Saturday Night Live - A Minor Rant
Saturday Night Live was a TV show from the late 1970s. It debuted in 1975 under the title "NBC's Saturday Night". It was produced by Lorne Michaels and starred "The Not Ready For Prime-Time Players": Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris and Chevy Chase. The show began to break up toward the end of the decade as the cast found success in movies, and by 1980 when Michaels left most of the original cast was gone. Although NBC has continued to run various similar shows under the title "Saturday Night Live" ever since, Saturday Night Live ENDED in 1980. People are confused by the title, but the show is not, can not, be Saturday Night Live. The times are different, the guest hosts are not the same, and the music has indelibly changed. If you watched Saturday Night Live last weekend, you watched it on tape.
- posted by Jonathan Hutchins @ 1:36 PM