“Saturday Night,” the film, envisions the whirl of chaos that took hold in the 90 minutes before “NBC’s Saturday Night,” the show, premiered nearly 50 years ago. Later to be called “Saturday Night Live,” the series debuted in October 1975, and TV audiences hadn’t seen anything like it, nor did they know the cast that would soon become iconic. By …
In the last 50 years, the world of sketch comedy and improv have benefited from the funny footprint of the Groundlings. The division, explains Laraine Newman, a “Saturday Night Live” veteran and original Groundlings member, is clear: “Second City was basically premise-driven, and the Groundlings is character-driven.” For the record: This article originally misspelled Cheri Oteri’s name as “Sheri Oteri” …
Oscar-nominated actor Willem Dafoe is joining the ensemble cast of the upcoming SNL 1975 origin film starring Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard and model Kaia Gerber. The film will also explore the behind-the-scenes chaos amongst SNL's original cast of then-young comedians that included: John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtain, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman. Oscar-nominated actor Willem …
Who's who in SNL 1975: See the actors who will portray the iconic Saturday Night Live comedians on the big screen Getty Images See the cast of Jason Reitman's SNL 1975 movie – who's playing Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase and more in the film version of the very first Saturday Night Live. Cory Michael Smith – Chevy Chase Chevy Chase …
They were supposed to spark laughter, not outrage. "As we walked into the MCG we were saying, we're going into the standing room and we're going to hear people in the crowd with as much, or more, insight into what's going on as we just heard on the radio — and delivering it with much more wit, entertainment and intelligence …
