• George Carlin's T-Shirt Almost Derailed Saturday Night Live's Premiere

    7 days ago - By Slash Film

    When "Saturday Night Live" hit NBC's airwaves on October 11, 1975, at 11:30 p.m. EDT, numerous broadcast standards were about to be skirted if not outright flouted. Lorne Michaels had assembled a supremely talented cast of Baby Boomer comedic performers and Chevy Chase to, hopefully, transform the once undesirable time slot into a must-watch 90 minutes for people who were busy closing bars or turning in early on their last night off for the weekend. Michaels needed everything to feel counterintuitive, if not ragged. It was a bracing olio of sketches, music performances , pre-filmed bits...
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