It was a fall of 1982 and Jean Siskel and Roger Ebert were in New York for their biggest

TV gig to date, the season premiere of Saturday Night Live.

Welcome back to Saturday Night Live.

Across the Alphamy, Jean Siskel filmed critic of the Chicago Tribune.

And this is Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Suntire.

And this is history's first live review of a television show still in progress.

The host that evening was Chevy Chase and the musical guest was Queen.

This is early 80s SNL, so the episode was fine?

Some good, any Murphy stuff, but heavy on the Piscopo.

Towards the end, Siskel and Ebert made their surprise cameo dressed in their usual sweaters

and blazers.

They reviewed some of the night sketches and rift on Chevy's movie career.

And Chevy, meanwhile, made some goofy faces behind their backs.

Well, in another movie seems like all times.

I know that the best thing there was played by Chevy's hand.

He was hiding under the bed when Goli Hawn stepped on her hand with her high heel shoes.

The hand played the scene though like Marlon Brando.

It was really one of the great acting hand jobs of all time.

Even in the early 80s, when the show was in a free fall, an SNL cameo was a sign of success.

Most of the show's surprise guests were people like Robin Williams or Andy Warhol.

Pop culture figures who were instantly recognizable.

This Goli Hawn may have been big stars on PBS, but SNL was a very different level of

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