Every time I look at this tape, it takes me back to the first time many of my generation saw this. And to hear the very first "LIVE FROM NEW YORK. . ." from Chevy Chase still sends chills up my back!
Everyone who is ever born from now on, for the love of everything or anything & everyone else, PLEASE DON'T B Owen! ....or anything like him! Unless you WANT to be a cunty imbecile that can't even recognize he's in a paper bag, let alone think his way out of one
I saw that episode LIVE! and every episode since, and I think the current cast is one of the, if not the, best they’ve ever had. Ever since Colin Jost was named head writer, they writing has gotten quite generic. I wonder where co-head writer Michael Che’s edge is. But the cast? Pure gold, especially the women.
Rob Johnson ”especially the women” You wouldnt mention that if you didnt like the new episodes just cuz of the heavy leftist leanings, like seriously how non subtle can you be but still pretend its cuz of quality
No Monty Python behind it. The show was born out of a failed attempt to make a National Lampoon TV show, and ended up poaching a lot of that magazine's talent. Plus Michael O'Donoghue was a total psycho.
@@lapacesiaconvoi Watching the sketches now... I think Monty Python was way better, SNL in the 70's had a very the-three-stooges humor. Specially Belushi, most of their sketches were totally unfunny.
@@blackjac5000 _Influence_ does not mean that the Monty Python crew was directly involved, you contrarian prune. Monty Python’s Flying Circus ended a year before this came out, and was immensely popular in the comedy world.
Susan Murphy Andy Kaufman and Valri Bromfield were comedy guests, and Billy Preston and Janis Ian were musical guests. This left very little screen time for the cast. Lorne Michaels showed some fear at first, wondering if the viewers would accept this new cast of unknowns. I think George Carlin did three different monologues, too.
I went to the theater over the weekend to watch "Saturday Night". The dialogue was sharp and witty. The fast-paced nature along with the walk-and-talks reminded me of an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. There's no character development, this is a film about that moment and that's okay. I absolutely loved every minute of it. Well done.
Today crap is the worst. Have fun with today's cast idiots. This was done in 1975, these young unknown kids put it on the line on live TV to propel this show 50 years later, suck it!
I rememeber when it started, I would watch it every week. Belushi was so great, it is so sad that he left us so early. Thanks for posting this. I think the 'bee" sketches were my favorite, but, maybe the samurai ones were even better.
my best friend was the one who told me about snl . she was hysterical jane was curtain sitting on a counter, wiping it clean with her stockings. i still never saw that one. there's one i did see but can't track down at all. i don't know who was being imitated or in costume, but it was an elderly man rambling. i think he was supposed to an anchorman retiring and giving a speech. he was saying years earlier he had a friend who had a ball of twine. he then goes into saying he had sex with guy's wife while the friend watched. the character speaks of events which eventually lead to him saying, ' i had sex with her ' repeatedly with a distinct articulation. he then sums up he had sex with thousands of women. google won't locate it
People should watch "A Futile & Stupid Gesture" It goes into a lot of detail all the people behind this/ SNL though it's main plot is about the creator of National Lampoon.
Which one? Personally, I thought Doug Kenney was right up there with the best of SNL. Saw him on one of his college tours, and once he opened his mouth, the audience didn't stop laughing until he left the stage. Well, except for moments of stunned silence when everybody was just looking at each other going "WTF???????"
So glad I took a punt on going to see Saturday Night. I thought it was just gonna be some cheesy ohmage but I was delightfully mistaken. Was grinning ear-to-ear the entire time. Gabriel LaBelle is just magnetic. What would otherwise be a hyperactive, chaotic mess of a film is made uncannily fluid and coherent through amazing writing, direction and acting. Awesome, awesome film. See it!
My c. 1975 sweetie got a linguistics degree from Berkeley. And this skit was a huge hit in the Berkeley linguistics department in 1975. (She graduated summa cum laude so you know it's funny)
It’s a variation on an old sketch, but the wolverine lines show that this show would be different. The most recent sketch shows were Laugh-In and Carol Burnett which had their moments, but were very old school. They would never “feed your fingertips to the wolverines.”
With the new biographical movie, Saturday Night, people may not know that that's not just the title of the movie- named in such a way to not confuse it with the show- but it's also the show's original name. In an interview years ago, Chevy Chase said he announced it like a boxing announcer, "Live! From New York, its Saturday Night!" Vs how its basically just a catchphrase now, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"
Just saw the Saturday night movie yesterday and am making my walk through the sketches they recreated. This is so perfect, all of them are actually. That cast is so amazing both from the movie and the original episode.
I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines, I am afraid we are out of badgers, would you accept a wolverine in its place? “Hey!” Ned exclaimed, “Let’s boil the wolverines”.
Okay, I read a description that made this sound like a totally random series of lines and actions that demonstrated the comic genius that was on the way, not... Well, that actually made sense. (Also, it said there was a pile of bricks in the background?) I like how after a few lines, the student seems to be unsure about the phrases he's learning. Dutifully repeating what he's told, but glancing around, is this really right.
1st episode of the 50th Anniversary Season should have opened with Jim Belushi and Cheryl Hardwick recreating this sketch, in honor of John Belushi and Cheryl's late husband Michael O'Donoghue, and Chevy Chase then coming on stage to do the "Live from New York" bit.
They should play this at the Big House one day for a Wisconsin vs Michigan game... 111,000 people will die of laughter! (Badgers vs Wolverines for those who don't know football)
+Jus Cogens: The story I heard is that Andy Kaufman was approached by some people on the street who were asking him for money, and he responded by putting on a fake accent and saying, "No, I don't know." He developed that into his "Foreign Man" character which became Latka Gravas.
@@JKTube The 'foreign man" character also was key in his early stand-up days. You can see an example in his biopic "Man on the Moon". The concept was for Andy to deliberately 'lose' the audience by pretending to be an immigrant with a shaky grasp of the language and pathetic 'jokes'. Just when he tricked the audience into thinking that was really 'him', he would reel them back in with a spot-on Elvis impersonation.
Me too but I’m struggling to figure out what the joke is with this sketch or what’s funny about it. Maybe I’m missing some cultural context of the time.
The recreation in the Saturday Night movie is so perfect
literally came to this video because of the movie😅
just came home from the movie lol
@@lovemojiheartkissI did the same lol
The ending was epic and so accurate
what a movie that was. so good
I just saw this recreated for the "Saturday Night" film. It was the perfect ending.
That movie was so good, and I liked this part of it.
The film brought me here.
The movie was amazing!!!! The casting was perfection.
If SNL ever ends, they need to have this be the last sketch.
All they should do is to dig up John and Mike and we would be fine.
Right
I'm not entirely sure if SNL would be off air. It's almost considered right along with talk shows and even news.
true, making it come to a complete circle
@@dwaugh2215I totally agree with you, and I hope they show this during the 50th anniversary special
I just saw the Saturday Night movie last night; I had never seen this sketch before, and I didn’t realize how perfect of a recreation it was!
Came here after watching ‘Saturday Night’ (2024). Wow that film deserves an Oscar nomination for Best Picture
Me too 😂 I was like, damn I gotta watch that sketch now
It was GREAT!!!
I loved it! Just seen it. Movie of the year.
Why do you think so
I loved it!
This should be filed under "SNL Vintage". It's the ultimate Saturday Night Live classic. The VERY first sketch, for crying out loud!
Just so we're clear, whos here just after watching the Saturday Night movie:
👇
JUST came home from watching it.
@@HovaNirvana same here
Me three.
Me.
Yep lol
after watching the movie this scene hits so much harder
Every time I look at this tape, it takes me back to the first time many of my generation saw this. And to hear the very first "LIVE FROM NEW YORK. . ." from Chevy Chase still sends chills up my back!
Ok boomer
@@GGIOBLACK OK Millenial - If you are watching SNL these days. . .you're welcome!
@@GGIOBLACK what are you like 12
Everyone who is ever born from now on, for the love of everything or anything & everyone else, PLEASE DON'T B Owen! ....or anything like him!
Unless you WANT to be a cunty imbecile that can't even recognize he's in a paper bag, let alone think his way out of one
Somewhere in the world there's a grumpy old man saying "Now THIS was the last time SNL was GOOD!"
Just as likely said by some hipster millennial.
I saw that episode LIVE! and every episode since, and I think the current cast is one of the, if not the, best they’ve ever had. Ever since Colin Jost was named head writer, they writing has gotten quite generic. I wonder where co-head writer Michael Che’s edge is. But the cast? Pure gold, especially the women.
Rob Johnson ”especially the women”
You wouldnt mention that if you didnt like the new episodes just cuz of the heavy leftist leanings, like seriously how non subtle can you be but still pretend its cuz of quality
Article 69 How you gonna 69 without a woman?
Article 69 Throw in some punctuation, punk.
RIP John Belushi and Michael O'Donoghue. These guys were capable of being hilarious in a way that you rarely see today.
Well, John was. Michael was just "dark."
Plus, R.I.P Chevy Chase's career
Did they die after having the heart attack on this skit, after they fed each other's fingertips to the wolverines?
Susie Q O’Donoghue was more than just “dark”. He carried the National Lampoon for a while and there’s a reason he was the head writer at SNL.
Not to forget Gilda Radner.
The fact that this was the very first chills me...
Right
Oh oh right. Like some kind of premonition.
+Freddy Richards: Such an insane, bizarre way to start the show.
Belushi once said in a sketch he'd be dead by the time he was 30. He wasn't off by much.
I feel old now...
This open isn't just cold, it's FRIGID.
Its absolute zero
Recreated it very well in new film the guy playing John was scarily uncanny
I just watched Saturday Night in theatres, so inspiring
Easy to see the Monty Python influence, great sketch.
No Monty Python behind it. The show was born out of a failed attempt to make a National Lampoon TV show, and ended up poaching a lot of that magazine's talent. Plus Michael O'Donoghue was a total psycho.
@@lapacesiaconvoi Watching the sketches now... I think Monty Python was way better, SNL in the 70's had a very the-three-stooges humor. Specially Belushi, most of their sketches were totally unfunny.
@@blackjac5000 _Influence_ does not mean that the Monty Python crew was directly involved, you contrarian prune. Monty Python’s Flying Circus ended a year before this came out, and was immensely popular in the comedy world.
@@lapacesiaconvoi
not ending sketches was the whole point of Monty Python.
very much
The very first skit on the very first SNL ever! Yeah!!
George Carlin was host.
Susan Murphy Andy Kaufman and Valri Bromfield were comedy guests, and Billy Preston and Janis Ian were musical guests. This left very little screen time for the cast. Lorne Michaels showed some fear at first, wondering if the viewers would accept this new cast of unknowns. I think George Carlin did three different monologues, too.
@@RobJazzful If my memory is right, SNL didn't even announce the names of the cast members. That started in the show's second season.
@@barrythomas7336 first few episodes Don pardo just said "not ready for primetime players"
@@douglaslowe5 Pardo made a blunder on the first show. He said “not for ready prime time players “.
I can just imagine Lorne Michaels in the background breathing a sigh of relief when John Belushi first walks through the door.
R.I.P John Belushi
January 24th 1949- March 5th 1982
A great actor that is gone for so many years.
I saw Saturday Night today and did great with casting the right people.
John Belushi would have turned 73 today. R.I.P.
I went to the theater over the weekend to watch "Saturday Night". The dialogue was sharp and witty. The fast-paced nature along with the walk-and-talks reminded me of an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. There's no character development, this is a film about that moment and that's okay. I absolutely loved every minute of it. Well done.
Finally saw Saturday Night and I had to show up for this. Absolutely brilliant film.
The recreation in the movie was perfect 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
this is iconic.... you can tell they are both nervous too...
cocainr
SNL MOVIE!!! They did such a great job telling the story.
... and so it begins! :D
1:19 I don’t know how, but Belushi even *gasped* in the accent.
0:15, good evening, the very first line of the whole show.
Wow, the casting in the Saturday Night movie was insanely accurate
Who's here after seeing the trailer for "Saturday Night"?
Me!
you read my mind
Present.
Just saw the movie. Nerve-racking but very good.
Just think of the amount of pressure for this opening scene. Opened the door for SNL.
humor has definitely evolved lol
Yeah this is a hack job tbh
Today crap is the worst. Have fun with today's cast idiots. This was done in 1975, these young unknown kids put it on the line on live TV to propel this show 50 years later, suck it!
I remember watching this live and wondering, "What the hell?"
I was 10 years old!
You should've been in bed young man!😂
Just saw the new Saturday Night Movie.
Reenacted in loving detail in the upcoming Saturday Night" film.
Here's where it all began! When Chevy Chase said the famous line, television history was made!
all the actors in the film did an incredible job portraying their characters, amazing impersonations
Bob Woodward’s biography about John Belushi (“Wired”) is an amazing read. Check it out after seeing Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night.”
I rememeber when it started, I would watch it every week. Belushi was so great, it is so sad that he left us so early. Thanks for posting this. I think the 'bee" sketches were my favorite, but, maybe the samurai ones were even better.
Saturday Night brought me here.
I can't believe this was nearly 50 years ago.
Chevy is the only one in this whole video that’s still around
First ever SNL skit :D
I saw the Saturday night movie yesterday. I couldn't stop 😂😂😂
1:29 i keep replaying this part over and over...
Happy 49th SNL! Glad Belushi signed that contract seemingly minutes before this aired
Came here after watching the Saturday Night film on the anniversary of the sketch.
So for a fun bit of trivia, the very first spoken line for the first episode of SNL season 1 was delivered by Michael O'Donoghue.
how it all began. i remember it fondly. those days have long passed. we had it good .
my best friend was the one who told me about snl . she was hysterical jane was curtain sitting on a counter, wiping it clean with her stockings. i still never saw that one. there's one i did see but can't track down at all. i don't know who was being imitated or in costume, but it was an elderly man rambling. i think he was supposed to an anchorman retiring and giving a speech. he was saying years earlier he had a friend who had a ball of twine. he then goes into saying he had sex with guy's wife while the friend watched. the character speaks of events which eventually lead to him saying, ' i had sex with her ' repeatedly with a distinct articulation. he then sums up he had sex with thousands of women. google won't locate it
did u really?
People should watch "A Futile & Stupid Gesture" It goes into a lot of detail all the people behind this/ SNL though it's main plot is about the creator of National Lampoon.
Which one? Personally, I thought Doug Kenney was right up there with the best of SNL. Saw him on one of his college tours, and once he opened his mouth, the audience didn't stop laughing until he left the stage. Well, except for moments of stunned silence when everybody was just looking at each other going "WTF???????"
@@AbsentWithoutLeaving i wish those were recorded
Lorne Michaels (well, an actor playing him, at least) is also in that movie, tho in a much smaller role than in "Saturday Night".
We miss you, John and Mike!
Should have made the title to “First SNL Skit”. That way there will be more views.
Not exclusive enough
I think like most people they are here after watching the Saturday night movie. Which by the way was a really really good movie
1:29 and so it begins... :,)
The first salvo from an American Institution
I saw the movie then came to this. Very accurate
damn they really nailed this in the movie😮💨
So glad I took a punt on going to see Saturday Night. I thought it was just gonna be some cheesy ohmage but I was delightfully mistaken. Was grinning ear-to-ear the entire time. Gabriel LaBelle is just magnetic. What would otherwise be a hyperactive, chaotic mess of a film is made uncannily fluid and coherent through amazing writing, direction and acting. Awesome, awesome film. See it!
Just watched the Saturday Night movie! Amazing recreation in the film!
My c. 1975 sweetie got a linguistics degree from Berkeley. And this skit was a huge hit in the Berkeley linguistics department in 1975. (She graduated summa cum laude so you know it's funny)
0:00 TV history is born
It’s a variation on an old sketch, but the wolverine lines show that this show would be different. The most recent sketch shows were Laugh-In and Carol Burnett which had their moments, but were very old school. They would never “feed your fingertips to the wolverines.”
I quote this everyday of my life
With the new biographical movie, Saturday Night, people may not know that that's not just the title of the movie- named in such a way to not confuse it with the show- but it's also the show's original name. In an interview years ago, Chevy Chase said he announced it like a boxing announcer, "Live! From New York, its Saturday Night!" Vs how its basically just a catchphrase now, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"
50 years later....
Just saw the Saturday night movie yesterday and am making my walk through the sketches they recreated. This is so perfect, all of them are actually. That cast is so amazing both from the movie and the original episode.
i can’t believe i felt bad for chevy chase. that was a damn good movie.
Gilda Radners character was perfect
Good movie
This is one of my all time favorite SNL sketches!
This isnt funny
No it’s not. You probably wasn’t even born when it came out.
I just got out of the movie it was spot on! 😂 👏🏼
Hey the movie lied. Belushi entered the door immediately.
It was probably a take on Lornes anxiety. 2 seconds probably felt like two hours to him with all the anxiety.
In this sketch, he did. But the part in the movie about Belushi waiting until the last minute to sign his contract was true.
And from the right side of the stage.
I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines, I am afraid we are out of badgers, would you accept a wolverine in its place? “Hey!” Ned exclaimed, “Let’s boil the wolverines”.
I came here because of the "Saturday Night" movie, only to find several hundred others just did as well. That's gotta mean something.
Humor has evolved a lot
Evolved? Hardly. Real comedy has died. Too many people looking for things to get offended about.
@@NSHM122 thanks obama
SNL is alive and unorthodox as ever. Congratulations, Mr. Micheals for your wonderful success and the sketches. Yes, I'm a vampire frpm 1975. 😂
Okay, I read a description that made this sound like a totally random series of lines and actions that demonstrated the comic genius that was on the way, not... Well, that actually made sense. (Also, it said there was a pile of bricks in the background?)
I like how after a few lines, the student seems to be unsure about the phrases he's learning. Dutifully repeating what he's told, but glancing around, is this really right.
R.I.P. Anne Beatts
It's awesome the first person ever seen on snl is Micheal. Then john.
Looks like the lounge of the 5 Timers Club. 🤔
The movie Saturday Night brought me here! Loved it ❤❤❤ Mais algum br por aqui?
Nois
Who’s here after seeing the Movie?
There better be a Wolverines movie in 2025 (to commemorate SNL’s 50th)!
You better start writing it
Such a good movie, what did we all think?
Ahhhhh, the wolverines. Good times, good times.
i remembered this completely different. i thought it was 'we have no sable. will wolverine do?'
@@lapacesiaconvoi Yeah. I thought John Belushi adlibbed, "Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!"
Ahhhhh, the amazing 70s. TV's golden age. 👍👀
The one that started it all.
Young Chevy Case
I was in college when this first aired. You have no idea how weird this came across to people (meant as a compliment).
Ok boomer
Agreed: in college when I saw this. I thought, "very strange, very. . .different." I was hooked from day one!
@I know who did it Can't speak for Selenium, but I'm 68 years old.
Milo Pesca you’re not funny.
@@milomongoose9976 OK Millie!
Seeing the blues brothers outside of the movie is quite cool to see
I’m so excited for the movie to come out next month! Until then I’ll be watching old clips like this one 🖤
Saw an early showing. The guys who played Belushi and Chevy Chase were surreal with how much they looked and sounded like them
1st episode of the 50th Anniversary Season should have opened with Jim Belushi and Cheryl Hardwick recreating this sketch, in honor of John Belushi and Cheryl's late husband Michael O'Donoghue, and Chevy Chase then coming on stage to do the "Live from New York" bit.
Saturday night live is the best show in televised history.
You mean WAS! It's terrible now.
Who's here after watching the "Saturday Night" movie?
The 1st skit on "Saturday Night Live ".
They should play this at the Big House one day for a Wisconsin vs Michigan game... 111,000 people will die of laughter!
(Badgers vs Wolverines for those who don't know football)
I was at that game! Go Blue!
Badgers? We don' need no steenking BADGERS!
The Saturday night movie was amazing and should win Oscar’s
Loved the movie.
Could this be where Andy Kaufman got his Lahka inspiration?!
I thought this as well.
+Jus Cogens: The story I heard is that Andy Kaufman was approached by some people on the street who were asking him for money, and he responded by putting on a fake accent and saying, "No, I don't know." He developed that into his "Foreign Man" character which became Latka Gravas.
@@JKTube The 'foreign man" character also was key in his early stand-up days. You can see an example in his biopic "Man on the Moon". The concept was for Andy to deliberately 'lose' the audience by pretending to be an immigrant with a shaky grasp of the language and pathetic 'jokes'. Just when he tricked the audience into thinking that was really 'him', he would reel them back in with a spot-on Elvis impersonation.
And that’s how it all started.
I'm here after watching the Saturday night movie the recreation was accurate
Me too but I’m struggling to figure out what the joke is with this sketch or what’s funny about it. Maybe I’m missing some cultural context of the time.
@@jude4581 he is copying my guy. use your brain