It’s “Saturday Night Live” with George Carlin
Comedian George Carlin, who died of heart failure Sunday at 71, hosted the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975.
NBC will pay tribute to Carlin by reairing that premiere episode at 10:30 p.m. Saturday (June 28).
Remembering Carlin, “Saturday Night Live” creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels said: “You never forget the people who were there at the beginning. George Carlin helped give ‘Saturday Night Live’ its start as our first host. He was gracious, fearless, and most important of all, funny.”
Typifying the show’s “of-the-moment” sensibility that would continue throughout its over thirty-year history, Carlin was brought in as the first host of the groundbreaking comedy show. Carlin performed three individual monologues on the program that also introduced audiences to the now legendary “Not Ready For Prime-Time Players” – Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Larraine Newman and Gilda Radner.
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