Late Night Saturday: History & Commentary for SNL S1E5
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- In this installment of Late Night Saturday, we take a look at episode five of NBC's Saturday Night, hosted by Robert Klein. I had to check to see if maybe he was on drugs! (He wasn't, apparently...)
Stay tuned next week for another big show, hosted by Lorne's mentor Lily Tomlin!
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This particular episode of "SNL" originally aired on 11/15/75-Earlier that day,ABBA made an appearance on "American Bandstand" which was pre-recorded a few weeks earlier.
I *LOVE* to hear this kind of trivia. Thanks for the comment! 😀
When I was eight years old, all I could talk about was ABBA. I still am a fan to this day. When I found out they were going to be on the show. This was the very first episode of the series I saw and then I saw them makingthem a joke sinking on the titanic and it just sunk me
For the record, ABBA did not lip sync SOS. Only Waterloo…SOS had completely live vocals.
ABBA was awesome. Unfortunately, the show turned them into a joke and I actually wrote the show in protest (I was 8 and allowed to watch this show on weekend) over the mistreatment of the group. I got an answer from none other than Lorne Michael’s who wrote that the band enjoyed poking fun themselves and if they are having fun, you should be having fun as well.
Robert reminds me alot of Bill Hader the face and mannerisms.
Even Dee Snyder admits he’s a closeted ABBA fan.
That's, um, not as persuasive as you might think... lol (Thanks for being so engaged, BTW; I'm enjoying your comments...)
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@@latenightsaturday7142 I was 3 when the show premiered, but my parents let me watch it with them. Probably because the sex jokes went right over my head. It’s not that they let me stay up that late at that age, it’s that their laughter would wake me up and they just didn’t feel like putting back to bed. So I do have a lot of memories of this show.
@@latenightsaturday7142 actually several metal musicians have told me that they are friends of ABBA including Ace Frehley of kiss. You either get them or you don’t. But I just don’t like the fact that you are very dismissive of the group. 480 5 million singles sold means that you may be in the minority when it comes to record buyers.
I’m really enjoying your channel. You’re doing a fantastic job on this. It’s all fascinating. By the way, I was sent your way by Joe Larocca who has a great movie/TV review channel. He loves you and gave your channel a really favorable review. I’m sure it will send quite a few people your way. Finally, Louden Wainwright may have been bad on this show but he’s a great songwriter. I recommend you checking out his work. Also he was a regular on Freaks and Geeks.
I was a big ABBA fan. Frankly, I remember thinking that a lot of SNL's musical guests were kind of weird (Leon Redbone? I think SNL is the only place I ever saw him).
So, ABBA might not have been the kind of act that most of the SNL people wanted, but they were damn good musicians in my book.
You'll get no argument about their musicianship from me; they created complex pop arrangements that were up there with the Beach Boys and Beatles, even if I don't really care for the material.
I still think it's a hack move to go on this particular program and lip-sync, though. Lorne made it clear he didn't want to do it, and they were pretty much the only group to ever insist on it (until Ashlee Simpson's debacle decades later).
At least ABBA didn't fail at lip syncing. I'll give 'em that! ;)
SOS sounds as though it were sung live; Waterloo is definitely lip synched. Still, SNL was incredibly rude to the group. Lorne and Michael O'Donoghue were childish in their efforts to embarrass ABBA, and frankly, the Titanic concept backfired and made the show look stupid.
Leon Redbone was often on with Johnny Carson. He did the theme song for Mr. Belvidere. He was a TV pitch singer for Budweiser Beer, All Laundry Detergent, and several other products. He was the voice of the snowman in "Elf." He was quite active and quite popular.
@@christophercanzoneri2962 Thanks for the information on Leon Redbone. I guess I missed most of what he did.
You know it's interesting what you say about them not liking Abba I remember an episode that took place in the 1979 season 7879 anyway it took place in the United States Embassy in Tehran I remember Lorraine Newman playing a member of the embassy staff talking to some hippie about getting out of Iran and apparently she was wanting to listen to some music the hippie said I have an appetite she said no anyway in Iran at the same time the Islamic guard did a practice run taking over the embassy which is what they did it wouldn't be much longer than a week that they took all those Americans hostage for 400 some odd days
For the record, I totally disagree with your opinion on ABBA.
You were unaware of Robert Klein's stand up comedy history that was a big thing people that have nothing to do with comedy used to do it Tom Leykis used to do stand-up in the day if you were a comedian you would be given an option for for a sitcom whether or not they developed it you would get some cash often insanely huge number of dollars for development deals The Drew Carey Show Seinfeld the King of Queens Roseanne David Chase also develop these shows for comedic actors Charlie Sheen Two and a Half Men the Blair Butler show funny story about that one she wanted to play hardball because if he left the show before 100 episodes they wouldn't be able to go into syndication so they tricked her telling her Episode 99 was not 99 I think they went to 102 episodes before they let her know that they have 100 of them in a can so it's a pretty common thing to have a show now with the Tracy Morgan show you have Tracy Morgan playing Tracy Morgan Aunt Tina Fey basically writing everything and being kind of the lead character now this is a strange situation because females hardly ever get a show other than like I said Roseanne Blair Butler 40 years ago everything we were watching was Live From The Improv stand up was on cable I think it was on on regular television as well in the late seventies we had ABC's answer to NBC Saturday Night Live Friday's which is where I first seen Seinfeld's Michael Richards but thing about stand up is it's something that you can't go back to you can't go back from earning millions of dollars with just an option for your ideas and then that goes away and now you decide I'm going to go back and do the stand-up no you got to keep that muscle once you lose it you lost that ability that's why Jay Leno kept on doing corporate shows and stand up at different locations I think when he was doing the show on NBC 5 days a week on the weekends he would travel doing stand-up corporate gigs and some clubs