Talk:History of Saturday Night Live (1975–1980)

December 2004 comment

I thought it might be nice (and cleaner eventually?) to split this article up into sections that deal with each season. In this way it is clear who was a cast member during which years, etc and we can expand each season's section to indicate popular character/sketch debuts, infamous events, etc. Ideally we could even begin to move the entire "Seventies" history into each season section where possible. Once we get the format correct in 1975-1980, we could then bring this format into the other periods. Jeff schiller 18:06, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)

July 2005 comment

The first cast members were Second City alumni Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner and Groundlings alumni Chevy Chase (whose trademark became his usual falls and opening spiel that ushered in the show's opening), Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, and Garrett Morris. This is wrong. Of the latter four people, only Newman had ever been in the Groundlings.Bjones

Alternate organization

The History of Saturday Night Live (1990-1995) has some improvements that should be considered for the other articles in the series, such as:

• eliminating the Season Breakdown section, promoting all items within it
• moving season-specific comments to the appropriate section instead of lumping them all together in the introduction
• adding a Hosts and musical guests section and providing a cross-reference there to the right section in List of Saturday Night Live hosts and musical guests

If you agree these changs represent improvements, consider applying them here too. Thanks. 66.167.139.170 11:33, 29 January 2006 (UTC).

WP:BIO

Please do not reinsert the allegations of drug abuse without providing a reliable source as called for by WP:BIO. The editor formerly known as Harmonica Wolfowitz 23:22, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

The source for these allegations was Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad. --JamesB3 04:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Howard Shore's Band

"The original theme music was written by future Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore, who--along with his "All Nurse Band"--was the original band leader on the show."

This implies that the "All Nurse Band" was the official name of the house band. This is incorrect. The "All Nurse Band" was a one-off joke for one episode, in which the band members dressed up in nurse's outfits. They were also called "Howard Shore and His Band of Angels" (when they dressed up like angels) and "Howard Shore and the Shore Patrol" (when they dressed up like sailors). It would be just as inaccurate to call that their official name as it would be to say that the first season cast excluding Chase was called "the Bees," because they were called that once in the second episode. -- JCaesar 22:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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Lead comment

I added a lead section to this page Airrick321 (talk) 01:15, 4 March 2015 (UTC)