The last segment of Weekend Update, in the early years of Saturday Night Live, a spoof of the use of simultaneous sign language translation, still a novelty in those days. It consisted of Garrett Morris, superimposed in a little oval in the corner of the screen, offering simultaneous translation BY REPEATING IN A VERY LOUD VOICE Chevy Chase's recap of the week's headlines. Would that the whole broadcast could be done like that, for Miss Emily Litella's sake.

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