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Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts) Sat Oct 11, 2014, 08:45 AM Oct 2014

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39 Years Ago Tonight: NBC's Saturday Night Premieres w/ Host George Carlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live

The opening skit with John Belushi and Michael O'Donohue:
https://screen.yahoo.com/snl-firsts/

The first monologue:
https://screen.yahoo.com/george-carlin-classic-monologue-1-000000814.html

I still recall sitting in front of the ol' Radiation King TV watching this (I was 10).

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39 Years Ago Tonight: NBC's Saturday Night Premieres w/ Host George Carlin (Original Post) Cooley Hurd Oct 2014 OP

I remember it as well. The closest thing to SNL on tv before that KittyWampus Oct 2014 #1

laugh in sabbat hunter Oct 2014 #3

I watched it Cirque du So-What Oct 2014 #2

I missed it. Got married that day. LiberalEsto Oct 2014 #4

I never missed a show for five years after that. MindPilot Oct 2014 #5

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)

1. I remember it as well. The closest thing to SNL on tv before that

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 08:49 AM

Oct 2014

was Monty Python. Or the short run of Laugh In.

Comedy can be subversive as those three shows demonstrate.

RIP John Belusi.

sabbat hunter

(6,827 posts)

3. laugh in

Reply to KittyWampus (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 09:53 AM

Oct 2014

ran 6+ seasons. Not exactly a short run.

Cirque du So-What

(25,909 posts)

2. I watched it

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 09:10 AM

Oct 2014

George Carlin was the only comedian with enough name recognition to entice my 20-year-old self into giving up an evening of debauchery.

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

4. I missed it. Got married that day.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 10:34 AM

Oct 2014

Wish I had watched SNL instead.
Husband #2 (for the past 32 years) is a vast improvement.

Incidentally, the Clintons also got married on Oct. 11, 1975.

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)

5. I never missed a show for five years after that.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 11:48 AM

Oct 2014

My wedding night included SNL!

Curiously enough another show aired on ABC called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (featuring Bill Murray as a regular) earlier in the evening. The NBC show was originally called just Saturday Night, and re-named after Cosell's show was cancelled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_with_Howard_Cosell

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