{"id":21357,"date":"2016-10-11T06:11:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21357"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:02:09","slug":"october-11-1975-nbc-saturday-night-debuts-live-in-studio-8hit-would-be-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21357","title":{"rendered":"October 11, 1975&#8230;&#8221;NBC Saturday Night&#8221; Debuts, LIVE In Studio 8H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/October-11-1975...NBC-Saturday-Night-Debuts-LIVE-In-Studio-8H-It-would-be-8.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOctober 11, 1975&#8230;&#8221;NBC Saturday Night&#8221; Debuts, LIVE In Studio 8H<\/p>\n<p>It would be 8 more months until the show became &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221;, after Howard Cosell&#8217;s ABC variety show (which had the same name) folded and give up the name, and the term &#8220;not ready for prime time players&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The video below is a double bonus! First, it is one of the funniest every SNL sketches, from last year&#8217;s anniversary show, and second, with your mouse, you can get a 360 degree look at the studio as the sketch unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all our friends in 8H (some who have been there since the start), on the 41st birthday of one of television history&#8217;s most unique adventures! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3WyMSrAgPKc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3WyMSrAgPKc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celebrity Jeopardy (360\u00b0) - SNL 40th Anniversary Special\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WyMSrAgPKc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alex Trebek (Will Ferrell) tries his best to keep contestants Sean Connery (Darrell Hammond), Justin Bieber (Kate McKinnon), Tony Bennett (Alec Baldwin), Bur&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1106010399436508\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 11, 1975&#8230;&#8221;NBC Saturday Night&#8221; Debuts, LIVE In Studio 8H It would be 8 more months until the show became &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221;, after Howard Cosell&#8217;s ABC variety show (which had the same name) folded and give up the name, and the term &#8220;not ready for prime time players&#8221;. The video below is a double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,875,782,787,725],"class_list":["post-21357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-howard-cosell","tag-nbc","tag-net","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}