The Host: Saturday Night Live hosts don’t come much more obscure or forgotten than Jack Burns, a veteran writer and performer best known for his partnerships with George Carlin and later fellow Second City alum Avery Schreiber as well as a disastrous stint replacing Don Knotts on The Andy Griffith Show. Let’s just say that Poochie was an universally beloved addition compared to Burns’ Sheriff Warren Ferguson. According to Wikipedia, Ferguson was such a flop with viewers that he was ultimately dropped without explanation. I suspect that Ferguson tried to return to his home planet, but died en route. Sad, really. Burns later went on to write for both the Muppets and the notorious SNL knock-off Fridays. Incidentally did anyone here watch Fridays? I’m curious about it. But is he funny? Judging by his performance here I’d argue that he had a pretty narrow range: clean-cut Irish-Catholic authority figures.
- 4/18/2008
- avclub.com
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