"Saturday Night Live" (1975) TV series 1975-????

Creator:

Lorne Michaels

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35

Release Date:

11 October 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Music

Tagline:

And now, from New York, the most dangerous city in America, it's Saturday Night Live. (seventh season)

Plot:

The classic late night live sketch comedy show.

Plot Keywords:

Sketch Comedy | Cult Favorite | Satire | Cult TV | Actor Playing Multiple Roles

Awards:

Won 25 Primetime Emmys. Another 16 wins & 130 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Nov. 28	11:29 PM	NBC
Sat. Dec. 5	11:29 PM	NBC

Cast

Don Pardo	...	Himself - Announcer / ... (629 episodes, 1975-2009)
Lenny Pickett	...	Himself - Bandleader / ... (415 episodes, 1985-2006)
Darrell Hammond	...	Various / ... (274 episodes, 1995-2009)

Also Known As:

NBC's Saturday Night (USA) (complete title)
SNL (USA) (informal title)
SNL 25 (USA) (alternative title)
Saturday Night (USA) (first season title)
Saturday Night Live '80 (USA) (sixth season title)
Saturday Night Live 15 (USA) (fifteenth season title)
Saturday Night Live 20 (USA) (twentieth season title)
Saturday Night Live 25 (USA) (twentiefifth season title)
The Albert Brooks Show (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono | Stereo

Certification:

Australia:PG | USA:TV-14 (Some episodes) | USA:TV-PG (Some episodes)

Filming Locations:

JC Studios, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

NBC Studios

Trivia:

The following performers are all alumni of the famed Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles, California: Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Cheri Oteri, Chris Parnell, Julia Sweeney, Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig and Siobhan Fallon. The following performers are all alumni of the famed Second City Theater in Chicago, Illinois: John Belushi and his younger brother James Belushi, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Danitra Vance, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tim Kazurinsky, Mary Gross, Tim Meadows, Chris Farley, David Koechner, Ana Gasteyer, Nancy Carell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch and Horatio Sanz. The following performers are all alumni of the famed Second City Theater in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Dan Aykroyd, Peter Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, Tony Rosato, Robin Duke, and Martin Short. Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney from the comedy troupe "The Kids In the Hall" both wrote and performed for the show after "The Kids in the Hall" (1988) TV show ended production.

Goofs:

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: ...almost everything. Live television is largely exempt from the usual rules of goofs.

Quotes:

Langford T. Belmont: So when it comes time to fix that refrigerator magnet or put together a little house of popsicle sticks, you don't want some cheap synthetic glue. You want pure mutilated horse paste.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Jay Leno Show: (#1.19)" (2009)

Impossible to rate!

This show is impossible to rate. We all know Saturday Night Live started great in 1975 with Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and so many others. Then when they started leaving, the show got to suck. There are even a couple of seasons in there that were so bad they refuse to air the reruns in syndication. The show was good with Eddie Murphy. Then it got really good again, during the Hartman/Myers/Farley/Spade (again, so many others) years. Then they left, and the show has really sucked since, with the possible exception of Will Ferrell (if you like Will Ferrell, which I don't). I keep trying to give the show another chance, and it continues to disappoint. I was so happy when they apparently turned the whole show's cast over, but so far the new no-names aren't impressing at all. Amy Poehler's not bad. I think the main problem is the writing. SNL please get some new blood. Or bring back the old blood. Whatever, do something! The show is just lame and unfunny now. Hopefully things turn around and we end up with a great period of SNL again. If not, hopefully it gets canceled. It's pretty bad when Mad TV typically gets more laughs out of us that SNL.