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🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live this week! This special episode changes things up a bit as Executive Producer Peter Ogburn asks Al about his history with the show. We pull the curtain back on what a typical week looks like building up to the live show on Saturday and learn about how Al and his writing partner, Tom Davis, found themselves writing on the first season of the show. We also chat about some iconic sketches and the birth of Al's legendary Stuart Smalley character.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change. And this time, this time, |
0:11.9 | I really, really mean it. Because today we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. |
0:18.6 | We don't even mention the president today. Thank God. So Peter, |
0:23.1 | you're going to ask me questions about SNL. Let's do it. It's going to be a different one, |
0:29.0 | you know, for a change. So Peter, we're going to, uh, you're going to ask me questions about Saturday Night Live, right? |
0:40.8 | I have so many questions to ask you. |
0:42.7 | How did you get the job at S&L in 75? |
0:47.0 | So Tom Davis and I were a comedy team. |
0:49.4 | We started in high school together. |
0:51.7 | We went to an old boy's school, really sick thing, I think. And it started |
0:59.0 | in the morning with chapel. Okay. And during chapel, we'd sing Protestant hymns. We had to wear coats |
1:06.1 | and ties. That was the scene. When everything was done, there'd'd be announcements and tom and i started doing |
1:12.2 | announcements together in chapel so that's how we started we would do the smothers brothers or we do |
1:18.5 | karnak the magnificent that kind of stuff we'd do stick yeah and we would announce the you know that |
1:24.5 | the glee club was having a concert or that the chess club was meeting. |
1:29.7 | And then in between my junior and senior year in college, Tom didn't go to college, I did. |
1:35.4 | We hitchhiked from Minneapolis to L.A. and we got on the stage at the comedy store, |
1:42.0 | and we killed. We did our World War III newscast, tragedy, death, |
1:47.0 | catastrophe. I like tonight's news after this message. And we did our stuff and we went over. And so |
1:56.6 | we are now we were on the map for young comedians in show business i guess and then i went back to |
2:03.5 | college and tom came uh to boston with me and uh uh i stayed in my room and people thought he |
2:10.9 | was a student most of the time and uh but he was just hanging out you guys were just doing your |
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