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Dan Aykroyd was the only original SNL cast member who read the script

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At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live (1975).. Matt Wood stars as John Belushi in Saturday Night, check out the rest of the cast and their real-life counterparts.. As the show goes live they have John Belushi coming into frame 39 seconds late through a door.

In reality he came on immediately

Lorne Michaels: Look, my name is Lorne Michaels, I’m the producer of « Saturday Night ».Doorman: The whole night?Lorne Michaels: [sarcastically] Yeah, the whole night.. The movie opens with a quote of Lorne Michaels: "The show doesn't go on because it's ready, it goes on because it's 11:30.". Featured in Eddie Murphy, le roi noir d'Hollywood (2023). Ixoo ‘Chickenweed’ ChawzWritten by Don Cento and Martin GarnerPerformed by Don Cento and Martin Garner.

It was a glorious failure

This Jason Reitman film has great forward momentum, something Reitman no doubt learned from his father Ivan Reitman (Stripes, Animal House, Ghostbusters). In that sense, with long kinetic shots, it reminded me of an otherwise dissimilar film, Birdman.This is a comedy of perfect errors that culminated in groundbreaking television in the height of the medium's sway over 90% of Americans. Johnny Carson hated the idea on *his* network. Milton Berle, ahem, expected fealty from the Hippie generation.

Who could capture Dan Ackroyd's bravura?

Until it wasn't.I was skeptical of this flick up until I was in the dark theater. Who could mimic Chevy Chase and John Belushi's idiosyncracies? Who could dare imitate Gilda Radner's often captivating charm?The actors, most importantly Gabriel Labelle as the visionary nebbish Lorne Michaels, pull it all off with joyful aplomb.There are scores of laughs for those who remember the mid-1970s and even who don't. It was a fun and turbulent period between Nixon and Reagan eras.

But out of it came a television comedy revolution that lasts to today in full power