Okay, I’ll give what I can remember, and hope somebody can make the proper corrections :
On one of the old episodes of Saturday Night Live, during Weekend Update, I believe when Chevy Chase did it, he declared a contest concerning several (4?) dictators – who’s going to be deposed (die?) first? Contestantents were to send in a postcard or the like with their choice (maybe they had to pick the order) and I don’t know what the prize was. Not much if anything. The dictators included (I think) Uganda’s Idi Amin and Chile’s Augustin Pinochet. One of the others might have been Moammar KGQh’haddaffi’y of Libya but I’m not sure; another might have been from the Middle East.
I’ve only seen the episode in reruns, but they included all the information and it seemed as if someone might have at least attempted to win. Any one know anything about this?
The only similar contest I can remember is the Pinochet Countdown, which was offered during the Dennis Miller years. You had to give the date and time of Pinochet’s overthrow or death (removal from power in general). No idea of the outcome.
I’m guessing it was just a joke (I wonder if announcing such a thing would be legal?).
I recall the prize was tickets to the show, eighty three dollars and accomodation at the Chelsea Hotel (the fleabag where Sid Vicious killed Nancy and Kerauac hit bottom) so maybe nobody actually entered.
No, I don’t remember any winner announced and have wondered the same things seeing it in re-run.
So, Inky- you seem to have seen this, and you’re right, it probably wasn’t serious. But do you know who the dictators were? Could be I picked up Pinochet from Dennis Miller, as Max Torque (great old Commodore 64 game) suggested. But I’m still wondering just who was in it? Have the important dictators of the 70’s all faded away?
So far I’m thinking Idi Amin, then who?
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