Season 5
(1979)← Back to season list
Season Cast 45
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![Laraine Newman]()
Various (21 Episodes)
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![Jane Curtin]()
Various (21 Episodes)
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![Gilda Radner]()
Various (21 Episodes)
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![Garrett Morris]()
Various (21 Episodes)
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![Bill Murray]()
Various (21 Episodes)
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— (6 Episodes)
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![Steve Martin]()
Himself - Host (2 Episodes)
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![Ed Herlihy]()
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![Buck Henry]()
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![Jimmy Destri]()
Himself (2 Episodes)
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![Richard Benjamin]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Paul McCartney]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Howard Hesseman]()
Host (1 Episode)
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![Desmond Child]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Bert Convy]()
— (1 Episode)
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![David Bowie]()
Himself (1 Episode)
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![Ralph Nader]()
Himself (1 Episode)
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— (1 Episode)
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![Bob Dylan]()
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![Jerry Mathers]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Paula Prentiss]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Kirk Douglas]()
— (1 Episode)
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— (1 Episode)
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![Strother Martin]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Burt Reynolds]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Gary Numan]()
— (1 Episode)
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— (1 Episode)
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![Bob Newhart]()
Himself - Host (1 Episode)
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![Rob Morrow]()
Himself - Host (1 Episode)
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— (1 Episode)
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![Martin Sheen]()
Host (1 Episode)
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![Elliott Gould]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Linda McCartney]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Eric Idle]()
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![Rodney Dangerfield]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Ted Knight]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Bea Arthur]()
— (1 Episode)
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![Debbie Harry]()
Herself (1 Episode)
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![Chris Stein]()
Himself (1 Episode)
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![Clem Burke]()
Himself (1 Episode)
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![Nigel Harrison]()
Himself (1 Episode)
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![Frank Infante]()
Himself (1 Episode)
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Himself (1 Episode)
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Himself (1 Episode)
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![Charles Rogers]()
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Season Crew 166
Directing
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Director (20 Episodes)
Production
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![John Mulaney]()
Producer (21 Episodes)
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Executive Producer (21 Episodes)
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Producer (21 Episodes)
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Producer (21 Episodes)
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Producer (21 Episodes)
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Producer (21 Episodes)
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Producer (21 Episodes)
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Producer (21 Episodes)
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Producer (21 Episodes)
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![Lorne Michaels]()
Executive Producer (21 Episodes), Producer (21 Episodes)
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![Al Franken]()
Producer (21 Episodes)
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Producer (21 Episodes)
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![Steve Higgins]()
Producer (21 Episodes)
Writing
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![Rich Hall]()
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Jessi Klein]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Jillian Bell]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Michael Patrick O'Brien]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Tim Meadows]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Robert Smigel]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Eddie Gorodetsky]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Rob Schneider]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Stephen Colbert]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Phil Hartman]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Paula Pell]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Sarah Silverman]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Norm Macdonald]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Mike Myers]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Adam Sandler]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Chevy Chase]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Dennis Miller]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Leo Allen]()
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Paul Mooney]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Michael O'Donoghue]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Max Brooks]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Barry Sobel]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Conan O'Brien]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Neil Casey]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Bob Odenkirk]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Michael Schur]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Adam McKay]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Colin Quinn]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Marc Shaiman]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![J.B. Smoove]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Brian Doyle-Murray]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Frank Sebastiano]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Matt Murray]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Tom Schiller]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Martin Short]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Alan Zweibel]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Marika Sawyer]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Hannibal Buress]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Terry Southern]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Harry Shearer]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Al Franken]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Jay Mohr]()
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Albert Brooks]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Tim Kazurinsky]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Andrew Steele]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Bill Murray]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Rachel Dratch]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Brad Hall]()
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Billy Crystal]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Bruce McCulloch]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Jerry Minor]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Christopher Guest]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Colin Jost]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Joe Piscopo]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Dan Aykroyd]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Jason Sudeikis]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![David Spade]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Eddie Murphy]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Emily Spivey]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Garrett Morris]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Mary Gross]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Mark McKinney]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Robin Duke]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Tim Herlihy]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Gilda Radner]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Greg Daniels]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Kevin Nealon]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Dave Attell]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![James Belushi]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![John Belushi]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![John Lutz]()
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Jon Lovitz]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
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![Larry David]()
Writer (21 Episodes)
Episodes 21
Sketches include ""The Pope's Doorman,"" ""Craig's Travellers' Checks,"" ""Free Spanish Lesson,"" ""Juvenile Delinquent Vandal,"" ""Rise,"" ""Carole King,"" ""The David Susskind Show,"" ""Bolshoi Ballet,"" ""The All-New Mr. Bill Show,"" ""What the Hell is That?"". Blondie performs "Dreaming" and "The Hardest Part".
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Sketches include ""Eric's Sick,"" ""Hotel-Motel Art Fair,"" ""Mr. Howard's Shoe Store,"" ""Prince Charles Tells You How To Pick Up Girls!,"" ""Hardcore II,"" ""Heavy Sarcasm,"" and ""Ask Elvis.""
Bob Dylan performs ""Gotta Serve Somebody,"" ""I Believe In You,"" and ""When You Gonna Wake Up.""
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Sketches include ""Kennedy in '80,"" ""Banshee,"" ""The Black Shadow,"" ""The Landers Files,"" ""Mr. Bill at Home,"" ""Nick in the Arctic,"" ""Eleanor Roosevelt,"" ""Sports Hot Line,"" and ""Big n' Tall That's All.""
Chicago performs their 1970 hit ""I'm a Man"" and their then-current single ""Street Player.""
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Sketches include ""Rush Home to the Bathroom,"" ""Find the Popes in the Pizza Contest drawing,"" ""Nerds #12,"" ""Harley's Bristol Cream"" and ""Banshee"" commercial parodies, and one of Aviva Slesin's ""First Love"" films.
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Sketches include ""Sex Change,"" ""The Backers' Audition,"" and ""First, He Cries.""
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Sketches include the ""Steve Marvin Radio Show"" and the debut of ""The Al Franken Decade.""
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Sketches include ""Quick Sex Change Operation,"" ""Le Shoe,"" ""Afraid of the Dark,"" ""Striking Teachers,"" ""Apocolypse Now,"" ""First Love, Part 2,"" ""Foreveready,"" ""Criminals,"" ""Minota AM-3 Camera,"" ""Revisions of Freudian History,"" ""Martin Sheen Hairspray""
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Sketches include A Christmas Gift from The Shah, Nerds Nativity, and Java Junkie.
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Sketches include ""Paul McCartney in Japan: Day 11,"" ""Craig's,"" ""Somewhere Near Mason City, Iowa,"" ""Debs Behind Bars,"" ""Anchovy Council of America,"" ""Bad Playhouse,"" ""Baby Casting Director,"" and ""The Mr. Bill Show."" The B-52's perform ""Rock Lobster"" and ""Dance This Mess Around.""
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Live from New York, it's…Chevy Chase! Sketches include ""Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford,"" ""Pre-Chewed Charlies,"" The Bel Airabs, ""You Can't Win,"" Speaking of Fashion, ""Linden Palmer, Hollywood's Forgotten Director,"" and ""Honduras.""
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Sketches include ""Kramer vs. Godzilla,"" ""The Incredible Man,"" Andy Aaron's film ""Get Rid of That Building,"" and ""All-Time Radio.""
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Sketches include ""Kirk's Greatest Kirks,"" ""What If?,"" ""Arlene Meets Kirk Douglas,"" ""Greg's Bar Mitzvah,"" ""Prime Time Saturday,"" and ""Mask of Fear""
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Sketches include-- Dressing Room opening, Dr. Shockley's House of Sperm, Niggerands, Manhasset, The Subsitute Judge, Celebrity Corner: Bill Murray talks with Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow.
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Sketches include ""Anniversary Seance,"" ""Todd's Campaign,"" ""The Biggest Leprechaun,"" ""The Flogging Musicians,"" ""Talk or Die,"" and ""The David Susskind Show.""
Paul Simon and James Taylor perform ""Cathy's Clown / Take Me to the Mardi Gras"" and David Sanborn performs ""Anything You Want.""
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Sketches include ""Women Empowerment"" and ""Hotel Room/Smell You.""
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Sketches include ""Burt's Not Angry,"" ""Vomitorium,"" ""The Burt Book,"" ""Be a Pepper,"" and ""Baba Wawa at Large."" Anne Murray performs ""Lucky Me.""
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The host for the episode is Strother Martin, and the musical guest is The Specials. The skits for this episode are as follows: Rosalyn Carter talks about sections of the 1980 census intended for illegal aliens, including questions about how they got into the US, where they would hide if the INS came to their homes, and how much they would be willing to do housework for. During his opening monologue, Strother Martin reveals that he was asked to host the show because Lorne Michaels mistook him for Tennessee Williams, and so far he's been keeping up the act. At Camp Beau Soleil, the campers are forced to learn French by the brutal camp counselor, Le Capitain, but a camper named Luke is determined to escape. Additional skits include a variety show will, the Conductor's Club, Any Town, and Food. The Specials perform "Gangsters" and "Too Much, Too Young".
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Sketches include ""Mysteries of the Universe,"" ""The Dating Zone,"" ""Writing Home,"" and ""Mr. Bill."" The Amazing Rhythm Aces (featuring Bill Murray) perform ""Third-Rate Romance.""
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Sketches include: ""Father Guido Sarducci, Live from London,"" ""Real Incredible People,"" ""Stretch Marks Record Offer,"" ""Reagan's Dinner,"" and ""The Hominids.""
3-D performed ""All-Night Television.""
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Live from New York, it's…Harry Shearer!
Sketches include ""Election '80: Almost Halfway Over,"" ""The SNL Stars of the Future"" monologue, ""Lord and Lady Douchebag,"" ""Uncle Roy,"" and ""Nick at Trader Nick's.""
Read MoreMost of the original SNL fold, including Dan Aykroyd, gathered at Broadway Video to put together this pre-election shot at Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Election Update was supposed to air live at 10:00 P.M. EST November 1, 1980. Sadly for the SNL fold, Reagan and Carter agreed to a sudden debate from Cleveland on October 28. Compulsory coverage of the debate forced NBC to reschedule a half-hour special featuring Bob Hope and a half-hour special featuring the Smothers Brothers.You know where NBC rehoused the Smotherses and Hope.Some at Broadway Video thought this was NBC's last volley against the original SNL. It was assumed NBC didn't want to air such a hard-hitting program three days before the election. The network offered Lorne the chance to do the special after the election but, of course, Lorne refused.
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