Every aspect of Saturday Night Live’s legendary first season has been mythologized and romanticized, with the notable exception of the notorious Land of Gorch Muppets segments.
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I am a big fan of the television program. That’s why I’m going to spend much of the next two years watching every episode. But I have all sorts of other feelings about it as well.
And they’re not all positive!
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The glamour of Saturday Night Live is the glamour of Manhattan and being young and in the white hot epicenter of the entertainment world.
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Director John Landis, screenwriters Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman and Steve Martin and stars Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short joined forces for the clever and affectionate 1986 western comedy Three Amigos, which is enormous fun if you can overlook its very 1980s style of casual racism.
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Uh, subs?
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You’d think Saturday Night Live would have learned something from its Donald Trump-hosted episodes. The news that Elon Musk will be hosting on May 8th suggests otherwise.
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Finally, the real, behind the scenes story of how Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live flagrantly betrayed its funniest host, Donald Trump.
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