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SNL #1
Posted: 14 Feb 2025 15:58 pm
by edwin drood
SNL episode number one is airing Saturday night at 10:30. Host is George Carlin, musical guests Billy Preston ( the fifth Beatle) and Janis Ian. And, of course, the original Not Ready for Primetime players - Dan Aykroyd, the late Gilda Radner, the late John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman.
Re: SNL #1
Posted: 14 Feb 2025 16:29 pm
by Dicktar2023
FYI, you can watch it right this second on Peacock.
Re: SNL #1
Posted: 14 Feb 2025 21:30 pm
by MikoTython
I tuned out years ago. Would be interested in anyone who has been able to consistently stomach the show through all these years to come up w/ a top 10.
Here's mine - but its weak, because I haven't been a consistent viewer :
Dan Ackroyd
Bill Murray
Dana Carvey
Norm MacDonald
Eddie Murphy
Phil Hartman
Will Ferrel
Kristin Wiig
Kate McKinnon
Bill Hader
Re: SNL #1
Posted: 14 Feb 2025 23:47 pm
by Pink Freud
I don't know if this will come up on the 50th anniversary live special Sunday, but Lorne Michaels, Lily Tomlin, and columnist Maureen Dowd were at The Troubadour when John Lennon destroyed the 1974 comeback attempt by the Smothers Brothers after CBS fired them for being too controversial with their Vietnam War attitudes:
From today's New York Times: ".....Michaels has never forgotten the lesson he learned from the Smothers Brothers just before he created “S.N.L.” At the height of their popularity, in 1969, they lost their CBS variety show after fighting the censors and irking the CBS president, Bill Paley. When they tried to make a comeback at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in 1974, Michaels was there with Tomlin and watched a drunk, belligerent John Lennon heckle the brothers from the audience. It taught Michaels to always operate with the big picture in mind, taking care to pick your battles.
“Don’t be a martyr — Judaism doesn’t celebrate that,” says the man whose given name is Lorne Lipowitz. “Don’t get so carried away that you forget that they’re in power.”
Re: SNL #1
Posted: 15 Feb 2025 09:06 am
by MikoTython
Pink Freud wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025 23:47 pm
I don't know if this will come up on the 50th anniversary live special Sunday, but Lorne Michaels, Lily Tomlin, and columnist Maureen Dowd were at The Troubadour when John Lennon destroyed the 1974 comeback attempt by the Smothers Brothers after CBS fired them for being too controversial with their Vietnam War attitudes:
From today's New York Times: ".....Michaels has never forgotten the lesson he learned from the Smothers Brothers just before he created “S.N.L.” At the height of their popularity, in 1969, they lost their CBS variety show after fighting the censors and irking the CBS president, Bill Paley. When they tried to make a comeback at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in 1974, Michaels was there with Tomlin and watched a drunk, belligerent John Lennon heckle the brothers from the audience. It taught Michaels to always operate with the big picture in mind, taking care to pick your battles.
“Don’t be a martyr — Judaism doesn’t celebrate that,” says the man whose given name is Lorne Lipowitz. “Don’t get so carried away that you forget that they’re in power.”
The perfect encapsulation of the Lorne Michaels/Lipschitz half-century of general mediocrity rendered in a perennial safe space. The perfect metaphor of our sclerotic media culture, its phantom 'kulturkampf'.
Scene : Mars Attacks!, tarmac of Andrews AFB, Washington...
Paul Winfield as General Casey (in a simpering tone)
"Hello? This is General Casey. I get to meet the Martian Ambassador. Ain't that great? Oh, it's a hell of an honor. But didn't I always tell you honey, if I just stayed in place and never spoke up, good things are bound to happen..."
(Then shortly thereafter is the first guy blasted - after the translator emits the Billy Joel line - Heart attack ack ack ack, which apparently set the Martians off - all of which is probably somewhat irrelevant to my larger 'point', but thought I'd mention it anyway. because, unlike most of SNL's fare, it is ack-chewally quite funny).
Re: SNL #1
Posted: 15 Feb 2025 09:38 am
by 3dender
MikoTython wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025 21:30 pm
I tuned out years ago. Would be interested in anyone who has been able to consistently stomach the show through all these years to come up w/ a top 10.
Here's mine - but its weak, because I haven't been a consistent viewer :
Dan Ackroyd
Bill Murray
Dana Carvey
Norm MacDonald
Eddie Murphy
Phil Hartman
Will Ferrel
Kristin Wiig
Kate McKinnon
Bill Hader
I only started watching in the 90s:
Farley
Ferrell
Hartman
Carvey
McKinnon
Hader
Sandler
Wiig
Myers
McDonald