Saturday Night Live will re-air its first-ever episode from October eleventh, 1975, in celebration of the present’s fiftieth anniversary on Saturday, February fifteenth, at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT.
The inaugural episode of SNL — then identified merely as Saturday Evening — was hosted by George Carlin and featured musical visitors Billy Preston and Janis Ian. The episode additionally featured an look from comic Andy Kaufman and a sketch from Muppets creator Jim Henson, in addition to SNL solid members Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner. The lead-up to the episode was just lately dramatized in Jason Reitman’s movie, Saturday Night.
The rebroadcast of SNL’s first episode is a part of an enormous celebratory weekend that additionally features a Friday night concert from Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, and a three-hour live primetime special going down on Sunday, February sixteenth.
