Today we celebrated Chiff's 16th birthday by going to Ruth Chris's. And, true to form, we also went to see a movie. We watched Saturday Night Live.
That was an amazing movie. It explained what it was like to put together the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. It has all of the little subplots and anecdotes that have been part of the lore over the years, as well as some new ideas.
Some of the interesting things I learned:
• There were two comedians and two musical guests on the show
• John Belushi wasn't too sure he wanted to be on the first episode.
• Chevy Chase fought to have his girlfriend on the show.
• Bill Crystal was supposed to be on the show, but his segment was cut.
• Johnny Carson was not a fan of the show and reruns of the Tonight Show were ready to roll in case they could not put the whole show together.
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