A gem from 1976 called "Let's Kill Gary Gilmore For Christmas"
Candice Bergen: One night this July, Gary Gilmore killed a Utah service station attendant and the next night he shot a twenty-five year old student twice in the head. He was convicted of the second murder and sentenced to death. Gilmore requested that the sentence be carried out by firing squad. Prison officials were flooded with calls with people volunteering to shoot Gilmore, a job which pays a hundred and twenty-five dollars. Gilmore's lawyer is negotiating with publishers and motion picture studios for book and movie rights and there has been a cry for public execution. All three networks have asked permission to film the event and, if permission is not granted, then there's talk of filming the execution, from a dirigible, helicopter or hang glider. And so it's in this spirit that Saturday Night has prepared a very special Christmas song.
Gilda Radner:
There's a little guy in Utah with a single Christmas wish For one special thing that can't be substituted Doesn't want to get electric trains, get toys or get pet fish All he really wants to get is executed
Cast:
So let's kill Gary Gilmore for Christmas
Let's hang him from atop the Christmas tree
Let's give to him the only gift that money can't buy
Put poison in his egg nog, let him drink it, watch him die
Dan Aykroyd:
Let's throw another yule log on the fire
And then let's throw Gary Gilmore on there too
With a ribbon so gay and a card that will say
"Dear Gary, Merry Christmas to you"
Jane, Laraine, Gilda:
In the meadow, we can build a snowman
One with Gary Gilmore packed inside
John, Garrett, Dan:
We'll say "Are you dead yet?" He'll say "No, man"
Cast:
But we'll wait out the frostbite till he dies
Gilda:
I've one Christmas wish
Jane, Laraine, John, Garrett, Dan:
Just ask it
Gilda:
Please put Gary in a casket
Cast:
So let's toll the silver bells for him
While he can still hear what they say
Ding dong ding dong
You're dead, so long
We can thrill Gary Gilmore
If we kill Gary Gilmore
On this Christmas Day
Talk about being so sick and wrong in so many ways. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it on a rerun years ago, and also can't believe that I laughed so hard at it.