Steve Martin's Best Show Ever

Nov 25, 1981

0h 50m

★ 6.7

Overview

Steve Martin's fourth NBC special was in the spirit of his previous association with Saturday Night Live. It was broadcast live from Studio 8H, produced by Lorne Michaels and featured some original cast members of the show.

Genres

Comedy

TV Movie

Production Companies

Broadway Video

Steve Martin's Best Show Ever Trailers

Cast

Self / Various

Steve Martin

Yortuk Festrunk / Irwin Mainway / Alexander Haig / Dr. Treves

Dan Aykroyd

Bytes

Bill Murray

Zhelezna Postruk

John Belushi

Reporter

Eric Idle

The Artist's Friend / Mona

Laraine Newman

Al Franken

Self / Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Boy

Paul Shaffer

Self - Announcer (voice)

Don Pardo

Tom Davis

James Downey

Self / Lionel Foot

Gregory Hines

Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and Chris Farley put together this hilarious Saturday Night Live sketch celebration! With each one of their memorable characters: Sandler's Opera Man, Spade's sarcastic news commenator, Rock's Nat X, Schneider's Richard the Copy Guy, and Farley's host of the Chris Farley Show. - Written by Dylan Self

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7.7

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