Joan Rivers hands out copies of her album What Becomes A Semi-Legend Most? as Gary Kroeger praises Musical Youth's performance.

The credits cut off early on the original broadcast, but Rivers gets a writing credit.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

Like Lily Tomlin and Sid Caesar's shows, this was another week dominated by the host's sensibilities, but tonight's show also happens to be one of the most loose and fun episodes of the entire season (if not the entire Ebersol era), and goes by fairly quickly. It's not quite as representative of SNL as a whole, as balanced or as well-written as the first Hesseman show, but there's a lot to enjoy here, and aside from a worse than usual Saturday Night News, the weaker segments aren't too bad.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

Club Doolittle

The David Susskind Show I

The Enquirer

Joan vs. Joan

Monologue

SHOW LOWLIGHTS:

Saturday Night News

Calvin Klein Jeans

MVP:

Joan Rivers

CAST & GUEST BREAKDOWN:

cast

Robin Duke : 3 appearances [The Whiners, Club Doolittle, Caribbean Gyno]

: 3 appearances [The Whiners, Club Doolittle, Caribbean Gyno] Mary Gross : 4 appearances [The Enquirer, Oscars, Saturday Night News, Caribbean Gyno]

: 4 appearances [The Enquirer, Oscars, Saturday Night News, Caribbean Gyno] Brad Hall : 3 appearances [Oscars, Saturday Night News, Old Age Home]; 1 voice-over [Old Age Home]

: 3 appearances [Oscars, Saturday Night News, Old Age Home]; 1 voice-over [Old Age Home] Tim Kazurinsky : 2 appearances [The David Susskind Show II, Saturday Night News]

: 2 appearances [The David Susskind Show II, Saturday Night News] Gary Kroeger : 4 appearances [The David Susskind Show II, Joan vs. Joan, Oscars, Saturday Night News]

: 4 appearances [The David Susskind Show II, Joan vs. Joan, Oscars, Saturday Night News] Julia Louis-Dreyfus : 3 appearances [The Whiners, Oscars, Old Age Home]

: 3 appearances [The Whiners, Oscars, Old Age Home] Eddie Murphy : 6 appearances [The David Susskind Show I and II, Oscars, Old Age Home, Club Doolittle, Caribbean Gyno]

: 6 appearances [The David Susskind Show I and II, Oscars, Old Age Home, Club Doolittle, Caribbean Gyno] Joe Piscopo: 4 appearances [The Whiners, Joan vs. Joan, Saturday Night News, Club Doolittle]; 2 voice-overs [The Enquirer, Calvin Klein Jeans]

crew & extras

Clint Smith: 2 appearances [The David Susskind Show I, Club Doolittle]

guests

Joan Rivers : 6 appearances [Monologue, Joan vs. Joan, Calvin Klein Jeans, Old Age Home, Monologue II, Caribbean Gyno]

: 6 appearances [Monologue, Joan vs. Joan, Calvin Klein Jeans, Old Age Home, Monologue II, Caribbean Gyno] Musical Youth : 2 appearance ["Pass The Dutchie", "Never Gonna Give You Up"]

: 2 appearance ["Pass The Dutchie", "Never Gonna Give You Up"] David Susskind: 2 appearances [The David Susskind Show I and II]

REBROADCAST HISTORY:

November 26, 1983

September 1, 1984

August 31, 1985

Additional screen captures from this episode are available here.