It might seem weird that a man writing a book about Saturday Night Live’s worst and weirdest episodes and hosts didn’t watch the show’s much ballyhooed 50th anniversary special but I’ve got my reasons!
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Jimmy Carter’s death reminded me of one of my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live sketches, a Walter Cronkite-hosted call in show where Carter helps solve a technical problem at the post office and talks a 17 year down from a heavy acid trip.
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Did Louise Lasser have a nervous breakdown while hosting Saturday Night Live or was it all part of the act? Regardless, the result was one of the most excruciatingly awkward episodes in the show’s history.
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A week devoted to terrible Saturday Night Live hosts kicks off with a mortified look at Milton Berle’s notorious episode.
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In 1986 a struggling Saturday Night Live had nothing left to lose, so it had Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola produce, direct and sorta host a very special, crazy, unique episode of Saturday Night Live.
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Wired scared filmmakers away from Saturday Night Live as subject matter for decades, but multiple films about Lorne Michaels’ comic institution are currently in production.
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At the height of his fame, a creepily over-sexualized O.J. Simpson became the fourth black man to host Saturday Night Live in a surreal episode that, needless to say, has aged in a very strange, unfortunate way.
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Everything in Saturday Night Live is structured, rehearsed and safe, with the noted exception of its invariably awkward final few minutes.
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