Saturday Night Live

Name: Saturday Night Live
Genre: Comedy,Music

Saturday Night Live is an Emmy Award-winning late-night comedy showcase.Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation. As The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999, "in defiance of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

Saturday Night Live

Season 1

E1 · George Carlin / Billy Preston, Janis Ian

E2 · Paul Simon / Art Garfunkel, Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow

E3 · Rob Reiner / John Belushi as Joe Cocker

E4 · Candice Bergen / Esther Phillips

E5 · Robert Klein / ABBA, Loudon Wainwright III

E6 · Lily Tomlin / Howard Shore

E7 · Richard Pryor / Gil-Scott Heron

E8 · Candice Bergen / Martha Reeves, The Stylistics

E9 · Elliott Gould / Anne Murray

E10 · Buck Henry / Bill Withers, Toni Basil

E11 · Peter Cook & Dudley Moore / Neil Sedaka

E12 · Dick Cavett / Jimmy Cliff

Season 2

E1 · Lily Tomlin / James Taylor

E2 · Norman Lear / Boz Scaggs

E3 · Eric Idle / Joe Cocker and Stuff

E4 · Karen Black / John Prine

E5 · Steve Martin / Kinky Friedman

E6 · Buck Henry / The Band

E7 · Dick Cavett / Ry Cooder

E8 · Paul Simon / Paul Simon, George Harrison

E9 · Jodie Foster / Brian Wilson

E10 · Candice Bergen / Frank Zappa

E11 · Ralph Nader / George Benson

E12 · Ruth Gordon / Chuck Berry

Season 3

E1 · Steve Martin / Jackson Browne

E2 · Madeline Kahn / Taj Mahal

E3 · Hugh Hefner / Libby Titus

E4 · Charles Grodin / Paul Simon and The Persuasions

E5 · Ray Charles / Ray Charles and The Raelettes

E6 · Buck Henry / Leon Redbone

E7 · Mary Kay Place / Willie Nelson

E8 · Mrs. Miskel Spillman / Elvis Costello and the Attractions

E9 · Steve Martin / The Nitty Gritty Dirty Band

E10 · Robert Klein / Bonnie Raitt

E11 · Chevy Chase / Billy Joel

E12 · O.J. Simpson / Ashford & Simpson

Season 4

E1 · The Rolling Stones

E2 · Fred Willard / Devo

E3 · Frank Zappa

E4 · Steve Martin / Van Morrison

E5 · Buck Henry / The Grateful Dead

E6 · Carrie Fisher / The Blues Brothers

E7 · Walter Matthau / Garrett Morris

E8 · Eric Idle / Kate Bush

E9 · Elliott Gould / Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger

E10 · Michael Palin / The Doobie Brothers

E11 · Cicely Tyson / Talking Heads

E12 · Rick Nelson / Judy Collins

Season 5

E1 · Steve Martin / Blondie

E2 · Eric Idle / Bob Dylan

E3 · Bill Russell / Chicago

E4 · Buck Henry / Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

E5 · Bea Arthur / The Roches

E6 · Howard Hesseman / Randy Newman

E7 · Martin Sheen / David Bowie

E8 · Ted Knight / Desmond Child and Rouge

E9 · Teri Garr / The B-52's

E10 · Chevy Chase / Marianne Faithfull

E11 · Elliott Gould / Gary Numan

E12 · Kirk Douglas / Sam & Dave

Season 6

E1 · Elliott Gould / Kid Creole and the Coconuts

E2 · Malcolm McDowell / Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

E3 · Ellen Burstyn / Aretha Franklin, Keith Sykes

E4 · Jamie Lee Curtis / James Brown

E5 · David Carradine / Linda Ronstadt with Rex Smith, George Rose

E6 · Ray Sharkey / Jack Bruce & Friends

E7 · Karen Black / Cheap Trick, Stanley Clarke Trio

E8 · Robert Hays / Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns, 14 Karat Soul

E9 · Sally Kellerman / Jimmy Cliff

E10 · Deborah Harry / The Funky 4 + 1

E11 · Charlene Tilton / Todd Rundgren, Prince

E12 · Bill Murray / Delbert McClinton

Season 7