Original SNL Cast on The Tomorrow Show 1975 Before First SNL Episode

[mucifer]

It's only a few minutes long.

[snappyturtle]

1. Fun! thank you. nt

[onehandle]

2. I saw the first episode live.

It's the first media thing I ever instantly recognized to be a 'sensation.'

[HopeHoops]

3. THANK YOU! That was really great to see. I do however wonder...

Why didn't Jane Curtain, Garrett Morris, and Loraine Newman become as famous as the rest of them? Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and John Belushi all went on to do movies (and Aykroyd has his own line of vodka now). I've never figured that out.

[mucifer]

4. Every single one of them has been on tv in other shows. Hopefully the surviving members

get some money from the dvds sold. I have heard that the women were not treated well early on in SNL.

[HopeHoops]

7. "Jane, you ignorant slut. Who DID you sleep with to get this job?"

It was a different era.

[nolabear]

5. Jesus God they're young. Interestingly the only one who looks odd is Snyder.

He's got that "I'm too old but I'm trying really hard to be hip" hair and suit. The rest could be hanging out now.

I miss John and Gilda. And I thing Garrett Morris was incredibly underrated. He was so warm and "normal" seeming that whenever he did something absurd it made a big impression on me.

And I have an irrational love for Dan Aykroyd. Probably a blues thing.

[cyberswede]

6. OMG - doesn't Aykroyd do a Snyder bit in one episode?

Asking the interviewee how one gets the blues? I never realized how good he was at that impression!