Political party animals5/1/2023 ![]() I gotta say: Ayatollah, if you wanna go, if you wanna get loony - I know you, you're a nut - if you wanna go, you know, go festive. ![]() Other than Diane Keaton's nod for Best Actress, the party animal here completely struck out.īill Murray, Weekend Update, season 5: episode 14, March 15th, 1980:īill Murray. But unlike all those other critics, tonight I'm here to 'fess up on just how badly I did. Well, just like all the other critics in this country, I gave my Oscar predictions the week before the Academy Awards. Yours Truly, the Party Animal, went totally insane for three months!īill Murray, Weekend Update, season 3: episode 19, May 13th, 1978:īill Murray: Thank you, Jane. Now, get out of here! I love you! I hope everyone had a primo summer. Richard Burton : They HATE me! They DESPISE me! And just because I'm a PARTY ANIMAL!! I like to PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! And they DON'T!!īill Murray, Weekend Update, season 3: episode 1, September 24th, 1977:īill Murray: Thank you, Jane. She said to me, "You're so funny! I wish I had a tape recorder." Well, I wish she had, too, you know? Saturday night, after the show, when she went home with Dan, I could've played the tape back for her.īill Murray, Baba Wawa At Large sketch, season 2: episode 21, May 14th, 1977: There was a pretty girl there I wanted to impress and, uh, I'm a party animal. Last Friday, I went to a party with Danny. You can call me "Billy" but, around here, everybody just calls me "The New Guy.". Get out of here, Jane, you're terrific!Īnd whilst we have the SNL transcripts handy, here's a whole load more, mostly from Bill Murray in Weekend Update.īill Murray, The New Guy, season 2: episode 16, March 19th, 1977:īill Murray: Hello, I'm Bill Murray. Let me throw it back to a future Oscar winner, and a girl who's at least a half a party animal herself - Jane Curtin. Well, the Oscars are coming up, April 3rd, and here are my predictions, everybody. And now, with this week's movie news, here is the Party Animal himself - Bill Murray.īill Murray: Thank you, Jane. Here's a transcript of a sketch called Weekend Update from season 3, episode 15: The Saturday Night Live in the question first aired on March 25th, 1978. Jane Curtin and Bill Murray, Saturday Night Live, 1978 ![]() I've found the original air date of the Saturday Night Live in question, and some examples on the same programme from the previous year. Yet, the first verifiable evidence we had at hand was from an interview with the playwright Israel Horovitz:ġ982 New York Times 2 July c8/5 If this movie stops one couple from getting a divorce because it’s the groovy, party-animal thing to do, it’s worth everything.Ĭan you help us uncover party animal's earlier history? Records of spoken language such as television and film sources may hold the key, including any leads on establishing the original air date for the usage on Saturday Night Live. As our entry notes, the slang lexicographer Jonathan Lighter has recorded hearing the term in a Saturday Night Live episode which aired in 1978: ‘Here is the party animal himself-Bill Murray.’ There is also a record of the similar term party hound being used in 1973. ![]() When the OED added its entry for party animal, meaning ‘an exuberant reveler’, in 2005, the earliest quotation we were able to include was from 1982, but we knew that the term could almost certainly be traced earlier. The OED has made a public appeal for help in tracing the history of some English words, including: party animal ![]()
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