Long-lost sketches from the first season of 'Saturday Night Live'

In 1974, a man named Dick Ebersol was hired by NBC to create a 90-minute late night variety show. He immediately hired a Canadian producer who went by the name of Lorne Michaels

Together, the two created Saturday Night Live and unwittingly paved the foundation that would change the face of comedy.

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The first monologue: George Carlin, on football and baseball

The show's first episode aired on Oct. 11, 1975, and was hosted by George Carlin, who was already Johnny Carson's right-hand man on The Tonight Show. At the time, it was called NBC's Saturday Night Live, since ABC had its own Saturday Night Live with Howard Cossell (it was cancelled in 1976). Read more...

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