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I was in a hospital psych ward withdrawing from a methadone addiction on Oct. 11, 1975. Having not slept for 3 days i went to watch TV to try to soothe my jangled nerves. The STRANGEST show I had ever seen came on the air and i knew no one would believe me when i told them about it the next day. Surely it was just one of my hallucinations from lack of sleep. HA!
Me too, I’m excited to see Gilda Radner as I feel that she has the most interesting story. Not to discredit the other cast members, but I always thought her story was the most interesting.
I was a young, recently married woman in NYC on SNL's first Show. I remember my husband laying asleep on my lap and getting mad because I kept laughing and laughing and waking him up. Finally, my husband had to leave cause I couldn't stop laughing. I stayed up enjoying SNL to the end. I am definately an SNL fan.
Sometime in 1970s, my husband and I were watching the Emmies, and SNL won one of the awards and when they came up to accept it, they were so funny that we decided we had to find that show, and we were addicted to it forever.
Happy 50th bday SNL.! We’ll forever be grateful that the show surprised everyone on that 1st Saturday night & made for a staple for generations of youths and adults
Back then I was addicted to Crack(ed), MAD and National Lampoon. Mom came in one Saturday night, woke me up and said you gotta see these maniacs on TV. Thank you mom!
Man, I remember the first cast of SNL. They were the golden, dream team. I was a Junior in HS & worked as a Nurse's Aide in a hospital. Every Saturday night, right after the change of shift, all of us would put our charts down, head to the solarium, pull down all the blinds, & turn on the TV with the sound really low. The only problem was that we had to muffle our laughter. My favorite sketch was the two wild & crazy guys: Dan Aykroyd & Steve Martin, the latter being my favorite host. My Mom fell in love with John Belushi after seeing his cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger sketch. The only sketch I hated & would turn off the TV's sound until it was over was Buck Henry's Uncle Roy. Uncle Roy was a pedophile, very creepy, & the whole sketch made my skin crawl- I hated it!
I remember that sketch! Uncle Buck would come to babysit while the parents went out. It was Gildaa Radnor in a little nightgown & pigtails and he would have her sit on his lap, tickle, etc. That was for some reason considered funny back in the day. Looking back, I think it was funny because people didn't take it seriously. Really, everybody's got a creepy old person in their life as a kid, but they didn't know how prevalent actual abuse was. Plenty of those people never act on their feelings.
Johnny Carson was great. There will never be another Johnny. Saturday night live was great to. No Matter what was happening when S.N.L came on everything stopped and we would watch the show.
I remember when this show premiered. I was attending a small-town college, and one Saturday night we were all sitting in front of one of the dorm's televisions not knowing what was coming on next. It was Saturday Night Live. Well, actually back then it was called NBC's Saturday Night. Saturday Night Live was a live variety show hosted by Howard Cosell on ABC, which premiered a few weeks later and was cancelled after 2-3 airings. Everybody then started referring to NBC's Saturday Night as Saturday Night Live. I don't remember when the name was officially changed. Anyway, after just one show we all were hooked. The following week, the show was hosted by Paul Simon. Except for the opening and for Weekend Update, it was all musical. They returned to the comedy format the following week.
10:06 no he wasn’t the rebel he’s chaos and I love it. You know as we approach the special in February I’m wondering are they going to recreate the first sketch the Wolverines. Lol
Listen to Conan talk about the atmosphere, working at SNL. All those actors and writers are pitted against each other, clawing each other's eyes out to get their stuff on air. He said it's extremely toxic & a miserable work environment. I've heard David Spade too, saying the same thing. And Joe Rogan said that he first worked with Phil Hartman after Phil left SNL, and he was really weird & stand-offish until Phil realized he could actually be nice to people on the set of News Radio and it wasn't brutally competitive, like SNL.
The biggest change from season 1 to season 36 is the goal. Season 1 was all about subversive experimental silliness. It pushed the envelope. It tested your patience and sanity. Season 36 is about putting out a warm, reliable, comfortable product. Something you can depend on.
Honestly it's painful watching Carlin grinding his teeth and jaw to give a few minutes then run back in his dressing room and lock himself in there to snort as much as possible.
Original cast were incredibly creative and iconoclastic and for several years SNL continued to birth big stars..Ine eventually tired of later year shows with one ina few really funny bits but still the occasional gem of new talent making their way to stardom.. Looking forward to seeing the movie.
Jeez Belushi had a problem with $750 a week?! I know it’s not the same amount now as it was as back then but seeing how much I’m making at my job I’ll take it!!!
I’ve seen just about every episode of the first cast and the shows were a little rough. You could see the formula knowing what I know today but there was also some weird things like Schiller reels and the muppets.
Johnny Carson’s the reason to this very day that I am sleep deprived. My mother was right when on a school night she kept yelling at me… GO TO BED… GO TO BED! 🕝📺⏰
I've always found it amusing that SNL basically lifted a Monty Python sketch, changed the context a bit, and used that as the first ever sketch on SNL.
@@royalclipper5382 It's the bit where Cleese plays an immigrant with a jacked handbook of 'translations' to English, like, my hovercraft is full of eels, do you want to come back to my place, bouncy, bouncy, if I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me. I am no longer infected. My nipples explode with delight! Terry Jones plays a Tobacconist. You can look it up using Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook. The SNL writers must have wanted to let people know right from the get go what a huge influence Python was on SNL.
Not her fan, but I thought Madonna was an amazing host . (Especially the Coffee Talk sketch where Streisand walked in) . Jon Hamm was excellent.. and Timberlake .... Lindsay Lohan did a very fine job
They created "modern" comedy. David Letterman absconded with its best, "non-political" elements and the next 50 years of comedy was born. It remains to be seen if there is anybody out there who can come up with the next generation. I'm still waiting.
If MOJO had been around in 1975, MOJO would have been a target. The whole point of SNL has always been to go against the grain. MOJO only knows how to follow that grain.
I'd just been released from Belle Vue after attempting to murder my wife and the dog whilst hallucinating on PCP, Crack and LSD. They were having an affair.
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As this video demonstrates, the humor on SNL was always pretty hit and miss (usually more miss). It often felt like they were more interested in being hip than in being funny.
Im more of a SCtv guy, but the old SNL was good for sure. I try to watch it occasionally (newer episodes) and i dont find it funny. Id rather watch my re runs of SCtv or Kids in the Hall. I swear SNL stopped being funny back 20 years ago. But hey thats just me.
They Made a Movie About The Creation Of Saturday Night Live (1975-) holy crap wish They'd do one for America's Funniest Home Videos (1989-) wonder who'd play Vin Di Bona or Bob Saget
It’s always been weird, never funny at sketches, half decent personalities mostly. It seemed like a lot of unconnected people’s sitting in a room smoking joints and trying to find things funny. Very stereotypical stories and characters. Ouchazz. Xxxxx
Like clockwork, early SNL stole a bit from every episode of my Pretzel City Funnies cable show, but not in the first episode. People told me to sue them but I do not like lawyers
Does anyone remember what episodes the intro was a woman walking down the street in a polka-dot dress i think it was red polka-dot and what year was that maybe NBC Saturday Nite or SNL
A very, very, very Good. Well written, directed and casting is very important. Possible on HBO or FX to write the first Season of Saturday Night Live. Into a Great Movie. How the show was developed? How The Show was casted? Each of the original SNL members, where they was before being cast? How the show launched into Iconic Status, because of Johnny Carson? The movie should shared who worked behind the scenes of SNL? All of the writers, directors, Original SNL Performers, Music Guests and Invited Guests on the Show became Iconic legends. Not only won many awards. But changed the direction of movies, became over night success. Unfortunately, into self destruction. Completely changed the direction of comedy. For NBC Taking a risk of a new type of Comedy. From, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Carol Burnett, Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis type of Comedy. To A street performers, sketch, Stand up Comedy Show. That changed, culture and the direction of Comedy and into Icon Status. That lasted for 50 years. A very Movie needs to be done. If My idea is going to used. Write back to me so I can get paid. 🤞Knowing them, they would lie. We have already thought of the idea. 😢
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Timberlake or Peyton Manning both made strong cases
I was in a hospital psych ward withdrawing from a methadone addiction on Oct. 11, 1975. Having not slept for 3 days i went to watch TV to try to soothe my jangled nerves. The STRANGEST show I had ever seen came on the air and i knew no one would believe me when i told them about it the next day. Surely it was just one of my hallucinations from lack of sleep. HA!
Funny, I am currently thinking of walking away from a VA methadone program, I hate the sleep deprivation tho….
@@Mike-w3t3qTaper down over time. That's the best way.
Happy 50th Anniversary to SNL. I'm looking forward to seeing the upcoming movie, as it's received warm reviews so far.
Me too, I’m excited to see Gilda Radner as I feel that she has the most interesting story. Not to discredit the other cast members, but I always thought her story was the most interesting.
That's next year.
The movie brought me here
I was a young, recently married woman in NYC on SNL's first Show. I remember my husband laying asleep on my lap and getting mad because I kept laughing and laughing and waking him up. Finally, my husband had to leave cause I couldn't stop laughing. I stayed up enjoying SNL to the end. I am definately an SNL fan.
Did your husband end up enjoying the show as well ?
Sometime in 1970s, my husband and I were watching the Emmies, and SNL won one of the awards and when they came up to accept it, they were so funny that we decided we had to find that show, and we were addicted to it forever.
Quite frankly, I love the first episode of NBC’s Saturday Night, as the show was known at the time. It has a lot of fun moments!
George Carlin
This video is like the summery of the movie. Seems like the movie hit every beat. The actors were amazing, and the movie was chaotic and entertaining.
Everyone knowing....Saturday Night Live originating from Canada. That warms this Ontario girl's heart lol
Happy 50th bday SNL.! We’ll forever be grateful that the show surprised everyone on that 1st Saturday night & made for a staple for generations of youths and adults
actually it's the 49th birthday. Start of the 50th season
I was 18 when I saw the first SNL it was great I loved the show & all the cast members I never stopped watching SNL great show ❤🎉
Happy 49th birthday. 50th season. Thank for for over 5 decades of fun.
I can’t wait for the prime time 50th anniversary special
@@goldeneve yes. I used to have a VHS of the 15th and I've watched every anniversary since.
Richard Pryor was a host in the first season. That show was also a classic!!
The plan was to have standup comics in rotation, that's how Carlin ended hosting the first
I am Dutch and love SNL. Watch as many episodes on TH-cam as I can.
Back then I was addicted to Crack(ed), MAD and National Lampoon. Mom came in one Saturday night, woke me up and said you gotta see these maniacs on TV. Thank you mom!
Man, I remember the first cast of SNL. They were the golden, dream team.
I was a Junior in HS & worked as a Nurse's Aide in a hospital. Every Saturday night, right after the change of shift, all of us would put our charts down, head to the solarium, pull down all the blinds, & turn on the TV with the sound really low. The only problem was that we had to muffle our laughter.
My favorite sketch was the two wild & crazy guys: Dan Aykroyd & Steve Martin, the latter being my favorite host.
My Mom fell in love with John Belushi after seeing his cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger sketch.
The only sketch I hated & would turn off the TV's sound until it was over was Buck Henry's Uncle Roy. Uncle Roy was a pedophile, very creepy, & the whole sketch made my skin crawl- I hated it!
I remember that sketch! Uncle Buck would come to babysit while the parents went out. It was Gildaa Radnor in a little nightgown & pigtails and he would have her sit on his lap, tickle, etc. That was for some reason considered funny back in the day. Looking back, I think it was funny because people didn't take it seriously. Really, everybody's got a creepy old person in their life as a kid, but they didn't know how prevalent actual abuse was. Plenty of those people never act on their feelings.
I enjoyed the movie! Just saw it last night and I wished I was around when the debut episode aired.
Such a classic show amazing funny sketches and suck a great cast every season with great legendary actors and hosts 😅
Love the background music
Steve Martin is my favorite host
Johnny Carson was great. There will never be another Johnny. Saturday night live was great to. No Matter what was happening when S.N.L came on everything stopped and we would watch the show.
At least George Carlin would participate in the sketches when he came back to host years later
I remember when this show premiered. I was attending a small-town college, and one Saturday night we were all sitting in front of one of the dorm's televisions not knowing what was coming on next. It was Saturday Night Live. Well, actually back then it was called NBC's Saturday Night. Saturday Night Live was a live variety show hosted by Howard Cosell on ABC, which premiered a few weeks later and was cancelled after 2-3 airings. Everybody then started referring to NBC's Saturday Night as Saturday Night Live. I don't remember when the name was officially changed.
Anyway, after just one show we all were hooked.
The following week, the show was hosted by Paul Simon. Except for the opening and for Weekend Update, it was all musical. They returned to the comedy format the following week.
People forget that the previous week ABC had debut the heavily hyped "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell".
Snl definitely flew under the radar.
My favorite SNL host is Steve Martin or Martin Short. I can't tell 'em apart these days. 😂
Christopher Walken was always my favorite host!
We don’t count candy bars…
10:06 no he wasn’t the rebel he’s chaos and I love it. You know as we approach the special in February I’m wondering are they going to recreate the first sketch the Wolverines. Lol
Awesome TV show 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩🤩
Listen to Conan talk about the atmosphere, working at SNL. All those actors and writers are pitted against each other, clawing each other's eyes out to get their stuff on air. He said it's extremely toxic & a miserable work environment. I've heard David Spade
too, saying the same thing. And Joe Rogan said that he first worked with Phil Hartman after Phil left SNL, and he was really weird & stand-offish until Phil realized he could actually be nice to people on the set of News Radio and it wasn't brutally competitive, like SNL.
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss talks about how miserable she was at SNL. She and Larry David bonded over their misery, and it eventually paid off for her.
3:20
The great Toscanini conducting.
How dare you refer to Garrett Morris as "and others" 😡
Jane Curtin too!!!!
The professor and Marianne..
That was lame
Garrett Morris reminds of favorite Hist Strother Martin.
The biggest change from season 1 to season 36 is the goal. Season 1 was all about subversive experimental silliness. It pushed the envelope. It tested your patience and sanity. Season 36 is about putting out a warm, reliable, comfortable product. Something you can depend on.
Just got out of a viewing. Should have watched this before for a little primer 😂
Watched that live. From NY.
Three hours later.
Happy 50th Anniversary, Saturday Night Live
Honestly it's painful watching Carlin grinding his teeth and jaw to give a few minutes then run back in his dressing room and lock himself in there to snort as much as possible.
Original cast were incredibly creative and iconoclastic and for several years SNL continued to birth big stars..Ine eventually tired of later year shows with one ina few really funny bits but still the occasional gem of new talent making their way to stardom.. Looking forward to seeing the movie.
Jeez Belushi had a problem with $750 a week?! I know it’s not the same amount now as it was as back then but seeing how much I’m making at my job I’ll take it!!!
It was New York, and the season only ran about 6-7 months as I recall.
I’ve seen just about every episode of the first cast and the shows were a little rough. You could see the formula knowing what I know today but there was also some weird things like Schiller reels and the muppets.
WHAT does Billy Preston sing @ 5:01?
Bro this movie had me stressing
Betty White is my favorite host.
They wouldn't even show the first three episodes on my local NBC affiliate. By week four, they couldn't deny the demand and had to start airing it.
Happy friday afternoon, Rebecca, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well
Without a doubt my favorite host is Christopher Walken. As The Continental. Oh wowie wowie wow.
Johnny Carson’s the reason to this very day that I am sleep deprived. My mother was right when on a school night she kept yelling at me… GO TO BED… GO TO BED! 🕝📺⏰
I just watched the movie it was good it's definitely worth a watch and I grew up wirh the early 90s snl
Me too. When I was in high school, I never missed an episode. Now, I can count on one hand how many times I've watched the show in the past 25 years.
True Story‼
I've always found it amusing that SNL basically lifted a Monty Python sketch, changed the context a bit, and used that as the first ever sketch on SNL.
What was the Monty Python sketch?
@@royalclipper5382 It's the bit where Cleese plays an immigrant with a jacked handbook of 'translations' to English, like, my hovercraft is full of eels, do you want to come back to my place, bouncy, bouncy, if I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me. I am no longer infected. My nipples explode with delight! Terry Jones plays a Tobacconist. You can look it up using Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook. The SNL writers must have wanted to let people know right from the get go what a huge influence Python was on SNL.
Not her fan, but I thought Madonna was an amazing host . (Especially the Coffee Talk sketch where Streisand walked in) . Jon Hamm was excellent.. and Timberlake .... Lindsay Lohan did a very fine job
They created "modern" comedy. David Letterman absconded with its best, "non-political" elements and the next 50 years of comedy was born. It remains to be seen if there is anybody out there who can come up with the next generation. I'm still waiting.
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The old SNL shows with the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players were when this show was at its greatest.
Great movie
It was good, I wasn't buying that Belushi was that demanding and temperamental at the start, maybe by 78
This movie was so damn good! Unfortunately, it just shows, more how bad SNL is now, it should be given a Viking funeral.
If MOJO had been around in 1975, MOJO would have been a target.
The whole point of SNL has always been to go against the grain.
MOJO only knows how to follow that grain.
crazy story with the mucking fuppets
Oh yes the SNL Muppets are legend
@@LucyLioness100 so i've heard
And we didn't even get into The Muppets.
I saw it live the first night but don’t remember much other than it was different and funny. Something made for the time…
everyone in that photo except garrett is mewing lmao
Old SNL was amazing. New SNL sucks!
I'd just been released from Belle Vue after attempting to murder my wife and the dog whilst hallucinating on PCP, Crack and LSD.
They were having an affair.
Hirthe Island
OK, wierzę na słowo, że ów słynny program był śmieszny. Ale czy MsMojo nie potrafi zrobić materiału, który choć w drobnej części pokazałby nam, jak zabawna była to rzecz?
New SNL sucks, old school was better.
Steve Martin !!!!
Goldner Groves
5514 Hintz Glens
As this video demonstrates, the humor on SNL was always pretty hit and miss (usually more miss). It often felt like they were more interested in being hip than in being funny.
And now it _is_ the system, existing simply because it does.
Im more of a SCtv guy, but the old SNL was good for sure. I try to watch it occasionally (newer episodes) and i dont find it funny. Id rather watch my re runs of SCtv or Kids in the Hall. I swear SNL stopped being funny back 20 years ago. But hey thats just me.
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I really tried to watch this but something about watching watch mojo makes me want to just click off
They Made a Movie About The Creation Of Saturday Night Live (1975-) holy crap wish They'd do one for America's Funniest Home Videos (1989-) wonder who'd play Vin Di Bona or Bob Saget
*uh-FOHR-mentioned, rather than AFF-ur (like the word "before," rather than "beffer")
✋ Sensei Suckall 😅
🤣👍💯
Back then, SNL made fun of everyone and no one was safe. Now, it's completely one-sided, unfortunately.
I don't know, they've been ripping on Biden pretty good as of late.
Good writing sessions,coke, insufferable men, coke, fame, lots of fame, lots of coke, resignations of insufferable men, heroin, deaths.
It was a great show, beginning to end cuz Bill Murray was not in it
Oddly so
@@billger5710 seriously?! So this troupe was only great when they had him around doing his exhausting so-called humor??
It’s always been weird, never funny at sketches, half decent personalities mostly. It seemed like a lot of unconnected people’s sitting in a room smoking joints and trying to find things funny. Very stereotypical stories and characters. Ouchazz. Xxxxx
Like clockwork, early SNL stole a bit from every episode of my Pretzel City Funnies cable show, but not in the first episode. People told me to sue them but I do not like lawyers
So in the 70s they wouldn’t have hired Kenan Thompson 😂
Don't know where you're getting that from.
Unfortunately now they use a laugh track.
A laugh track would be better, they have an overly loud drunk audience that laughs before a sketch even starts
Does anyone remember what episodes the intro was a woman walking down the street in a polka-dot dress i think it was red polka-dot and what year was that maybe NBC Saturday Nite or SNL
A very, very, very Good. Well written, directed and casting is very important. Possible on HBO or FX to write the first Season of Saturday Night Live. Into a Great Movie. How the show was developed? How The Show was casted? Each of the original SNL members, where they was before being cast? How the show launched into Iconic Status, because of Johnny Carson? The movie should shared who worked behind the scenes of SNL? All of the writers, directors, Original SNL Performers, Music Guests and Invited Guests on the Show became Iconic legends. Not only won many awards. But changed the direction of movies, became over night success. Unfortunately, into self destruction. Completely changed the direction of comedy. For NBC Taking a risk of a new type of Comedy. From, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Carol Burnett, Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis type of Comedy. To A street performers, sketch, Stand up Comedy Show. That changed, culture and the direction of Comedy and into Icon Status. That lasted for 50 years. A very Movie needs to be done. If My idea is going to used. Write back to me so I can get paid. 🤞Knowing them, they would lie. We have already thought of the idea. 😢
Ms mojo, talk less
I love hearing her speak....it's just so much louder than the clips
Still waiting for Top 30 Retired Disney Park Walk-Around Characters You Won't Find At Disney Parks Anymore. 🎠🎡🎡🎡🎡🎢🎢
Eddie murphy's my favorite host