The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between November 15, 1980, and April 11, 1981, the sixth season of SNL.
In the sketch, Eddie Murphy's character, named "Mister Robinson", speaks and presents his show in a similarly patient manner, but lives in a considerably grittier venue, and engages in a number of illegal and unethical activities for money due to his lack of a job.
For example, in one episode he tells his viewers that their hopes and dreams are pointless because it's impossible to find a job in the current economy, and another episode contains a spoof of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment in which a puppet Ronald Reagan (whom Robinson consistently blames for his lack of a job and dire financial situation) dismissingly tells the ghetto family hand puppets (represented as a brown glove with different small wigs on the fingers) that he cannot do anything to help them out of poverty.
A majority of episodes end with Robinson fleeing from these people via the fire escape while singing a variant of Rogers' famous song "Tomorrow".
During interviews with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel in October 2019, Murphy expressed interest in reprising the sketch for when he returned to host the show in December.
On December 21, 2019, Murphy reprised the role, in a newly updated version of the sketch in which Mister Robinson's Neighborhood has become gentrified.
[2][3] Fred Rogers took no offense to Murphy's parody version of his show and found it amusing and affectionate, though he was grateful that Saturday Night Live was broadcast at a time when the children in his audience were unlikely to see it.
[4] The I Married A Monkey sketches were created by Tim Kazurinsky to remind the viewing public that the show was indeed live.
He essentially played himself, working with the premise that he had married a chimpanzee named Madge in a bizarre soap opera world.