Where to watch Saturday Night Live (1975)
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A long-running live late-night sketch comedy and variety show features a changing cast, celebrity hosts, opening monologues, topical parodies, recurring segments, and musical performances. Its humor draws on contemporary culture, politics, news, and everyday concerns, with each episode shaped by the energy and unpredictability of live television.
Cast: A.J. Benza, Barry Williams, Brooke Lewis Bellas, Bruce McCulloch, Chester Bennington, Dean Edwards, Elon Gold, Garth Brooks, James C. Burns, Jimmy Workman, Kate Capshaw, Matt Lauer
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Trivia & production notes
- Johnny Carson requested that NBC stop airing reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends so he could have time off, prompting the network to develop Saturday Night Live to fill the Saturday night slot.
- Studio 8H, the home of Saturday Night Live, was converted from a radio studio that previously housed NBC's coverage of presidential elections and the Apollo moon landing.
- Renovating Studio 8H for the show's premiere cost $250,000 in 1975.
- The original cast was nicknamed the "Not Ready for Prime-Time Players," a term created by writer Herb Sargent.
- Much of the talent involved in Saturday Night Live's first season, including head writer Michael O'Donoghue, came from The National Lampoon Radio Hour.
- Photographer Edie Baskin created the show's opening title sequence by photographing New York City at night and suggested that hosts be photographed for commercial bumpers instead of using existing publicity photos, establishing a tradition that continues today.
- For the first five seasons, Edie Baskin drew neon and pastel colors directly onto black-and-white bumper photos of hosts and backgrounds.
- Mary Ellen Matthews has been Saturday Night Live's official photographer since 1999, often photographing hosts and musical guests on a compressed schedule with makeshift studios created on-site at 30 Rock.
- Each live episode of Saturday Night Live requires approximately 1.5 terabytes of digital storage, consisting of audio elements and video feeds from five cameras.
- The 2013–14 season had a budget exceeding $70 million, with New York State providing a subsidy of $12.3 million.
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