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A two-and-a-half-hour prime time special aired on September 24, 1989, to celebrate the series' fifteenth year on the air. Original cast members Chase, Aykroyd, Curtin, Morris, and Newman all returned along with other cast and crew, with tributes to the late Belushi and Radner.
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. [275] [276] Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests was released
In 1974, NBC Tonight Show host Johnny Carson asked that the weekend broadcasts of "Best of Carson" (officially known as The Weekend Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) come to an end (The Tonight Show was a 90-minute program at the time), so he could take two weeknights off; NBC would thus air those repeats on those nights rather than feed them to affiliates for broadcast on either Saturdays ...
SNL super fans know Yoshimura for his on-air appearances over the years, most notably as Hikaru Sulu in season 1's "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" Star Trek parody, a role which he ...
On Feb. 15, NBC will re-air the first-ever episode of “Saturday Night Live.” The telecast comes one day before the network’s three-hour special celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary ...
It's been nearly 50 years since the very first episode of Saturday Night Liveaired. Originally titled NBC’s Saturday Night, SNL premiered on Oct. 11, 1975, has since remained the TV sketch ...
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, and it has featured a wide ...
Shortly before "NBC's Saturday Night" lit up American TV sets on Oct. 11, 1975, producer Lorne Michaels and seven unknown actors and comedians appeared on "The Tomorrow Show," a late-night talk ...