From season 5 of Saturday Night Live:
We must assume that this Thanksgiving reunion had not enough room in the dining hall for all of the family.
Two sisters (Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman), their brother (Bill Murray), & their cousin (Paul Shaffer) are relegated to the kids' table in the basement by their aunt (Beatrice Arthur, the hostess du jour). That this only got 4 minutes doesn't seem fair, either.
Shaffer getting more screen time as a featured performer due to the absence of Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi (who were off making "The Blues Brothers") might've opened the eyes of NBC executives, as three years later, he began a long association with David Letterman as David's bandleader/sidekick, a partnership that would continue between NBC & CBS, for 41 years before Letterman's "retirement" from The Late Show in 2013.
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