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Saturday Night Live - Season 1 (1975-1976) - Clips. Erik Stone. 6 videos 11 views Last updated on Jan 1, 2024. This playlist combined clips of the American late-night television sketch...
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01:05:38. 1. Saturday Night Live - S01E01 - George Carlin, Janis Ian & Billy Preston (October 11, 1975) 01:05:57. 2. Saturday Night Live - S01E02 - Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow, Art Garfunkel & Jessy Dixon... 01:05:46. 3. Saturday Night Live - S01E03 - Rob Reiner & Joe Cocker (October 25, 1975) 01:07:50. 4.
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- Gilda Radner, the very first cast member of SNL. Gilda Radner appears in a Season 1 episode of Saturday Night Live. Gilda Radner was the first Saturday Night Live performer ever cast.
- Dan Aykroyd. Dan Aykroyd appears in a Season 1 episode of Saturday Night Live. Like Radner, Dan Aykroyd performed with The Second City Toronto in the years before SNL.
- Chevy Chase. Chevy Chase appears in a Season 1 episode of Saturday Night Live. Chevy Chase had written for National Lampoon and comedy duo the Smothers Brothers before becoming a Not Ready for Prime Time Player.
- Garrett Morris. Garrett Morris appears in Season 1 episode of Saturday Night Live. The eldest of the original cast and Saturday Night Live’s first Black cast member, Garrett Morris’s pre-SNL experience involved more singing than acting: Trained at Julliard, he’d performed on Broadway and with notable artists like the Harry Belafonte Folk Singers.
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In 1974, NBC Tonight Show host Johnny Carson asked that the weekend broadcasts of "Best of Carson" (officially known as The Weekend Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) come to an end (The Tonight Show was a 90-minute program at the time), so he could take two weeknights off; NBC would thus air those repeats on those nights rather than feed them to...
Changes and notes
The first cast member hired was Gilda Radner. The rest of the cast included fellow Second City alumni Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, as well as National Lampoon "Lemmings" alumnus Chevy Chase (whose trademark became his usual falls and opening spiel that cued the show's opening) who was chosen as anchor for Weekend Update, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, and Groundlings alumnus Laraine Newman. The original head writer was Michael O'Donoghue, a writer at National Lampoon who had worked alongside s...
Cast roster
The Not Ready for Prime Time Players 1. Dan Aykroyd 2. John Belushi 3. Chevy Chase 4. George Coe(only episode: October 11, 1975) 5. Jane Curtin 6. Garrett Morris 7. Laraine Newman 8. Michael O'Donoghue(final episode: November 8, 1975) 9. Gilda Radner Bold denotes Weekend Updateanchor
The original writing staff included Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Michael O'Donoghue, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster and Alan Zweibel. The head writers were Lorne Michaels and Michael O'Donoghue.
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Saturday Night Live Season 1 Episodes at NBC.com. Season 1. Episodes (19) S1 E24 | 07/31/76. July 31 - Kris Kristofferson. Kris Kristofferson hosts Saturday Night Live on...
