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Original cast (left to right): Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, and Chevy Chase. As of September 2024, the late-night live variety series Saturday Night Live (SNL) has featured 167 cast members.
The first episode, renamed "Saturday Night Live '80" in the opening credits, aired Nov. 15, 1980, and featured an all-new cast – Charles Rocket, Denny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthius, Joe Piscopo, and Ann Risley rounded out the new cast. [10] Yvonne Hudson was hired as a featured player and became SNL's first black female cast member ...
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 ...
When Rolling Stone ranked all then-145 cast members of "SNL," they put John Belushi in the top spot, calling him "the first rock 'n' roll star of comedy.". Belushi was another one of the seven ...
Carvey dominated the late-'80s and early-90s SNL era with characters so sharply drawn that they became cultural phenomena. His impression of George H. W. Bush shaped the public’s perception of ...
Following a role in the short-lived 1985 television series Half Nelson, [13] Jackson received an offer to audition for the cast of Saturday Night Live. Because she was not confident her audition had gone well, she performed several impersonations on her next Tonight Show appearance and sent the tape to SNL ' s Lorne Michaels. After viewing the ...
Cecily Strong is the latest long-time "SNL" star to leave the sketch show. ... Vance became the second-ever Black female cast member on "SNL" when she joined in 1985, and she only lasted a season ...
NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" marks an incredible five decades on the air this year. ELLE enlisted Mikey Day to get a behind-the-scenes look at the women who make our weekends.