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The balcony level studio audience seats in Studio 8H are actually on-loan from Yankees Stadium. [...]
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Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney, from the comedy troupe "The Kids In the Hall," wrote and per [...]
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In all 15 "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketches, no contestant has ever rung in with a correct respons [...]
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In an interview on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, former writer Alan Zweibel rev [...]
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John Belushi originally did not want to be involved with the show, because he hated television. [...]
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Featured cast member James Downey (1979-1980) is the uncle of cast member Robert Downey Jr.(198 [...]
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When Kenan Thompson, born in 1978, was hired for the 29th season (2003-2004), he became the fir [...]
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James Downey is the longest serving writer in the show's history, other than Lorne Michaels. Do [...]
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Roseanne Barr and Dwayne Johnson are the only hosts to appear under different names: Roseanne a [...]
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In Utah, the show aired on KUTV, a CBS affiliate, until 1995, then KUCW, a CW affiliate, until [...]
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Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider, A. Whitney Brown, Billy Crystal, Denny [...]
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Thomas Middleditch auditioned for the show.
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John Goodman hosted the show 12 years in a row.
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All of the main cast members of Friends (1994), except Matt LeBlanc, hosted the show.
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In 1976, the NBC News election unit used Studio 8H for election coverage. The episodes for Octo [...]
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Tina Fey is the first female head writer in the show's history.
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Darrell Hammond holds the records for the number of seasons as a cast member (14, 1995-2009), u [...]
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Louis C.K. auditioned for the 1993-1994 season. He was not cast, but James Downey recommended C [...]
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According to Jim Breuer in his memoir, Lorne Michaels did not want to hire him, but NBC executi [...]
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Seventeen-year-old Anthony Michael Hall was the youngest cast member.
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According to Chris Rock, during his time on the show, he wished that he was on In Living Color [...]
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Alec Baldwin is the first non-cast member to play Donald Trump in a sketch.
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Christopher Reeve appeared as himself as an audience member in a skit, a few weeks before he ho [...]
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Alec Baldwin is the first performer in the show's history to win an Emmy as Best Supporting Act [...]
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The show gave the Jackass (2000) crew an opportunity to perform their stunts on a weekly basis [...]
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Abby Elliott, daughter of Chris Elliott, was the first cast member to be the child of a former [...]
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Executive Producer Dick Ebersol left the show in 1985 to be a stay-at-home father to his childr [...]
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Six presidential candidates have hosted the show. Ralph Nader hosted in 1977, 19 years before b [...]
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Catherine O'Hara was going to join the cast for the 1981-1982 season, but she backed out after [...]
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Andy Kaufman was banned from the show after viewers voted him off by calling a pay-per-call 1-9 [...]
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Despite the show's core theme of live comedy, stand-up segments of 3 episodes (Il Saturday Nigh [...]
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The following performers are alumni of Second City Theater in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Dan Ayk [...]
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Mike Myers' English character Simon was a spoof of the UK television children's series Simone e [...]
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The show has only had four directors in its history: Dave Wilson, Paul Miller, Beth McCarthy-Mi [...]
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Every member of Monty Python has appeared on the show, except Terry Gilliam.
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In October 2017, it was announced that the entire original cast would be inducted into the Amer [...]
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During the initial 1975-76 season, the series was titled "NBC's Saturday Night" because Saturda [...]
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The following performers are alumni of Second City Theater in Chicago, Illinois: John Belushi, [...]
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Jack McBrayer and Paul Scheer auditioned to join the cast.
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Kali Hawk turned down the opportunity to join the cast.
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John Goodman, a frequent guest host, auditioned for the show in 1980, when he was starting out [...]
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According to Bill Hader, he was recommended to Lorne Michaels by Megan Mullally, who saw him pe [...]
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Gilda Radner was the first cast member hired.
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For the first season of SNL there was a regular segment featuring Jim Henson's Muppets. The ske [...]
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One of Kenan Thompson's most common impressions is of Bill Cosby, whom he also often portrayed [...]
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The Folksmen, a folk music group seen in A Mighty Wind (2003), formed in the mid-1980s when Mic [...]
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Amy Poehler's 2008 Emmy-nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series made he [...]
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Tim Meadows and Chris Parnell are the only cast members to be fired and then rehired the follow [...]
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Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers and Tina Fey all [...]
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Prior to the 1983-1984 season, Eddie Murphy agreed to appear in ten live broadcasts, and via a [...]
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Mike Myers based the character "Dieter" on a student he met in art school. The real Dieter woul [...]
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Gilda Radner was seriously being considered by producer Gary Marshall and ABC for one of the ch [...]
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Conan O'Brien appeared uncredited in many sketches from 1988 to 1991, while he was a writer for [...]
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Cast members that became famous after their tenures on the show include Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Be [...]
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Jon Lovitz quit the show after 1989-1990 in order to work on Mom and Dad Save the World (1992). [...]
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Billy Crystal did blackface in the "Kate and Allie" skit.
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Norm MacDonald was removed from Weekend Update in the middle of the 1997-1998 season at the ins [...]
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During the 2016 Presidential election, candidate Donald Trump said he would love for Alec Baldw [...]
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Street performer Charlie Barnett was cast for the 1980-1981 season. Eddie Murphy replaced him a [...]
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In 2001, NBC aired two live 30-minute special episodes in prime time slots, to fill airtime. Je [...]
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In order to make Bill Hader laugh, and break character during the "Stefon" sketches, John Mulan [...]
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According to Kevin Nealon, his character of Mr. Subliminal was based on his friend, actor Ed Pe [...]
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G.E. Smith was the guitarist for Daryl Hall and John Oates before he joined the Saturday Night [...]
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Jim Henson created new adult Muppets who appeared in every episode of the first season. The Mup [...]
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Comedians Lenny Bruce and Buddy Hackett billed themselves as the Not Ready for Prime Time Playe [...]
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Playwright Garrett Morris was originally hired as a writer. His sketches that were deemed too l [...]
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Eight regulars have received Oscar nominations. Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Downey Jr., Bi [...]
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Jeffrey Ross offered the chance to audition to replace Colin Quinn as Weekend Update anchor. Ju [...]
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Chris Farley was absent from some episodes of the 92-93 season. Presumably because he was in an [...]
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In Season 43, Kenan Thompson surpassed Darrell Hammond as the longest-tenured cast member, with [...]
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Second City TV (1976) once did a parody called "Thursday Night Live"
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A very loose representation of the show, called "Saturday Night Tonight", appears in the Castle [...]
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Fred Savage was the first person born after the series debuted on October 11, 1975 to host an e [...]
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Lorne Michaels wanted Laura Kightlinger to co-anchor with Norm MacDonald on Weekend Update, but [...]
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Eddie Murphy didn't return to the show for several years because of a "Hollywood Minute" sketch [...]
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During the 2007-2008 season, Wyatt Cenac, Jordan Carlos, Donald Glover, and Jordan Peele auditi [...]
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The first "Weekend Update" anchor, Chevy Chase, has said that he modeled his catchphrase "Good [...]
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The show is rigidly scripted. Many of the cast members, including John Belushi, Jim Belushi, Ch [...]
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Kel Mitchell auditioned for a spot in the cast. He was beaten out by his former Kenan & Kel (19 [...]
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Rob Huebel auditioned twice to join the cast.
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Steve Martin and Tina Fey are the only people to host a season premiere, a season finale, and a [...]
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The episodes hosted by Louise Lasser and Milton Berle have never been rerun, at Lorne Michaels' [...]
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Although Kristen Wiig did improvisation at The Groundlings in Los Angeles prior to joining the [...]
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Paul Shaffer is the only band member to host an episode.
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Largely since the series was in its prime during its first five seasons (1975-1980) and is cons [...]
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Whenever a celebrity dies SNL often will rebroadcast an episode in which that celebrity hosted [...]
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Musical Director Lenny Pickett has been the tenor sax soloist on the opening theme since the be [...]
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Guest performances were common in the show's first years, mostly by Andy Kaufman, Al Franken, a [...]
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In 1995, Steve Carell auditioned for the show, along with his wife, Nancy Carell. She was cast, [...]
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Donald Trump is the only President to be on this show before he was even running; or even in po [...]
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Writer Kevin Brennan was considered to take over for Colin Quinn as Weekend Update anchor. Afte [...]
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Lorne Michaels and the remaining cast members left the show after the fifth season. For the 198 [...]
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According to Norm MacDonald, he copied the premise for "Celebrity Jeopardy" from the SCTV Netwo [...]
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In November 2013, Kenan Thompson stated in a TV Guide interview that the lack of black women in [...]
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Michael McKean and Dan Aykroyd are the only people to appear as cast members, hosts, and musica [...]
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Al Franken wanted to replace Kevin Nealon as Weekend Update anchor when Nealon left in 1995. Wh [...]
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Liz Cackowski and Maribeth Monroe are among the women who auditioned for the 2005-2006 season, [...]
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When Harry Shearer left the show during the 1984-1985 season, he cited "creative differences". [...]
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In November 2007, the cast, except for Maya Rudolph, gave a live unaired performance of Saturda [...]
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In 2001, Will Ferrell became the highest-paid cast member in the show's history. He was paid $3 [...]
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Prior to joining the cast, Dennis Miller won a Gabriel Award for his work as the host of "Punch [...]
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Voted #10 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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John Belushi's brother Jim, and Bill Murray's brother Brian Doyle Murray made appearances on th [...]
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Tim Kazurinsky was offered the chance to replace Brad Hall as Weekend Update anchor in the 1983 [...]
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In 2015, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked all 141 cast members up to that time , with John Belushi [...]
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Dwayne Johnson was scheduled to host on November 10, 2007, with Amy Winehouse as musical guest. [...]
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In October 1980, Lorne Michaels and most of the original cast members, who had since left the s [...]
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As of 2012, the only female former cast members to return to the show as hosts have been Julia [...]
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Don Pardo announced his retirement twice, in 2004 and in 2009. Both times, he was convinced to [...]
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The original title of this show was actually "NBC's Saturday Night", not "Saturday Night Live". [...]
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According to Larry David, he stormed into executive producer Dick Ebersol's office and angrily [...]
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Jane Lynch called Kirstin Wiig "Little Orphan asshole" during one of the Gilli skits. This is j [...]
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According to Cecily Strong, the voice for her character in the "Former Porn Stars" sketches, is [...]
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Season 40 (2014-2015) was the first in which all of the repertory players were born after the s [...]
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The characters "The Coneheads" were ranked #15 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Le [...]
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When the show first debuted, it didn't air every weekend. The news magazine show Weekend (1974) [...]
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Janeane Garofalo was a cast member during the 1994-1995 season. She left before the end of the [...]
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Jane Curtain said in an Emmy TV Legends Interview she did not like doing this show a lot of the [...]
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While most of the musical performances on the show are live, a few were lip-synced, and several [...]
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As of 2013, five cast members have been born outside of North America: Tony Rosato (Italy), Pam [...]
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The series was originally commissioned to have just six episodes.
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The following performers are all alumni of the famed Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles, Califo [...]
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As they were transitioning from Chevy Chase to Bill Murray, Chase (per Lorne Michaels' instruct [...]
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Ray Romano was originally scheduled to host the show for the second time in April 2002, but had [...]
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Some celebrities who were almost cast members include: Jim Carrey (1980), John Goodman (1980), [...]
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Beginning in 1995, the Saturday Night Live logo used the abbreviation SNL, which became how the [...]
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Chris Farley accidentally cut himself with glass between his first and second seasons. A scar i [...]
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The show's 50th Emmy win was Kate McKinnon's, in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy [...]
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The following people are members of the Five-Timers Club: Alec Baldwin (17 times), Steve Martin [...]
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From 1975 to 1980, the map of the world on Weekend Update showed Vietnam split into the pre-197 [...]
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Candice Bergen was the first female host, the first person to host the show for a second time, [...]
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Contrary to popular belief, Steve Martin was never a cast member. He has hosted the show 15 tim [...]
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In 2011, Darrell Hammond revealed that he initially opposed the idea of impersonating John McCa [...]
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As of 2013, nine cast members have been born in Canada: Dan Aykroyd, Peter Aykroyd, Paul Shaffe [...]
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Gilda Radner was originally set to be the first female original cast member to host in the 13 s [...]
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Studio 8H, where this show is broadcast, is not connected to the GE Building (NBC Studios) at R [...]
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Ana Gasteyer and Chris Parnell auditioned to co-anchor Weekend Update in 2000. But Tina Fey and [...]
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According to Marc Maron, he met with Lorne Michaels in 1996 about replacing Norm MacDonald as W [...]
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Eddie Murphy said he did not go to any of the casts' infamous drug parties after the show wrapp [...]
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When Eric Idle hosted on October 20, 1979, a clip was shown from Idle's project Rutland Weekend [...]
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Don Pardo's announcing booth was located in the exact same spot on which Arturo Toscanini's pod [...]
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The word "fuck" has been said several times live on the air. In 1980, Paul Shaffer said "fuckin [...]
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47-year-old Leslie Jones holds the record for the oldest cast member to join the show. Michael [...]
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T.J. Miller auditioned to be a cast member, but Bobby Moynihan was cast instead.
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Jason Sudeikis auditioned to anchor Weekend Update while he was still a writer on the show in 2 [...]
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Jennifer Tilly auditioned to join the 1985-1986 cast.
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This was one of composer Howard Shore's first professional gigs. He was hired as the show's fir [...]
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Contrary to popular belief, Chevy Chase is not banned from ever hosting the show again. In the [...]
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John Candy was offered a chance to join the cast for the 1981-1982 season. He turned it down to [...]
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According to Jane Curtin, John Belushi did not believe that women were funny. He would sabotage [...]
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Three sets of brothers have been cast members: John Belushi and Jim Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Peter A [...]
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