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The Saturday Night Live Band (also known as "The Live Band") is the house band for SNL. Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore served as the first musical director, from 1975 to 1980, appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band and (backing a U.S. Coast Guard chorus) Howard Shore and the Shore Patrol.
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 long-running American late-night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) first premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, and its fiftieth and most recent season premiered on September 28, 2024. Created by Lorne Michaels , who is the original and current showrunner, its history has been shaped by its large and constantly-changing cast of ...
Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian and American television writer and film producer.He created and produced Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, 1985–present) and produced the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995), and The Tonight Show (since 2014).
In “Live From New York,” director John Landis recalls getting a tour of the “SNL” offices from Belushi and being struck by a “very sexy girl” who walked by. Belushi reportedly told him ...
Past and present cast members from "Saturday Night Live" reveal what really goes on behind the scenes. Shortly before "NBC's Saturday Night" lit up American TV sets on Oct. 11, ...
During the show's first season, the show was known simply as NBC's Saturday Night because ABC was broadcasting a program titled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. Thus, the phrase for NBC was worded differently than ABC’s program. The phrase was kept intact even after ABC's SNL was canceled and NBC's Saturday Night adopted the SNL name ...
SNL will air live on NBC at 8:30pm PT/11:30pm ET. Viewers can also stream it on Peacock. The show will celebrate a half-century on the air with a primetime special in February 2025.