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George Carlin, the first person to host Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC's Saturday Night. The show usually satirizes contemporary American popular culture and politics.
The first season of Saturday Night Live (then known as NBC's Saturday Night to avoid confusion with the similarly named variety show hosted by Howard Cosell), an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC from October 11, 1975, to July 31, 1976.
Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years, by Michael Cader, was released in 1994 and presented information about the cast, characters, and other memorable moments seen on the show from 1975 to 1994. [274] [275] Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests was released
NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ premiered on Oct. 11, 1975. ... The first cast member to host Weekend Update, Chevy Chase returned to SNL for its second season but left partway through. Albeit ...
One of the show’s brightest stars, Gilda Radner was the first person to be cast on Saturday Night Live. Appearing on the program until 1980, she invented such memorable characters as personal ...
Saturday Night tells the pulse-pounding tale of the 90 minutes leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live — then titled NBC's Saturday Night — on Oct. 11, 1975.
The original cast of Saturday Night Live with President Gerald Ford in 1976. Chase was the first anchor of the show's recurring "Weekend Update" segment, and therefore received more screen time than the rest of the cast. Physical comedy and exaggerated pratfalls became his trademarks, and he became the show's first breakout star.
Live from New York, it’s the cast of “Saturday Night.” Director Jason Reitman’s “thriller-comedy,” as he described it to Vanity Fair, takes place on Oct. 11, 1975, the day of the first ...