﻿Best jokes: Julius Caesar, Gorbachev summit, Marcos’s new neighbors

The Weekend Update Dancers are back yet again, this time interpreting the Brown University prostitution scandal to the tune of “Addicted to Love”; again, pretty much the same as the usual Update Dancers bit, although Dennis Miller participates in this one to “blow the whistle” (“Yeah, it gets too wacky” he comments on the deliberately cheesiness of the bit).

A. Whitney Brown also returns with another installment of The Big Picture, wherein he has some words about the U.S. government giving $100 million to the Contras. This was a little stronger than the previous outing, thanks to some choice lines about the amount of money involved for such a small group (“That’s a lot of velvet paintings, my friend”, and suggesting the money may be better spent putting them all through Harvard Law School so they can sue the Sandinistas).

Dennis Miller follows up on the topic of Central America by using Nixon’s comments comparing the region to a cancer as a pretext to chainsaw it out of the map in the Weekend Update backdrop.

If that wasn’t enough, Miller follows up this bit by announcing a new contest for viewers to guess how long Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet will last and the way he will be disposed of, working in some digs at the SNL’s now-precarious situation (“See who lasts longer: Pinochet or Saturday Night Live”). Probably the most memorable Weekend Update in quite some time.