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Saturday Night Live Is How We Talk With America


And it mirrors the love-hate relationship the rest of the country has with New York.

The first episode of NBC’s Saturday Night aired live from New York on October 11, 1975, and looked like literal trash — gray, brown, muted, somehow both dusty and wet, with sets that appeared to have been left on the sidewalk for a few days. In the same stretch of time, Studio 54 went from a chic nightlife spot to a generic rock venue to a Broadway theater, and CBGB went from a punk-rock breeding ground to a store selling $1,900 studded “Alice Cooper” leather biker jackets. Ke-nan Thompson: Grooming by Patricia Ambroise; Styling by Michael Barnett; Wardrobe by BO-GARD by MikeB (jacket and trouser), Polo by Ralph Lauren (shirt), Canali (socks), and Lanvin (sneakers).

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