On October 11, 1975 television sketch comedy experienced a seismic shift as NBC's Saturday Night made its premiere. Over the course of it's first five seasons, characters were created and stars were made, kicking off a cycle that continues over 40 years later. Looking back at that original five years, which of the comedy legends in that cast was the best?
While Mark and Hal are huge SNL nerds, it made sense to get someone with inside information. Enter Dave Thomas, a comedy legend in his own right, who was often there visiting his friends and would later work with Lorne Michaels himself. I'm going to stop writing this now because you just need to listen.
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Will the slate ever be fully clean? Probably not, but that won't stop Mark and Hal from trying, revealing a bunch of embarrassing things about themselves, and issuing decisions that are carved into stone for all eternity!
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Last year, we got Best Super Power wrong. At least that's what our listeners decided when we gave them the opportunity to overrule one of our episodes. Recorded live at DragonCon 2017, we recruited Scott Adsit (Big Hero 6, 30 Rock, Moral Orel, Mr. Show) to help us relitigate the topic live, and now we can definitively say that we got it right!
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Anyone unfamiliar with Christopher Guest's Mockumentary work: STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND GO WATCH THEM ALL RIGHT NOW. Then listen to Mark and Hal delve into the canon and walk away with the best of the bunch.
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