As Saturday Night Live marks a landmark season, the NBC sketch comedy present threw it again to 1975.
Celebrating the forty ninth anniversary of SNL‘s first broadcast, with Season 50 persevering with this weekend, the present shared its authentic opening credit score sequence Friday on social media.
“SNL premiered on October 11, 1975!” they wrote on X with the intro clip for what was then titled Saturday Evening.
The lineup included George Carlin, Janis Ian, Billy Preston, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, George Coe, Michael O’Donoghue, Valri Bromfield and Andy Kaufman, with a movie by Albert Brooks and Jim Henson’s Muppets.
In honor of the anniversary, Jason Reitman‘s Saturday Night premieres Friday in theaters. The movie is ready on Oct. 11, 1975, as a ferocious troupe of younger comedians and writers change tv ceaselessly. Previously titled SNL 1975, the movie tells the true story of what occurred behind the scenes that evening within the 90 minutes main as much as the first-ever broadcast of SNL.
The movie stars Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Matt Wooden as John Belushi, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Nicholas Braun as Andy Kaufman/Jim Henson, Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol, Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin and Willem Dafoe as David Tebet.
In the meantime, SNL‘s milestone fiftieth season is underway, with Ariana Grande internet hosting this weekend alongside musical visitor Stevie Nicks.
