Everything You NEED to Know About SNL Season 1 (1975-76)
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- Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live
Season 1 (1975-1976)
Hosts Jon Schneider and James Stephens (Saturday Night Network) explore season-by-season the cast members, sketches, characters, and backstage stories that have made Saturday Night Live a television institution.
Saturday Night Live (www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live) premiered October 11, 1975 and broadcasts live from NBC’s famed Studio 8H in New York City’s Rockefeller Center. SNL is broadcast on NBC and streams live on Peacock (11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT). All seasons of Saturday Night Live are now available on Peacock. Saturday Night Live is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the creator and executive producer.
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I love the Paul Simon episode. and the sketch with him squaring off against Connie Hawkins is iconic.
"I'm gonna stick to my strengths: singing and songwriting"
It was all we talked about at school the next week.VCRs were rare so we used collective memory to re-create the sketches.
Now I know where I was on May 8, 1976! I was sleeping over at my friend Stephen Wojnar's house, in his basement family room, watching the episode hosted by Madeleine Kahn. I was twelve years old, and my parents would not have let me stay up so late at home, especially for a show that was "not ready for prime-time." But at my friend's house it was a different matter. That was my first ever episode in almost fifty years of watching. Appropriately enough, the sketch I clearly remember was the one about little-girls-at-a-slumber-party, who all say "Ewwwww!" at the thought of having sex -- except one who says, "I might." Man, that was some EDGY humor for a 12-year-old in the '70s. 😂
I was 13 in 75 and started watching SNL with the first Robert Klein episode since he was my favorite comedian. By this time the show had buzz (sorry bee pun) at my junior high, and by the end of the season the show was must watch, and the cast were our superstars, as big to us as any band whose albums we cherished. It is hard to put into context how important the first 5 seasons were to my generation. You had to watch! No VCR, no internet. If you missed it it was gone until maybe a rerun. You would tape the audio off the TV and listen over again during week, or make a copy for a friend who missed it so they would not be left out. Very quickly it became a part of the pop culture bloodstream. SNL seasons 1-5 are as important as anything American TV has ever produced.
Totally agree, these seasons are so special!
You didn't mention that during Michael's Beatles offer , Paul McCartney and John Lennon were at Lennon's apartment at the Dakota about 20 blocks away . They discussed going down to NBC and collecting the money that night but in the end Lennon said he was too tired
Thanks for mentioning that, so cool!
I wonder if Lorne knew that Paul was in town with John. Seems possible.
Is that true? I thought they weren’t on good terms during these years.
I'm old enough to have watched the show back then. I was only 10 years old, but I watched it. :
I grew up with it but SNL never had a huge effect on my life or even my perspective of pop culture. To me it was always a minimally funny TV show that failed to impress more often than anything else.
The Simpsons was much better and a bigger part of my childhood. Then it went to crap which was fine cuz I was leaving home and joining the navy at that time. Didnt matter much.
That's nice. What other shows did you watch?🥱
No mention of the iconic announcer Don Pardo?
3:53-Knowing that ABC's "Saturday Night Live" named their cast "The Prime Time Players", he took things a step further (in the best way possible).
I never knew that Gerald Ford introduced SNL. You learn something new every day.
I used to work in the SNL control room. Its always cool when they show it so I can see where I used to sit and how the backstage area changed over the years.
Thank you for taking me back in time when I was only 24, so young, healthy & had my eyes wide open. Our country was way different & this funny, cutting edge show reflected our sense of humor. People would actually get together, have a small party around a TV set on a late Saturday night. Good times for sure, can’t wait to see the next few seasons.
As a Canadian, that was when I liked the USA best. Things changed for the worst in the 80s and never returned. I'm hoping for a return to better times (which doesn't translate as MAGA).
Really fascinating. I've been a fan seemingly forever, yet to this day, I've seen pitifully few episodes from Season 1! (And, crazy enough, most of the episodes I have on VHS are from seasons 7-9.)
I was working in the restaurant biz when the show premiered. Saturday night shifts were where the money was and I wasn't watching much TV at age 23 anyway so didn't see the early shows. My friends who worked M-F caught on to the show and so did some of my coworkers. What I heard was impressive and unanimous. The show had a good rep with me because my friends were quickly fans. I was able to catch some of the first season which will remain with me for the newness, quirky and off the wall humor. It wasn't lost on me that the show looked beyond star power for its musical guests, which I appreciated.
I was a junior in high school when "SNL" premiered on 10/11/75-I was immediately hooked.
Great work Jon and James! and everyone else behind the seasons. can't wait for the rest!
This channel shouldn't even exist, talk about trivial trivia.... and yet here I am about to subscribe.
Season 3 was the first I was old enough to stay up for. The first full episode I watched was the one where Chevy as host got into an offstage fight with Bill Murray.
Great work. There's an article from around 1979 or 1980 with Valri that mentions she was asked to be a part of the original SNL cast but declined.
So fascinating! Definitely keep putting these extra facts in the comments Ken, people will love reading them
Thanks for doing this! Looking forward to future videos! Great way to celebrate 50 years of the show.
Give the original cast members their props. They are the foundation on which the show is built. They created the template which would allow the series to continue on, long after they left.
NO ONE could have possibly imagined (as the show is about to celebrate 50 years on the air) that this weird, quirky, off-baat late night comedy series would not only go the distance but become a national institution.
It would be responsible for being the launching ground for many careers and push the creative envelope of what could be done on network television.
Who was that masked master of the obvious?
This was fun! Thanks guys! Can’t wait til you get the Murphy years and Dana Carvey years.
I have a DVD box of the first season of SNL, and I have watched most of the episodes. Even though I sometimes watched the show as a kid, probably starting in season two, it is striking how old the first season feels. Just such a different world. There is interesting material there, for sure. I think the Dezi Arnez episode is my favorite. Belushi was obviously brilliant, and the whole cast was pretty strong. Still, my personal reaction to the season as a whole is more sorrow than laughter.
7:04 I could s*** myself laughing!!!😂
Brings back great memories for all the AK’s like me!
(Old farts in Yiddish)
Thanks a bunch guys.
Look forward to the next!!
Best of luck
Peter S.😊
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This was awesome! Can’t wait for more!
Great video!! Thanks so much. Looking forward to the next episode!🎉
This is fantastic! Great job!
this was great! I'm looking forward to the future seasons!
excellent! Looking forward to the next one.
Whoah!! You guys should have *way* more subscribers!!
give it a little time
Great episode Guys!
This is awesome!!!!
love this!
Loved this retrospective 👍🏻
Weekend Update "brought to you by P...y Whip" never forget that one. I was watching it with my mother ffs 🤣
I loved this! Cannot wait for the rest.
My dad's best mate found in a thrift shop like a decade ago a vhs of the first 2 episodes & gave it to me but sadly I don't have a vcr anymore to play it.
So cool!
The first episode was not hosted by George Carlin. Nobody hosted the first episode. George Carlin did standup and that was it.
Before the 2nd episode they realized they did need a host cuz it would help move the show along better.
Excellent videos.
Also to note: Lorne’s first appearance was in Elliott’s first episode.
Yes! The Killer Bees sketch. Though he did do a VO in the Robert Klein episode
The first time I noticed a sketch where someone totally breaks down. Candice Bergen and Gilda Radner. Candice flubbed it, and Gilda picked up the ball and made the touchdown. It still makes me laugh today.
I think it was the first season that also had a short film with a car going over the cliff. that car crash footage who was reused over and over again by Toonces.
There's also another short film that I think was the first season. This film's perspective was from a dog's eyes. You got to go out, you have to go for a ride, and well it doesn't end well. I cannot find that anywhere.
I've been watching Saturday night live since I was conscious. It started when I was 5 years old. Back then when there was a party, the whole family would go and the kids would get thrown in a bedroom with the TV and a bunch of coats. During the summer my parents would let me stay up as long as I wanted. I would get to see a lot of the reruns.
In the early '80s they started replaying the classic five seasons on late night TV during the week. By the time I was 14 I had consumed the entirety of Saturday night live of that time. I was pretty good at doing the voices and remembering all of it. During the Eddie Murphy years I actually would take a cassette tape and tape from the TV speaker.
During and after high school were also good years for Saturday night live. I would videotape them all.
I don't think I have ever seen a finer 5 years of television than the first five seasons of Saturday night live.
I just started my senior year of high school when it premiered. It was so influential among my friends . We repeated the most will known lines all the time
At 2:03 it's interesting that the photo of the Rickey Rat Club shows Jane Curtin with a "SMEGMA" T-shirt. That must not have gotten by the censors because I think it was changed to "PHLEGMA" for the live show.
Thanks for this! I've been wondering lately what was on Saturday nights before the show started. But what was on before Carson reruns?
I was 21 in '75 so I was never home on Saturday nights.
Great channel guys. Really enjoy your videos. I thought Laraine was only 19 when the show started. I’m I wrong with that?
Thank you! She was 19 when she joined the Groundlings
I bought the DVD set of the complete 1st season and like this video shows there were some iconic bits. There was also a lot of long sketches that went no where and were not funny. Most people remember the 1st season from the 30 min "Best of SNL" shows that were rerun for decades. There was a lot of drinking and drugs going on and the last hour of a lot of the shows are like watching your drunk friends home movies they find funny and you say "Well. I guess you had to be there".
Interesting thx
Lightning in a bottle. We may never see its like again.
As someone who started watching the show during the mid 80's it felt like coming late to the party. Everyone was talking about how great things were in the 70's! But when I finally got to watch some of the "classic" seasons I still felt like I was missing something. Like I can appreciate it...but it didn't hit me the same. Now I know that everyone falls deepest in love with the season they were first exposed to! But there's always (and continues to be) something in each season to appreciate--and a few thing that don't connect with me. And that's okay! Humor be like that! :)
"Everyone"?? No. The original cast is fairly universally considered the best SNL has ever been. Heck if it wasn't for Eddie Murphy the show probably would not have survived the '80s.
True. I too started in late 80s. Nora Dunn, Phil Hartmen etc...... and that's my fave cast. But I've loved people after it like Kristen Wiggs and Mikey Day
I particularly enjoyed Peter Boyle doing "Dueling Brandos" with John Belushi. It was a toss-up in my opinion...
Cool
It's amazing how Bill Murray wasn't part of that first run season..
Jaa-aaaaws
He wasn't good enough. He was never good enough.
oh no Mister Bill :-O. Here's your best friend Sluggo. oh, oh, I don't think I like him! My stomach would hurt from laughing so hard. Dorm tv room was always PACKED.
SNL should have received a fond farewell sometime in the 90s. So snl cannot be an institution today. It's terrible.
This also means Paul Mooney was the first guest writer (or at least 1st brought by the host) creating an, albeit inconsistent, tradition from Pryor’s episode forward!
Yes! Not counting Valri Bromfield, Denny Dillon, and Mark Hampton who all performed as guests prior to the Pryor episode. Richard Pryor's wife Shelley was also a guest writer that night!
I ❤️ Gilda 4ever
Bill Murray was funnier than Chevy Chase
Is the presentation supposed to be this stiff, or is it a joke? Hard to tell.
is this going to be one of those pseudo minidocs with NO SOUND except the narration and some really faint music at a really low volume? I hope you can use actual footage and some interviews, behind the scenes interaction,and some actual music from all those great musicians from the era ... Come on, Lorne, you can afford it! Lets have some noise!!
gilda radner was the best
Sorry, chevy chase only thought his Ford falling down schtick, which got old pretty quick, made a difference with the voters. Most people over 30, the ones who actually voted that year, weren't regular, or even really irregular viewers of the program. Us kids were the ones who tuned in and most of the those eligible to vote, well, they just didn't. If they did, most of them were never going to vote for Ford anyway because he pardoned Nixon.
Okay, admittedly I'm not a fan of chevy chase at all. Outside of Caddyshack and a couple of the Vacation movies his film career pretty much sucked. From the accounts I have read he was under the impression that he would be the top-dog at SNL and saw the show as a vehicle to make him a star. Then he got jealous when John Belushi emerged as the real star. Trust me, I was there. We fell in love with the Not Ready for Prime Time Players. The show was edgy, it was geared toward us, and everyone I knew agreed Belushi was the straw who stirred the drink. The best guy to compare chevy chase to would be William Shatner, another guy with mediocre ability and an ego that shows up half an hour before he does. His stuff got stale. The rest of the group grew over time. chase, not at all. It was the same crap over, and over again. He was a bore even then. But that's me.
It was never great , it was edgy weird and raw and very different.
Who are these guys? I stopped watching around 1990
2012-13 was the last semi-watchable season, with several dead spots.
Since then, unwatchable, save for a few skits.
Weekend Update is especially stomach-churningly horrible.
nice. show sketches. no one cares about the hosts.
You should have mentioned the Beatles' reaction to that offer.
John and Paul were actually watching Lorne Michael's offer at the Dakota. For whatever reason (some say they may have been too stoned), they did not hop in a cab and go down to NBC studios. George Harrison was the musical guest two or three weeks later (great duos with Paul Simon doing "Homeward Bound" and "Here Comes The Sun") and opened the show (before the credits) bantering with Lorne over the money ("I said it had to be all four of you"). George stated "I think you're being a little chinsy here."
@@robertbrescia3196 IIRC one of them wanted to but the other (I think it was John) held back. Your explanation makes sense. I keep wanting to look up if Eric Idle lived in NYC since he shows up a lot in the early days, like you get the feeling that Paul Simon was their go-to for a host if they couldn't find anyone.