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Nearly thirty years after first seeing it, the “Saturday Night Live” 1984 skit “News Bar” still makes me chuckle. Especially the brief, My Fair Lady-like musical numbers:
Edwin Newman [singing]:
They read the news with foot in mouth, instead of tongue in cheek,
Why can’t the anchors learn to speak?
Brad Hall: “Iranians’ pains come mainly from Khomeini!”
Edwin Newman: I think he’s got it!
Tom Snyder: Alright, I’ll buy that.
Brad Hall: “Khomeini’s reign is mainly based on pain!”
Edwin Newman: Let’s try something a bit more difficult. Environmental pollution in the Northeast.
Brad Hall: Northeast… um… uh…
“Terrain in Maine is stained with acid rain!”
Edwin Newman as Henry Higgins. In a glam-news media commentary that, the ’80s topicalness aside, still is relevant today.
Looking for this on Youtube. I love it too.
“All I want is a desk somewhere,
Thirty minutes of network air,
Someone to spritz my hair, oh
Wouldn’t I be newsworthy?”
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“And where’s that acid rain?”
“In Maine! In Maine!”
“And what can they do in Maine?”
“Complain! Complain!”
Comment by iretalot — 07/28/2010 @ 4:31 PM