which deals with its early history; Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years (1994), an “authorized” coffee-table book edited by Michael Cader with terrific photos of the show’s early ...

Early classics include Radner’s “The ... or have passed on. Fifty years before “SNL,” movies still had two years to wait before they could talk; Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush ...

Season 3, Episode 6 (1977) SNL plumbed the depths of John Belushi’s real-life persona for laughs on numerous occasions in its early years (“The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave,” a second-season ...