‘Snl’ at 50: Mike Reno of Loverboy remembers Working Weekend Shift with Jerry Lewis – Albertan

As “Saturday Night Live” celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Canadian press looks back at some of the most remarkable Canadian music performances of Sketch’s comedy show.

Music Guest: Loverboy

Song: “Work for the weekend”

Host: Jerry Lewis

Date: November 19, 1983

The show: The 9th SNL season includes some remarkable changes. Jim Belushi joined the show, just over a year after his bigger brother John Belushi, an original member of the cast – died of drug overdose. And in this episode, Eddie Murphy made one of his rare live performances of the season before embarking on a full -time movie career.

Behind the scenes: Loverboy’s lead singer Mike Reno remembers that the band’s dressing room was directly from Lewis: “I opened my door at exactly the same time as Jerry opened his door. I looked at him and I don’t know where this came from, but I made Jerry Lewis (an impression) for Jerry Lewis. “The comedian replied with his own spastic, wireless impression, and for a moment the two were” mirror images. “” Then he invited me to dinner, “Renault says.

Rehearsal: Renault says that Lewis-Ji appearance followed surgery with double-buying in the previous year-wrapped themselves, making a physical rehearsal blunder. “The doctor entered the Lewis dressing room) and the next thing you know is quite raised,” Reno said. “He must have given him some painkillers.”

Live on the air: Lewis’s vast advertising lips pushed his sketches live in overtime, as well as the introduction of Loverboy. After waving his hands and shouting “Baby! Baby! “When he turned to the Calgary Group, he became seriously:” I would like to introduce a group whose name sounds as if it should be the title of one of my films. “

Dressed in a black leather vest, matching trousers and red and blue bandans, Renault spins through the stage and pumped fist to the hooks for a 1981 synthesizer and guitar “Work for the Weekend”. But the planned implementation of Loverboy’s “Hot Girls in Love” later in the episode was fired due to the weather.

“It was a great disappointment, of course,” Reno said. “But you have to say,” I am a child from a small town in British Colombia and I am on Saturday night live. ” I don’t care if I’m in a minute. “

The Heritage: The Work for the Weekend of Loverboy received a second broadcast in 1990, when the cast member Chris Farley and the guest host Patrick Swayze Gyrated on the tune like Wannabe Strips in a favorite sketch called “Chippendes Audition”.

This report of the Canadian press was first published on February 11, 2025.

David friend, the Canadian press