Saturday Night Live: Season 48

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The yacht rock cover of “Sixteen Tons” that Chevy Chase did for the album he was promoting on the 1980 episode is legit kind of dope. That album also had the first rap parody.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

45 Years Ago: Murray and Chase Fight Before 'SNL' Goes on Air

Bill Murray and Chevy Chase fought before 'Saturday Night Live' went on the air in February 1978.

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speaking of Chevy…somehow this might not have been his most dysfunctional hosting gig.

 

[Valeyard]

I almost admire that Chevy has always been the same guy.

 

[strummer]

John Belushi died 41 years ago today. Showtime is airing the Belushi doc. tonight in honor.

 

[Valeyard]

No one is airing Wired wtf

 

[BruiserBrody]

Dan is weird (legit weird; we can bond over the 'tism-level weird). He'd had better give me, like for free, some Crystal Head Vodka if it means I gotta hear about paranormal interdimensional aliens or something.

Dan sold his shares in the company late last year.

I only know this as I looked up the "distilled over diamonds with glacial water...." Vodka making process during Xmas. I bought my nephew some Crystal Head Vodka due to his bourgeois liquor tastes compared to my "any alcohol and a diluent" attitude.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Pretty solid showing for Travis Kelcee by the way.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634664956007161857

Seriously. SNL is in its most pre tape heavy era. Cut the crap and give those editors what they’re asking for.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1640398352725557264

Molly Shannon heck yeah.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

TIL Jon Lovitz did the Pathological Liar on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson before he was even cast on SNL.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1643751595392528384

 

[Valeyard]

Dana Carvey deserved so much better.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1643751595392528384

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1643641055261368320

 

[strummer]

Pete Davidson hosting May 6th

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Does this break Kristen Wiig's record for shortest time elapsed between leaving the cast and first hosting gig? I think it's only other time someone hosted less than a year after they left.

 

[Valeyard]

Chevy?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Yeah, I mean, technically there was 15 months between Chevy's last official episode as a castmember and him "returning" to host but he made so many cameos and appeared in so many pre-tapes that it didn't feel like he had left.

 

[Valeyard]

I think Chevy counts. That's the only one that comes closest, I think.

How long was Hartman gone before he hosted?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Hartman’s last SNL as a cast member was May ‘94 and his first hosting stint was March ‘96. He hosted for the 2nd and sadly last time eight months later though so I could see it seeming like he was always there after he left.

 

[Valeyard]

Martin Short might technically count as well. Maybe.

 

[BUTT]

Eddie Murphy hosted in late '84, just months after he left (in one of the few Ebersol-era episodes I remember seeing on Comedy Central; Robert Plant and the Honeydrippers were the musical guest.)

 

[strummer]

Murray was first for shortest time. Wiig was second.

Pete is close to passing Wiig I believe

 

[strummer]

Eddie Murphy hosted in late '84, just months after he left (in one of the few Ebersol-era episodes I remember seeing on Comedy Central; Robert Plant and the Honeydrippers were the musical guest.)

Technically though Eddie hosted while still a castmember so Murray and Wiig beat him for shortest time leaving and coming back to host for first time

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Martin Short might technically count as well. Maybe.

There was a year and a half or so between the end of Season 10 and the Three Amigos hosted episode. Can’t believe you, of all people, participating in Season 11 erasure. SMDH.

Eddie is to SNL what Wayne Gretzky is to hockey. Statistically, it’s him on one level then everybody else. He also is the one person to host WHILE they were a cast member.


Then we can get into Billy Crystal and Michael McKean hosting BEFORE they were in the cast. In McKean’s case, a decade before he was a cast member so maybe he is the ultimate winner.


God what was the point of Michael McKean’s stint as an SNL cast member? It was an interesting idea to replace Hartman on paper but just confusing as hell in reality.

 

[strummer]

Chevy is in 3rd place from leaving to hosting for the first time. Norm is 4th which is funny considering the controversy around his exit.

Short is in 5th place

 

[Valeyard]

McKean was wasted. I just remember him doing a good Stern impression like twice. Sadly his face is just one I see with that awful period, though, and I love the guy.

Eddie was still in the cast and alienated almost everyone immediately with his "Live from New York it's the Eddie Murphy Show!" bullshit.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

McKean was wasted. I just remember him doing a good Stern impression like twice. Sadly his face is just one I see with that awful period, though, and I love the guy.

Anytime I saw a Season 20 rerun as a kid, I got so confused when he popped up. “Wait. Is he host too!?”

There is a crappy sketch where he plays Spaulding Gray and Adam Sandler plays Eric Boghosian in a Battle of the Spoken Word Artists that really epitomizes how awkward that season is.

And hey who knew Sandler and Boghosian would play brothers in laws in an indie darling twenty five years later?

 

[strummer]

Apparently McKean was recently divorced and was down on his luck and Lorne just offered him a spot in the cast. He had done the Coneheads movie a year prior.

Obviously the plan was for him to replace Phil but yeah it was a total misfit with the Farley/Sandler/Spade cast

 

[Valeyard]

Now he's got a hot wife some people probably have had a crush on since they first saw 48 Hours and even watched Nash Bridges and The Huntress for only to be ignored when they bring up the love for Huntress on twitter upon finding out she had one and thus breaking a heart.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Yeah. McKean talked quite a bit about his SNL run when he was on Gilbert Gottfried ‘s podcast (speaking of famously horrible SNL runs). He seemed to have the healthiest attitude out of notable horrible SNL runs. Probably cause he was already in his mid 40s and a well established comedy character actor when he started so he was one of the only people outside of the Season 10 ringers whose career wouldn’t have been made or broken by SNL.

Just the way they did Season 20 made no damn sense. You don’t bring in a group of ringers and add them on top of your already established (but very burnt out) cast! They could have and maybe should have fired the Bad Boys a year earlier. None of it made any sense the way they did it. Either give Farley, Spade and Sandler another season to try and right the ship or hand the reins to the alt comedy nerds (and Michael McKean). You can’t try and do both!