{"id":690082,"date":"2025-09-14T21:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hollywood-flashback-snls-epic-emmy-run-began-50-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:30:50","slug":"hollywood-flashback-snls-epic-emmy-run-began-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hollywood-flashback-snls-epic-emmy-run-began-50-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Flashback: \u2018SNL\u2019\u2019s Epic Emmy Run Began 50 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tPerhaps Saturday Night Live<\/em> was ready for primetime after all. The venerable NBC sketch show has earned more Emmys than any TV project, but that wasn\u2019t the path its team could foresee when it launched 50 years ago. <\/p>\n

\n\tCreator Lorne Michaels\u2019 series<\/a> debuted as Saturday Night<\/em> on Oct. 11, 1975, and its rocky start was the subject of last year\u2019s Sony movie of the same name from director Jason Reitman. Featuring a cast of fledging performers who became household names \u2014 John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd and the list goes on \u2014 the show gradually built its reputation. Attention-grabbing highlights of the first season included Land Shark, commercial parodies like Bass-O-Matic and host Richard Pryor\u2019s word association with Chase. \u201cThere were no promos to let anybody know what this show was,\u201d original castmember Laraine Newman tells THR<\/em>. \u201cAs it caught on, it was thrilling that it was so well received. The Sunday after [an episode aired], I would be walking down the street with Gilda, and people would call out lines that we had said the night before. That was the first inkling we had that it was actually being watched.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tEmmy voters were clearly among those watching, as the first season landed seven nominations. During the 28th Emmys ceremony on May 17, 1976, Saturday Night<\/em> nabbed four awards, which included prevailing over its lone competitor \u2014 CBS\u2019 The Carol Burnett Show<\/em> \u2014 for best comedy-variety series. After praising the show\u2019s cast and crew in his acceptance speech, Michaels went on to thank \u201cthe members of my family, who were always there when I was complaining and yelling about the very people I\u2019m thanking tonight.\u201d It also won best writing, directing and variety supporting actor for Chase, who quipped from the podium, \u201cNeedless to say, this is totally expected.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHalf a century later, SNL<\/em> \u2014 which recently parted ways with a number of castmembers, including Heidi Gardner \u2014 is set to launch season 51 as the most lauded series in Primetime Emmy history, with 90 trip<\/a>s to the podium (Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/em> is next with 59). And that\u2019s before any wins it earns from its seven nominations this year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think any of us really watched the Emmy Awards before that because we were a bunch of hippies,\u201d Newman admits of the first-season accolades. \u201cBut make no mistake \u2014 this was really exciting.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThis story app<\/a>eared in the Sept. 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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