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Chronology
in 1975 on October 11 at 11:30 p.m., a fierce group of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live (1975). Matt Wood stars as John Belushi on Saturday Night, check out the rest of the cast and their real-life co-stars. Dan Aykroyd was the only original SNL cast member to read the script. When the show started, John Belushi was 39 seconds late through the door.
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Lorne Michaels: Look, my name is Lorne Michaels, and I’m a producer on Saturday Night. Lorne Michaels: [sarcastically] Yeah, all night. The movie opens with a quote from Lorne Michaels: «The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready, it goes on because it’s 11:30.» Movie Eddie Murphy, Hollywood roi noir (2023). Ixoo «Chickenweed» ChawzWritten by Don Cento and Martin GarnerPerformed by Don Cento and Martin Garner. This Jason Reitman film has great momentum, something Reitman no doubt learned from his father, Ivan Reitman (Stripes, Animal House, Ghostbusters).
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In this sense, with its long kinetic shots, it reminded me of the otherwise unremarkable film Birdman. It’s a great comedy of errors, culminating in groundbreaking TV when 90% of the time. Johnny Carson hated the idea on *his* network. Milton Berle, ahem, expected loyalty from the hippie generation. It was a glorious failure.
Until it wasn’t
I was skeptical of this movie until I got to the dark theater. Who could imitate the idiosyncrasies of Chevy Chase and John Belushi? Who could capture Dan Ackroyd’s bravado? Who would dare imitate Gilda Radner’s often charming charm? The cast, most notably Gabriel Labelle as the visionary no-nonsense Lorne Michaels, rounds it all off with joyous aplomb.
But it spawned a television comedy revolution that continues to this day
There are plenty of laughs for those who remember the mid-1970s and even those who don’t. It was an interesting and turbulent period between the Nixon and Reagan eras.