The New Show (1984– )

Sketch comedy show, similar to Saturday Night Live but nowhere near as successful. Ran one season. Guests included John Candy.

Creator:

Lorne Michaels

Stars:

Valri Bromfield, Buck Henry, Maura Moynihan

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Valri Bromfield	...	Various (9 episodes, 1984)
Buck Henry	...	Various (9 episodes, 1984)
Maura Moynihan	...	Various (9 episodes, 1984)
Dave Thomas	...	Various (9 episodes, 1984)
Maggie Wheeler	...	Various (9 episodes, 1984)
John Candy	...	Various (6 episodes, 1984)
Jeff Goldblum	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1984)
J.D. Smith	...	Various (5 episodes, 1984)
Catherine O'Hara	...	Various (4 episodes, 1984)

Storyline

Sketch comedy show, similar to Saturday Night Live but nowhere near as successful. Ran one season. Guests included John Candy.

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Plot Keywords:

sketch comedy | guest | monologue | sex | pop culture | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 January 1984 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

Deserves at least a "best-of" DVD release!

I remember eagerly watching this show with my wife. It was like a glorious merging of "Saturday Night Live" and "SCTV." The sketch in which the Quaid brothers play rednecks who decide to call a phone-sex line was one of the show's high points. It starts with them looking at a skin magazine together and stumbling across an ad for phone sex. They are excited and want to call, but notice that the "Naughty Lady" requires MasterCard or Visa. In the next scene they're visiting a bank in an attempt to get a credit card. The bank employee (who also talks in a thick Southern drawl) advises them to build their credit rating by purchasing an appliance on an installment plan.

The brothers then go to an appliance store to buy a washing machine -- and almost screw everything up by forgetting and trying to pay in cash. They spend months faithfully making the payments on the machine, eagerly anticipating the day that they'll be able to call the Naughty Lady.

Finally they receive their Visa card in the mail and waste no time calling the phone-sex line. We see the Naughty Lady answering the phone while she's ironing with kids underfoot, and she quickly sends her kids out of the room so she can take the call. However, she's barely into her script when her husband arrives and announces that he's finally gotten a job and she can quit her demeaning phone sex gig. He snatches away the phone from her, denounces the brothers as perverts, and hangs up. But the brothers are still thrilled with their long-delayed though truncated conversation: "We talked to the Naughty Lady!" they exult while exchanging thumbs-up signs.

Classic stuff!