Comedy Revelation

Speaking of comedy, the funniest season of Saturday Night Live, in my opinion, was the 1984-1985 season.  Cast members included Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Jim Belushi, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,  Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer.  The funniest sketch was of Harry Shearer and Martin Short as two brothers who gave it all up to become the first male synchronized swimmers (you'll have to remember that the 1984 Olympics had featured the premier of synchronized swimming).  Christopher Guest is hilarious as their effeminate choreographer.  This season of SNL has been impossible to find because this is one of only a few years that Lorne Michaels, the show's creator, was not the producer of the show.  So Michaels has refused to release those seasons on DVD.  But now I see that Harry Shearer is releasing a DVD of his own which includes the synchronized swimming bit as well as another "mockumentary" from that season of SNL, this one featuring Shearer as Mike Wallace busting a discount gag gift company run by Martin Short.  Mike Wallace, keeping us free from low quality plastic vomit!  Thank you Harry Shearer, for America deserves to see these classic SNL skits.