Saturday Night Live: Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads

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Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads ranks 232,658 out of all 118,840 episodes (of all shows) on TV.com.

Saturday Night Live fans have written a total of 1 reviews of Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads.

Air Date

Saturday February 10, 1979

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  8.3 Great

  Cicely Tyson hosts, and a Cryptic John Balushi Joke. hide show

  This show is a prime example why the first 5 years of SNL are in a league of their own. A classic cast, and good humor. Its too bad a lot of the political jokes are before my time, and I don't get them, this show aired just 2 months and three days before I was born. One cryptic John Balushi joke about Heroine defenatly reuined the opening sequence for me, but I am sure on 2/10/79, it meant something different.

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  vinnyxvincent Added Jul 2, 2005 All my reviews

• Guest Cast

  • Cicely Tyson Herself
  • Talking Heads Themselves

• Stars

  • Laraine Newman Herself
  • Al Franken Himself
  • John Belushi Himself
  • Don Pardo Announcer
  • Tom Davis Himself
  • Gilda Radner Herself
  • Dan Aykroyd Himself
  • Bill Murray Himself
  • Don Novello Father Guido Sarducci/Various
  • Garrett Morris Himself
  • Jane Curtin Herself
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• Cicely tried to work without cue cards for most of the week. She finally relented late Friday night, much to the dismay of cue card men who worked well into the night writing her parts down. [edit]
• Cicely also rubbed SNL the wrong way, refusing to do several parts and blasting the writers for their mistreatment of Garrett Morris. [edit]

• Gilda: Well, it seems like the writers just found out that, uh, Deng went back to China. You know, they’re all so busy they didn’t get a chance to watch the news or anything and, uh... now Deng isn’t even here anymore.
  Jane: Well, he left five days ago.
  Gilda: I know, and they just found out. [edit]

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