Dennis Miller has a mixed bag this week, including more photo-based jokes and digs at Kurt Waldheim and Nell Carter, but gets a fun prop-based bit with a Mouse Trap board game serving as a visual aid as to what happened in Chernobyl, and commemorates Mother’s Day by reading the scene in Oedipus Rex where he gouges his eyes out after discovering Jocasta’s body.

Miller ends this week’s Update by announcing SNL has been renewed for its 12th season and with mock indignation, asks “Did anyone think to ask if we wanted to come back?”. In Live From New York, there is a bit of discussion about how this renewal actually came after Brandon Tartikoff decided to cancel the show but quickly relented, and that this renewal would only be for 13 shows instead of the standard 20. Good thing the show turned itself around the next season, although I wonder if anyone back then would have predicted that the show would still be on the air (with Lorne Michaels still executive producer) 33 years later.