Language: English
2024
Running time: 1hr 49min
From IMDb:
At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live (1975).
Quote:
Lorne Michaels: "Did anyone ask Edison what a lightbulb was before he harnessed electricity?"
Thoughts:
I loved this.
I very much want to watch it again. I want to watch the old SNL shows.
Then I want to watch it again alongside someone who has a love for comedy and love for SNL.
I love, love. loved this.
Recently, I watched a Dave Chappelle stand up and wrote something along the lines of A good comedian sees the line and delivers an objective humorous take while a great comedian obliterates it.
It being the 'line'. I feel this movie encapsulates a bit of why I enjoy SNL... from Michael O'Donoghue hot take on Jesus to quoting Hitler to Tebet on the elevator ride with Lorne, Morris's song about whitey, George Carlin hosting that first episode, and that frantic seat of your pants/high stakes energy. It is live. It is breathing. It is present. It is in the moment and the film does a good job with the stream of flow to make you feel part of it. SNL will celebrate 50 years later this year.
I had had thoughts about what it might be like to be part of the SNL writer's room. Dreamt about it. Have made sketches for some of the cast (I still have this one in mind involving Keenan Thomas and Chris Redd, though Redd is no longer a cast member) and an extended skit/novella of it. Watching this movie gave me that feel of being part of that chaotic energy and thought 'yeah I'm cool on that' but then afterwards was like 'well... ...'
WTW ^_^
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