COME OUT OF THE CUPBOARD

Fridays was ABC’s attempt to counter SNL with its own brand of hip, edgy sketch comedy.

The show itself sucked in myriad ways. It was crass, loud, vapid, and about as funny as an oil slick.

One occasionally redeeming quality was the music.

At the time, it was deathly hard to find decent music on TV. SNL itself generally betrayed the fact that it was being run by a clutch of wayward fecking hippies. Anne Murray? Oooh, I hope she does “You Needed Me”! Andrew Gold? Come on, “Lonely Boy”! The Yale Whiffenpoofs? The Yale Whiffenpoofs? But please sir, it’s Christmas...

Hope they can work out a way to get some of the musical performances from Fridays released on DVD one day.

But for now, here’s the American TV debut of The Clash, in dodgy res.

Happy Friday, y’all.