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50 Random Bits of ‘SNL’ Trivia From 50 Seasons of ‘SNL’

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50 Random Bits of ‘SNL’ Trivia From 50 Seasons of ‘SNL’

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50 Random Bits of ‘SNL’ Trivia From 50 Seasons of ‘SNL’

Source: US Magazine

CYPRESS HILL OCTOBER 22, 1993 AFl Lorne banned Cypress Hill for life after DJ Muggs sparked up a spliff onstage. (Psst, Lorne, it's legal in NYC now.)

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Colin Jost Jokes That Were Clearly Written By Michael Che.

Colin Jost Jokes That Were Clearly Written By Michael Che. Their swapping jokes segment keeps things light and is a great ex- ample of their chemistry. Jost: The bat used by Babe Ruth to hit his 500th home-run was auctioned off this week. Also, I'll be auctioning off the bat I use to keep my neighbor- hood white. Clearly the first time he saw this joke (and reading it out loud on live TV), he couldn't help but just shake his head. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Hannibal Buress

HANNIBAL BURESS ALMOST GOT ON WEEKEND UPDATE 2010 CRACKED.COM I WASN'T GETTING ANY SKETCHES ON THE AIR... so I PITCHED SOMETHING TO SETH MEYERS. IMAGINE GOING TO YOUR BOSS AND SAYING, 'HEY, I KNOW I HAVEN'T BEEN DOING MY JOB VERY WELL BUT HOW ABOUT I DO THIS OTHER JOB.' I ACTUALLY DID IT AT DRESS REHEARSAL, BUT IT GOT CUT. IT WAS PRETTY COOL TO DO.

Source: 35 Bonkers Behind-The-Scenes Facts About The History Of Saturday Night Live

STEFON

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THEY TALKED ABOUT MAKING A MOVIE BASED ON SNL'S STEFON AT ONE POINT. As John Mulaney said the film would be kind of like 24 Hour Party People, so like a narrative documentary where he is the correspondent on SNL Weekend Update.

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Norm’s OJ Simpson Jokes

Norm's OJ Simpson Jokes Norm loved going after O.J. Simpson, which is rumored to be the reason he was let go from the show. After the O.J. was announced inno- cent Norm famously made the joke Well it's official, murder is legal in the state of California. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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BRAD HALL HOSTED 'SATURDAY NIGHT NEWS' 1983 B*A*R* F PART OF DICK EBERSOL'S POST-LORNE REBRAND WAS CHANGING THE NAME OF WEEKEND UPDATE. HALL LASTED ABOUT A SEASON AND A HALF IN THE ANCHOR CHAIR BEFORE LEAVING SNL AND MARRYING CASTMATE JULIA OUIS-DREYFUS. (THEY'RE STILL TOGETHER, GOD BLESS 'EM.)

Vulture

COMEDY of NERD CRACKED.COM Thanksgiving Parade This sketch finally treats the Macy's Day Parade balloons with the respect and fear they demand. The balloons drift closer and closer to Beck Bennett's sick new apartment, showing that the line between big Spongebob and terrifying Spongebob is blurrier than you think.
Ant-Man has an obscure SNL reference. It's Garrett Morris' cameo -- a nod to his playing Ant-Man in an old SNL sketch about a superhero party. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first F-bomb on SNL Letterman's bandleader Paul Schaffer was an SNL cast member in 1980, and is credited with the show's first F-bomb. During the show's 100th episode, he was meant to say the word flogging, but well, you know...

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3k Lorne, it’s yours for the taking

CRACKED LORNE MICHAELS: FROM SNL TO THE NEW SHOW AND BACK AGAIN. Michaels quit Saturday Night Live after five seasons, but his new show, The New Show, didn't do well. Не had to go back to SNL to make money again.

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Retracing Lorne Michaels’ Missing ’Saturday Night Live’ Years 

Knoxville passed on ‘SNL’ for ‘Jackass.’

CRACKED W Madison JOHNNY KNOXVILLE TURNED DOWN SNL. Knoxville decided not to take a job on Saturday Night Live and instead focus on his own show, Jackass. Just think of what might have been.

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Johnny Knoxville Was Offered ’Saturday Night Live’ But Chose ’Jackass’ Instead

Eddie Murphy rules.

CRACKED EDDIE MURPHY GOT HIS SNL GIG BY SPENDING HIS DAYS HARASSING PRODUCERS FROM A PAYPHONE. ANATION R AWARDS H HARRY WINSTON Eddie Murphy was only 19 when he was cast on SNL- and he only got his audition by calling the offices every day and telling jokes on the phone.

A 19-Year-Old Eddie Murphy Hounded ‘SNL’ Producers from a Pay Phone for an Audition / Complex 

MICHAEL CHE

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MICHAEL CHE PITCHED A RACIALLY SPECIFIC JOKE ABOUT THE AVENGERS FOR SNL. And, well, it didn't air. As he describes it, it was about the Avengers accidentally killing an unarmed Black teenager, and for obvious reasons, there's no way that's going on .

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Steven Seagal

COMEDY NERD Steven Seagal hosted SNL on April 20, 1991, and just about everybody hated it. SNL alum David Spade later said that maybe his one-inch ponytail was too tight that night, but whatever it was, he came off as wooden and totally devoid of any comic instinct. CRACKED.COM

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Just before Kanye went on SNL, he had an explosive meltdown backstage. February 13 Не had asked for a shiny floor, but they tore it down because it was too bright, so he ranted Look at that sh-, they took my f-in' stage off of 'SNL' without asking me. CRACKED.COM

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Justin Bieber

COMEDY NERD Justin Bieber was an awful SNL guest, according to Bill Hader and Jay Pharaoh. The both agreed that, in their years of SNL experience, Bieber was the worst-behaved musical guest, period. CRACKED.COM

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Leslie Jones proves that the SNL cast isn’t just young comedians.

CRACKED Comedy Late Bloomers Leslie Jones booked SNL at 47. Her first professional gig was opening for Jamie Foxx in 1987, but her big break came in 2014 when she joined SNL. Hired as a writer, she soon joined the cast as well.

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Goalcast

AIDY BRYANT & KATE MCKINNON CRACKED.COM WHAT'S THE STORY BEHIND 70s TV COP SPOOF DYKE AND FATS? WE WERE BOTH REALLY TIRED ONE NIGHT, SAYS MCKINNON, AND I JUST SAID TO AIDY, 'MAN, DYKE IS TIRED, AND AIDY SAID, 'FATS IS TIRED, TOO. AND THEN IT BECAME OUR BEAUTIFUL THING THAT WE HAD TOGETHER.

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Tony & Joan Hawaii, PI

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM KRISTEN WIIG WROTE AN SNL SKETCH ABOUTTONY AND JOAN HAWAII, PI. And Lorne Michaels rejected them - Tony was kind of an Italian womanizer, and Joan Hawaii PI was, well, a Hawaiian Private Eye who, as Wiig said, kayaks everywhere.

Source: 13 Rejected Saturday Night Live Sketches We’ll Never Get To See

‘SNL’ and Brian Doyle-Murray pay tribute to John Belushi.

Brian Doyle-Murray owes his life to John Belushi. In a 1982 episode of SNL, Murray said that Belushi put him up when he first moved to NY, and was hit by a ten-ton truck while pushing Murray COLLEGE out of the truck's path. Belushi was unscathed. CRACKED

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phil rob SCHNEIDER HARTMAN CRACKED.COM Hartman helped a young female friend of his family land an internship on Weekend Update. Schneider's girlfriend didn't like the competition and convinced Rob to fire her. According to David Spade, Hartman threw Schneider up against a wall and said I'll put a bullet in your head. Yikes.

Source: “I’ll Put A Bullet In Your Head”: 15 Comedy Feuds That Weren’t Always Funny

Phil Hartman was bored at intermission.

GRACKED PHIL HARTMAN: THE LITTLE AUDIENCE MEMBER WHO COULD. In attendance at a Groundlings improv show, Hartman jumped on stage during intermission. The cast heard the laughs, asked him to join, and he became a regular for 11 years before joining SNL.

Phil Hartman’s Big Break Came From Crashing A Groundlings Show / Slash Film 

Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN THE '90S, SNL AIRED A SKETCHTHAT KIND OF SHADED INTO BODY SHAMING. It was a Chippendales audition sketch that starred Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley, both shirtless, and Farley getting called fat and disgusting at the end - apparently, that sketch really fed into his insecurities.

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Adam Sandler’s touching tribute song to Chris Farley.

Adam Sandler's Chris Farley Song. Sandler said he couldn't even get through the first few performances, and he even gets choked up while performing it on his Netflix special 100% Fresh, and a 2019 SNL episode. CRACKED

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CNN

Saturday Night Live put Princess Leia in a gold bikini 5 years before Return of the Jedi In the 1978 episode hosted by Carrie Fisher, Fisher plays her iconic character who drops by a 1950s beach. CRACKED.COM

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France

SNL around the world In France, Le Saturday Night Live lasted only a single episode. They got to air their version of the More Cowbell sketch, though. CRACKED.COM

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Landshark (Saturday Night Live)

Sharks Movies & TV Saturday Night Live Landshark was Chevy Chase's only original recurring character. While many SNL cast members have a few characters in their pockets for multiple sketches, Landshark was Chase's only character that showed up more than once. Good thing he had Weekend Update. CRACKED.COM

Source: Saturday Night Live Wiki

Tina Fey in ‘SNL’ and ’30 Rock’

writers on screen 30 Rock Tina Fey Fey ran both shows while starring in them. saturday Night Live AGINIA CRACKED.COM

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM NORM MACDONALD VS. NBC SNL Although not confirmed it has always been speculated that Norm McDonald was fired for making too many jokes about OJ Simpson, who is famous for playing football. Norm said the firing was out of Lorne's hands and fell more onto NBC executive, and friend of OJ Simpson, Don Ohlmeyer.

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JENNY SLATE WROTE 'MARCEL THE SHELL' S 19 02 9 INTERNATIONAL is CRACKED.COM RUMOR WAS SNL DROPPED SLATE FOR HURLING AN F-BOMB. NOT TRUE: I JUST DIDN'T BELONG THERE, SAYS SLATE. SHE WENT ON TO KILL IT ON 'PARKS AND REC' AND THE WELL-RECEIVED INDIE 'OBVIOUS CHILD.'

Cinema Blend

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MOVIE

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MOVIE ALMOST ENDED UP HAPPENING. VINOLA SM ARE Apparently, it was supposed to be a feature-length collection of movie-related sketches, and the idea was floated in 1990. There was even a full-length script, but the movie never got off the ground.

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TERRY AND BONNIE TURNER TALKED IT OUT 1986 GRACKED.com THE CREATORS OF 'THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN'AND 'THAT 70S SHOW' WERE MARRIED WHEN WRITING ON SNL. SHE COULD SHORE ME UP AND I COULD SHORE HER UP. SAYS TERRY. WE BOTH WENT TO THERAPY DURING THE SHOW. WAIT-SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE DROVE US BOTH TO THERAPY. I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT UNTIL NOW.

Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

DAMON WAYANS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DAMON WAYANS WAS ON SNL FROM '85 TO '86, AND IT DID NOT WORK OUT FOR HIM. They had me in scenes where I would just hold a spear. I'm like, 'I'm not doing that. My mother's going to watch this show.' No lines! Just holding the spear in a thong. I'm like, 'I can't do this, he recounted.

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MORE COWBELL WILL FERRELL CRACKED.COM Classic rock fan Chris Parnell wrote the sketch, which bombed in dress rehearsal. Before air, Ferrell asked wardrobe for a shirt one size smaller and the bit went from huh? to hilarious. Blue Oyster Cult nixed the movie since the band can no longer perform without the audience shouting MORE COWBELL!

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TARGET LADY WAS BASED ON AN ACTUAL... TARGET LADY KRISTEN WIIG Fan Fan ox CRACKED.COM WIIG CREATED THE CHARACTER FOR THE GROUNDLINGS. SHE DIDN'T LEAVE WHILE SHE WAS CHECKING ME OUT BUT IT WAS JUST HER VOICE, SAYS WIIG. THERE WAS JUST SOMETHING EGGY ABOUT IT. LIKE SHE HAD EGGS IN HER THROAT. NO WORD ON WHETHER SHE ATE HALF AN ALMOND FOR ENERGY.

Bravo

ADRIEN BRODY MAY 10, 2003 CRACKED.COM Brody went completely off-script introducing musical act Sean Paul, appearing in fake dreadlocks and affecting an offensively bad Jamaican accent. Buh-bye, Brody.

Far Out Magazine

BEWARE THE BULGES OF TWO WILD AND CRAZY GUYS MARTIN/ACKROYD CRACKED.COM STEVE HAD THIS CHARACTER, THE CONTINENTAL GUY, SAYS ACKROYD, AND I HAD THE 'SWINGING' CZECH WHO WAS TRYING TO TALK LIKE AN AMERICAN, TRYING TO HAVE THE ACCENT, THE CLOTHES. so WE TOOK HIS CONTINENTAL GUY AND MY CZECH GUY AND WE FUSED THEM INTO THE CZECH BROTHERS.

Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

CHEVY CHASE 15, Night FEBRUARY 1997 CRACKED.COM A fistfight with Bill Murray wasn't enough to get Chase banned as a host. That would be his 1987 stint when, according to Will Ferrell, he asked a female writer if maybe you could give me a handjob later.

Uproxx

WAYNE CAMPBELL MIKE MYERS CRACKED.COM Myers based Wayne on friends he grew up with in the suburbs of Toronto, believing there was a certain homogenous suburban adolescent heavy metal experience that most could relate to. Myers' buddies cruised around in the Red Rocket, not the Mirthmobile.

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HEY GIRL, IT'S FROM THE HEART - IT'S A D *CK IN A BOX SAMBERG/TIMBERLAKE CRACKED.COM WE GREW UP WITH THAT '90S R&B SOUND so WE HAD THIS IDEA ABOUT GUYS WHO WERE STILL STUCK IN THAT ERA, SAYS TIMBERLAKE. THEN IT WAS 'HOW DO YOU GET AWAY WITH THEM BEING IDIOTS?' THE BEST WAY WAS FOR THEM TO BE AS GENUINE AS POSSIBLE ABOUT THE GIFT THEY WERE GIVING BUT NOT TOTALLY AT FULL WIT.

Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

Saturday Night Live's 40th Anniversary after-party had a bunch of big names live jamming on stage. Highlights of the night: - Paul McCartney performin
JOHN MULANEY ROCKED 'LOBSTER 2010 CRACKED.COM SNL HOST MULANEY PERFORMED IN A DINER LOBSTER MUSICAL, A REJECTED SKETCH HE'D WRITTEN WITH COLIN JOST YEARS EARLIER. WHAT'S HIS WRITING SECRET? WE WROTE IT BY LISTENING TO THE LES MIS SOUNDTRACK AND WE CHANGED THE WORDS OF THE SONGS AND MADE IT ABOUT BEING A LOBSTER.

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Good goin’, Gilda

GILDA RADNER was the very first hire for Saturday Night Live. The actress was the first to be cast in SNL in 1975. She stayed for five years. CRACKED.COM

Glamour

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CHRIS KATTAN VS WILL FERRELL SNL The story is that Lorne Michaels ordered Kattan to sleep with Night at the Roxbury director, Amy Heckerling SO she wouldn't back out of the film. Will Ferrell stopped speaking to Kattan after he went through with it, finding it deplorable. Chris Kattan says it's Lorne's fault, Ferrell doesn't comment on it, Heckerling hates Kattan presently, and SNL reps claim Lorne never said anything to Kattan. What's the truth?

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Zach Galifianakis had a vo-week trial run as a writer on Saturday Night Live Tina Fey comforted him after one of his sketches bombed during a table read. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DAVID SPADE VS EDDIE MURPHY SNL In David Spade's segment on Weekend Update called Hollywood Minute, he went after SNL legend Eddie Murphy. Spade made a joke about Murphy releasing 2 flops in a row and saidlook kids, a falling star! Murphy got a hold of Spade on the phone, screamed at him and boycotted hosting for years after.

Source: Salon

GEENA DAVIS CRACKED.COM Geena Davis met with us in the lobby of the Century Plaza Hotel, remembers Harry Shearer, and it was all quite awkward and uncomfortable for everybody involved. Especially considering she didn't get the job.

Vulture

JOHN GOODMAN GRAGKED.COM 13-time host (third place all-time!) but it was a hard no when he auditioned for the cast in 1980.

Screen Rant

CRACKEDCOr Bill Hader's most memorable moment on Saturday Night Live was playing in a punk band with Dave Grohl. In a sketch about aging rock stars, H

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