Live from New York! It’s 50 seasons later for “SNL.”
The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with drop-dead dark humor and pratfalls, George Carlin as host and not one but two musical guests: Billy Preston and Janis Ian.
On Saturday nights, in those early years, young people gathered around TVs to watch the Lorne Michaels production that served up counterculture to the mass market via the Not Ready for Prime Time Players.
I didn’t start watching SNL until 1978 so missed the first couple of years. But it was, and always will be imo, one of the best ever.
Still remember a buddy who had John Belushi’s signed photo, framed by a toilet seat, hanging front and centre in his living room.
Good times.