This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Ivan Travalian es un reputado autor teatral neoyorquino que se debate entre la redacción de su última obra y sus problemas familiares: su esposa Gloria está a punto de abandonarlo a él y a sus cinco hijos.
Peter enlists his sarcastic one-legged friend Wiley to help conjure a myth based around the idea of giving. Seeing the chance to make a profit off the selflessness of others, the two caveman create a figure that develops into the first Santa Claus but are then baffled when the "myth" they've created apparently becomes real. Substituting gain for fulfillment, Peter and Wiley experience the true meaning of Christmas.
A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of 'Kurt Vonnegut Jr.', including Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, 'Harrison Bergeron', and 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June'
Walter Chronic / Paul Hardly / Arthur Lordly (uncredited)
Un experto en relaciones públicas convence al propietario de una empresa tabacalera para patrocinar un concurso en el que se ofrecen 25 millones de dólares a cualquier pueblo de EE.UU. que consiga que sus habitantes dejen de fumar durante 30 días. El Reverendo Brooks lidera a Eagle Rock para vencer en este particular desafío, a pesar de que algunos ejecutivos de la tabacalera estén empeñados en que no cumplan el objetivo. Si los ciudadanos no se vuelven locos y no se matan debido al síndrome de abstinencia, podrán ganar un fabuloso premio.