If you're a fan of the TV show Taxi and/or Andy Kaufman, you might want to catch/record the Saturday Night Live rerun airing late Saturday night/early Sunday morning on NBC. They're scheduled to air the full, 90-minute version of the show that originally ran on May 15, 1982, hosted by Danny DeVito. At the time, Taxi had been cancelled by ABC and not yet picked up, as it soon was, by NBC. So the monologue is DeVito complaining about the abrupt termination, and bringing on some of the cast members for a "final bow," then there's a filmed segment in which he extracts revenge by blowing up the ABC building. One wonders if NBC had decided at that point to take on Taxi and this was a way of hyping the show's merits…or if they hadn't yet decided and this episode inspired that decision. Perhaps neither occurred.
Also on this episode, faux wrestler Andy Kaufman showed footage of his famous match against real wrestler Jerry Lawler, and apologized to real wrestlers everywhere for mocking their profession. I think this may have been Kaufman's last live appearance on SNL. The following season, he was "voted off" the series forever. NBC is skipping around those years in picking their reruns so perhaps they'll run the two episodes where that happened. Next week, they're supposed to run the 5/14/83 show hosted by Ed Koch.