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SNL’s Chaotic Opening Night Captured in First Trailer for ‘Saturday Night’


The chaotic first night of 'SNL' — and how the show was almost dead-on-arrival — is the focus of the upcoming 'Saturday Night' See the trailer now

Jane Curtin (Kim Matula), Laraine Newman (Emily Fairn), Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle), Rosie Shuster (Rachel Sennott), and John Belushi (Matt Wood) in the Makeup Room in SATURDAY NIGHT. “At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever,” Sony Pictures Entertainment said in the film’s synopsis. Rachel Sennott (as SNL writer Rosie Shuster), Cooper Hoffman (as future NBC exec Dick Ebersol), Nicholas Braun (as both Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman), Finn Wolfhard (as an NBC page struggling to fill the live audience), and Matthew Rhys (as first-ever SNL host George Carlin) are also among the cast.

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