. He’d become friends with Fear frontman Lee Ving and along with fellow punk rock convert, SNL writer Michael O'Donoghue, Belushi booked Fear as the music act for that week’s show.
The network cut the broadcast short when one punk (identified as either MacKaye or John Brannon of the band Negative Approach) yelled “F*ck New York!” into an open mic during the last song, “Let’s Start a War.”
