📺 Richard Dreyfuss · Jimmy Buffett, Gary Tigerman
Saturday Night Live · season 3, episode 65 · Saturday, May 13, 1978 Host: Richard Dreyfuss. Musical guest: Jimmy Buffett, Gary Tigerman. • Jimmy Buffett performs "Son of a Son of a Sailor" and Gary Tigerman performs "White Oaxacan Moon". • First appearance of Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello). Novello is credited as a special guest in the opening, under Sarducci's name. • Novello performs in crutches, having injured himself in the hockey sketch in the Michael Sarrazin episode. Also Jimmy Buffett performs in a cast, having broken his leg. • Paul Shaffer appears as lounge singer Nick Winter's piano player and as Dreyfuss' piano player, as Dreyfuss sings "Seduced" by Gary Tigerman. • John Belushi joins Dreyfuss on stage and, as part of the monologue, attempts to help Dreyfuss with the lines of his Shakespeare soliloquy (suggesting that he use the cue cards since he is not used to being on television) and then angrily mocks and argues with him saying he did not deserve the Oscar he had received that year (over Richard Burton). • Twice in the episode, Dreyfuss hears the Jaws theme. • During the "Cone Encounters of the Third Kind" sketch, Dreyfuss (reprising his role as Roy Neary from his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind) accidentally and briefly speaks in the Coneheads tone. • During the closing credits, Dreyfuss is attacked by the Land Shark. Wiki link