presidents to open the show with “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night.” Gerald Ford did it during the first season on April 17, 1976, when his press secretary, Ron Nessen, hosted.Ģ: Future comic superstars named Steve who appeared in the recurring animated superhero spoof “The Ambiguously Gay Duo” on “SNL” in the ‘90s. on NBC (which will feature more than 50 past cast members, hosts, musical guests and other celebrities, including Eddie Murphy making his first appearance on the show in 30 years and, for some reason, Sarah Palin), we decided to take a by-the-numbers approach to the show’s legacy - one piece of trivia corresponding with every year it’s been on the air:ġ: The number of sitting U.S. This week, in the midst of VH1 Classic’s 19-day “SNL” marathon leading up to the show’s three-hour, 40th anniversary special this Sunday at 8 p.m. (E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.For every memorable sketch, there are two or three that fall flat for every moment of brilliant comic timing, there are multiple flubbed lines or technical miscues (especially, it seems, lately).īut no matter how inconsistent or even cringe-inducing a particular season or episode might be, the “Saturday Night Live” juggernaut rolls on, with no end date on the horizon.īack in September, as “SNL” began its 40th season, we talked about the reasons for the show’s unprecedented staying power with Bucks County author Jim Miller, whose recently revised book “Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests,” co-written with Tom Shales, is a must-read for anybody interested in the stories behind “SNL’s” success. He's even scheduled to appear on the 40 th anniversary special, which airs on February 15 th at 8 p.m. Jim Carrey, meanwhile, has done just fine for himself and did eventually get to host SNL a few times.
Or maybe they were right – who knows? No one gets it all right." "I wasn't at Jim Carrey's audition, but somebody there said, ‘I don't think Lorne would like it,' and they were probably wrong, but it doesn't matter.
Perhaps the most puzzling rejection went to Jim Carrey, who also tried out in 1985 before he was cast on In Living Color, but Michaels kinda sorta has an excuse for that one. Colbert worked as a freelance writer alongside Robert Smigel, and he and Carell provided the voices for the two main characters in the Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoons that ran sporadically on SNL from 1996 to 2011. While Colbert and Carell both eventually found their own success outside of SNL, they were actually still involved in the show for many years. " Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell auditioned," Michaels said, "There were lots of people you'd see how brilliant they were, but you knew on some level it wasn't going to work." She also wasn't the only regret that Michaels claims to have. Still, we can only imagine what an SNL cast that included her would have looked like. Kudrow, who auditioned in 1985 along with Kathy Griffin and Julia Sweeney, who was eventually hired, obviously went on to have a perfectly successful career, starring on what many consider to be one of the greatest sitcoms of all time and producing and starring in a couple of her own shows including HBO's The Comeback and Showtime's Web Therapy.
" Lisa Kudrow gave a brilliant audition," Michaels told THR, "but it was at the time when it was Jan Hooks and Nora. The SNL boss recently opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about the past forty years of SNL and revealed that he has a few regrets in terms of a few stars he rejected from the cast, including one very good Friend. We all make mistakes, even when we're Lorne Michaels.
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