Saturday Night Live (also known simply as SNL) is a late-night NBC television
comedy sketch and variety show that premiered on October 11, 1975. The first
guest host was George Carlin. The show is one of the longest-running network
television programs in the country with over 700 episodes broadcast over the
span of 37 seasons as of 2011. Saturday Night Live has received a number of
awards, including 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and three
Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National
Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Time magazine listed SNL on its
“100 Best TV Shows of All-Time”. In 2009, it received 13 Emmy nominations
bringing the show to a total of 126, giving it the most Emmy nominations in
television history.

 

The original cast of SNL. From left to right: Laraine Newman, John Belushi,
Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris and Chevy Chase.  

SNL announcer Don Pardo

"LIVE FROM NEW YORK ! IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!”

Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver ) is a actress best
known for her role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films. Other films with
Weaver include Ghostbusters (1984) and its sequel Ghostbusters ll
(1989) Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988), and
Working Girl (1988). Her most  recent work was in James Cameron’s
Avatar (2009). Weaver has received three Academy Award nominations
and six Golden Globe Award nominations, two in 1988 (Best Actress
and Best Supporting Actress) for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl.

Sigourney Weaver with Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd from
Ghostbusters

John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage name John Cougar Mellencamp,
is a rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor. He has sold
over 40 million albums worldwide and has had 22 Top 40 hits. John has been
nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. Mellencamp was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008. 

1988

           (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984)

Janet Gaynor was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film
era. In 1928  Gaynor became the first and only winner of the Academy
Award for Best Actress for her performances in three different films:
Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and
Street Angel (1928).  Her career continued with the advent of talking
pictures when she achieved success in the original version of A Star
Is Born (1937).

Elisabeth Judson Shue, “Lisa” to her friends and family, is known for her roles  
in such films as The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), 
Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Parts ll (1989) and lll (1990), and  
Leaving Las Vegas (1995). She has won five acting awards and was
nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.

 
Elisabeth Shur with costar Ralph Macchio, The Karate Kid

Elisabeth with Michael J. Fox in a scene from Back to the Future lll

1997