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At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

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Poster for Saturday Night

Saturday Night

Towards the beginning I was waiting for the chaos to settle into a more linear story. It never did, but I got into it enough to stop thinking about it.

A good dramatisation, but I don’t think I know enough about (early) SNL to fully appreciate a lot of it.