Tomorrow, NBC airs the grande finaleSNL50: The Anniversary Special, which includes more A-List talent.
The Not Ready for Prime Time Players will also appear.
Its brash, charismatic and irreverent whatSNLalways wants to be.
Circa 1975, stills from sketches from the 1975-84 seasons of ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Top, left to right: Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray; and bottom Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Laraine Newman, John Belushi and JoeNBC Television/Getty Images
Theres no present everything is the near future or the recent past.
No wonder we cant get anything together, we got no time, man!
When it succeeds, it often feels like kismet, a miracle of hilarity and jubilation.
When it veers off-course, it feels perhaps inevitable due to the shows grueling, bonkers schedule.
Not too shabby for a bunch of first-timers with no time trying to do something for the first time.
